Chemistry

Course summary

This course aims to provide you with practical skills, and knowledge & understanding of facts, principles and concepts from different areas of chemistry. Physical & inorganic chemistry is examined in paper 1 Physical chemistry topics include amount of substance, kinetics, thermodynamics, equilibria, electrode potentials and acids and bases. Inorganic chemistry topics include alkaline earth metals, halogens, period 3 elements, transition elements and reactions of ions in aqueous solution. Relevant practical skills from a range of specified experiments must be done over the two years of A level. Paper 1 is worth 35% of the A level course. Physical & organic chemistry is examined in paper 2 Topics include all physical chemistry topics, all organic chemistry such as alkanes and alkenes, organic analysis, carbonyl compounds, aromatics, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA and NMR spectroscopy. Relevant practical skills from a range of board-specified experiments must be done over the two years of A level. Paper 2 is worth 35% of the A level course. Paper 3 In paper 3 topics can be from any content and from any of the required practical. Paper 3 is worth 30% of the total A level course.