Sample Tests

I have not wrote about school in a while, and since we are a little over half-way throught term 2 I decided it might be nice for me to show some samples of the work that I give my students. I am going to show you two different classes, aka different levels.
Now these samples are a little different then what I normally give, because I used them as a gauge to see how much of what I am saying the students actually understand. You will see that there are no equations or reactions that need to be solved, no math to be done. They are purely short answer questions. Everything that I asked I have taught, or it is something they should have already known, but I have noticed that they have problems with the topic.

Sample 1:
S5BCM2
Subject: Chemistry
Teacher:GPal
1. Draw 4 structures that are the following:
(1) Ammonia
(2) Primary Amine
(3) Seconday Amine
(4) Tertiary Amine
*Make sure you name the three amines*
2. Why don't carboxylic acids dimerise in the presence of water?
3. Are carboxylic acids soluble in water?
intermolecular forces?
4. If we have two solutions of the same concentration, which will have a lower(more acidic) pH, methanoic acid or ethanoic acid?
5. a) What two compounds can be used in the reduction of aldehydes and ketones?
b) What compound can be used in the reduction of carboxylic acids?
c) Why can't the same two compounds work for aldehydes, ketones, AND carboxylic acids?
6. When a reaction is said to be violent, what does that description mean?
7. a)When a reaction is conducted under reflux, what does this mean?
b) Why would someone want to conduct an experiment under reflux?
8. What is the structural difference between a carboxylic acid and an acid chloride?
9. Name 3 compounds that could be used to create an acid chloride from a carboxylic acid.
10. What does decarboxylation mean?
11. a) What are acid derivatives?
b)Give an example of a compound that is an acid derivative.
12. Why do acid chlorides have a strong smell?
13. a) Are acid chlorides solube in water?
b) If so, are all possible acid chlorides solube?
c) If not, why aren't they soluble?
14. What do water, alcohols, and phenols have in common?
15. a)Asprin is a product of reacting what with an acid chloride?
b)What is Asprin?
16. a)What does the term "N-substututed amine" mean?
b) Draw an example.
17. What does the word anhydride mean?
18. What is the structural difference between carboxylic acids and acid anhydrides?(Draw if you need help explaining your words)
19. Why is there no such thing as an aqueous solutionof an acid anhydride?
20. If we want to compare the stength of intermolecular forces between 2 compounds, what must be true so that we can correctly conduct the comparison?
21. What type of compounds have a permanent dipole?
22. a)What possible intermolecular forces could a non-polar molecule have?
b)What possible intermolecular forces could a polar molecule have?

Sample 2:
S4BCM
Subject:Chemistry
Teacher:GPal
1.Draw a wave
a)Identify the wavelength on the drawing.
b) Identify the amplitude on the drawing.
2.Give the equation that shows the relationship between lamda,nu, and c. Identify what each variable symbolizes and what the units of the variable are.
3.What is the difference between a continous spectrum and a line spectrum?
4.a)What is the general meaning of a spectrum?
b)Give an example of a specific spectrum.
5.What is the ground state of an atom?
6.When something is quantized, what does it mean?
7.An electron can move up and down between different energy states.
a)Which direction is it traveling when energy is absorbed?
b)Which direction is it traveling when energy is emitted?
8.An electron starts at one energy level and moves to another.
Give an example of where the electron will start and end if it is part of the:
a)Lyman Series
b) Balmar Series
9.An electron can be described as having properties of what two things?
10. What does the uncertainty principle state?
11.What does Paul's Exclusion Principle state?
12. What are quantum numbers used for?
13.Name each quantum number and give its symbol.
14.What values can the quantum number ml have?
15.How many nodal surfaces does a 3p orbital have?
16.What is the number of orbitals in a subshell?
17.How many total different orbitals are there in the n=3 energy level?
18.If n=3 and ml=-2 , what must be the value of l?
19.How many d orbitals are there?
20.What is an electron density plot?
21. What orbital has 3 nodal surfaces and 8 regions of electron density?
22.What does the orientation of a orbital refer to?
23. What are the 2 possible orientations for the electron spin magnetic quantum number?
24.a)What does diamagnetic mean?
b)What does paramagnetic mean?
25. If n=1, what are the values of the other 3 quantum numbers?

I will let post later about the results of my students..aka how they did on these tests..