IB Blogging

Doing well at IB Chemistry depends on a number of things.

Firstly, it depends on you.

You are different from the next student and what works for them might not help you so much. Some students are OK at the maths, but really struggle with learning the facts and definitions, while others are great at memorising but don’t have the confidence to tackle a problem involving calculations.

For yet others, they understand the chemistry but when it comes to exams they find it ...

Many of the explanations that make sense of IB Chemistry are to do with what atoms, molecules or ions are doing in a particular situation.

I often find students trying to remember bits and pieces they have learnt, but the whole picture isn’t there.

Every time you are considering a situation in chemistry, use your imagination and try to visualise what is happening to the particles at the sub-microscopic ...