Chemistry SEC Level

Entry Requirements

School leaving standard of education is recommended. 

Duration

30-week course with 3 contact hours per week. 

Learning Outcomes

Expected learning outcomes for this course inlcude: 
 
• Demonstrate an understanding of how chemistry works and is communicated.  
• Describe and explain the properties of gases that may be found in air and how to prepare them in the lab.  
• Describe the solvent action of water including the impact of water hardness.  
• Describe the chemical properties of acids, bases and salts.  
• Describe the conduction of electricity through solutions and molten salts.  
• Describe the major groups of the Periodic Table including their physical and chemical  
• properties.  
• Describe how substances dissolved in water can be identified and how their concentration can be measured.  
• Describe how different rocks contain important substances, their extraction, chemical nature, responsible use and environmental impact.  
• Describe how and why physical and chemical changes happen.  
• Perform quantitative calculations.  
• Investigate why and how chemical reactions proceed at different rates.  
• Describe dynamic equilibria and the conditions needed to shift a reaction in equilibrium.  
• Describe the chemical nature of crude oil and the substances obtained from it.  
• Distinguish different homologous series and their physical and chemical properties.  
• Describe the energy changes accompanying chemical changes. 

Delivery Method

Face-to-face lessons. 

Certification/Award

MATSEC certification upon sitting for and passing the exam. 

Progression to Further Education

After successfully completing this course, learners may continue studying the subject at post-secondary level, such as Intermediate level, or pursue related pathways at tertiary level, including through alternative entry routes such as the maturity clause. 

Additional Note

This is a revision course for learners sitting for the MATSEC SEC Level examination. The educator is therefore not required to deliver the entire syllabus issued by MATSEC https://www.um.edu.mt/matsec/syllabi 
 
MATSEC exam results issued by the Examinations Department. 

Exam

Apply through MATSEC. 

Language of Instruction

Bilingual