IB DP Chemistry SL 2025

IB DP Chemistry SL 2025 resources

IITian Academy excellent resources and effective strategies will help you prepare for your IB DP Chemistry SL 2025 exam.

Review the syllabus thoroughly. Familiarize yourself with the topics, assessment criteria, and expected depth of understanding. Identify key concepts: Pinpoint the core ideas and principles that form the foundation of each topic.
Do practice Exam Style Questions Topic wise.

 IB DP chemistry 2025 subject brief (IBO)

Exam Style Practice Questions, Notes and Past Paper for IB DP Chemistry SL 2025

Exam Style Practice Questions, Notes and Past Paper for DP Chemistry 2024

BDP Chemistry SL &HL Last Assessment November 2024

Exam pattern for IBDP Chemistry SL First Assessment 2025

SL Paper 1

  • Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Paper 1 is presented as two separate booklets.
  • Paper 1A 30 marks
    • 30 multiple-choice questions on standard level material only
    • No marks are deducted for incorrect answers.
  • Paper 1B 25 marks
    • Data-based questions
    • Questions on experimental work
  • CALCULATOR ALLOWED
  • Data booklet provided
  • 36 % weight
  • Marks: 55

SL Paper 2

  • Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Weighting: 44%
  • Marks: 50
  • Short-answer and extended-response questions on standard level material only
  • CALCULATOR ALLOWED
  • Data booklet provided

FAQ

The chemistry curriculum is built on two broad organizing concepts:

  • Structure and
  • Reactivity.

Each of these concepts is subdivided into topics and subtopics, which are all connected through the idea that structure determines reactivity, which in turn transforms structure.

Similar to IBDP Physics ,Follow the below Steps to get close to 7 in IBDP Chemistry HL

  1. Prepare a note for each topics. Do not forget to include past years questions pertinent to respective Topic
  2. Make sure to improve your notes , each time you get a new concept for that topic
  3. Practice past years  Questions multiple times  for that topic
  4. Revise your notes just before the exam

Apart from syllabus changes , the old(current) paper 3A is the new paper 1B, which tests data analysis. Also new paper 1 will allow calculator.

 new version of the IA, or the “scientific investigation” now has a 3000 word limit.

Exam Duration is same : Earlier Paper 1 was 1 hrs, Paper 2 , 2hrs 15 minutes and Paper 3 , 1 hrs and 15 minutes . IB Chemistry 2025 has Paper 1 (1 B is similar to old Paper 3)  for 2 hrs  and Paper 2 for 2 hrs 30 minutes.

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