Anderson Serangoon JC 2025 JC1 H2 Chemistry WA2
- Yao Le Chen
- Aug 8
- 2 min read
This is the short summary of the Prelim Paper Review I've done for
My 3 matrices:
Relevance: 2/10
Insightfulness: 1.5/10
Difficulty: 2.5/10
Overall: 2/10
Expectation: 85%
Key questions to consider:
Section A:
Question 4 - Ideal Gas
Question 5 - Ideal Gas
Question 7 - Energetics
Short writeup:
2025 ASRJC JC1 H2 Chemistry WA2 - Effectively a take home assignment
The 2025 ASRJC H2 Chemistry JC1 WA2 was not your typical high-pressure school exam. In fact, it was clearly built to help students bump up their grades and secure promotion into JC2—more like a confidence booster than a knockout challenge. If you’ve been consistent with tutorials and revision packages, this paper would have felt like a comfortable walk through familiar territory.
From the get-go, something stood out: there was no contextual question at all. That’s almost unheard of for internal school assessments at the JC level. Instead, the paper was filled with straightforward, foundational technical questions you could have drilled repeatedly in tutorials. This meant that the only requirement for scoring well was having done your homework—literally.
For example, Section B, the structured questions, was as student-friendly as it gets. Question 2, the Born-Haber cycle, didn’t just expect you to recall the diagram—it drew the entire cycle for you and asked you to slot in the corresponding energy values. It’s the academic equivalent of a cycling path with training wheels.
If there was any “challenge” here, it was in time management. Section A, the MCQs, was noticeably more time-consuming. Questions often involved multiple calculation steps, and some had options so similar that you’d need to triple-check your work before committing to an answer. This made it easy to burn precious minutes if you weren’t careful. The trick? Start with Section B, rack up the easy marks, and then circle back to the MCQs.
Overall, this paper wasn’t designed to push the best students to their limits—it was designed to catch those who haven’t been keeping up. If you walked into this paper unprepared, you’d still walk out knowing exactly which gaps to fill. But for anyone aiming at an A for H2 Chemistry, this is only the beginning—you’ll need much more targeted practice to be ready for the real A Level standard.
📍 If this paper left you unsure of where you stand, let’s fix that.
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