High School Chemistry Olympiad Complete Book

Author: Yu Shuyang (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Over the past few years, the national preliminary competition questions and national team selection questions have required contestants to possess strong observation, thinking, imagination, and most importantly, creative abilities under a good emotional quotient, while placing little emphasis on memory skills. These questions have effectively clarified the vague perceptions held by most high school students, such as "chemistry is the 'humanities' among the sciences," and have helped attract more talented students to participate in chemistry competitions. A careful analysis of past competition questions reveals profound changes in their structure, selection function, and question types. Below is a brief summary:
1. Changes in the selection function of the questions;
2. Changes in the question types of chemistry competitions;
3. Characteristics of the 2004 National High School Chemistry Competition (Provincial Division) questions;
4. Forecast of chemistry competition question setting for 2005.
Although experimental questions have not appeared in the national preliminary competition for a long time—given that chemistry is an experimental science, the absence of experimental operation assessments in the competition cannot be considered a minor drawback. However, adding experimental questions to the exam could serve as a valuable supplement. Pay attention to the phenomena of micro-chemical experiments (especially the miniaturization of university inorganic and organic chemistry experiments): distinctive improvements and innovations in university chemistry experiments, research-oriented questions that reflect the exploration process and thinking methods of chemists.