VCE Chemistry

Chemistry rewards a complete scientific argument. You need the right reaction or relationship, clear working, a sensible value, the correct unit and appropriate significant figures.

This guide teaches the chemistry, then teaches you to put it on the page in the form the paper pays for.

Inside:
- Both units at the depth the study design's key knowledge asks for. Unit 3 covers fuels and food energy, thermochemistry and calorimetry, galvanic cells, fuel cells, reaction rate, equilibrium and electrolysis. Unit 4 covers organic nomenclature, reaction pathways, yield and green chemistry, volumetric and instrumental analysis, medicines, chirality and enzymes
- A chapter on the key science skills and the command terms, both examinable across the whole paper, including a guided tour of the data book supplied in the examination: what it prints, how to find it fast, and what it will never do for you
- Chapters on the Unit 4 student-designed investigation, from choosing a question that can actually be answered, through the logbook, to the scientific poster
- A worked answer inside every "Try It" box
- High-Scoring Responses, annotated so you can see which sentence earned which mark
- SAC Focus guidance built from the study design's outcome statements and VCAA's published report on how schools run these tasks, covering the coursework that carries 20 per cent from Unit 3 and 30 per cent from Unit 4
- Common Mistake callouts that quote a real percentage from VCAA's published external assessment reports where VCAA published one, naming the examination it came from
- A full-length practice VCE Chemistry examination – multiple-choice and a full Section B – with complete worked solutions
- A glossary of the terms students most often blur together

Every calculation is built for the one scientific calculator the examination allows. Technical terms are explained in plain English as you meet them, and the sentences stay short enough to follow on one read.

This book is calibrated against the VCE Chemistry Study Design (From 2024) and the most recently published VCAA Chemistry examination, external assessment report and examination specification available at the time of publication – so it serves your course whichever year you sit it.