Kimberley Ross

With Qualifications Scotland publishing the updated National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher Chemistry course specifications for the 2026/27 academic year, many students are wondering what this means for their exams. The short answer? There's no need to panic. Despite some headlines around qualification reform, the changes to the Qualifications Scotland Chemistry courses are actually very minimal. The course content remains largely unchanged, meaning students will still study the same key...

Today marks a pretty significant moment in Scottish education history. Today, Monday, December 2nd 2025, is the first day that Qualifications Scotland officially becomes a legal entity, replacing the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Find out what that means for you as a student.

Advanced Higher Chemists, this one's for you! Since it's Halloween season let's dive into one of those 'brilliant' SQA exam"using your knowledge of chemistry" questions that asks why different animals have different colours of blood. Question from SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry 2016 Paper 2 I actually quite enjoy these questions, even though I know a lot of you probably hate them because they seem a bit weird at first. You're probably thinking "how the heck am I meant to know why a human's...