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AS Level Chemistry Rapid recall

First-year A Level recall decks for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A. The step up from GCSE is mostly a step up in precision, and these are written to that standard.

Written for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A.

Why it matters

Why this matters at AS

  • AS definitions are marked strictly - first ionisation energy, mean bond enthalpy, dynamic equilibrium. Nearly right earns nothing.
  • The volume of content arrives faster than at GCSE, so gaps compound quietly unless something surfaces them each week.
  • Everything here is assumed knowledge in the second year. Time spent making AS content automatic is not revision, it is groundwork.

Topic decks

The AS Level course, deck by deck

One deck per topic area, so you can work on the thing you are actually stuck on rather than shuffling the whole specification together. This is the shape of the AS Level course and what each deck has to cover.

Decks are being written and uploaded now. Search the catalogue to see exactly what has landed so far.

  • Atomic structure

    Mass spectrometry, ionisation energies, electron configuration, orbitals

  • Amount of substance

    The mole, ideal gas equation, empirical formulae, titration calculations

  • Bonding

    Electronegativity, shapes of molecules, intermolecular forces, bond polarity

  • Energetics

    Enthalpy changes, calorimetry, Hess's law, mean bond enthalpies

  • Kinetics

    Collision theory, Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions, catalysts

  • Equilibria

    Dynamic equilibrium, Le Chatelier, Kc and its manipulation

  • Redox

    Oxidation states, half-equations, balancing redox reactions

  • Periodicity & Groups 2 and 7

    Trends across Period 3, alkaline earth metals, the halogens

  • Introductory organic

    Nomenclature, isomerism, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols

  • Organic analysis

    Infrared spectroscopy, mass spectra, identifying functional groups

A routine that works at AS Level

Run the deck for the topic you are currently taught, plus one older deck chosen at random. The second one is the important one - it is what stops first-term content quietly disappearing.

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