TIPS AND TRICKS ON SCORING A2 LEVEL CHEMISTRY (9701)

WHAT IS CHEMISTRY PAPER 5?

 A TIMETABLED, WRITTEN PAPER.
 ASSESS STUDENT’S PRACTICAL SKILLS OF PLANNING, ANALYSIS AND
EVALUATION.
(NO QUESTIONS WILL REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF THEORY OR
EQUIPMENT THAT IS BEYOND THE SYLLABUS. INFORMATION THAT
CANDIDATES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO KNOW WILL BE PROVIDED IN THE
EXAMINATION PAPER.
 NO LABORATORY FACILITIES ARE REQUIRED.
 CANDIDATES WILL ANSWER ALLQUESTIONS.
 CONSIST OF TWO OR MORE QUESTIONS TOTALLING 30 MARKS.
CANDIDATES WILL BE PROVIDED WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE AIMS OF
THE INVESTIGATION OR EXPERIMENT AND SOME BACKGROUND
INFORMATION RELATING TO IT. CANDIDATES SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE USE
OF THIS INFORMATION.
IN DEFINING THE PROBLEM.
IDENTIFY THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE.
AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IS THE VAARIABLE YOU HAVE TO
CONTROL OVER, WHAT YOU CAN CHOOSE AND MANIPULATE.

IT IS USUALLY WHAT YOU THINK WILL AFFECT THE DEPENDENT

VARIABLE.

IT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY THERE AND IT IS FIXED,

SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO EVALUATE WITH RESPECT TO HOW
IT AFFECTS SOMETHING ELSE, THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE LIKE COLOR.

ON A GRAPH, THE X-AXIS WOULD BE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE.

IDENTIFY THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE.

A DEPENDENT VARIABLE IS WHAT YOU MEASURE IN THE EXPERIMENT
AND WHAT IS AFFECTED DURING THE EXPERIMENT.

THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE RESPONDS TO THE INDEPENDENT

VARIABLE. IT “DEPENDS” ON THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE.

ON A GRAPH, THE Y-AXIS WOULD BE THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE.

 IDENTIFY THE VARIABLES THAT ARE TO BE CONTROLLED.

A CONTROL VARIABLE IS SOMETHING THAT IS CONSTANT AND

UNCHANGED IN AN EXPERIMENT.

A CONTROL VARIABLE STRONGLY INFLUENCES VALUES; IT IS HELD

CONSTANT TO TEST THE RELAIVE IMPACT OF INDEPENDENT
VARIABLES.

EXPRESS THE AIM IN TERMS OF A PREDICTION OR HYPOTHESIS

(LINKING INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT VARIABLES) AND EXPRESS
THIS IN WORDS OR IN THE FORM OF A PREDICTED GRAPH SHOWING
THE EXPECTED OUTCOME.

METHODS
 DESCRIBE THE METHOD TO BE USED TO VARY THE INDEPENDENT
VARIABLE AND THE MEANS THAT THEY WILL PROPOSE TO ENSURE
THAT THEY HAVE MEASURED ITS VALUES ACCURATELY.
 DESCRIBE HOW THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE SHOULD BE MEASURED.
 DESCRIBE HOW EACH OF THE OTHER KEY VARIABLES IS TO BE
CONTROLLED.
 EXPLAIN HOW ANY CONTROL EXPERIMENTS WILL BE USED TO VERIFY
THAT IT IS THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE THAT IS AFFECTING THE
DEPENDENT VARIABLE AND NOT SOME OTHER FACTOR.
 DESCRIBE THE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS WITH ITS SIZE (IT SHOULD
MEASURE THE CORRECT QUANTITY TO A SUITABLE PRECISION)
 SUGGEST APPRORIATE VOLUMES AND CONCENTRATION OF REAGENTS.
 DESCRIBE THE ARRANGEMENTS OF APPRATUS (VIA WORDDS AND
LABELLED DIAGRAMS).
 DESCRIBE THE STEPS IN THE PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED IN ORDER
TO GET A RELIABLE RESULT.
 DESCRIBE THE OUTCOMES OF STEPS IN THE PROCEDURE WHERE THESE
ARE RELEVANT TO THE OVERALL EXPERIMENT.
 SHOW AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW AND WHY THE PROCEDDURE
SUGGESTED WILL BE EFFECTIVE.
 ASSESS THE RISKS OF THEIR PROPOSED METHODS WHERE ACCIDENT
OR INJJURY IS MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN AND WHERE IT WOULD NE THE
MOST SERIOUS.
 DESCRIBE PRECAUTIONS THAT SHPULD BE TAKEN TO OVERCOME THE
RISKS MENTIONED
 DESCRIBE HOW THE DATA CAN BE USED IN ORDER TO REACH
CONCLUSION.

ANALYSIS, CONCLUSION AND EVALUATION

DEALING WITH DATA
 CHOOSE AND CONTRUCT APPRORIATE DATA TABLES, INCLUDING
CLUNS FOR CALCULATED VALUES AND HEADINGS INCLUDING
QUANTITY AND UNIT WHERE APPRORIATE.
 CONSTRUCT SUITABLE GRAPHS DISPLAYING THE INDEPENDENT (X-
AXIS) AND DEPENDENT VARIABLE (Y-AXIS).
EVALUATION
 IDENTIFY THE ANOMALOUS VALUES.
 SUGGEST POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR ANOMALOUS READINGS AND
SUGGEST APPRORIATE MEANS OF DEALING WITH SUCH ANOMALIES
(e.g. REPEATING THE EXPERIMENT OR OMITTING THE AFFECTED
REPLICATE).