Chemistry A Level (AQA)

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Entry Requirements - Minimum 4 grades in English and Maths with specific criteria depending on subject choice

How to Apply -

External applicants - Please apply via Kent choices on the T6 - Turner Sixth Form Page - which can be found here

Internal applicants - if you are already a pupil within the Turner Schools Trust you will be able to access our application form on our website.

Please ensure you add three courses in total to your application. (You are only able to choose one subject from each block). Please remember Sport Academy's are an added extra to your three chosen subjects.

Need help? Please see your school’s careers advisor if you are unsure how to apply. If you are unable to do so, please contact the Folkestone Academy for further advice on 01303 842400 or email pippa.ohanlon@turnerschools.com

By taking this course you’ll get an in-depth knowledge of this fascinating subject, preparing you for further education or giving you the credentials to enhance your job options straight away.

Chemists have greatly improved the quality of life for the majority of people. Chemists are real innovators, designing solutions to the problems that affect modern life.

The first unit covers aspects of physical chemistry, including atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle, oxidation, reduction and redox equations, thermodynamics, equilibrium constant for homogeneous systems, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells, and acids and bases. It also covers inorganic chemistry, including periodicity,

Group 2: the alkaline earth metals, Group 7: the halogens, properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals, and reactions of ions in aqueous solution.

The second unit covers more aspects of physical chemistry including some of those from the first unit alongside rate equations. It also covers organic chemistry, including 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, and chromatography. This course will also help you develop a number of skills, for example, how to assemble and assess data, how to investigate facts and use deduction, how to put over your point of view fluently and how to work as a team to achieve results.

Unit 1

Title - Physical chemistry topics, inorganic chemistry & relevant practical skills

Weighting 35%

Assessment Written Examinations (2hr) - Externally

Assessed

Unit 2

Title - Physical chemistry topics, organic chemistry & relevant practical skills

Weighting 35%

Assessment Written Examinations (2hr) - Externally

Assessed

Unit 3

Title Content from units 1 & 2 assessed through questions on practical techniques and data analysis

Weighting 30%

Assessment Written Examinations (2hr) - Externally

Assessed

In order to enrol onto Sixth Form courses, applicants will need to have achieved at least 5 GCSEs at grades 9-4 (or equivalent) including English Language or Literature. Some subjects may require higher grades.

It is a requirement that all students need to achieve a 4 in either GCSE English language or English literature to study at Sixth Form. If a 4 has or above has been achieved in English Literature but not in English Language students will be required to re-sit the English Language exam until they do so. Any pupil not achieving a 4 in Maths will be required to re-sit the exam until they do so.

Chemistry is a great choice of subject for people who want a career in health and clinical professions, such as medicine, nursing, biochemistry, dentistry or forensic science. It will also equip you for a career in industry, for example in the petrochemical or pharmaceutical industries.