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Cambridge AS & A Level Chemistry

PSPractical skills

Practical skills in Cambridge AS & A Level Chemistry: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
Syllabus section86 practice questions3 lessons

Overview

Not a content section of the syllabus: our grouping of the Practical assessment section (Papers 3 and 5) and the Mathematical requirements.

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Lessons

  • Planning, analysing and evaluating experiments

    50 min

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  • Quantitative practical skills: titrations, measurements and uncertainty

    40 min

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  • Qualitative analysis: identifying ions, gases and functional groups

    50 min

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Sample question

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Practical skills: sample question

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Which apparatus is best for measuring exactly 25.0 cm³ of a solution to be titrated?

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