加拿大Avogadro Exam

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The Exam

Details of the time and place of the exam are available from the Head of Chemistry in your Ontario high school (or from Avogadro Exam, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, in case of any difficulty).

The exam will cover material that a well-read junior high school chemistry student is likely to have come across in the course of studies. Students may expect to find a few probing and demanding questions on some of the main topics of high school chemistry. Certain mathematical skills closely related to the study of chemistry will be tested, and there will be a few questions on chemical topics not normally covered in high school. The Avogadro Exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions, some easy, some tough, under the general headings: Structure of Matter, Bonding, Reactions, Solutions, and Gases, and a general knowledge of current affairs.

Who May Write?

The competitive examination is intended for students who are completing, or have recently completed, their first high school chemistry course (about 100 instructional hours).

Administration

All correspondence about the exam, exam results and prizes should be addressed to Dr. C. Bissonnette, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1. We reserve the right to restrict the number of prizes and awards offered outside Ontario.

Prizes

Prizes are given to the five percent of students whose exam performance is best. The 2010 prize was a multicoloured T-shirt.

Cost

A charge of $3.00 is made for each exam ordered (the minimum order is 5 copies), plus courier or postal costs of $10.00 per school in Canada; $15.00 outside Canada. Above 100 copies, contact us for reduced rates. [The courier or postal cost we charge is to help cover the expenses of sending both the exam order and the exam results.]

Information about ordering and about previous years' exams will be mailed automatically at the beginning of February 2011 to all teachers/schools who used the exams last year. Additional information and sample exams are can be found at: http://www.avogadroexam.uwaterloo.ca