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Main topics to cover for chemistry mocks? (no spoilers please)

  • 22-01-2012 12:32AM
    #1
    Anro
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    I was just checking over my study plan and as I know its not realistic to be able to study the whole course in the 2 weeks before my mocks i was wondering what say the top 10 or so topics to cover in my study leading up to my mocks :) so does ny one have any hints or ideas?

    Thankyou :)


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  • #2
    David1994
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    Sorry dont have any tips but just saying this is what i was gonna pst too :P So thanks :D


  • #3
    montown
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    Anro wrote: »
    I was just checking over my study plan and as I know its not realistic to be able to study the whole course in the 2 weeks before my mocks i was wondering what say the top 10 or so topics to cover in my study leading up to my mocks :) so does ny one have any hints or ideas?

    Thankyou :)

    Definitely focus on the organic section of the course, 2 full questions and a possibility of it appearing in other questions. Thats fuels, hyrdocarbons and thermochemistry. Learn the organic experiments aswel, 1 will almost definitely come up (preperation of ethene, ethyne, ethanoic acid, ethanal, also soap, steam distillation and chromatography)

    Might be difficult to do in 2 weeks but I'd recommend learning all the titrations, acid/base and redox, as they will come up in section A along with an organic experiment.

    The theory/history in the first few chapters will cover you for question 5 (zone in on trends in ionisation energy, electronegativity values etc). General knowledge of the course will do for question 4 (short questions).

    That's 6 questions, it's difficult to judge the other 2. If you don't like the stochiometry side of the course, learn water, pH and equilibrium, all relatively easy, equilibrium in particular.

    I realise that's pretty much the whole course excluding rates, electro, the option question and stochiometry, but I presume you already have a basic understanding of these topics.

    Hope I helped.


  • #4
    rainbowtrout
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    Layout of paper

    Answer two questions from Section A and six from Section B

    OR

    Answer all three questions from Section A and five from Section B


    Section A:

    Three experiments to do two (you may do all three if you choose)

    Q1: Is always a titration ( Acid/Base, redox, Water)
    Q2: Is always an organic experiment
    Q3: Any experiment which isn't a titration or organic

    Section B:

    Q4: Short answer questions from all over the course
    Q5: Periodic Table, Atomic Theory etc. (Ch 2 - 7 if you have Chemistry Live)
    Q6,7,8 : Tend to be one question on Fuels and Thermochemistry and two Organic
    Q9, 10, 11: Everything else including Acids and Bases, rates of reaction, chemical equilibrium, water, stoichiometry/ mole maths type questions.

    There is a choice in Q11 of three parts to do two, one of which is always the option which is in the workbook. Question 10 is often laid out with a three to do two option also.


    The mock should follow a similar pattern.
    Ideally if you know your Fuels and Organic Chemistry you should be able to answer Q2 from Section A and three questions from Section B. You are then half way there.


  • #5
    ClareBrenno
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    Can i please have hints for chemistry?


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