Course Content
Structure & Bonding
- Covalent & Ionic bonding
- Ionic Formulae
- Metallic Bonding
Structure and properties
- Giant ionic structures
- Simple covalent molecules
- Giant covalent structures
- Giant metallic structures
- Properties of polymers
- Nanoscience
Chemical calculations
- Relative mass
- Masses of atoms and moles
- Percentage and formulae
- Equations and calculations
- Yields
- Reversible reactions
- Chromatography
- Mass Spectrometry
Rates & Energy
- How fast
- Collision theory
- Effect of temperature
- Effect of concentration & pressure
- Effect of catalysts
- Catalysts in action
- Exothermic & endothermic reactions
- Energy and reversible reactions
- Using energy from reactions
Salts and Electrolysis
- Acids & alkalis
- Acid + base –> Salt + Water
- Insoluble salts
- Electrolysis
- Changes at the electrodes
- Aluminium extraction
- Electrolysis of brine
- electroplating
New IGCSE Double award science papers
- IGCSE Double Award Paper 1 2014
- IGCSE Double Award Paper 2 2014
- IGCSE Double Award Paper 1 2013
- IGCSE Double Award Paper 2 2013
Mark Schemes
- MS IGCSE Double Award Paper 1 2014
- MS IGCSE Double Award Paper 2 2014
- MS IGCSE Double Award Paper 1 2013
- MS IGCSE Double Award Paper 2 2013
GCSE Past papers
Mark Schemes
Legacy Past Papers
The past papers below are from a previous specification, the new specification has less emphasis on the Haber process (although still looks at reversible reactions) and includes more on instrumental techniques. They are still worth using for some exam practise.