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RVHS Class of 2024 · NUS Dentistry
I'm an RVHS senior, and I want to help you get an A for H2 Chemistry!
Everything essential for H2 Chemistry, condensed into clean and nice-looking notes.
Animations, analogies and explanations for the harder concepts.
Problem set A tests foundational concepts, problem set B tests more exam-style questions.
Revision sessions after major chapters. You can bring your friends along.
Understand the content, use active recall during problem sets to answer questions, and learn how to tackle exam questions.
You don't need to get every question right from the start. First work out what the question is asking and how to approach it. The marks come with practice.
And I want H2 Chemistry to be fun.
All candidates are required to enter for Papers 1, 2, 3 and 4.
30 compulsory MCQs with 4 options each, 5 to 8 are multiple completion.
All compulsory, on the question paper, includes 20 to 25 marks of data-based questions.
Section A (55): 3 to 4 compulsory questions. Section B (20): answer one of two.
Planning 4%, manipulation, data and evaluation 16%. No books allowed.
Electrons are removed from the outermost shell first.
Every blank is a phrase examiners look for. Each one is revealed on the slides as we go: write it into your notes.
IE increases across a period:
Numbered points are separate marks: write every one, in order.
A special case, an exception, or a point that is easy to miss.
Exam tipAdvice for the exam: how to phrase an answer or set out working to earn the marks.
Answer structureHow to set out the answer to a type of question that comes up again and again.
Worked exampleAn exam question solved step by step. Cover the working and try it first.
Questions on what you learnt at O levels or in an earlier topic, which this lesson builds on.
Decide what will happen before the animation shows it.
Say what a graph or picture shows, in your own words.
A comparison with something familiar, such as the atom as a hotel.
A question like the worked example, for you to attempt.
A harder question that combines several ideas.
A multiple-choice question at the end of a section. The wrong options are common mistakes.
Quick checkWhich label marks a question for you to attempt after a worked example?
Contains the lesson's Your turn and Challenge questions, then practice that tests the topic's foundational concepts.
Questions from prelim and A Level papers. I designed a table to add up your marks for each section of the topic, so you can identify your weak and strong points for each chapter.
A question type that comes up a lot in A Levels. It earns the label when it appears in at least 1 in 4 of the 33 recent prelim exams in my question bank.
ChallengeThe hardest question in the set, at the end.
You get a black-and-white copy of the first topic, Atomic Structure.
You can choose to buy the full notes in colour. Otherwise, you will receive them in black and white.
Next: Atomic Structure