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SACE Chemistry

SACE Chemistry Stage 2: the course and its four topics

Stage 2 Chemistry has four topics: monitoring the environment, managing chemical processes, organic and biological chemistry, and managing resources. School assessment is 70% of the subject and the external examination is 30%.

Weeks before your chemistry exam
Hours a week for chemistry
Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
Topic 4: Managing resources

26 weeks, 104 hours in all

Start with Topic 3

Organic and biological chemistry: 33.6 of your hours. It is 7 of the 20 questions on our timed checks, 35%.

Hours per topic
TopicYour hoursShare of the checks
Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry33.635%
Topic 1: Monitoring the environment2425%
Topic 2: Managing chemical processes19.220%
Topic 4: Managing resources19.220%

Week by week

  1. Week 1Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  2. Week 2Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  3. Week 3Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  4. Week 4Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  5. Week 5Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  6. Week 6Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  7. Week 7Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  8. Week 8Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry
  9. Week 9Topic 3: Organic and biological chemistry, Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  10. Week 10Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  11. Week 11Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  12. Week 12Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  13. Week 13Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  14. Week 14Topic 1: Monitoring the environment
  15. Week 15Topic 1: Monitoring the environment, Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
  16. Week 16Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
  17. Week 17Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
  18. Week 18Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
  19. Week 19Topic 2: Managing chemical processes
  20. Week 20Topic 2: Managing chemical processes, Topic 4: Managing resources
  21. Week 21Topic 4: Managing resources
  22. Week 22Topic 4: Managing resources
  23. Week 23Topic 4: Managing resources
  24. Week 24Topic 4: Managing resources
  25. Week 25A timed check and a set of written questions, then review every lost mark
  26. Week 26A timed check and a set of written questions, then review every lost mark

Check your topics with the free test

The examination30% of the subject: one 130-minute examination, 120 marks
BookletsTwo question booklets, about 65 minutes each
QuestionsQuestions in parts of different types; no multiple choice
ProvidedA periodic table and data sheet; approved calculators allowed
School assessment70%: investigations folio 30%, skills and applications tasks 40%

The four topics

  • Monitoring the environment: greenhouse gases and ocean acidity, nitrogen oxides and ozone, concentration units and titrations, chromatography, electron configurations and atomic absorption spectroscopy.
  • Managing chemical processes: rates of reaction and collision theory, equilibrium and Kc, Le Chatelier's principle, and choosing conditions for industrial production.
  • Organic and biological chemistry: alcohols, aldehydes and ketones, carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, amines, esters, amides, triglycerides, and amino acids and proteins.

How the subject is assessed

  • School assessment, 70%: an investigations folio (30%) and skills and applications tasks (40%).
  • The external examination, 30%: one 130-minute paper set on all four topics.
  • Stage 1 Chemistry is assumed background, so moles, bonding, intermolecular forces, acids and bases and redox appear inside Stage 2 questions.

Try 2 questions

Question 1
Titres of sodium hydroxide solution: rough 24.90 mL; trial 1 24.15 mL; trial 2 24.20 mL; trial 3 24.45 mL; trial 4 24.15 mL.
TitrationRough1234
Titre (mL)24.9024.1524.2024.4524.15
A student's titration results are shown in the table. Titres within 0.10 mL of each other are concordant. What is the mean concordant titre?
Question 2
A student in Mount Gambier warms 2-methylbutan-2-ol, CH₃CH₂C(OH)(CH₃)CH₃, with acidified potassium dichromate solution. Which statement is correct?

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Questions people ask

How many topics are in Stage 2 Chemistry?

Four: monitoring the environment, managing chemical processes, organic and biological chemistry, and managing resources.

Is Stage 1 Chemistry needed?

Stage 2 builds on it. Moles, bonding, intermolecular forces, acids and bases and redox from Stage 1 are used throughout Stage 2 questions.