Open Book Paper

Now that your first AS exam is over (and I hope you're all enjoying some relaxation time over the weekend after a busy few weeks of revising!) we can start to think ahead - there's no rest for the wicked, after all!

• Unit 2850 'Chemistry for Life' - Made up of 2 taught modules. September - December. 30% of your overall AS grade. Exam date: Thursday, 10th January 2008
• Unit 2852/01 : Open Book Paper - completed during homework time during a 2 week period between 14th February and 30th April. 15% of your overall AS grade.
• Unit 2852/02: Experimental Skills - completed in lesson time to assess your planning, implementing, analysing and evaluating skills (already started with Miss Bendle). 15% of your overall AS grade.
• Unit 2848 'Chemistry of Natural Resources' - Made up of 3 taught modules. January - May. 40% of your overall AS grade. Exam date: Wednesday, 4th June 2008

The Open Book paper is completed during a 2 week period any time between 14th February and 30th April, which needs to be agreed on by all of you. Please have a think about whether you have any coursework deadlines or other important work to do between these dates so that we can plan when to set the Open Book paper.

We have received confirmation that the topic of this year's Open Book paper is nuclear fusion and fission reactions, which would explain why there were no questions on this in your exam on Thursday! We would recommend that you start to find suitable references (including textbooks and websites) on this topic and make sure that you are 100% confident about the subject content related to our work on stars.