◆ Join over 100,000 students from 21 countries and regions
◆ Challenging your knowledge of Chemistry
◆ Encouraged and inspired students to pursue careers in Chemistry and STEM
◆ Open to students from grades 7-12
◆ Select your entry category from one of the six divisions
Date: August 20-22, 2024
Locations: Partner School
Student Eligibility: Grade 7-12
Deadline: 2 weeks before the competition
Committee:
◆ The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACl)
◆ A*SEEDER
About RACI and ICQ
Founded in 1917. the the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACl) acts as the key body advocating the interests and activities of the chemical sciences with over 4,000 members across Australia. RACl plays a leading role in promoting the science, practice and positive impact of chemistry to the public, educational sector, industry and government through creating educational initiatives.
The International Chemistry Quiz (ICQ) is organized by the RACI. Since its inception in 1982, it has become a global competition that attract over 100,000 students from 21 countries and regions annually. The ICQ is not a test of syllabus content. While some questions will rely on knowledge and understanding covered as part of studying the Australian Curriculum, RACI have endeavoured to make the quiz interesting and to promote chemistry and chemical thinking.
Questions that go beyond what is covered in syllabus documents should be able to be answered by students applying their knowledge and understanding to stimulus material provided in the questions. Some questions that are designed to challenge more able students may be/will be included.
6 divisions suits for students in grades 7-12. The topics includes but is not limited to: the material’s structure, isotopes, half-lives and radiation, atomic model, periodic table,chemical bonding, reactants and products, chemical equations, etc.
Rules
Date: August 20-22, 2024
Locations: Partner School
Form: Paper / Computer
Format: Individual test, 30 multiple choice questions
Student Eligibility: Grade 7-12
Divisions:
● Junior Division 1: English, Grade 7
● Junior Division 2: English, Grade 8
● Intermediate 1: English, Grade 9
● Intermediate 2: English, Grade 10
● Senior: English, Grade 11
● Final: English, Grade 12
Awards
● Perfect Score: Students who obtain a perfect score receive a Label Pin
● Excellence: Top 1%
● High Distinction: Top 10%
● Distinction: Top 25%
● Credit: Top 40%
* Certificates are awarded by comparing student results in the same grade. Participants who did not win the award will receive a Certificate of Participation.
Canadia Chemistry Contest (CCC)
Language: English Type: 25 multiple choice questions
Time: 60 minutes (24th April 2024, at 16:00pm)
Location: Paper/ Computer in partnering school
Participants: High school students
Format: Individual test
Exam Categories:
– Safety
– Organic Chemistry
– Acids and Bases
– From Structure to Properties
– Electrochemistry
– Solutions and Stoichiometry & The Gas Laws and Prerequisite Concepts
– Thermochemistry & Reaction Kinetics
– Equilibria
Canadian Chemistry Olympiad (CCO)
Language: English
Type: Challenging short-answer questions and proof questions
Time: 120 minutes ( …. September 2024)
Location: Paper-based in partnering school
Participants: The awarded students in CCC
Format: Individual written test
JCCO:
Language: English/ Chinese
Type: 25 multiple choice questions
Time: 90 minutes (December 2024)
Location: Paper-based in partnering school
Participants: Grade 8-11
Format: Individual test
Topic: Balancing reactions, Calculation of molar mass , Concentrations, pH, Ideal gas, Basic Thermodynamics, Basic Kinetics, Basic Organic chemistry
ICQ:
Language: English/ Chinese
Type: 30 multiple choice questions
Time: 60 minutes (22th August 2024)
Location: Paper/ Computer at partnering school
Participants: Grade 7-12
Format: Individual test
Divisions:
Junior Division 1: Chinese and English, Grade 7
Junior Division 2: Chinese and English, Grade 8
Intermediate 1: English, Grade 9
Intermediate 2: English, Grade 10
Senior: English, Grade 11
Final: English, Grade 12
The content includes but is not limited to: the material’s structure, isotopes, half-lives and radiation, atomic model, periodic table, chemical bonding, reactants and products, chemical equations, chemical reactions, molecular structural formulae, chemical process flow, types and nature of chemical reactions, acids and bases, combustion, redox reactions, respiration and photosynthesis, etc.
– Date: September 2024