5 Things you need to know when starting A Level chemistry
Advice for students on how to make the best start to A Level chemistry, including free downloadable head start guide.
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5 Ways to prepare for A Level Results Day
Maybe you’ve been avoiding thinking about it, but preparing ahead for results day will help you make the most of whatever comes your way!
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New Online Course: Confidence in Chemical Calculations
New online course available to book now – discounted summer rate if you book before July 10th and the option to add on up to 90 minutes one to one tuition.
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OCR A Chemistry – Predicted Papers and Revision Masterclasses for 2022
Looking for predicted papers for 2023? Click here! If you’re preparing for summer exams for OCR A, this post is for you! I’ve spent hours going through the advanced notice, specification and the last four years of exams to come up with my predicted papers for 2022. All 3 papers are available to download now,…
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3 ways to improve your A Level organic chemistry
If you’re taking A Level exams this summer then no doubt you’ve started looking at past papers and might be feeling a bit overwhelmed – especially with the sheer volume of content that seems to be needed for organic chemistry! Even if you’re just starting out it can seem overwhelming, especially when exam questions appear…
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5 ways to improve your confidence in chemical calculations
A Level chemistry includes a lot of calculations. As one of my students put it to me in a recent lesson ‘Ugh! Science maths is the worst maths, because there’s so much else going on!’ It’s not surprising, therefore, that many students get anxious when faced with challenging chemical calculations. Throughout April I’ll be focusing…
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101 Revision activities for AS Level Chemistry
It’s so easy to get bored and demotivated with chemistry revision, no matter how important you know it is and no matter how much your grade matters to you. One of the biggest problems students find when they’re revising is that they spend all their time trying to get information into their head – and…
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Why “silly mistakes” are more important than you think (and 4 ways to avoid them)
As a teacher and tutor, we hear these sorts of phrases a lot: “I understand all of it, I just lose marks for silly mistakes“ “It was all correct, just lots of silly mistakes“ “He’s really clever, he just rushes and makes lots of mistakes“ Careless errors, silly mistakes, missing words, the wrong sign, misreading…
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New Year, New Chemistry Content!
It’s a New Year, and the last few months went by incredibly fast! No doubt, whether you are a student or a teacher you have found the same thing – the autumn term is always packed and many classes get through half the content for the entire academic year in those first four months. The…
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OIL RIG – does it cause more harm than good?
There are some things that have just been so ingrained into my teaching practice that I stopped questioning them. “Oxidation is loss, reduction is gainâ€. What is not to like? It’s plastered over every almost every GCSE and A Level chemistry textbook and revision guide on my shelf. And yet, it’s only this year –…
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