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RSC UK Chemistry Olympiad 2006
Will:
Hi!
I'd be interested to know if anyone else took this test and what they thought of it.
I couldn't finish it and left out the whole of Q4 on the decomposition of copper(II) sulfate. :(
The synthesis of ViagraTM question was easy and quite annoyingly unchallenging!
AWK:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/copperii_sulfate2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Copper_(II)_sulfate
http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/topic12.html#12.2.2
Will:
Well I got a silver certificate, but 2 marks of a gold :(, if I had just one more minute I could have got 4 more marks >:(!
At least there is some comfort in that I got more than both my classmates scores put together (one them is excellent at math (full marks at math and further math AS-level) and the other got almost full marks in chemistry AS-level (I got less than him, but still a high A)) although it feels bad to say it!
It'd be nice to hear how anyone else did, especially if they did really well! ;D
Borek:
--- Quote from: will17 on May 11, 2006, 06:02:12 PM ---Well I got a silver certificate
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Congrats!
I was one of about 30 winers in Poland, back in 1981 :) Hard to tell how it compares to your silver.
Will:
--- Quote from: Borek on May 11, 2006, 06:49:29 PM ---Congrats!
I was one of about 30 winers in Poland, back in 1981 :) Hard to tell how it compares to your silver.
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Thank-you :)
Being in the top 30 in Poland is a huuuuuge acheivement and a lot better than my silver! In the UK the top 68 or so got gold certificares, so I imagine I was probably in the top 100 if I was 2 marks off gold (the paper was out of 78). However, the population of Poland was probably half what the UKs is now hehe ;D!
If anyone wants to do the test I've attatched it. REMEMBER: no cheating and you've got to do it all in 120 minutes! ;)
If you want it marked you can either ask me to or I'll post the answers on here.
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