Assessment
Multiple choice tests for each topic
This section contains multiple choice tests for all the IB Diploma Chemistry topics. Each test contains 20 questions with worked answers. They are separated into SL tests and HL tests. Approximately...
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Tips for Paper 2
This page contains advice on how to prepare for answering the questions on Paper 2 and for when you are answering the questions during the actual exam. 1. Revision. As for Paper 1 go through the syllabus...
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Tips for Paper 1
This page contains advice on how to prepare for answering the multiple choice questions on Section A and the short-answer data-based questions on experimental work on Section B and for when you answer...
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(Options from previous syllabus) Free
The 'Options' are not part of the current 2023 syllabus (first assessed in May 2025). They were an integral part of the previous syllabus. I have retained them on this site for interest as both teachers...
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The Nature of Science
This section considers what is meant by the Nature of Science and goes on to include key terms and concepts, its links to TOK and critical thinking and how to incorporate it as an integral part of your...
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Making links between topics
The syllabus is constructed under the two main strands of ‘Structure’ and ‘Reactivity’. You need to be able to make links between all the different sub-topics under these two strands to obtain and develop...
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R3 What are the mechanisms of chemical change?
This is the largest of the six main topics. It is divided into three main strands which loosely could go under the general headings of Acids and bases (R3.1), Oxidation and reduction (R3.2) and Organic...
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R2 How much, how fast, how far?
Topic R2 has three separate strands. The first, which considers the amount of chemical change, has already been covered to some extent in S1.4 (2) & R2.1 Concentration & amount of chemical change as you...
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R1 What drives chemical reactions
There are several ways in which Chemistry can be defined but essentially when a chemical reaction occurs bonds are broken and new bonds are formed. Breaking bonds requires energy and energy is given out...
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S3 Classification of matter
Topic S3 covers the Classification of matter. It starts by looking at how elements are organised in the Periodic Table and how elements and their compounds show a repeating pattern of properties across...