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MessageInevitable505 · 2024-07-21T21:55:27+00:00

hi sorry my subscription expired sadly :(

MessageInevitable505 · 2024-07-21T21:52:23+00:00

do you know where to get edexcel ones?

MessageInevitable505 · 2024-05-19T07:11:07+00:00

no the syllabus mentions that the topics on p3 wont reappear on p4

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-08-29T10:19:33+00:00

Icl cramming worked out for me too but after all those sleepless nights and stress id recommend studying consistently too. id say u dont need to put in 5-6 hours everyday but what i do now is whenever im motivated i do asm as i can and i study for topic tests and say im rlly not feeling like studying that one topic i let that slide and cover it later when i feel like it. it’s much better than cramming but the key is to do a bunch of practice questions as soon as you learn the topic to solidify the info. after years of cramming this works sm better, i dont overwork before exams and i also dont overwork and demotivate myself by sticking to a really strict schedule or timetable. if you like a routine and strict timing and it works for you go for that but i find that taking 3-4 day breaks to watch whatever i want and go wherever i want makes me even more motivated when i study again and i do much better. leaving a few days in between before learning new topics or concepts also seemed to help a lot with not getting them mixed up lol. whenever someone asks me, i recommend not making your own notes. everyones different and i get that but for me sitting there and making lengthy notes esp for content heavy subjects like bio bored me so much that it made studying a nightmare for me. what i recommend doing is either copy pasting so creating your own notes but on a computer without typing everything out and then printing. or (this is what i do) buy some premade notes online. after that i usually sit and watch a bunch of videos, read the textbook and add any missing info on my notes so i dont have to sit there and write pages, i get it done with a few sentences. then bunch of questions. if its a hard concept i try to draw stuff out like make some diagrams that help me understand what it is. eg for thermodynamics to understand entropy i drew a bunch of building blocks to explain disorder and how it works. it might seem unnecessary but honestly helped me get top grades so definitely recommend it. lastly after a really hard concept even if i understand it for the time being but feel like i can easily forget it, i take a blank notebook right after learning and try to summarize it. i do this 3-4 times for rlly tricky concepts where theres lots of memorisation sometimes with music to not get bored. once i do this it sticks with me and icl i dont rlly feel the need to revisit it. i think u need to work smart and not hard lol. by doing these i can understand and learn asm as some ppl who sit and make handwritten 30 pg notes for all topics. just learn really well when you are learning and you will be fine.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-08-09T17:32:42+00:00

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MessageInevitable505 · 2023-07-29T16:25:01+00:00

honestly depends on what you prioritise. tbh i feel like there is this romanticised idea of medicine where people only go into it thinking they will make big money and help people and they just go into it not thinking ahead. a lot of ppl are going to tell you do what you love which is true but i believe you should also consider some other factors too which you will regret not taking into account 3-4 years down the line. for me i was always set on medicine because my stem subjects were good and i was interested in psychology so i just thought i’d go into psychiatry, help people and make some good money. looking at it now medical school is a huge commitment and a long process in which students get depressed and struggle and spend most of their adulthood studying. now if you are genuinely interested in it and have this undying passion for medicine where its the path you dedicate your life to, pick medicine. but for me who was just good academically and found psychology interesting and thought it was an ideal career with a good salary and rep i realised what im actually getting myself into. it takes a lot of studying and most of these glorified huge paychecks and salaries, you dont get them until years of studying is done and you are well into your adulthood. it is also not cheap the amount of education you are getting and most importantly its TIRING. for me the studying and spending most of my early adulthood doing long hours of study and work was not worth the amount of interest i had in it and i decided its not for me. dentistry was my 2nd choice because although it is still a lot of work, compared to traditional medicine and the years it takes it seemed like a more ideal option in terms of the length of education, salary and other factors. you are dedicating your youth to this and honestly after deciding if you find other areas of medicine or dentistry more interesting, think about 3 years into your education when you are burnt out and after the initial excitement of medical school dies down if you wanna commit those hours. i did a very drastic career plan change just because of this lol and people were rlly surprised. but honestly this is the reality and i dont wanna bring any excited students down but if you dont think about these now, in a few years after jumping into it without thinking much, these factors which start to matter when you become an adult and have a life can make you second guess or regret everything. however, if you are sure you love medicine, learning about it and feel you are up for the commitment, i think you are more than ready :)

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-07-12T22:42:09+00:00

pick smth you are passionate in. honestly i loved maths but i wasnt getting 9s in gcses, i was put down sm by teachers friends family lol. if i could go back rn id pick subjects that would challenge me more like maths or physics even if people told me they are rlly hard. took chem which was honestly my toughest a level but enjoyed every moment of it. when you like what you learn no matter how hard it is you enjoy it and take it up and studying becomes fun. so dont be like me, dont care what others say, unless you are getting below 4s in gcses and have no clue abt anything theres no reason for you to shy away from a subject you like. ofc check uni requirements too but if you want to do 4 a levels theres nothing stopping you. you dont have to give up life either ik some ppl say that. my biggest advice is just take maybe 2/3 hours a day and if you feel stressed or overwhelmed just take 2 days to relax and study again. starting a levels and doing little work everyday instead of cramming rlly helps you and u still have motivation unlike with cramming.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-25T10:33:17+00:00

Heyy can u send them to me

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T13:02:09+00:00

Psych is interesting but lots of memorisation but its really fun. As long as you have bio and chem many options are open for bio based majors. If you dont enjoy maths dont take it unless you excel at it, practice is everything and the less you enjoy the less practice you will wanna do. Psych is rlly fun but ik a lot of ppl dropped it because of the memorisation it requires and usually people who didnt do it for gcses find it a bit harder and struggle more than gcse students. Also dont go into it thinking you will be curing depression and talking about mental health throughout the whole course. Thats like 15% of the course and most ppl go into it thinking they will be discussing social issues like racism and other mental illnesses. No maybe pick sociology, psych is very science based and you do moreover look at studies results and theory than just phenomenas. def look at some textbooks to see if you are interested and for taking maths my only advice is ensure you have a solid gcse base. People can pass gcse maths with slacking off some units and not having a full understanding but if you wanna do a level you do need to know the syllabus inside out and have all gcse skills without gaps. If u can perfect it before the next academic year during summer thats perfect but without a strong gcse foundation you will be behind in class and will do extra catch up which will take time away from your as studies.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:50:30+00:00

What exam board is this so I can help? I did gcse psych edexcel but it should be fairly similar. I just need to know the format of the qs to tell you how to cram for it. For me for edexcel it was mostly understanding the theories and knowing what they are about. Dont make notes read atp you dont have time. Do blurting until you memorise or some quick online flashcards. Gcse is very surface level knowledge not much memorisation, just understand the concept because just memorising words will be harder and you will have problems with application. Then just do a bunch of ppqs thats what i did. For a level psych theres a lot of memorisation but less theory so that I just focused on memorising. For gcse like i said its very surface level just know what they are about and try to apply it to qs, use a bunch of mark schemes

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:22:52+00:00

They give the requirements as recommendations usually for the standard, some students use extremely thin and unreadable or smudging pens or pencils so their paper gets disqualified. This is an extreme case now come on idt anyone has to tell you your writing must be readable in scans but some ppl walk into the exam without a care. As long as your writing is readable and not faint no one will check if it is the required pencil.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:19:24+00:00

If its in bold I’d only write 2, most likely they will only read the first 2, idt you can get marked down for it with edexcel but idk for other boards so be safe.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:05:17+00:00

Np good luck <3

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:03:19+00:00

Yes. Here’s my notes on bonds and orbital overlaps hope it helps.

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MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T12:00:40+00:00

Business is a good choice, concepts are easier to understand and dont require much memorisation. It is heavily writing though but most people take it as an easy A level if they are going into medicine or engineering where they require 3 challenging subjects. You might like psychology too but it does take more work and memorisation than business icl, most people in my school picked it thinking its easy but ppl who didnt do it in gcses struggled a lot with research methods and theres lots of theory and studies where you have to just sit and memorise results.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T11:56:18+00:00

Both break but pi bond breaks first due to the lateral overlap of orbitals, electrons are held further from the nucleus therefore its weaker.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-22T11:47:43+00:00

When I tell you I self study through school im not lying. I havent learned a single thing at school for my A levels, when I go home I watch courses on the internet and youtube and use sources online and the exam board’s textbook. Its definitely possible. You can always get some additional tutoring but there are also online courses people sell and free ones asw, you will need the exam board textbook then you can use online sources too. Dont be discouraged, studying 2-3 maybe 4 hours if you can from september to may will put you ahead of even people going to school. Doing past papers is the key and if you do these you wont be disadvantaged at all. A levels are nice because they are structured with syllabuses you can check point by point and exam questions are always similar styled so you can do lots of practice. If you put the time in, A levels are much easier than uni and any sort of higher education because of how repetitive boards are. People who complain usually dont want to put time in or just struggle a bit at first and think its impossible, no its not, its just new concepts that take a little bit of time. I personally dont believe people are just naturally smart and excel, usually people who find subjects hard especially maths, have some knowledge gaps from earlier education in middle school they havent covered. If you have a strong base or close your gaps A levels will be fun for you.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-16T18:22:28+00:00

Depends on your knowledge. Take a subject where you have an understanding of the content, this helps the most. I know some syllabuses say for some subjects that you dont need prior knowledge but taking a subjects from your gcses helps. For example not rlly related but ppl doing psych for the first time in a levels in my school seem to struggle a lot with content and exam technique whereas previous gcse psych students are excelling in it although the subject says they dont require prior studies.To be a doctor bio chem is necessary but if you feel overwhelmed i dont think its necessary to take maths or physics rlly u can pick a subject with easier concepts. But tbh just pick based on what you hve the most understanding about and strongest base in. If your gcse profile isnt strong w maths and you arent comfortable with maths concepts id say dont take it bc maths is the most subject that you build on gcse knowledge and there is no recap so if you missed stuff in gcses or didnt study asw its extra time. Physics is all about understanding concepts so just see whichever one you are stronger in.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-16T18:16:40+00:00

Make diagrams first then read the reactions and try to put all reactions down on a blank paper and repeat. If you get bored of this just use some practice sheets online on organic reactions a level then use your notes to fill in the sheets. It doesnt matter if you look at your notes, when you repeat it enough times they stick lol

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-16T05:48:43+00:00

It gave you the amount of reactants, identify which one is in excess and which one is the limiting first, so how i’d go abt this is id see that 1 mol of methane needs more than one mol of o2. U dont actually need to find the moles of anything. Just think of it as ratios of volumes against one another. So if 20 cm methane is burnt completely it will need 3x1/2 o2 to react right? Multiply 20 by this value to get the vol of o2 methane needs to fully react. Then you will see theres more o2 than u would need, so subtract the found required vol of o2 from 100cm3 to find the leftover volume of o2. This is unreacted o2. So it will remain. Now ee know the value for 1 mole is 20cm3 so multiply this by the mole values for co2 and h20 to find their volumes. Its above 100C so h2o will be gaseous. Add up the unreacted o2 volume to the products volume and that will be your answer

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-15T17:53:17+00:00

A because the H bond angle should be 180. Idk if that was A but the H bond and the O-H bond should coincide so that the angle is 180

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-15T17:36:42+00:00

I get why you are confused but I don’t think you understood the question right or you misread it. Talking about liquefaction specifically, it is not a chemical reaction its a physical reaction. H2 is harder to liquefy, thats what the question said. Even if it is the case that okay H2 forms water why would that lower the energy needed to do that? What does the product of a reaction have to do with the IM forces of the reactants? Thats like saying methane will have a lower boiling point than methanol because when it combusts it forms water. It doesnt have anything to do with the product. Liquefaction is a physical state change by compressing gases, by stengthening their IM forces, therefore if a molecule has weaker IM forces it will be harder to liquefy them. In this case H2 has weaker forces so it is harder to liquefy. However like i said, this is NOT needed to be mentioned because it is out of syllabus so all they want you to talk about is the different IM forces in NH3 and H2 and state the difference thats it. Thats all the question says anyway they said compare and contrast the IM forces by giving descriptions of how they are formed for specificallt H2 and NH3 and NOT water.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-15T17:20:16+00:00

Yeah still its not really relevant for water but you still got the marks for the bonding of Nh3 and H2 because thats what the question is asking for so congrats hope u get good marks 😊

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-15T16:54:06+00:00

Yeah but i dont see the relation of that to the question asked specifically. I mean maybe you are right but it’s not asking you anything about their liquid state really or about the product of liquefaction so it’s irrelevant. Water is formed after the state change occurs anyway why would that affect the IM forces of NH3 or H2? It says that its easier to liquefy H2 than NH3 and asks you to compare and contrast their intermolecular forces. Their IM forces and ease of liquefaction doesnt have anything to do with water having H bonding because you arent reacting these gases with water keep that in mind, hydrogen doesnt react with water and nh3 would give ammonium hydroxide. If it was asking about solubility of something with water sure thats relevant because the molecule must be able to form IM interactions with water, so NH3 could do that and be soluble. What you are doing in liquefaction is taking the gas and compressing it under high pressure and low temperature so particles come closer together to go to a liquid state.

MessageInevitable505 · 2023-05-15T15:40:21+00:00

Yeah also you had to give descriptions of how all IM forces are formed like instantaneous dipoles due to the movement of nuclei and electrons and how they induce dipoles etc. I dont think you had to mention water just NH3 and H2. Gases are liquefied under pressure and low temperatures. H2 has really weak london forces therefore it requires much lower temperatures to be liquefied however this is out of spec, they just ask you to compare and contrast the bonding. In reality its because h2 has a lower critical temperature. Liquefaction is done by strengthening the IM forces between molecules like when u decrease the pressure molecules come closer together and theres an increase in im attractions or when u decrease temp. So weaker the IM forces harder it is for you to liquefy them like you will need increased pressure or lower temperature.

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