Chemistry Syllabuses
Year 8
- Pure Substances & Mixtures
- Combustion, Air & Oxygen
- Acids, Alkalis & Salts
- Water & Hydrogen
- Calcium Carbonate, Carbon Dioxide & Carbon Monoxide
Year 9
Year 10
- What are Chemical Substances?
- Metals
- Acids and Alkalis
- Solubility and Salts (Separate Science students only)
- Atmosphere and Pollution
Year 11
- Earth and Useful Resources
- Useful Industrial Processes
- Water (Separate Science students only)
- Analytical Chemistry (Separate Science students only)
Year 12
Unit 1
- Topic 1 An introduction to inorganic chemistry
- Topic 2 Organic Chemistry
- Topic 3 Periodicity
- Topic 4 Acid-base reactions & alkaline earth elements
- Topic 5 Chemical Energetics
Unit 2
- Topic 6 Redox Reactions and Halogens
- Topic 7 Covalency and Bond Breaking
- Topic 8 Organic Chemistry and Hydrocarbons
- Topic 9 Intermolecular Forces
- Topic 10 Organic Chemistry and Halogenoalkanes
Unit 3
Coursework unit, assessed practicals during Units 1 and 2.
Year 13
Unit 4
- Topic 11 How fast? Rates of reaction
- Topic 12 Arenes: benzene and phenol
- Topic 13 Entropy
- Topic 14 How far? Reversible reactions
- Topic 15 Oxidation products of alcohols
Unit 5
5A
An Investigation based on topics 11-21 from Units 4-6.
5B
One special study topic to be chosen from:
Biochemistry,
Food Science or
Materials.
Unit 6
- Topic 16 The Born-Haber cycle, structure and bonding
- Topic 17 Redox equilibria
- Topic 18 Natural and synthetic polymers
- Topic 19 The transition elements
- Topic 20 Organic synthesis
- Topic 21 Instrumental methods