Chemistry for Queensland Units 1–4


2025 General Senior Syllabus

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Chemistry for Queensland Units 1–4 (Second edition) has been updated to align to the Chemistry 2025 General Senior Syllabus.

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Teresa holds a Bachelor of Science and Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Queensland. She has taught Chemistry, Mathematics and Science since 1980, with the majority of her career spent at Ayr State High School in North Queensland.

Teresa is an experienced chemistry text book author, and has worked for the QCAA and its predecessor in many different roles—both Chemistry-related and other positions—since the mid 1980s.

Meriet Mikhail was awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 2005, and has been the recipient of various awards and grants, presenting at both national and international conferences for vaccine development and disease epidemiology.

She is currently a QCE and IB senior chemistry teacher, with over 12 years of experience teaching QCE chemistry. Meriet is currently the Head of Chemistry at Anglican Church Grammar School, and is a QCAA Subject Matter Expert for Chemistry.

Carrie Bloomfield has been teaching VCE Chemistry and Science in secondary schools for the past 11 years and is currently a leading teacher at Mount Eliza Secondary College.

She is a VCAA assessor for Chemistry and has presented on science inquiry skills at previous workshops for the Oxford Science series. Carrie co-authored the Oxford University Press’s first editions of Chemistry for Queensland Units 1 & 2, Chemistry for Queensland Units 3 & 4.

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