Acids, metals and carbon compounds
Whole chapter · 12–18 focused hours
Acids, metals and carbon compounds
First systematic UPSC revision with school-level arithmetic and basic science vocabulary; no specialist science degree assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Specialist derivations and laboratory training
- Subsequent revision and full mock tests
- Continuing technology and mission updates
- Duplicated ecology, agriculture, health-administration or energy-policy study
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Acids, bases and salts
- Metals and their extraction
- Carbon chemistry
- Water chemistry
- Selecting water-treatment processes
Whole chapter reading
- NIOS Science and Technology: Acids, Bases and Salts ↗
Sections 8.1–8.6
- NIOS Science and Technology: Metals and Non-metals ↗
Sections 27.1–27.6
- NIOS Science and Technology: Carbon and its Compounds ↗
Sections on tetravalency, catenation, hydrocarbons, functional groups, ethanol, ethanoic acid
- NIOS Science and Technology: Air and Water ↗
Section 26.4, properties and hardness of water; exclude pollution and conservation topics assigned in Environment
- Hydrocarbons ↗
Section 20.1, Recycling Plastics and the ethylene polymerisation example
- Overview of Drinking Water Treatment Technologies ↗
Granular activated carbon and Reverse osmosis/nanofiltration: definitions, uses and disadvantages. Exclude US permits, design models, removal percentages and household treatment advice.