Prepare your students for OxfordAQA International GCSE Chemistry.
This specification equips students with the essential knowledge, practical abilities and investigative skills for progression to the full OxfordAQA International GCSE Chemistry course, while covering stimulating topics to ignite their curiosity and interest in science.
- Contains a selection of the International GCSE Chemistry course content, with particular emphasis on key topics, including atomic structure, bonding and chemical analysis.
- Complete range of 9-1 grades available, allowing for greater differentiation at the top end and increased accuracy in predicting future outcomes.
- This is a short-course International GCSE, intended for use in a foundation or core year, ahead of studying the full course International GCSE.
International GCSE Core Chemistry (9222)
OxfordAQA International GCSE Chemistry covers the following topics:
Atomic structure and the periodic table
- Solid, liquids and gases
- A simple model of the atom
- The periodic table
Structure, bonding and the properties of matter
- Chemical bonds: ionic, covalent and metallic
- How bonding and structure are related to the properties of substances
- Structure and bonding of carbon
Chemical changes
- The reactivity series
- Metal carbonates
- Electrolysis
Chemical analysis
- Purity, formulations and chromatography
- Identification of common gases
Acids, bases and salts
- The properties of acids and bases
- Preparation of salts
Quantitative chemistry
- Conservation of mass including the quantitative interpretation of chemical equation
- Use of amount of substance in relation to masses of pure substances
- The mole concept
Periodicity
- Group properties
The rate and extent of chemical change
- Rate of reaction
- Redox reactions
Energy changes
- Exothermic and endothermic reactions
- Calculating and explaining energy change
Organic chemistry
- Carbon compounds as fuels
- Crude oil
- Hydrocarbons
- Obtaining useful substances from crude oil
OxfordAQA provides all the resources and advice you need to teach the International GCSE Core Chemistry specification effectively.
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- You can use approved textbooks and resources, published by Oxford University Press for the full International GCSE qualification, to help you with teaching Core.
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Paper 1:
- Any part of the specification may be assessed
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- 100 marks
- 100% of Core GCSE
