Edition: 1st Edition
Author: Carl Thirsk, Kristy Turner
Published: November 2024
Format: Print + Digital
ISBN: 9781009388634
For first examination from 2022, these resources meet the real needs of the chemistry classroom.
Overview
Designed to increase your confidence, help you recognise different question types, understand connections between concepts, reflect on progress and manage test anxiety. A wealth of questions and activities improve your ability to recall knowledge and answer effectively. Your awareness and familiarity with exam language is increased by the focus on command words, time management, and the marks breakdown within and across exam papers. Self-assessment checklists and sample answers also help to deepen learning. Includes digital access and over 400 auto-marked questions and past-paper question practice. All other answers available via Cambridge GO. This text has not been through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway. Any references or materials related to answers, grades, papers or examinations are based on the opinion of the author(s). The Cambridge International Education syllabus or curriculum framework associated assessment guidance material and specimen papers should always be referred to for definitive guidance.
Features
- Cambridge International AS & A Level 'Practical skills’ chapters provide an opportunity to develop practical knowledge and skills.
- Build useful exam skills through active learning and focusing on questions rather than content summaries.
- Recognise effective learning techniques to become a critical thinker and apply your knowledge beyond the exam.
- ‘Knowledge recall’ questions help you consolidate your learning.
- ‘Reflection on progress’ opportunities and self-assessment checklists help you to process your own learning.
- Learn key command words, the variety of question types, how your time should be distributed throughout the exam paper, and how the marks breakdown within and across exam papers.
- Learn to recognise connections between concepts and present these connections clearly. The past paper practice sections give you opportunities to draw your knowledge of several topics together.
Contents
How to use this series
How to use this book
Introduction
1. Atomic structure
2. Electrons in atoms
3. Atoms, molecules and stoichiometry
4. Chemical bonding
Past paper practice 1
5. States of matter
6. Enthalpy changes
7. Redox reactions
8. Equilibria
9. Rates of reaction
Past paper practice 2
10. Periodicity
11. Group 2
12. Group 17
13. Nitrogen and Sulfur
Past paper practice 3
14. Introduction to organic chemistry
15. Hydrocarbons
16. Halogenoalkanes
17. Alcohols, esters, carboxylic acids
18. Carbonyl compounds
Past paper practice 4
P1. Practical skills for AS Level
19. Lattice energy
20. Electrochemistry
21. Further aspects of equilibria
Past paper practice 5
22. Reaction kinetics
23. Entropy and Gibbs free energy
24. Transition elements
Past paper practice 6
25. Benzene and its compounds
26. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives
27. Organic nitrogen compounds
Past paper practice 7
28. Polymerisation
29. Organic synthesis
30. Analytical chemistry
Past paper practice 8
P2. Practical skills for A Level.