QCE Chemistry

Half of your QCE Chemistry result is earned at school, in the data test (IA1), the student experiment (IA2) and the research investigation (IA3). The other half is decided in two external papers. This guide prepares you for all of it.

QCAA gives you its Chemistry formula and data book in both papers. This guide maps it for you: where each formula and constant sits, and what it leaves you to know yourself. So your revision goes on methods, not on memorising what is already printed. The book also marks which content the external assessment can test and which belongs to your internal assessments.

Inside this guide:
- Every Unit 3 and 4 topic, taught and practised: chemical equilibrium systems, oxidation and reduction, properties and structure of organic materials, and chemical synthesis and design
- Equilibrium, acids and bases, buffers, titrations, galvanic and electrolytic cells, organic reactions and analytical techniques, built up one step at a time
- A toolkit chapter on mole calculations, uncertainty, graphs and the formula and data book
- A What's Changed chapter that sets the previous syllabus beside the current one, so you know which past-paper questions still fit
- IA1, the data test: a routine for reading any dataset, plus a full practice data test with worked solutions
- IA2 and IA3: annotated excerpts from an original worked report, and what each criterion rewards
- Try It tasks and practice questions in every topic chapter, each with a worked answer
- Annotated High-Scoring Responses that show exactly where the marks are earned
- A full-length practice external assessment, Paper 1 and Paper 2, with worked solutions

Calculations are set out step by step in plain English, with every technical term explained where it first appears. Every question and worked solution was written for this book.

Written to the current QCAA Chemistry syllabus, for any student whose course follows it.