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Chemistry A2 (AQA)

at Sir William Robertson Academy, Lincoln · school or sixth form

Level 3A levelsGCE A level2 yearsFull time

What the college says

Do you take pleasure in working out difficult ideas? Do you enjoy logic problems, learning ideas that 'click' beautifully together? Then you would enjoy Chemistry. It is like seeing with new eyes all that is before you, within your food, on product labels, in cosmetics, in fuels, in the atmosphere, in the chemistry of life, and in the chemistry of the newest products. If you want to know what makes up the world around you, you are a natural chemist. Chemistry is the study of all chemical substances and how to change one chemical into another. The food you eat, the air you breathe, your own body, your mobile phone, the plants and streets around you are all made of chemicals. As you want inexpensive products, chemistry helps to decrease economic costs. As you want a safe environment, chemistry helps to decrease pollution by detecting the toxins, and by destroying them. Gone are the days when poisonous red lead oxide was used to colour cheese, or to sweeten cider; and now we do not put toxic arsenic in cosmetics, nor do we use lead in white paint, or make CFCs that destroy the ozone layer. These chemicals were used mostly out of ignorance, so with the development of new understanding in chemistry a safer world is built. Chemistry may seem a very complicated subject at first sight, but the ideas and complexities are actually built on a set of fundamental underlying patterns. Once you have developed a careful understanding of these it becomes accessible and fun to study. Our aim i

What you need to get on

5 GCSEs (9-4) including English and Maths

How you are assessed

Academic subjects, mostly exams, three or four at once. The traditional route to university.

What this level means

The A-level-equivalent step, and what universities and employers ask for.

Is it open to 16 to 18 year olds?

Approved for 16 to 18 study on the government's Section 96 list.

Where it runs

  • Sir William Robertson Academy

    Main Road Welbourn, Lincoln, LN5 0PA

    DaytimeClassroom based
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Start dates

  • 2 September 2026 · Lincoln

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