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Revising for your
chemistry exams
Revision tips to help you
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Revision tips to help youAt the end of your chemistry course are …
your IGCSE chemistry exams! How exciting!
Revision is the key to exam success.
The five tips that follow will help you shine.
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Is there somethingI should be doing?
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1 Start revising in good time! Try to start at least eight weeks before the exam.
That way, you can avoid last-minute panic.
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2 Begin with a plan!
● A good plan will help you to manage your revision.
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Work out how many weeks you have before the exam.
● Decide how much time you will spend on chemistry
revision each week, and when.
● Do a timetable, with the topics you plan to cover each week.
● Keep your timetable safe. Check it often to see how you are
doing, and what’s next.
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3 Don’t just sit and read!Your textbook covers your chemistry
syllabus.
Reading it is part of revision ... but only part!
There are many other ways to get material into
your head.
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3 Don’t just sit and read!For example, try some or all of these …
● Make brief notes of the key points – or do a spider map.
Use colours and highlighting for the key points.
● Say what you have learned out loud.
● Use the revision checklist for each chapter.
You can print it from the CD, and tick the items on it.
● Do questions from the back of the chapters in the textbook.
● Do the interactive test for each chapter, on the CD.
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3 Don’t just sit and read!For example, a student did this spider map about electrolysis:
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need s
source of electricity
battery mains
n e e d
s
electrodes tocarry currentinto electrolyte
not inert(get changed)
used for
electroplating purifyingcopper
anode +
cathode –
inert (no change)
graphite (carbon)or platinum
Remember: current is carried by ions in electrolyte and electrons in wires
needs
electrolytes –contain ions free to move
moltenionic compound
metalat cathode
non-metalat anode
used for
solutioncontaining ions
metal or H 2
at cathode(whichever is less reactive)
halogen (only if concentrated halide solution)or oxygen at anode
H + and OH -
from water
Electrolysis
(splitting by electricity)
extracting reactive metals (e.g. Al)
getting chemicals from brine (H
2, Cl
2, NaOH)
electroplatingan object
with metal X X=anodeobject =cathodeelectrolyte =
solution of X compound purifying
copper
impure copper = anode
pure copper = cathodeeletrolyte = e.g. solution ofcopper (II) sulfate
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4 Try questions from past exams
● Get practice in answering past exam questions.
This is very important. It will help to give you confidence.
● Your CD contains …
- the past exam questions from the back of the textbook
- a set of past exam questions, with model answers,
to work through
- a set of sample exam papers, based on other past
questions, for you to try against the clock.
● Your teacher can check your answers.
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5 But don’t work too hard!● Brains get tired after a while. We also learn better
at the start and end of a session.
● So it is better to keep each revision session quite
short, rather than going on for hours.
● If you lose concentration, take a break.
Take a walk. Dance around. Sing.
Then back to work, refreshed.
● Revising late the night before an exam is not ideal.
You need rest!
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Finally, it is exam day …You have revised well.
You had a good rest last night.
Your pens, pencils, calculator, ruler and eraser are ready.
Now it is time to show everyone what you can do.
Good luck!
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