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GCSE Chemistry aims to give students opportunities to:
- Develop their interest in, and enthusiasm for, chemistry;
- Develop a critical approach to scientific evidence and methods;
- Acquire and apply skills, knowledge and understanding of how science works and its essential role in society;
- Acquire scientific skills, knowledge and understanding necessary for progression to further learning.
| C1 - Carbon Chemistry |
C2 - Rocks And Minerals |
C3 - Periodic table |
- Cooking
- Food additives
- Smells
- Designer polymers
- Making polymers
- Making crude oil useful
- Using carbon fuels
- Energy
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- Paints and pigments
- Construction materials
- Does the Earth move?
- Metals and alloys
- Cars for scrap
- Clean air
- Faster or slower
- Collecting energy from the Sun
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- What are atoms like?
- Ionic bonding
- Covalent bonding and the structurethe periodic table
- Group 1 elements
- Group 7 elements
- Electrolysis
- Transition elements
- Metal structure and properties
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| C4 - Chemical economics |
C5 - How much? |
C6 - Chemistry out there |
- Acids and bases
- Reacting masses
- Fertilisers and crop yield
- Making ammonia – Haber Process
and costs
- Detergents
- Batch or continuous
- Nanochemistry
- How pure is our water?
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- Fundamental chemical concepts
- Moles and empirical formulae
- Electrolysis
- Quantitative analysis
- Titrations
- Gas volumes
- Equilibria
- Strong and weak acids
- Ionic equations
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- Fundamental chemical concepts
- Energy transfers – fuel cells
- Redox reactions
- Alcohols
- Chemistry of sodium chloride
- Depletion of the ozone layer
- Hardness of water
- Natural fats and oils
- Analgesics
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Assessment
In each specification there are three units of assessment: two externally set and marked unit examinations, each testing three teaching modules, and one Skills Assessment Unit.
| External Unit Exam to test teaching modules C1, C2, C5 |
External Unit Exam to test teaching modules C3, C4, C6 |
Skills Assessment Unit from Science or Additional Science |
| 60 minutes 33.3% |
60 minutes 33.3% |
- Can-do 13.3%
- Science in the news 20%
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