AS Chemistry

Cambridge Assessment International Examination’s goals for its Chemistry courses include:

To enable students to:

• CAIE Chemistry develops a set of transferable skills including handling data, practical problem-solving and applying the scientific method.
• Learners develop relevant attitudes, such as concern for accuracy and precision, objectivity, integrity, enquiry, initiative and inventiveness.
• Learners acquire the essential scientific skills required for progression to further studies or employment.
• Good teaching and learning will incorporate and reinforce a subject’s key concepts to help students gain:
  • a greater depth as well as breadth of subject knowledge
  • confidence, especially in applying knowledge and skills in new situations
  • the vocabulary to discuss their subject conceptually and show how different aspects link together
  • a level of mastery of their subject to help them enter higher education.

AS candidates study the following topics:

Physical chemistry

• Atomic structure
• Atoms, molecules and stoichiometry
• Chemical bonding
• States of matter
• Chemical energetics
• Electrochemistry
• Equilibria
• Reaction kinetics

Inorganic chemistry

• The Periodic Table: chemical periodicity
• Group 2
• Group 17
• Nitrogen and sulfur

Organic chemistry

• An introduction to AS Level organic chemistry
• Hydrocarbons
• Halogen compounds
• Hydroxy compounds
• Carbonyl compounds
• Carboxylic acids and derivatives
• Nitrogen compounds
• Polymerisation
• Organic synthesis

Analysis

• Analytical techniques