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