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Overview

Framework:
Access to HE
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
QU030429
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Grade Descriptors

  • GD2-Application of knowledge
  • GD3-Application of skills
  • GD7-Quality

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand the importance of carbon chemistry

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Explain the tetravalent bonding of carbon and its ability to bond with itself and other elements.

2

Understand how to use the accepted conventions of representing organic compounds.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1

    Draw structural formulae.

  • 2.2
    Identify and explain simple molecules using the IUPAC system.
  • 2.3

    Explain the types of isomerism (structural, geometric and optical). 


3

Understand how to classify organic compounds in homologous series.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1

    Define and explain homologous series.

  • 3.2

    Conduct experiments related to homologous series.

  • 3.3

    Recognise and explain general formulae of alkanes.

  • 3.4

    Identify and explain functional groups.

  • 3.5

    Investigate two examples of functional groups experimentally.