Year 12 mock exam

We have decided to hold your mock exam (on the whole of Unit 2850) on Wednesday, 19th December during our double lesson (Lessons 3 and 4).

Please ensure that you prepare as fully as you can for this exam over the next 2 weeks so that your mock grade is an accurate reflection of your level of understanding.

And if any you Year 13 students who are retaking Unit 2850 are free during these lessons, you are welcome to join us for the mock....!

By the way, just in case there is any confusion because of the late entries, all Year 12 students have been entered to sit the Unit 2850 exam in January and the exact date of the exam is Thursday, 10th January.

Year 13 mock exam?

is our mock exam next thursday [13th]?
if so, you may wish to hurt me as i won't be in the lesson that day
i have a interview/open day at university.
is it possible that you can give me the exam beforehand or i could do it another time?

New resources uploaded

Just to let you know that I have at last added some revision resources for those of you who are retaking Unit 2848 in January - on halogens and working out oxidation states only so far, but I'll keep adding.

Also, for Year 12 students and those of you who are retaking Unit 2850, I have uploaded some questions on describing and explaining the trends in physical properties across Period 3 and down Group 2. Please have a go at these, especially those of you who identified this as being a weaker area in your test on Monday.

ALL OF THE RESOURCES MENTIONED CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING ON THE RELEVANT UNIT UNDER 'Revision resources' ON THE RIGHTHAND SIDE OF THIS PAGE. (Once you reach the list of available resources on the next page, I would suggest right-clicking on the links and doing 'Save Target As', as this seems to take less time although you may still need to be patient!)

Remember that all of the tick lists and some practice exam papers are available if you follow the relevant links on the blog. Please take advantage of this AND USE THEM - let me know if you're having trouble accessing them in any way and I will print off paper copies for you.

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Work from recent Year 13 lessons

Please remember to check the 'Work from recent lessons', especially if you have missed a lesson, if you have lost any of the worksheets or if you just want a blank copy of any of the worksheets that we have used.

Following on from today's lesson, I have added a worksheet that will enable you to practice using experimental data to work out the order of reaction with respect to each of the reactants.

Past exam papers

I have now uploaded links to past exam papers for AS Units 2850 and 2848 and A2 Unit 2849. Please click on the links in the white box on the righthand side of this page. (You may have to scroll down for a while as there's lots on here now!!)

Don't forget to 'vote' to tell me when would be the best time for extra revision sessions for you!

New resources uploaded

I am currently in the process of uploading more revision resources. So far, I have added materials relating to the following areas of the course:

AS Unit 2850 - Elements of Life:
Mass spectrometry
Shapes of molecules
Trends in physical properties in the Periodic Table

AS Unit 2850 - Developing Fuels:
Hess' Law
Volumes of gases
Structural Isomerism

A2 Unit 2849 - The Steel Story:
Half-equations

Please click on the relevant link under 'Revision resources' (on the righthand side of this blog page) and let me know if you have any difficulties in downloading the materials. I will try to add more materials for the A2 modules and also some for the other retake unit on Monday or Tuesday.

Please take part in the poll (in the green box to the right of this post) to indicate when would be the best time for extra revision sessions for Chemistry and let me know if there are any topics in particular (for any of the 3 modules that are being examined in January) that you would appreciate revision practice on.