Chemistry/ getting into pharmacy

Can I crash higher chemistry in S6?Even though I messed around S1-S5 and never chose the right subjects for becoming a Pharmacist

Reply 1

imxa6

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Original post by MeganNowar07

Can I crash higher chemistry in S6?Even though I messed around S1-S5 and never chose the right subjects for becoming a Pharmacist

It is doable, but difficult. You’d need to concentrate and be on top of the course load

Reply 2

OnlySmartOneHere

I'm a current Higher Chemistry student and I sat Chemistry in Nat 5.

Like imxa6 said, it's definitely do-able. I wouldn't say there's a huge amount of overlap between the Nat 5 course and the Higher course which will help to make it easier to do. There is some but a lot of it is new content that isn't visited in Nat 5. I would still recommend looking over the Nat 5 course at least a little so you can get a feel for what it is like and have some basic knowledge when you go into Higher - especially for things like REDOX reactions, some carbon chemistry like alcohols/alkanols and your very basics like figuring out the chemical formulae for a compound, mole calculations, balancing equations. I'd say going over the more calculations/maths-y sort of stuff is definitely a must-do for crashing Chemistry as I can tell you wholeheartedly that you still use those equations in Higher.

Chemistry is a difficult subject so you'd have to be prepared to put in the work for it but if you do then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to do it. :smile: