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What are the three most important skills in A Level chemistry? Most students need to work on at least one of these, so this post includes lots of suggestions for resources to improve vocabulary, calculation skills and retrieval practice.

Is there such a thing as too many past papers for A Level chemistry? There is if you do them all too soon, without considering other ways to revise. Here’s a list of ways to revise effectively, while still leaving plenty of time to practice exam papers.

I don’t like turning students down, but there’s only one of me here at CK Chemistry and so at this time of year I often have to turn down one to one tuition requests. While I am running Easter and May half term small group classes, I’m often looking for ways to help more students…

Small group intensive A Level chemistry revision courses for OCR A, AQA and Edexcel – Easter 2025. Early bird booking until 16th March – all courses in small groups with a qualified teacher and examiner.

It’ll be half term before you know it, and I like to give a free online class when I can in the holidays to help A Level chemistry students. This year, after a quick poll of students and teachers I’ll be focusing on organic analysis – particularly ¹H and ¹³C NMR. The class will be…

My favourite type of fun is chemistry-themed fun, and Christmas is no exception! My students know I have no limits when it comes to making everything related to chemistry, and that includes Christmas quizzes. Although I also love an impressive chemistry demonstration, on the last couple of days before Christmas I find students and staff…