OCR F324-June 2013 Chemistry

How's everyone been doing in past papers. I've fallen into the trap again of just rushing through and not doing them properly.

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I'm on the other end of the spectrum, i end up spending too much time on them so right now i'm just working on getting my time down

Haha, I'll finish in about 30-40 mins and not check my answers, I did the same with f321 last Jan which I guess is why I did bad.

How are you finding the papers. I've only done the early ones yet but they seem ok

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Can someone please explain chiral pool synthesis in producing pharmacueticals?

i got 48/60 which shouldve been an A but the grade boundaries were higher for an A for that paper so got 68 UMS what about you?

do you think i'll be ok?

When learning about polymers it gives examples (e.g. terylene and kevlar) do we need to know the monomers which make these up? Or will they just give us a couple of monomers and ask us to draw the polymer?

I'm not sure if they still do, but when I did the OCR chem a-level the official OCR textbook had a code that let you access chemistry content online which often included a tonne of questions that are also used by the examiners to design the question paper...
Another useful resource is www.thestudentsolutions.co.uk where you can ask a chemistry university student a question directly. Good luck!

What sort of revision are people doing during these last two weeks?

Just finished making notes of all the topics today, so its just questions and past papers from now on.

What about you.

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Great Do you find it easier learning/revising by writing or reading or using flashcards etc. ?

I think I've started revising too early, I did my notes too early and now I have to rewrite them to refresh my memory.
I can't learn just by reading which means I have to keep rewriting my notes to learn and do lots of questions. I've also done pretty all the resources.

Luckily I found some more questions on the internet just now.
Heres a link to my collection of F324 resources. The news ones are in the F324 topic Based questions and Rwebster. I think its better if you download as zip.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!VRNSXQIS!X7ocggad45hcTZ18TYJzYA

Great Do you find it easier learning/revising by writing or reading or using flashcards etc. ?

I think I've started revising too early, I did my notes too early and now I have to rewrite them to refresh my memory.
I can't learn just by reading which means I have to keep rewriting my notes to learn and do lots of questions. I've also done pretty all the resources.

Luckily I found some more questions on the internet just now.
Heres a link to my collection of F324 resources. The news ones are in the F324 topic Based questions and Rwebster. I think its better if you download as zip.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!VRNSXQIS!X7ocggad45hcTZ18TYJzYA

Yea, I thought I started my note making late but I think it was good timing, its fresh in my mind. I've never really used flash cards, I find just reading over notes a few times is fine (not for crappy biology though). I know pretty much all the reactions, f324 for me has been the easiest unit.

Well you seem to have done a lot of work which means there's no last minute rush, just make sure you don't forget anything, one thing which I find extremely useful is going over the past papers and reading the correct response, this makes sure you get an exam answer remembered rather than something you learnt from the book which is a bit wishy-washy. Reading over the examiner reports also greatly helps as you can see where people struggled and made mistakes so you don't make them.

Thanks for that, I'll maybe use those resources if I ever run out of mine.

What grade are you aiming for.

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What grade are you aiming for.

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Master Yi, what type of grades are you scoring for the Chem 4 Papers? I'm trying to get an A/A*.

I've done all the Chem 5 Papers and have averaged around 80/100, and am re-doing them. Did one today and got 86/100.

Re-doing Chem 4 to try to get above 55/60.

Please would you be able to give me any recommendations or any advice on when I should finish

1. The Topic Sheets you put up (I printed ALL of the questions out)
2. The Past Papers?

Any help from anyone else would be appreciated. I've got 3 Exams on Wednesday/Thursday next week, so I'm not sure when I should get all the Chem 4 Papers done.

Unlike most of you here, my grades a low mostly because I messed up in As and didn't choose to resit(which is good and bad). So no matter how well I do in this paper I'm only going to get a B in Chem, which is good because the Uni wants that; but this doesn't stop me fom wanting to get A in just this paper.
What about you? Are you going to uni after August or doing more Alevels.



We did three mocks in school for F324.
- Jan 12 - b
- June 12 - a
- Jan 13 - a (57/60) Teacher said this paper was straight foward and evrything was "straight out of our notes".

So I'm guessing you're doing F325 for the 1st time and resiting F324.

What do you mean by:
Please would you be able to give me any recommendations or any advice on when I should finish

1. The Topic Sheets you put up (I printed ALL of the questions out)
2. The Past Papers?


I'm guessing you have Chem F325 on Wed and Phisics G485 on Thursday. They given people even more time now for those papers. Do you do your papers by the new 2hour time or the old 1hour 45?

Unlike most of you here, my grades a low mostly because I messed up in As and didn't choose to resit(which is good and bad). So no matter how well I do in this paper I'm only going to get a B in Chem, which is good because the Uni wants that; but this doesn't stop me fom wanting to get A in just this paper.
What about you? Are you going to uni after August or doing more Alevels.