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The course builds on skills and knowledge gained at GCSE and covers various topics that give students a greater insight into principles and concepts underlying the chemical world. Specifically, we cover aspects of Physical, Inorganic, and Organic Chemistry, including the atom's structure, trends, patterns in the Periodic Table, and typical reactions of organic families.
Year 13 builds on knowledge and skills developed in Year 12. You will better understand the real-world applications of these theoretical concepts in your second year. If you like a challenge and enjoy lots of maths and calculations, then Chemistry could be for you.
All Loughborough College Sixth Form courses have minimum entry requirements of at least five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above, including English Language and Maths.
Subject-Specific Entry Requirements:GCSE Maths and Science (Double Science or two 'traditional' sciences) in grade 6.
20 hours per week
Year 12:
Physical Chemistry: atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, kinetics, equilibria, and redox reactions.
Inorganic Chemistry: periodicity, group 2 chemistry, and group 7 chemistry.
Organic Chemistry: organic compounds and isomerism, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, and organic analysis.
Practical Skills: experiments are designed to improve useful competence and introduce the student to various techniques.
Year 13:
Physical Chemistry: thermodynamics, further kinetics and equilibria, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells, acids, bases, and buffers.
Inorganic chemistry: periodicity, transition metals, and reactions of inorganic compounds.
Organic Chemistry: stereoisomerism, carbonyl chemistry, aromatic chemistry, amines, amino acids, DNA, organic synthesis and analysis, structure determination, and chromatography.
Practical Skills: building on Year 12 with more complexity and challenging analysis and evaluation.
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