Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Test a day 4 - Separating Techniques

Answers for the last test will be up tonight. Test 4 is on separating techniques

Standard test can be downloaded by clicking the following links

>> Page 1
>> Page 2

Extended test can be downloaded by clicking these links (It's a long one)
>>Page 1
>>Page 2
>>Page 3
>>Page 4

Friday, May 27, 2005

Test a day 3 - Atomic Structure and bonding

Todays test is on Atomic Structure and bonding.

Download, print out and take the standard test and extended test by clicking the following links. Each test should take half an hour. As usual, notes will be uploaded onto the forum.

>>Standard test page 1
>>Standard test page 2

>>Extended Test

Note: The extended test has been squeezed onto one page but it's dimensions are a bit funny so you may need to do some tweaking to get it to print out properly.

Good luck!

Test a day 2 - answers to periodic table test

Mark your own periodic table test.

>> Standard test answers
>> Extended test answers

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Test-a-day day 1 answers uploaded

Answers to the Elements, compounds and mixtures test uploaded

>> Click here to download answers for standard test
>> Click here to download answers to extended test


Todays test for download is on the periodic table. Markscheme will be up tomorrow.

>> Periodic table test page 1
>> Periodic table test page 2

This test should take you half an hour and shouldn't cause anyone too many problems. A more difficult test on periodic table is the following one, which looks more at the patterns in the periodic table and the relationship between the place in the periodic table and properties of the elements. The following, extended test can be downloaded and done and should take you half an hour again.

Extended test
>> Page 1
>> Page 2

As usual, revision notes will be up on the forum website

Good luck!

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Test a Day test 1 - Elements Compounds, Mixtures and changes of state

An easy one for starters, just some simple definitions and changes of state to get you in the mood.

The test is 7 questions long and worth 30 Marks. Start whenever you're ready and extra notes and exercises can be found on the forum. Most of these notes come from the scanned revision guides that I have been offering all of you, of which I now have Chemistry and Physics guides. As always the offer is open to burn you a copy if you bring me a blank CD. Answers will be posted tomorrow to allow you to mark for yourself.

The extended test is also uploaded - the answers to this test will take longer to come out though.

Elements, compounds, mixtures and changes in state test
Page 1
Page 2

Extended Test
Page 1
Page 2

Once you've marked it why not gloat on the forum about how excellent your mark was and maybe we can start a league table....

Phoenix

Structured daily revision workout regime launch

Can't work out how to revise? Stuck for ideas? Do you find you can only really get yourself psyched up for a test by taking other tests? Then what you need is...

The Phoenix Test a Day Scheme!

Clinically proven to expand your brain and improve your confidence, this series of easy daily exercises will help you become the man (or woman if you're a if you're female. Or strange) that you've always wanted to be!

The idea is simple. Every day from now until your exam, a new test will be posted on this very site. The daily test can be downloaded and printed off and should take no more than half an hour to complete. The next day the answers will go up and you can check what you got. The marks are out of 30 every time.

Extra relevant helpsheets and exercises will also be uploaded aas necessary and these should be done before the test is attempted to give yourself as good a chance as you can.

The test should take half an hour and if you do half an hour a day this should put you in great stead for the exam. A further, harder test may also be uploaded on the same topic and if you find that neither test worries you unduly then you'll most likely breeze through the end of year exam. The further test should also take half an hour. One hours revision a day will almost certainly ensure you top marks.

Well good luck then Year 9. Your first test will be uploaded after this post...

Phoenix

PS - you may also want to check out the Physics website, same address but with "phys" instead of "chem" if you do physics. Same scheme operating over there.

Mistake in Calculations Markscheme

If you've downloaded it already the Markscheme for the calculations test had a mistake in quesytion 8 - the answers for 8 are as follows
a)0.5 moles
b)0.2 moles
c)0.0625 moles

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Monday test 3 - Separating techniques and identifying substances

Next weeks Monday test covers two topics, separating chemicals and Identifying substances.

The first part, separating substances covers sections 2 and 7, the experimental techniques section on the checklist uploaded, so will include filtration, distillation and chromatography.

The second part is mainly section 10, analysis, and covers identification of ions and chemicals given their states and properites under certain conditions.

Revision notes will be uploaded onto the forum under the correct topic heading. Feel free to add your own notes up there too.

Good luck!

Calculations test answers uploaded

The answers to the calculations test has been uploaded in Word and can be downloaded by clicking on this link

>> Calculations test answers

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

A story about rabbits

One day there was a rabbit, who lived in a burrow. He was a very clever rabbit and very popular too because he had many carrots, which he would always share with his rabbit friends.

For years, Mr Rabbit had been delivered all the carrots he needed, but one day, he looked in his store and realised that he didn’t have quite enough carrots.

“What must I do?”, thought the clever young rabbit to himself, as he rubbed the furry bit between his floppy ears. Mr Rabbit had never before needed to worry about his carrot supply.

In a flash, it came to him. Mr Rabbit, a keen student of far eastern philosophy had on his wall a plaque which read:

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him forever”

“I don’t like fish, “ thought he wistfully “but I do like carrots. I will learn to hunt carrots in the wild”

With this thought in mind, Mr Rabbit made his way to the local rabbit university, where he enrolled in course C4RR0T5, “Advanced Carrot capture and torture techniques for rabbits”

While enrolled on the course, Mr Rabbit made many friends and his teachers thought he was wonderful as he seemed to have so many carrots. His project marks were outstanding, as Mr Rabbit was never short of a carrot to hand in. Mr Rabbit was achieving the most outstanding grades the teachers at UCRBIT had ever seen and his work was the talk of all rabbitdom.

But things were not all as they seemed.

Not a single carrot handed in as a project had been Mr Rabbits own work.

The term was nearly at its end and Mr Rabbit’s supply of carrots was nearly exhausted. Every project he handed in was a carrot from his own stores.

Every day, Mr Rabbit would have less and less to eat, but his marks were staying constantly high. The other rabbits still thought he was a genius carrot-catcher, despite the fact he had not ensnared a single carrot in a single trap all year. While the other rabbits toiled with medieval devices, from the car-ROTATOR to the Looping Nail-a-pult with sometimes disastrous results, Mr Rabbit was still no better educated than when he had first entered the class.

The other rabbits, on hearing of Mr Rabbits skills, were now coming over to feast on carrot pie with broccoli gravy every weekend. Mr Rabbit’s carrot and coriander soup was legendary.

The end of term came and the final exam loomed on the horizon. Mr Rabbits storeroom was empty and his chances of passing the final examination with narry a vegetable to his name was slim.

Mr Rabbit failed his final exams and now people laugh when they think of how pathetic he really was. Here was a bright young rabbit with so much potential, whose only sin was to want to be seen to be clever.

While the other rabbits may have failed the small tests, Mr Rabbit never did appreciate the value of that plaque on his wall.

Monday, May 16, 2005

Monday test 3 - Calculations and the mole - test uploaded

The test on calculations has been uploaded - answers to follow.

The calculations test can be downloaded by clicking on the following links

>>Test paper page 1
>>Test paper page 2