Chemistry Syllabus Tanzania, Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ACSEE)
TOPICS FORM V AND VI
- GENERAL CHEMISTRY
1.1. ATOMIC STRUCTURE
1.2. ATOMIC SPECTRUM (Hydrogen Spectrum)
1.3. MODERN QUANTUM THEORY
- Quantum Numbers and Electronic Configuration
1.4. BONDING
- Types of Bonds
- Hybridization of atomic orbitals
- PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
2.1. GAS LAWS
2.1. RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASSES AND DENSITIES OF GASES
2.3. RELATIVE MOLAR MASSES IN SOLUTIONS
2.4. TWO COMPONENT LIQUID MIXTURE
- Immiscible Liquids
- Completely Miscible Liquids
- Distribution Law
2.5. ENERGETICS
- Heat changes in Chemical Reactions
2.6. CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM
- Law of mass action
2.7. CHEMICAL KINETICS
- Order of Reaction
- Catalysis
2.8. OXIDATION REDUCTION AND ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY
- Oxidation reduction
- Electrolytes in solution
2.9. ACIDS BASES AND SALTS
- Acids and bases
- Ionic Equilibrium of Electrolytes
- Ionic product of water and pH.
- Buffer Solutions
- Salt Hydrolysis
2.10. SOLUBILITY AND SOLUBILITY PRODUCT
- Solubility product, Ksp, and Ionic Product,
3.INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
3.1. PERIODICITY
- Periodicity
- Periodic Trends in Physical Properties
- Period Trends in Chemical Properties
- Diagonal Relationship
3.2. CHEMISTRY OF SELECTED ELEMENTS
- Electronic configuration and oxidation states
- Uses of selected Elements and their compounds
- Hazards of selected elements and compound
3.3. TRANSITION ELEMENTS
- Characteristics of Transition Elements (Reference to atomic No.s 21-30
- Complex formation and ligands
4. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
4.1. ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- Occurrence of Organic Compounds
- Sources of organic compounds
4.2. HYDRO CARBONS
- Classification
- Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes
- Benzene and Homologue
- Hazards of Hydrocarbons
- Substituted Benzene
4.3. DERIVATIVES OF HYDROCARBONS
- Halogen derivatives
4.4. HYDROXYL COMPOUNDS
- Properties of hydroxyl compounds
- Synthesis of hydroxyl compounds
- Uses of Hydroxyl compounds
- Hazards of Hydroxyl Compound
4.5. CARBONYL COMPOUNDS
- Structure and Nomenclature
- Physical Properties
- Preparation
- Chemical Properties
- Uses and hazards of carbonyl Compounds
4.6. CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND DERIVATIVES
- Carboxylic acids
- Esters
- Amides
- Conversions
4.7. AMINES
- Structure and Nomenclature
4.8. POLYMERS
- Concept of polymers
- Types
- Properties
- Preparation
- Synthetic rubber
- Hazards of Polymers