[Future_Dr]

Come and discuss the pros and cons and share tips.. Please I need it and I think most of us do as we approach.

[Future_Dr]

Wow, I'm all aaalllooonnneeee. Its worst than I thought.

[x_leah27_x]

haha your not alone! I also have this exam next week..hopefully it'll be more fun than todays exam!

[harrietparrot]

I've got it too! Anyone got any good revision sites or anything? I'm finding learning all the equations for Group 1 and 2 metals and stuff really hard. Also the reaction mechanims. :-(

[Lost4468]

Anyone else here sitting this? I feel like I know most of it except the "just learn it" stuff, like the colours of products and other things.

[A123W]

The hour and a half is going to be long I think It's hard to find a revision book as most are aimed at OCR, AQA etc. Can't remember anything! Seems like a huge jump from CH1 This website has good one sheet revision notes that summarizes topics (although they are aimed at other exam boards, some are relevant to WJEC).

http://www.knockhardy.org.uk/sci.htm

[nomelssej]

WJEC has a 'revision aid'. Personally, i wouldn't call it a revision aid, as it is very long so you may as well just read over class notes. Here's the link:

http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/7862.pdf

I understand the work, but as harrietparrot said earlier, it's hard to learn the things that you HAVE to learn off by heart. This exam is going to suck.

[Future_Dr]

Alright guys< lets get this thread started.

[harrietparrot]

Eek. Tomorrow is going to be full on revision all day I think. I went all out for Biology yesterday so I haven't done any Chem since last week.

I know it'll be tough, but WJEC don't seem to do anything too weird/unusual with Chemistry papers. I think they're fairly consistent, if a little awkward.

[Future_Dr]

(Original post by harrietparrot)
Eek. Tomorrow is going to be full on revision all day I think. I went all out for Biology yesterday so I haven't done any Chem since last week.

I know it'll be tough, but WJEC don't seem to do anything too weird/unusual with Chemistry papers. I think they're fairly consistent, if a little awkward.

I know... same been cramping bio and other exams over the week. Yh they are consistent, but they are evil in that they have trick questions here and there.

[Future_Dr]

This thread is not helpful at all. Good bye.

[harrietparrot]

Probably because everyone sitting it is too busy cramming

[Jessica-May]

how did everyone find this exam???

[rsp]

aww sorry i just found this thread i could have helped with revsion material : WJEC has just brought out a revision book for chemistry .
I sat it today as a resit (got a b ums 89) last year , i thought the paper was really nice. Except for the question about why does gas decrease when Ba react with water, but i thought it was ICNREASE becasue the reactions of grwp 2 increase down the group. even took my teacher a while but she said it is because Ba would have less moles than Ca.
Everything else was great touch wood . How did you find it @ Jessica-May

[Snuffleupagus]

(Original post by rsp)
Except for the question about why does gas decrease when Ba react with water, but i thought it was ICNREASE becasue the reactions of grwp 2 increase down the group. even took my teacher a while but she said it is because Ba would have less moles than Ca.

Ahh, I see. What a stinker of a question!

I hated the paper. I can't quite put my finger on why - I can barely remember it now! It seemed so long, with SO many long-answer questions, display formulas etc.. I did manage to finish it, but I think I missed out a couple of 1 mark questions (including the gas one!).

Ugh. Didn't like it at all.

[Jessica-May]

i found some of the questions hard.... like the barium question!

[Maths.Guy]

Barium has a bigger Mr. therefore when we do mass/Mr we see that we get less moles of barium. this will mean less moles of hydrogen gas will be liberated (since it was a 1 to 1 ratio).

I found it nice, but loads of people in my year hated it. Also, I totally agree about the long answer questions, so many QWC marks!

[kmorris39]

i thought the majority of questions were all very straight forward! i didn't really get the barium question! and my picture of a gas syringe was terrible! also i didn't like the five mark question about the precipitates of chloride and bromide ions. i didn't really get the Naoh part. but apart from that alright yeah!! what does everyone else think?!

[welshfrankie]

I thought it was quite a nice paper! The three straight-chain isomers on butene was confusing. I could only work out two. Surely cyclo-butane doesn't count as a straight-chain isomer?

[imconfused]

i hated it i knw i got a uuuuuuu !!!!!