The chemistry exam is designed to have the visual appearance of an ATAR exam. It aligns with the exam design brief outlined in the SCSA syllabus document. The exam contains questions that cover all levels of the grade related descriptors.
In the semester one exam the content covered in the paper includes all syllabus content in unit 3 (equilibrium, acids and bases and redox) and science inquiry questions. The paper is written as a 3 hour paper so that it can be reduced in size if a school has covered less content and is planning on a having their students sit a exam that is less than 3 hours.
The exam comes with a marking key that is prepared inline with the WACE marking key that will help staff mark to the required level of difficulty and also provide quality model answers for students to receive when they are permitted to receive their exam results.
Exam papers are only sold to schools and authorised teachers for use as examinations.