Advanced Higher Chemistry 2012-2013

Did you reference the source of instructions on how to prepare the chemicals?

I know that in english you're penalised for writing too much. If your report is too long the marker will get fed up-remember he/she will have quite a few to get through i'd ask your teacher for advice.

it will be fine, they say 2000-2500 words minimum - what they will look for is that your english is concise i.e. have you written as much information as possible using the lowest number of words.

Yeah i think i will have to speak to my teacher.. She might just gave me pointers on where to cut down if need be



Thanks, yeah, that would be similar to my bio report as, although it was over, the teacher did say it would be fine. Here's hoping !

it will be fine, they say 2000-2500 words minimum - what they will look for is that your english is concise i.e. have you written as much information as possible using the lowest number of words.

I think it counts numbers as words though so the tables might count as a lot of words!

And no its not 'measuring g'

It doesn't say 2000-2500 words minimum, it says it should be between that, meaning a minimum of 2000 and a maximum of 2500.

Then it's definitely Young's modulus or LASERS, I shall guess correctly!

The marking scheme says 2000-2500 is for guidance only

a guideline to doing well where does it say it's only a guideline?

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/instructions/2011/mi_AH_Chemistry_Investigation-Report_2011.pdf

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Touche, however i do believe its sensible to not go drastically over this limit, like writing 8000 words. The examiner will get bored of your report if theres too much in it.

I am sure quite a lot of people will be in the 3500 to 4500 range though

It doesn't say 2000-2500 words minimum, it says it should be between that, meaning a minimum of 2000 and a maximum of 2500.

I have tried to keep my report as concise as possible, however there is a lot in the actual investigation, and therefore results ... hence a high word count. I'm unsure whether stuff like the list of apparatus and calculations are to be counted in the word count. Do you know?

how high is it? tbh as long as its not something ridiculous like 10,000 words the marker wont notice, you're not required to give a word count and they're not supposed to try and count it (not that they would want to anyway) but the guidelines are there to help you get a good grade so i'd try and stick to it as much as possible. Everything is counted except tables/graphs


has anyone started studying for the final? i haven't, i really feel like i should have started by now

It's currently 4000 and ive got evaluation and summary to go. Aah really? I thought you had to put in a word count ! :/ Yupp.. i've been trying to stick to it as closely as possible

I've not started studying for the final yet.... for any of my subjects! I was planning to but its just impossible in the holidays!

The marking scheme says 2000-2500 is for guidance only



Nope

This is a sticky problem, oh, I've got it, viscosity?

Also, do you know your contents page?

I feel that my contents page is too detailed it's like

Abstract
...
Experiment 1: Title
Aim
Procedure
Results
Do I need to include those titles (aim, procedure results) in the contents page?

Nope, not viscosity, although its a similar field of physics...

And yeah thats fine, I've got something similar but I have an overall introduction with all my aims, so its:

Summary
Introduction
Experiment 1
- Method
- Uncertainties
- Results
- Conclusion
- Evaluation
Experiment 2
- Method
- Uncertainties
- Results
- Conclusion
- Evaluation
Experiment 3
- Method
- Uncertainties
- Results
- Conclusion
- Evaluation
Overall Discussion
References

Did you take an average of your results to find the average rate of oscillation?
If you did, did you calculate the mean uncertainty or standard deviation?