Chemistry Study Design 2013

[PsychoM]

Do we have to get back to pre 2000 exams or older? Or those with Unit 3 and 4 exams(or recent ones) should be fine?

[charmanderp]

Doing the same exams that we did (2008-2012) should be enough. There's more than enough there anyway. Prolly do about 10-20 Unit 3 exams and 10-20 Unit 4 exams, depending on how much time you have.

[PB]

Interesting, from what I can see, they don't have to specifically learn the instrumentation/function of chromatography/spectroscopy, just how to analyse readouts from them

Hey charmanderp,
I am not sure what things I should leave out from learning these holidays? ( I am doing the first few chapters) What do they mean by we don't have to specifically learn the instrumentation...etc.? Should I just do the whole chromatography chapter(for example) anyway?
Yours Sincerely,
PoiBoy

[brightsky]

I think he means that we do not need to know the mechanisms of each instrumental technique. The description given in the textbook is a simplification; the actual procedure is much more complicated in real life. I think you only really need to know how to interpret graphs and spectra, but not sure since I haven't read the study design in enough detail.

[PB]

So I could just skip the bits in the textbook that talks about the instruments itself (like the parts of a mass spectrometer or how it works etc?)

[VivaTequila]

You could, but you'd be wise to learn them. The more you know...

[thushan]

You could, but you'd be wise to learn them. The more you know...

Not a particular priority though.

[zvezda]

Just read in the study design: "addition reactions of alkenes (addition of hydrogen halides and water limited to symmetrical alkenes"

Ive read nothing of the sort in my textbook; the fact that addition reactions involving water only occur for a symmetrical alkene

[teletubbies_95]

Just read in the study design: "addition reactions of alkenes (addition of hydrogen halides and water limited to symmetrical alkenes"

Ive read nothing of the sort in my textbook; the fact that addition reactions involving water only occur for a symmetrical alkene

same here! just realised we didnt have to learn asymmetrical alkene (maybe cauz i didnt read the SD properly) . But i learnt it for u3 , so...?

[zvezda]

same here! just realised we didnt have to learn asymmetrical alkene (maybe cauz i didnt read the SD properly) . But i learnt it for u3 , so...?

so if it pops up on the exam, youre all good lol. But it says limited to symmetrical alkenes so if something does come up on the exam, i will find those who wrote it. Even still, i read that alkenes react with steam to form alkanes (with phosphoric acid catalyst at 300 deg)?
Unless steam is classified as water

[thushan]

same here! just realised we didnt have to learn asymmetrical alkene (maybe cauz i didnt read the SD properly) . But i learnt it for u3 , so...?

Dw too much about it. The chemistry is pretty much the same except that with non symmetrical alkenes there its more than one product if you add say hcl