Summary:
Student Unit Guides are perfect for revision. Each guide is written by an examiner and explains the unit requirements, summarises the relevant unit content and includes a series of specimen questions and answers.

There are three sections to each guide:

Introduction – includes advice on how to use the guide, an explanation of the skills being tested by the assessment objectives, an outline of the unit or module and, depending on the unit, suggestions for how to revise effectively and prepare for the examination questions.

Content Guidance – provides an examiner’s overview of the module’s key terms and concepts and identifies opportunities to exhibit the skills required by the unit. It is designed to help students to structure their revision and make them aware of the concepts they need to understand the exam and how they might analyse and evaluate topics.

Question and Answers – sample questions and with graded answers which have been carefully written to reflect the style of the unit. All responses are accompanied by commentaries which highlight their respective strengths and weaknesses, giving students an insight into the mind of the examiner.

• A revision guide specifically written to meet the requirements of the unit
  

• Written by an examiner with commentary on key points and concepts 
  

• Features specimen questions and answers, together with examiner's comments
  

Table of Contents:
Introduction
About this guide
Study skills and revision techniques
Approaching the unit test
Content Guidance
About this section
Module 1: Basic concepts and hydrocarbons
Nomenclature and formulae
Hydrocarbons: alkanes
Hydrocarbons: fuels
Hydrocarbons: alkenes
Module 2: Alcohols, halogenoalkanes and analysis
Alcohols
Halogenoalkanes
Modern analytical techniques
Module 3: Enthalpy changes, rates and equilibria
Enthalpy changes
Rates
Dynamic equilibrium and Le Chatelier’s principle
Module 4: Resources
Chemistry of the air
Green chemistry
Questions and Answers
About this section
Q1 Alkanes and halogenoalkanes
Q2 Alcohols
Q3 Fuels and isomerism
Q4 Radical and nucleophilic substitution
Q5 Electrophilic addition
Q6 Fuels
Q7 Boltzmann distribution
Q8 Bond enthalpy and catalysts
Q9 Enthalpy of combustion, Hess’s law, catalytic converters
Q10 Equilibria
Q11 Activation-energy and energy-profile diagrams; Le Chatelier’s principle
Q12 Enthalpy changes using mcΔT; catalysts
Q13 The greenhouse effect; removal of carbon dioxide; principles of chemical sustainability