IGCSE Chemistry Course Materials

IGCSE Chemistry 🧑‍🔬   Past Papers

  • Learn effectively 💡

    • You’ll learn how to minimise your learning time and maximise your gain of knowledge
    • This is based on my experience teaching IGCSE chemistry for more than 18 years
    • I helped more 100s of students score A & A* in their final exams

  • Why IGCSE Chemistry? 🤔

    • to start with, chemistry IGCSE can be considered an easy science. I’d highly recommend taking chemistry if you're planning on taking one science subject for these reasons:
    1. It is relatively short compared to IGCSE Biology
    2. The questions are quite straightforward
    3. Exams are predictable if you have solved past exam questions
    4. It is actually getting easier with the new syllabus

  • Understanding 🤓

    • This is where everything starts, IGCSE requires a deep understanding of concepts
    • You have to find the right resources (exam board, syllabus year, full details)
    • it is hard to keep track of lectures unless you have notes that follow what is in the video
    • It is time-consuming to make your own notes and there are so much more details in textbooks that what you really need
    • Learning sciences has to be interactive, you’d never understand the experiments unless you do them or you observe how these experiments are done
    • When you understand the concept, it’d last longer in your mind, it is a one-year program so you really have to remember a lot
    • If you can simplify and explain the concept in your own words then you’re good to go

  • Memorising 📚

    • A large amount of marks in the IGCSE depends on recalling information sometimes you have to list temperature values or even colours
    • Everyone memorises in their own ways, you may make flashcards, rewrite the concept or make mindmaps
    • I recommend annotating the original notes/textbook you’re using, this way you’ll have one resource to study from
    • You have to minimise the time and maximise the gain
    • This step is a transition to the next step and it is not the aim so do not get stuck here, you’ll eventually memorise once you start solving in the next step

  • Reinforcing 🔖

    • This step is what really matters as long as you know how to solve exam questions then you’re good enough
    •   This is the beauty of the IGCSE system as it offers plenty of past papers
    •  Memorisation comes as you solve similar questions
    •  Always start with classified questions related to the same topic
    •   Be kind to yourself, start with open notes
    •   It’d be such a waste of time if you solve without checking the answers
    •  Mark schemes may not be very clear sometimes, so it’d be ideal if you have written answers to the questions
    • Highlight your mistakes, this will help you to improve

  • Connecting 🧩

    • This is when you compile several topics in one exam
    • Questions combining several topics are quite common in the IGCSE exam
    • Chapters are designed to complement each other
    • This is why you need to follow the right order of the syllabus
    • Do old and then new exam papers (older ones are usually easier)
    • Give more time for the first few papers
    • As you get to the more recent papers, time your work and put yourself in the same exam conditions
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