A level Chemistry AQA

A level Chemistry AQA

Easter Revision Course Dates 2025

• Week 1: Monday 31 March – Friday 4 April
• Week 2: Monday 7 April – Friday 11 April
• Week 3: Monday 14 April – Friday 18 April

(Good Friday is 18 April; Easter Monday is 21 April 2025)

Boards

AQA 7405

Length of Course

5 full-day sessions

This course is board-specific for the AQA specification (7405) and is for Year 13 students only. Links between topics will be stressed throughout and exam techniques will include how best to approach key mathematical skills questions.

The course will cover the following:

Physical chemistry

• Atomic structure
• Amount of substance
• Bonding
• Energetics
• Kinetics
• Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc
• Oxidation, reduction and redox equations
• Thermodynamics
• Rate equations
• Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems
• Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells
• Acids and bases

Organic chemistry

• Introduction to organic chemistry
• Alkanes, Halogenoalkanes
• Alkenes, Alcohols
• Organic analysis
• Optical isomerism
• Aldehydes and ketones
• Carboxylic acids and derivatives
• Aromatic chemistry
• Amines
• Polymers
• Amino acids, proteins and DNA
• Organic synthesis
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• Chromatography

Inorganic chemistry

• Periodicity
• Group 2, the alkaline earth metals
• Group 7(17), the halogens
• Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides
• Transition metals
• Reactions of ions in aqueous solution