Dr Sian Simmonds - How to Pass SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry

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Welcome to How to Pass Advanced Higher Chemistry. This book follows the updated 2019 SQA arrangements for the Advanced Higher Chemistry course.

The content of this guide is designed to help you prepare for the SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry exam. It provides a complete summary of the Advanced Higher course and offers the following features to aid understanding and improve recall of important points.

Key points

• Key point summaries at the start of each chapter detail the knowledge and skills required by the SQA.
• Once you have read the chapter and completed the questions, go back and check the key points to ensure that you have gained the required knowledge from this chapter.
• Using the key points and the study questions, you should be able to test your knowledge of the topic.

Hints & tips

This feature gives you extra hints and tips and draws your attention to particular things to think about and remember for each topic.

Examples

Throughout the book, you will find sets of worked examples to test your knowledge of the concepts in each chapter and show how to answer the questions at Advanced Higher level.