Chemistry

Course summary

This course is for Students with an interest in science who are well organised, hard working, have excellent mathematical skills and have good problem solving skills. The course is divided into physical chemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. Chemistry is concerned with the science of matter, particularly its structure, properties and reactions. Chemistry is of central importance to the sciences as a whole as the chemical reactions that it governs are fundamental to all of science. Chemistry helps you to develop research, problem solving and analytical skills. It helps to you challenge ideas and show how you worked things out through logic and step-by-step reasoning. There are 12 assessed practicals to complete over the 2 year course. These assess skills such as following instructions, planning an experiment using appropriate references, recording results, completing a risk assessment etc.