In previous blogpost, we have discussed on the method of revision for GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations.
At this point of writing, students in Singapore would have finished their 1st set of 2010 ‘O’ Level exam paper. Hope everyone reading this blog enjoyed yourself today.
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For Chemistry, many of you should have finished revision by now. Let’s see what you should be doing before your chemistry paper.
1. Collect all the stationaries that you will need
a . Two sets of
In about 2 weeks time, Singapore Students will be taking their GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations.
Many of you are also having your ‘study week’ where school lessons has finally ended and you are given the time (2 weeks) to sit down and thoroughly revise through your notes, books, and previous test/exam papers.
For GCE ‘O’ Level Chemistry Exams, you need to know the essential concepts well in order to score the marks you desire. Only about 15% of the exams will be based solely on memorising skills, etc. As such, it is important to know the topics well.
Furthermore, you will be seeing questions in Paper 2 (Written) where one question will be split into many other parts – and each part will test you on a certain concepts i.e. several topics will be tested in one question.
Previously, i have blog before on tips for revising for GCE ‘O’ Level Chemistry Examinations, and you can find them through the links below:
Greetings everyone!
It has been a while (busy with running revision workshops and classes) since i last blog on this chemistry portal – where international community of chemistry students and educators come together to share thoughts on 3 main points:
If you are a Sec 4 / 5 student in Singapore, i hope you are spending time to revise on what you have learned in the past 2-3 years. For Chemistry, many students have this misconceptions and wrong mindset that Chemistry is a “memorising subject” and you can do a last minute revision (i.e. memorising most parts of the chemistry textbook or notes from teachers) before you GCE ‘O’ Level Chemistry Examinations – both Pure Chemistry as well as Combine Science (Chemistry).
This is certainly not true, contrary to the beliefs of many students, fueled by the claims from their friends, peers and seniors – that they should only start revising for their chemistry examinations after their Preliminary Exams (school exams) and when nearer to GCE “O” Level Chemistry papers. Do note you are “digging your own grave”! [sorry if you find my language abit aggressive] I just want to highlight the importance of doing revision immediately NOW! with O Level Chemistry Exams in about 30 days time. I would rather be aggressive and save a few more souls, rather than loosing several of you due to the wrong mindset.
In the next blogposts, i will share with you revision techniques as well as several tricky Chemistry Examination Questions.
PS: if you have been studying very hard for your chemistry, but have yet to score the marks you deserved – it may be due to the fact that your concepts of chemistry are not crystal clear yet i.e. there are misconceptions (and thus mistakes and errors) that prevents you from scoring! The book i wrote last august Up Your Chemistry Grades Now will be the book to address it.
Stay Tuned! =)
