Edexcel A-Level Chem Paper 3 General + Practical Principles in Chemistry [Exam Chat]

yeah same aaaah - do u have a list of the topics that came up in p1&2? cos i was gna go over everything but im not sure which areas to focus on

Original post by Pxnyl_

Well today I'm going to go over the practical guide from chemrevise and then I'll have a go at TypicalNerd's paper 3 to see what areas I really need to go over again. What about you? :O

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Pxnyl_

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Original post by user927401

yeah same aaaah - do u have a list of the topics that came up in p1&2? cos i was gna go over everything but im not sure which areas to focus on

I WISHH I wrote them down after the exams because my memory is terrible but if someone has a list of what came up please post it hereee. I'm so sorry I couldn't be of any help here!! <3 Best case is to just stick to doing the paper and that should give a rough idea on what topics to focus on.

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user927401

yeah i know cos i lit cant rem anything arghhhh. if anyone remembers, that would be so helpful please

Original post by Pxnyl_

I WISHH I wrote them down after the exams because my memory is terrible but if someone has a list of what came up please post it hereee. I'm so sorry I couldn't be of any help here!! <3 Best case is to just stick to doing the paper and that should give a rough idea on what topics to focus on.

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need some urgent advice lads... i checked the advanced information/released topics for last years chemistry paper 3 and it was as follows

Paper 3 – 9CH0/03
• Topic 5 Formulae, Equations and Amounts of Substance, including
understanding of Core Practicals 2 and 3
• Topic 12 Acid-base Equilibria, including understanding of Core Practical 9
• Topic 16 Kinetics II, including understanding of Core Practical 13a
• Topic 13B Entropy
• Topic 14 Redox II, including understanding of Core Practical 11
• Topic 17B Carbonyl compounds
• Topic 18C Organic Synthesis, including understanding of Core Practical 16
• Topic 4A The elements of Groups 1 and 2
• Topic 19B Nuclear magnetic resonance

so we can see we have had 2,3,9,13,11,16 come up last year.... that means only 6/16 practicals come up on average.... as mentioned in thread, there is chemrevise practicals which is a good resource but it is 43 full pages of tiny writing and i think it's impossible to get through that in 2 days even without past papers.... and it would be gutting to waste time the night before learning about 10 potential practicals that wont come up... whos doing what? some focusing on just past papers? just focusing on predicted topics? just content? just practicals?

its criminal how edexcel have made paper 2 and paper 3 so close... i reckon many people will be in a bad position. low motivation, chem on monday, maths on tuesday, bio on wednesday... now we got the biggest and hardest papers to cram in 2 nights

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my only concern is last year over half the people who voted on poll for difficulty of last years paper 3, combined 56% voted for for not so good/terrible and yet still last year it was 78/120 for an A... which is pretty ******* high in my opinion when the smart population of student room found it hard

https://prnt.sc/ZoVfn214IIFq

screenshot to the poll if anyones curious

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drsandas

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To be fair the above poll had only 170 people , which would potentially not be reflective of the whole of UK’s performance for grade boundaries

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Original post by drsandas

To be fair the above poll had only 170 people , which would potentially not be reflective of the whole of UK’s performance for grade boundaries

yeah that makes it even worse cuz normally you get the bright ones here straight away after an exam to flex their answers and what not...

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Glomerulus765

Original post by Pxnyl_

Well today I'm going to go over the practical guide from chemrevise and then I'll have a go at TypicalNerd's paper 3 to see what areas I really need to go over again. What about you? :O

Hi, good luck with paper 3 on Friday everyone. Please could you attach a link to TypicalNerd’s paper 3?

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zws

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Original post by Glomerulus765

Hi, good luck with paper 3 on Friday everyone. Please could you attach a link to TypicalNerd’s paper 3?

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Pxnyl_

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Do you think they'll include topic 14 because I feel like they included it a lot in paper 1

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user927401

which core practicals are everyone learning?? as i cant see myself going over content and learning 16 practicals

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https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7336495#post98479493

Original post by user927401

which core practicals are everyone learning?? as i cant see myself going over content and learning 16 practicals

i aint gonna do practicals... if you just do all the past papers, theres been 6 papers. 7 including specimen. thats potentially 35 practicals that have come up if you assume 5 practicals per paper... that means each practical has come up twice up to now... that should be our revision right there

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Glomerulus765

Original post by zws

Thank you!!

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username5831659

Original post by a_level185

my only concern is last year over half the people who voted on poll for difficulty of last years paper 3, combined 56% voted for for not so good/terrible and yet still last year it was 78/120 for an A... which is pretty ******* high in my opinion when the smart population of student room found it hard

https://prnt.sc/ZoVfn214IIFq

screenshot to the poll if anyones curious

the thing is not many people took A-levels last year and this is the first time since 2019 where we're not given advanced information

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