CAPE Chemistry

WHAT IS CAPE CHEMISTRY?

The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in Chemistry is an Advance Level Exam offered to Caribbean students after they would have completed their CSEC ‘O’ Level Examinations. It's not compulsory, but nevertheless offers an excellent foundation to college chemistry if one is thinking of pursuing their studies in chemistry and the chemical sciences. It is important to note that it is the equivalent to the UK’s A-Level (such as EdExcel and AQA) and USA's AP examinations.

PURPOSE OF CXCCHEMISTRY.COM

This website provides chemistry revision notes and past paper solutions (not as yet) for Caribbean students pursuing unit one and unit two of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) chemistry course.

As a CAPE student I was at a disadvantage in that (i) resources were not sufficiently available and (ii) guidance on CAPE was not readily given. In my opinon, there should be persons to guide students in choosing units properly based on the recommended CAPE cluster or otherwise. For me,  the major problem with the CAPE chemistry unit one exam was the unavailability of enough resources on practice problems and notes. It's extremely important that you familiarize yourself  with the content by practicing problems and one of the objectives of the site is to assist in this regard.  There are a number of A-Level textbooks that deals a lot with the content (more or less) such as  Chemistry In Context. Fortunately, I have access to a copy of Jim Clark’s chemistry calculations which I feel is tremendously helpful in getting the calculations sorted out.

I have, personally, developed as a chemistry student now that I’m at University, but having had the predisposition of CAPE Chemistry, I’m able to firmly grasp the concepts being taught. What I find to be helpful is the excellent tutorial sessions done by the lectures, especially Dr. Raymond Jagessar, Mr. Orson La Rose, Mr. Raphael Singh. I think i have been fortunate enough to have really wonderful lecturers; who make chemistry appear to be fun and exiting. I can honestly say i'm never bored in a chemistry. In retrospect, however, i cannot thank them enough for  putting up with all my questions. 

If you are interested in assisting with the website (notes or kind), my email address is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and please do feel free to contact me. Any form would be appreciated; past papers (solutions too if you have them), notes and websites you found helpful. Rest assured that credit will be given for your contributions.

HIGHLIGHTS/CONTENT OF CXCCHEMISTRY.COM

I would like this website to be a virtual textbook. I personally believe that education should be given free of charge; as such i'm a firm believer of open source and an avid supporter of wikipedia (the free encyclopedia). Granted that there are some disadvantages, i've never found a website with so much information, almost anything i type generate suitable results. Essentially though, the website will have the following content (hopefully):

• CAPE chemistry revision notes;
• CAPE chemistry solutions to past papers.
  
• CAPE chemistry videos (experiments mostly i suppose).
  

The site will continue to grow and hopefully provide a good archive of cape chemistry resources. Please do keep coming regularly to check out the notes and other resources available because I will be updating them regularly.