A Level Chemistry tuition topics

Course date: Jan 2023 but students can enrol at any time throughout the year

A Level Chemistry (Year 12 to 13, age 16-18)

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An essential A Level for those who wish to study Medicine, Dentistry or a Chemical Science at university, Chemistry is taught across two years and consists of three disciplines: Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Students can opt to complete an AS Level (over one year) or the full A Level (over two years) and may follow the examination boards such as OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL and WJEC. Chemistry is split into three disciplines at A Level; Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Science With Confidence has extensive experience of teaching all aspects of the A Level Chemistry course:

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Year 1 (AS Level)

Physical chemistry

• Atomic structure

• Amount of substance

• Bonding

• Energetics

• Kinetics

• Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc

• Oxidation, reduction and redox equations

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Inorganic chemistry

• Periodicity

• Group 2, the alkaline earth metals

• Group 7(17), the halogens

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Organic chemistry

• Introduction to organic chemistry

• Alkanes

• Halogenoalkanes

• Alkenes

• Alcohols

• Organic analysis

Year 2  (A Level)

Physical chemistry

• Thermodynamics

• Rate equations

• Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems

• Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells

• Acids and bases

Inorganic chemistry

• Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides

• Transition metals

• Reactions of ions in aqueous solution

Organic Chemistry

• Optical isomerism

• Aldehydes and ketones

• Carboxylic acids and derivatives

• Aromatic chemistry

• Amines

• Polymers

• Amino acids, proteins and DNA

• Organic synthesis

• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

• Chromatography