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We understand the importance of education. We offer tailored private tuition designed to maximise success at GCSE, A Level and beyond. Our tutors are experienced professionals, teachers and top-tier graduates with extensive knowledge in their subjects.
On Tes we offer high quality board-specific resources. Please check back regularly as we are continually updating our stock.
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Specification Point 2.22C - Know that most metals are extracted from ores found in the Earth’s crust and that unreactive metals are often found as the uncombined element.
Specification Point 2.23C - Explain how the method of extraction of a metal is related to its position in the reactivity series, illustrated by carbon extraction for iron and electrolysis for aluminium.
Specification Point 2.24C - Be able to comment on a metal extraction process, given appropriate information.
Specification Point 2.25C - Explain the uses of aluminium, copper, iron and steel in terms of their properties.
Specification Point 2.26C - Know that an alloy is a mixture of a metal and one or more elements, usually other metals or carbon.
Specification Point 2.27C - Explain why alloys are harder than pure metals.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.15 - Understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on their reactions with water or dilute acid.
Specification Point 2.16 - Understand how metals can be arranged in a reactivity series based on displacement reactions.
Specification Point 2.17 - Know the order of reactivity of these metals: potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, zinc, iron, copper, silver, and gold.
Specification Point 2.18 - Know the conditions under which iron rusts.
Specification Point 2.19 - Understand how the rusting of iron may be prevented by barrier methods, galvanising and sacrificial protection.
Specification Point 2.20 - Understand the terms oxidation, reduction, redox, oxidising agent and reducing agent in terms of the gain or loss of oxygen and the loss or gain of electrons.
Specification Point 2.21 - Practical: investigate reactions between dilute hydrochloric and sulfuric acids and metals (e.g. magnesium, zinc and iron).
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.5 - Know the colours, physical states (at room temperature) and trends in physical properties of chlorine, bromine and iodine.
Specification Point 2.6 - Use knowledge of trends in group 7 to predict the properties of other halogens.
Specification Point 2.7 - Understand how displacement reactions involving halogens and halides provide evidence for the trend in reactivity in group 7.
Specification Point 2.8C - Explain the trend in reactivity in group 7 in terms of electronic configurations.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 2.1 - Understand how the similarities in the reactions of the group 1 elements with water provide evidence for their recognition as a family of elements.
Specification Point 2.2 - Understand how the differences between the reactions of the alkali metals with air and water provide evidence for the trend in reactivity in group 1.
Specification Point 2.3 - Use knowledge of trends in group 1 to predict the properties of other alkali metals.
Specification Point 2.4C - Explain the trend in reactivity in group 1 in terms of electronic configurations.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.55C - Understand why covalent compounds do not conduct electricity.
Specification Point 1.56C - Understand why ionic compounds conduct electricity only when molten or in aqueous solution.
Specification Point 1.57C - Know that anion and cation are terms used to refer to negative and positive ions respectively.
Specification Point 1.58C - Describe experiments to investigate electrolysis, using inert electrodes, of molten compounds and aqueous solutions and to predict the products.
Specification Point 1.59C - Write ionic half-equations representing the reactions at the electrodes during electrolysis and understand why these reactions are classified as oxidation or reduction.
Specification Point 1.60C - Practical: investigate the electrolysis of aqueous solutions.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 1.52C - Know how to represent a metallic lattice by a 2-D diagram.
Specification Point 1.53C - Understand metallic bonding in terms of electrostatic attractions.
Specification Point 1.54C - Explain typical physical properties of metals, including electrical conductivity and malleability.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.44 - Know that a covalent bond is formed between atoms by the sharing of a pair of electrons.
Specification Point 1.45 - Understand covalent bonds in terms of electrostatic attractions.
Specification Point 1.46 - Understand how to use dot-and-cross diagrams to represent covalent bonds in a variety of molecules.
Specification Point 1.47 - Explain why substances with a simple molecular structures are gases or liquids, or solids with low melting and boiling points.
Specification Point 1.48 - Explain why the melting and boiling points of substances with simple molecular structures increase, in general, with increasing relative molecular mass.
Specification Point 1.49 - Explain why substances with giant covalent structures are solids with high melting and boiling points.
Specification Point 1.50 - Explain how the structures of diamond, graphite and fullerene influence their physical properties, including electrical conductivity and hardness.
Specification Point 1.51 - Know that covalent compounds do not usually conduct electricity.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lectures are available.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry (4CH1) Chapter 2 - Atoms and Molecules. Contains colour coded specification points. Five presentations included:
7 - Atoms and Molecules
8 - The Periodic Table
9 - Formulae and Calculations
10 - Formulae and Calculations Part 2
11 - Concentrations and Volumes
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 1.34C - Understand how to carry out calculations involving amount of substance, volume and concentration of solution.
Specification Point 1.35C - Understand how to carry out calculations involving gas volumes and the molar volume of a gas.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.29 - Calculate reacting masses using experimental data and chemical equations.
Specification Point 1.30 - Calculate percentage yield.
Specification Point 1.31 - Understand how the formulae of simple compounds can be obtained experimentally, including metal oxides, water and salts containing water of crystallisation.
Specification Point 1.32 - Know what is meant by the terms empirical formula and molecular formula.
Specification Point 1.33 - Calculate empirical and molecular formulae from experimental data.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 1.25 - Understand how to write word equations and balanced chemical equations (including state symbols).
Specification Point 1.26 - Calculate relative formula masses (including relative molecular masses) from relative atomic masses.
Specification Point 1.27 - Know that the mole is the unit for the amount of a substance.
Specification Point 1.28 - Understand how to carry out calculations involving amount of substance, relative atomic mass and relative formula mass.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 1.18 - Understand how elements are arranged in the periodic table.
Specification Point 1.19 - Understand how to deduce the electronic configurations of the first 20 elements from their positions in the periodic table.
Specification Point 1.20 - Understand how to use electrical conductivity and the acid-base character of oxides to classify elements as metals or non-metals.
Specification Point 1.21 - Identify an element as a metal or a non-metal according to its position in the periodic table.
Specification Point 1.22 - Understand how the electronic configuration of a main group element is related to its position in the periodic table.
Specification Point 1.23 - Understand why elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar chemical properties.
Specification Point 1.24 - Understand why the noble gases (Group 0) do not readily react.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Please note - this is for the second year of A Level. The Complete 2 Year Course is also available to purchase.
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Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A2 Level Biology (7402) Chapters 5 - 8. Contains colour coded specification points with handmade vector graphics. Twenty six presentations included:
36 - Photosynthesis and the Light Dependent Reaction
37 - Photosynthesis and the Light Independent Reaction
38 - The Rate of Photosynthesis
39 - Respiration
40 - Energy and Ecosystems
41 - Nutrient Cycles
42 - Survival and Response
43 - Receptors and Effectors
44 - The Control of Heart Rate
45 - Nerves and Synapses
46 - Muscles
47 - Homeostasis
48 - Controlling Blood Glucose
49 - The Kidneys
50 - Genetics
51 - Linkage and Epistasis
52 - Variation and Speciation
53 - Populations and Ecosystems
54 - Ecological Sampling
55 - Succession
56 - Conservation
57 - Mutations and Cancer
58 - Stem Cells
59 - Gene Expression
60 - Gene Technologies
61 - Gene Therapy and Genetic Fingerprinting
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for AQA A Level Biology (7401 and 7402) Chapter 7 - Genetics, Populations, Evolution and Ecosystems. Contains colour coded specification points. Five presentations included:
57 - Mutations and Cancer
58 - Stem Cells
59 - Gene Expression
60 - Gene Technologies
61 - Gene Therapy and Genetic Fingerprinting
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Specification Point 3.8.4.2 - Differences in DNA between individuals of the same species can be exploited for identification and diagnosis of heritable conditions.
Specification Point 3.8.4.3 - Genetic fingerprinting.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.8.3 - Using genome projects.
Specification Point 3.8.4.1 - Recombinant DNA technology.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
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Specification Point 3.8.2.2 - Regulation of transcription and translation.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.8.2.1 - Most of a cell’s DNA is not translated.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 3.8.1 - Alteration of the sequence of bases in DNA can alter the structure of proteins.
Specification Point 3.8.2.3 - Gene expression and cancer.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.