How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry | BMAT Tips series

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hey everyone welcome back to the benighted series my name is Ellie I'm a fifth year medical Cambridge and in this video we're going to be talking about the approach to section 2 chemistry as we know from the biology and physics videos there are three clinicals to success in section two that's content timing and practice these will apply to section two chemistry as well so I mentioned them very briefly but I want to spend the rest of this video talking about specific tactics and more about what makes the chemistry questions in particular quite part firstly in terms of content the section 2 assumed knowledge guide if your friend see probably want to learn as much of that as you possibly can if you don't understand something BBC Bible is quite a good resource and we also have notes on demon ninja if you want to check those out in terms of timing you've got one minute for question as you do for all of section 2 but the chemistry questions can be particularly hard because the calculations can sometimes take a little bit of time I'll be doing a separate video talking about chemistry calculations which will go more in depth about how to be efficient of your time in throwers but here planning one minute for questions subtitles and as we know from hopefully watching the other videos practice is very important to doing well in section two and by far the easiest way to practice lots of chemistry questions is to just bash through all the chemistry questions that we've got on the mat ninja completely free of charge and if you get stuff to get out a chemistry teacher you can get a specific solution to be mad ninja if you want or you can just leave a comment in this video below and I'll do my best to give you a worse solution to the question of soccer cool so that's out of the way let's now talk about the types of questions that you get in chemistry the chemistry questions can be broadly divided into two main categories both of which have their problems and difficulties firstly we've got the factual recall questions which we'll talk about now and secondly we've got the calculation questions which will be the topic of a subsequent video hopefully links at the end of this one the factual recall questions are ones that asks you to remember for example that graphite has three electrons or friends of reactivity up and down Group one and seven or what colors universal indicator paper grows when it's put in a particular solution for what kind of an exit to the electronic configuration corresponds to that sort of thing don't worry you don't have to memorize the periodic table the periodic table to answer question one will be provided just next to the question the questions in Sector two chemistry our GCSE or OHS above standards and because practically everyone taking the BMS does a double chemistry you shouldn't have too much problem with the actual report component of the chemistry to them but having said that edible chemistry is quite hard and there are some graduate students who haven't done it since the 1980s so if you're in the position where you find in chemistry difficult your best bet is probably just to memorize as much of the section - assumed knowledge guide as you possibly have something there's no shortcut of it they could literally ask anything they want so memorizing the guide is actually like a good tactic in fact this isn't just useful for the peanut the more pro you get at DMACC chemistry the better you'll probably do in your a level exams or IB or whatever they use these days right so that's the factual report question the way to get good at those is to memorize as much of the section to assume to knowledge guide as you can and I know that the easier said than done but hey it's worth trying anyway and we've got loads of notes on B manager that can supplement the guide if you feel like accessing them the second type of question of causes problems are the chemistry calculation questions but those will be the subject of the next video which also D be linked over here and also at the end of the video and also in the description so you should definitely check that one out because it's very much a follow on from this video so let's conclude this video for now we touched very briefly on content timing and how to practice and we talked about the factual recollection about how doing well on those is unfortunately a matter of just memorizing as much of the official guide in supporting accounts so thank you very much for watching if you like the video please give it a thumbs up please like to subscribe to the channel please hit that subscribe button and the next video in the series should appear here somewhere it'll be on chemistry calculations but please do take that up have a lovely day and I'll see you in the next video bye [Music]