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Chemistry
IB DP Category 2
Barcelona, Spain, 29 - 31 August 2025
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Chemistry: A focus on the experimental programme
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Chemistry
IB DP Category 2
Barcelona, Spain, 13 - 15 February 2026
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Richard Young
The Inthinking Chemistry website has been a great resource to have. The multiple choice tests have been invaluable in diagnostic marking and the guides to each subtopic, along with their discussions of common pitfalls, have helped to guide and improve...
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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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Unnecessary equations?
This blog questions whether IB chemistry is becoming too reliant on simply plugging data into given equations rather than encouraging students to think through problems using their understanding of the...
28 May 2025
Teaching 1H NMR
My first Blog post! Students find getting to grips with proton NMR to be a real challenge. However, I find that if I can help them break it down into all the component pieces of information that together...
15 May 2025