Module 1 – Development of practical skills in chemistry

•Practical skills assessed in a written examination

•Practical skills assessed in the practical endorsement

Module 2 – Foundations in chemistry

•Atoms, compounds, molecules and equations

•Amount of substance

•Acid–base and redox reactions

•Electrons, bonding and structure

Module 3 – Periodic table and energy

•The periodic table and periodicity

•Group 2 and the halogens

•Qualitative analysis

•Enthalpy changes

•Reaction rates and equilibrium (qualitative)

Module 4 – Core organic chemistry

•Basic concepts•Hydrocarbons

•Alcohols and haloalkanes

•Organic synthesis

•Analytical techniques (IR and MS)

Module 5 – Physical chemistry and transition elements

•Reaction rates and equilibrium (quantitative)

•pH and buffers•Enthalpy, entropy and free energy

•Redox and electrode potentials

•Transition elements

Module 6 – Organic chemistry and analysis

•Aromatic compounds

•Carbonyl compounds

•Carboxylic acids and esters

•Nitrogen compounds

•Polymers

•Organic synthesis

•Chromatography and spectroscopy (NMR)