Boosting your grade in the coursework

There are a number of things that you can include in the coursework to boost your grade.

Rate column in the table: the rate of a reaction is the speed at which a reaction takes place. So a faster reaction will take less time than a slow reaction. The rate of a reaction can be expressed by finding 1 / time. If you add a column to your table showing Rate as 1/ time, this will net you some bonus points, especially if you make a graph of this vs concentration.

Preliminary investigation: many experiments do a preliminary investigation to check and see what quantities are required before they perform the full experiment. For example, there's no point planning lots of different dilutions of acid if the time difference between each dilution was around 2 seconds... Before you do an experiment, if you're going to be very scientific, you need to check that you're using a suitable range of data. You could write in a section between your introduction and method that you did a preliminary test. In this preliminary test you used some rough dilutions to get an idea of how long it would take, and this would then allow you to decide the dilutions you would need for your final version.

There are some other examples of extra things we can put in, but they fit into the later sections, like the Conclusion and Evaluation, so we'll save them for later.