Chemistry
Course details: Board and Specification: OCR H433 A-Level Chemistry B (Salters)
Practice papers and useful resources can be found in the shared Google drive below
GCSE to A- Level transition questions as well as some past iGCSE multiple choice papers can be found in the Google drive below, you should use these to practice. Your first assessment in year 12 will be a baseline multiple choice test based on these types of questions.
We also recommend the following CGP student book: Head Start to A-level Chemistry. It is fairly inexpensive and is designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and A-level.
Click here for recommended reading List
Recommended 6th form reading
Akhavan, Jacqueline - The Chemistry of Explosives
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Aldridge, Susan - Magic Molecules – How Drugs Work
Atkins, P. W. (Peter)
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements
Galileo's Finger - The Ten Great Ideas of Science
Ball, Philip
The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements
Stones of the Invisible - A Guided Tour of Molecules
Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century
Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
H2O – a Biography of Water
Beckett, S. T. - The science of chocolate
Berson, Jerome A. - Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the work of Woodward, Huckel, Meerwein and others
Brock, W. H. - The Fontana history of chemistry
Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Coultate, T. P. - Food – the chemistry of it's components
Emsley, John
Nature's Building Blocks: An A - Z Guide
Molecules at an Exhibition
The Elements of Murder
The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide: Separating Facts from Fiction about Everyday Products
Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving: How Chemistry Can Help You Achieve Life’s Goals
Goldacre, Ben - Bad science
Keeler, James & Wothers, Peter - Why Chemical Reactions Happen
McGee, Harold - On Food and Cooking – the Science and Lore of the Kitchen
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch - Prometheans in the Lab – Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
Pybus, David & Sell, Charles - The Chemistry of Fragrances
Rhodes, Richard - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Roesky, Herbert W. & Möckel, Klaus - Chemical Curiosities: Spectacular Experiments and Inspired Quotes
Russell, Michael S. - The Chemistry of Fireworks
Sacks, Oliver - Uncle Tungsten – Memories of a Chemical Boyhood -
Selinger, Ben - Chemistry in the Market Place
Strathern, Paul - Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest for the Elements