STPM Chemistry 2009 – Tips and Predictions for Papers 962/1 and 962/2
November 5, 2009
The most important time of your life in your whole national school career is approaching with the imminent arrival of the STPM examinations. Hence, to help our berry berry faithful readers, Berry Berry Teacher will be sharing some prediction and tips for the upcoming STPM Chemistry 2009 paper. If you are looking to spot possible questions, you have come to the right place. (Remember that, spotting questions and working on predicted topics should not be your main studying method, understanding everything remains the better bet)
So to start things off, all Berries (yeah, that’s you my Berry Reader) should be revising the topics according to the priority. There are some Berry Important Topics (BIT) which you must not skip. Berry Berry Teacher has analysed some BIT for the young berries to revise on.
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Prediction for STPM Chemistry 2009 Paper 962/1
Physical Chemistry
- Chemical Bonding (2 – 5 questions / average ~ 3 questions). Berry Berry Easy questions.
- Equilibria* (1 – 9 questions / average ~ 5 questions). In recent years (2005 -2008), this has become a BIT that you must fully understand it. Usually involves calculations and chemistry concepts.
- Electrochemistry (1 – 4 questions / average ~ 3 questions)
Organic Chemistry
- Hydrocarbon* (2 – 5 questions / average ~ 4 questions)
- Hydroxy Compounds (1 – 3 questions / average ~ 2 questions)
- Polymer* (1 – 3 questions / average ~ 2 questions)
Inorganic Chemistry
- d-Block Elements* (2 – 3 questions / average ~3 questions)
* Important topics that has shown steady upward trend in appearance in STPM.
Next Young Berries also need to revise on the following topics. These topics usually consist of 1 – 2 questions.
Physical Chemistry
- Matter
- Electronic Structure of Atoms
- Reaction Kinetics
Inorganic Chemistry
- Group 14
- Group 17
Organic Chemistry
- Haloalkanes
- Carbonyl Compounds
- Carboxylic Acids
- Amino Acids and Proteins
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Prediction for STPM Chemistry 2009 Paper 962/2
Berry Berry Teacher also finds it hard to predict in this section because between the Year 2006 and 2008, all the topics (Physical, Organic and Inorganic) are evenly distributed!!! This has made STPM Form 6 Chemistry a Berry Berry challenging subjects! Nevertheless, DO NOT SKIP the INORGANIC if you want to score A in the subject. So for all the Young Berries taking Chemistry Form 6, try to be consistent in learning (good learning habit) rather than last minute study. If you are doing the last minute study now, I would advice you to memorise all the organic chemical equations. It would be very handy for you!
Use this as a guide to help you to study, but do not use this guide as the only way to study. Remember also that, there are no 100% accurate tips. If you ever find them, be sure not to take them seriously. Bookmark this post on your computer and share this site with your friends who are taking STPM too and tune in for more tips, predictions and topic/question spotting.
Mandarin essay blog from Michelle
November 4, 2009
If you have the intention to strengthen your grasp of your Mandarin language command, learn the techniques and write high-quality Mandarin essays, why not take the opportunity to contact an experience teacher who has marking experience in UPSR.
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So drop by Michelle’s Mandarin Essay blog, you might find what you want.
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Project-based Learning – For Teachers
November 4, 2009
For teachers who are wondering about what project-based learning is, you are in luck now. Berry Berry Easy is presenting a presentation (yeah, the slides only, you’ll have to read it on your own) on Project-Based Learning. It is taken from a presentation given by Miss Isabelle Wong in SMK Dato’ Jaafar in 2009.
For those who are still clueless about project-based learning (PBL), it is actually in the simplest term, a diagnostic test for students.It is an in-depth diagnostic test to allow students to learn holistically. You don’t only test the knowledge of students. You also test how well they could present it. Being able to answer a question doesn’t show full understanding, being able to impart your knowledge to others is the ultimate proof of knowledge.
Other example of PBLs includes experiments, educational visits (lawatan sambil belajar) and even presentations. So the focus of this PBL is on Presentations. Yeah, a presentation on presentations. Confusing? Not if you download the presentation file from the link below.
So there you go, Presentation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) by Miss Isabelle Wong.
Project-Based Learning (PBL) >> Download here
Recipe #1 – Nyonya Chap Chye (Straits Chinese Mixed Vegetable)
November 2, 2009
Berry Berry Easy presents Madam Goh’s Berry Delicious Recipe #1 – Nyonya Chap Chye.
So here we have for you, a simple and easy-to-cook everyday-can-eat Nyonya food. The recipe has been honed to perfection by Madam Goh for 44 years. For your information, 44 years is as long as the formation of Singapore itself. So you can be sure that with 44 years of tinkering and modernising the recipe, here you get a brand-new present day generation traditional nyonya food. (For our muslim friends, do not worry, it is 100% halal. )
Berry Delicious Recipe #1 – Nyonya Chap Chye (Straits Chinese Mixed Vegetable)
Servings : 4-6 people
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp oil (sunflower oil)
- 2 – 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 3 sliced ginger.
- 50 g dry shrimps (shallot), chopped
- 1 tbsp tau cheo / tau cu (1 cabbage = 1 tbsp tau cu)
Stir-fry
- 300 g Cameron Highland / Beijing cabbage cut in 4 cm squares
- 100 g dried lily bud flower (golden needle flower / jin jen hua)
- 100 g wood ear fungus (mu er) cut
- 1 can of Cha’i – Pow – Yu (Braised Vegetarian Abalone)
- 2 – 3 pieces tau kee (soya stick / dried soya bean stick) cut in 3 cm lengths
- 150 g prawns shelled (if you like, you can add more) and add little sugar.
- 1 bowl of water
- 20 g tang hoon (glass noodle) soaked and drained
Seasonings:
- ½ tsp sugar
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 1 tsp chicken stock
Preparation:
- Fry garlic till light golden. Add ginger and dry shrimps
- Add tau cu and fry till fragrant.
- Add stir-fry ingredients and follows by prawns.
- Add water, cover and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Add tang hoon and simmer for 5 minutes till softened.
- Add seasoning.
STPM 2009 Trials Chemistry, Biology, Physics Paper Downloads [Johor] (with Answers)
November 1, 2009
Fresh berry harvest for the month of November. STPM 2009 trials papers for chemistry, biology and physics available for download. These set of papers are the science subject papers for Johor.
Right click and select ‘save as’ to download the papers:
- STPM 2009 Chemistry Paper 1 (English)-> Download here
- STPM 2009 Chemistry Paper 2 (English)-> Download here
- STPM 2009 Chemistry Paper 1 (BM)-> Download here
- STPM 2009 Chemistry Paper 2 (BM)-> Download here
- STPM 2009 Chemistry Paper 1 and 2 [Answers] -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Biology Paper 1 -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Biology Paper 2 -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Biology Paper 1 and 2 [Answers] -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Physics Paper 1 -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Physics Paper 2 -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Physics Paper 1 [Answers] -> Download here
- STPM 2009 Physics Paper 2 [Answers] -> Download here
Best of luck to all STPM students 2009. May the downloaded papers be your companion to your revision sessions. Answers are available for all papers, so remember to check the answers too.
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STPM Chemistry Form 6 Notes- Terminology and Concepts : Gases and Gas Law
November 1, 2009
Gases and gas law are pretty much an abstract topic which baffles many students. However, this need not be so if you can understand the key terminologies and concepts for the topic. The following are important terminologies and concepts for STPM Form 6 regarding the topic of “Gases and Gas Law”. You may use it as your notes too.
STPM Form 6 – Terminology and Concepts : Gases and Gas Law
- Gas Pressure – the force per unit area exerted by a gas through collisions against a defined area of the container wall.
(Gas molecules collide more frequently with the container wall → gas pressure increases) - Collision Frequency – the rate at which molecules in the gas system collide with each other and the wall of the container.
(Collision frequency ↑ when temperature ↑, concentration of gas particle ↑, mean free path ↓) - Collision force – the force exerted by a gas particle during collision between it and the container wall.
(greater momentum and shorter time of contact increase the force of impact)
Collision force can be increased by → temperature increase → greater velocity & greater momentum - Volume – region within the walls of a container.
(actual volume that a gas molecule can occupy is the volume of the container minus the volume of the other gas molecules, because no two gas molecules can occupy the same volume at the same time.) - Concentration (gas) – the number of gas particles per unit volume in a container.
(Homogeneous gas – used to determine the gas concentration) - Mean Free Path – the average distance a particle can travel before colliding with another particle.
- Temperature (gas) – total kinetic energy of a system.
- Average Kinetic Energy – the mean energy of a particle in that system.
(energy of each particle ↑ , average kinetic energy ↑ → ↑ temperature)
Adapted from The Berkeley Review (2004) pg4.
