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A-Level Chemistry Revision Workshop

Are you preparing for your Chemistry A-levels? Need a refresher or help with a particular topic? Our A-level Chemistry Revision Workshops are for you!

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Prepare for your Chemistry A‑Level Exams

Our annual A-level Chemistry Revision Workshops are designed for Year 13 students to help you excel in your AS and A2 exams.

We cover the most common A-level Chemistry specifications, including:

  • AQA
  • Edexcel
  • OCR (A)
  • OCR (B)
  • WJEC
  • CCEA

These workshops are open to all Year 13 Chemistry A-Level students across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

You don’t need to have applied to study for a chemistry degree at Newcastle University.

We also welcome Newcastle University offer holders who are studying for Chemistry A-Level.

Students sitting in a lecture theatre working on their laptops.

What you’ll gain

We’ll refresh key points and typical misconceptions surrounding each topic during the workshop.

At the end of each topic, you’ll test your knowledge with an interactive Q&A session, using electronic voting handsets.

Reserve your place

AS workshop (Year 12 content)

  • Monday, 14 April 2025
  • Thursday, 24 April 2025

A2 workshop (Year 13 content)

  • Tuesday, 15 April 2025
  • Friday, 25 April 2025

Reserve your place by completing our registration form. Don’t miss out – spaces fill quickly!

We don’t offer online workshops at the moment. If you can’t attend, we’ll be happy to send you some other useful information.

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Registration deadlines

  • Registrations for 14 and 15 April will close on 9 April at 18:00.
  • Registrations for 24 and 25 April will close on 21 April at 18:00.
  • Our registration form will be closed temporarily from 9 April at 18:00 until 15 April at 17:00.
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Workshop details

Join us at Newcastle University.

  • Location: Bedson Building, Newcastle University city-centre campus
  • Time: 10:00 – 16:00, with a lunch break from 12:30 – 13:30
  • Cost: Free

Exact details will be shared before the event.

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AS workshop programme (Year 12 content)

This programme has a focus on Year 12 and AS content.

Foundation chemistry

  • Atomic structure
  • Bonding and intermolecular forces
  • VSEPR
  • Moles calculations
  • Ideal gas equation

Chemistry in action

  • Enthalpy
  • Kinetics
  • IUPAC nomenclature
  • Isomers
  • Alkanes
  • Alkenes
  • Haloalkanes
  • Alcohols
A2 workshop programme (Year 13 content)

This programme has a focus on Year 13 and A2 content.

Organic chemistry

  • Isomers
  • Aromatics
  • Carbonyl compounds
  • Amines
  • Spectroscopy

Physical chemistry

  • Acids, bases and pH
  • Rates
  • Equilibria
  • Born-Haber cycles
  • Entropy and free energy
  • Redox
  • Electrode potentials

What to bring

You’ll need to bring:

  • pen and writing paper
  • scientific calculator
  • lunch

If you don’t bring your own lunch, you can buy something on campus. There are plenty of options on campus or in Newcastle city centre.

Where to eat on campus

Meet your workshop leader

Dr Peter Hoare

Dr Peter Hoare is a STEM Outreach Officer in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering (SAgE) at Newcastle University.

Experience:

  • Former secondary school chemistry teacher with 20 years’ experience in the classroom (1989 - 2009).
  • A-level Chemistry marker for one of the major English examining boards, since 1995.

Peter has delivered over a hundred of these workshops since 2009.