Curriculum
The whole year, readable in five minutes.
Pick a subject and a grade. You will see every module, what your child can do at the end of it, and the lessons inside, taken from the same plan our mentors teach from.
- 8 modules a year
- A practice class after every lesson
- Two assessments
- Recordings of every live class
1Subject
Organic Chemistry · Grades 10–12
Grades 10–12. Live classes of four, eight a month.
- modules
- 8modules
- lessons
- 48lessons
- months
- 12months
- 01
The Language of Organic Chemistry
Draw any organic structure, name it by IUPAC rules, and recognise its functional groups.
- Why carbon behaves unlike anything else
- Drawing organic structures
- Functional groups and homologous series
- IUPAC nomenclature: the rules
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- Naming compounds with several groups
- Isomerism: structural and stereo
6 practice classes
- 02
How Electrons Move
Predict where a molecule is electron-rich or electron-poor, and why.
- Bonding, hybridisation and shape
- Polarity and electronegativity
- Inductive and resonance effects
- Curly arrows: the notation for a mechanism
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- Nucleophiles and electrophiles
- Carbocations, carbanions and radicals
5 practice classes · An assessment
- 03
Substitution and Elimination
Tell SN1 from SN2 and elimination, and say which one a given case will follow.
- Haloalkanes and their reactivity
- The SN2 mechanism
- The SN1 mechanism
- Choosing between SN1 and SN2
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- The E1 and E2 mechanisms
- Substitution versus elimination
6 practice classes
- 04
Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
Predict the reactions of alcohols, phenols and ethers, and explain phenol acidity.
- Preparing alcohols
- Reactions of alcohols
- Phenols, and why they are acidic
- Ethers and epoxides
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- Distinguishing tests that actually work
- Lesson 24
5 practice classes · An assessment
- 05
Alkenes, Alkynes and Addition
Apply electrophilic addition to alkenes and alkynes, including Markovnikov cases.
- Preparing alkenes
- Electrophilic addition
- Markovnikov’s rule, and why it holds
- Oxidation and reduction of alkenes
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- Alkynes and their reactions
- Dienes and conjugation
6 practice classes
- 06
Aromatic Chemistry
Explain aromaticity, and predict where a substituent directs the next one.
- Benzene and aromaticity
- Electrophilic aromatic substitution
- How substituents direct the next one
- Nitration, halogenation and sulfonation
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- Friedel–Crafts reactions
- Reactions of the side chain
5 practice classes · An assessment
- 07
Carbonyl Chemistry
Handle nucleophilic addition to carbonyls, and rank carboxylic acid strength.
- Aldehydes and ketones: preparation
- Nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl
- Carboxylic acids and acidity
- Acid derivatives, in order of reactivity
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- Amines and their basicity
- Diazonium salts and coupling
6 practice classes
- 08
Putting It Together
Plan a multi-step synthesis, and read a mechanism you have never seen before.
- The named reactions worth memorising
- Working out a multi-step synthesis
- Reading a mechanism you have never seen
- Identifying an unknown by test
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- How exam problems are actually built
- Lesson 48
5 practice classes · An assessment
Practice classes go over the lesson before them: worked problems, revision and doubts. Assessments sit at the midpoint and the end of the year.
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