spring
2024

Throughout the academic year all resources are checked to see if they are current - any alterations are always provided free to customers until such a time as a radical overhaul or new syllabus is released.

Please find below the relevant details regarding your latest UK specification for Chemistry, whether GCSE, AS or A-Level.

All information on this page

correct as of 12.02.2024

Quick takeaway

Unless you teach CAIE AS Level

everything is the same

and no changes need to be made.

(Details below).

OCR Version 3.4 (June 2023) for the GCSE specification is still current - all resources are correct and up to date.

CAIE

IGCSE

There is a new CAIE IGCSE specification for 2026 - 2028. Which teachers following a normal 2-year IGCSE cycle would need to start using in September 2024.

However, CAIE state in the new syllabus: "There are no substantial changes in this syllabus that would impact teaching."

I have used Adobe Acrobat to compare both PDFs and can confirm this to be the case. All resources are correct and up to date.

AS/A-LEVEL

***As previously stated when this page was last updated in July 2023***

There is a new specification for 2025-2027. The changes are very minor and you will need to make two very minor edits to future proof your resources.

These two statements are the reverse of each other.

15.1(c) is the substitution of an alcohol to produce an halogenoalkane.

16.2(b) is the substitution to a halogenoalkane

So, small changes need to be made to just one PowerPoint - '16 Hydroxy compounds'.

As always, what CAIE say and what CAIE want are not always entirely clear, but I have added an additional slide for the substitution of chlorine giving a specific example of ethanol + KCl, catalysed by conc. sulfuric acid.

You can download it HERE and update your PowerPoint.