A breakdown of the CSEC Chemistry exam format, weighting, and syllabus structure.

The particulate theory of matter, properties of solids, liquids, and gases, changes of state, heating and cooling curves, latent heat, and evidence from diffusion and osmosis.

Pure substances and mixtures, homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures, solutions, solubility, and separation techniques including filtration, distillation, crystallisation, and chromatography.

Subatomic particles and their properties, atomic number, mass number, atomic notation, electronic configuration for elements 1 to 20, ions, isotopes, relative atomic mass, and uses of radioactive isotopes.

Historical development of the periodic table, groups and periods, electronic configuration and position, trends in Group II and Group VII, trends across Period 3, and predicting properties from position.

Ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding, dot-and-cross diagrams, predicting bond type from atomic structure, types of crystal structures, properties of ionic and molecular solids, structure and uses of sodium chloride, diamond and graphite, and allotropy.

The mole, molar mass, Avogadro's constant, relative formula mass, percentage composition, empirical and molecular formulae, gas volumes at rtp and stp, balanced equations, molar concentration, and volumetric analysis calculations.

Definitions of acids, bases, alkalis, and acid anhydrides; types of oxides; the pH scale and indicators; strength of acids and alkalis; reactions of acids with metals, carbonates, hydrogen carbonates, and bases; reaction of bases with ammonium salts; and acids in living systems.

Normal and acid salts, basicity of acids, solubility rules, methods of preparing soluble and insoluble salts, uses and dangers of salts, thermometric titration, indicator choice, and volumetric analysis calculations.

Definitions of oxidation and reduction in terms of electron transfer and oxidation number changes, rules for assigning oxidation numbers, identifying redox reactions, oxidising and reducing agents, tests, and everyday examples of redox chemistry.