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Chemistry 20

Toolkits

Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.

Every unit

The mole is a counting unit

A balanced equation counts particles and a balance measures grams. The mole connects them, and every quantitative question in the course is a path through it.

Open the toolkit

Names and formulas

Naming: a decision tree

Four questions asked in order turn any name into a formula and any formula into a name — plus the five traps that account for nearly every lost mark.

Open the toolkit

How to use these

  • Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
  • Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
  • Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
  • Revising for a final? There is no diploma exam in Grade 11, so your school sets the exam — the printable worksheets are the closest thing here to sitting one.