STUDY TIPS
1) Memorise all the information.
2) Write out equations/reactions to memorise on post-it notes and stick it in the wall of your study desk. This way, whenever you need it and have yet to memorise it, you can refer to it easily and try refreshing your memory by memorising it as and when. (Laziness to take your books out won’t be an excuse anymore.)
3) Memorise your solubility tables by writing them out and regurgitating. There’s no running away from this. The solubility tables are needed everywhere.
CATEGORISING CHAPTERS IN EXAM PAPERS
(big chapters for more marks )
Electrolysis (pretty easy once you practice a few times, application heavy)
Organic Chemistry (lots of practice, application heavy)
Metals
(pure memory chapters, like study and vomit entirely (almost))
Air and Atmosphere
Haber Process
Metals
Chemical Bonding
ANSWERING TIPS
1) Questions largely answered with keywords only
Do practice questions. When you mark them and do corrections, just underline/highlight the keywords. Take note of the order of the keywords and the type of keywords used for each type of question & topic.
(These type of questions are standard, so grab those marks first. Use pure memory and a little understanding to answer the questions using keywords.)
Chapters with these kind of questions:
chemical bonding (super easy chapter to score in)
organic chemistry (memorising all chemical equations and conditions, reagents, etc.)
air and atmosphere (free marks!)
metals (all reactions, reactivity series, blast furnace)
electrolysis (standard way of answering, use practice questions as notes for learning how to answer them)
mole concept
QA (memorise it!)
Speed of Reaction
2) MCQ (how to break them down):
write the chemical formula and state for all substances (for the states, you have to use your solubility table)
write out ALL chemical equations where there are reactions. ALWAYS.
draw out all diagrams when they talk about atoms & molecules involved (SUPER IMPT!!)
Note: MCQ tips can be applied to Paper 2 questions.
3) Topics to link together for MCQs in general:
solubility
every single type of reaction
mole concept
chemical bonding*
density and Mr*
organic chemistry*
electrolysis*
*common topics that are kinda heavily tested
SOURCES TO EXPLOIT
1) The textbook! You need to do a lot of memory work for chapters like metals, by the way. (When you study metals, just memorise nearly everything from the textbook and you’ll ace the chapter!)2) Other school’s exam papers + TYS (duh)
FIN
(If you have any questions, you can drop me an ask :) I hope this helped!)
