My HKDSE Chemistry Deck

Hi. I took the 2025 DSE, and I made an Anki deck to help me with Chemistry. Perhaps you might find it useful.

This deck includes:

• Every core topic
• Industrial Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry (no materials chemistry. sorry)
• A few notable questions from past DSE papers with their marking schemes
• Screenshots of some of my notes and (poorly drawn) diagrams
• Some potentially out-syl material (especially in microscopic world II, i still have no idea exactly what's in the syllabus)

Do note that this deck is by no means comprehensive. It was made to assist with the memorization parts of DSE Chemistry, and as such doesn't cover skills such as mole calculations or balancing redox equations. It's also likely some chapters are incomplete. I also may have gone a little overboard with some specific topics - feel free to make changes as you see fit.

This deck is admittedly a bit scuffed, and you definitely shouldn't solely rely on it for studying, but I hope it encourages more people to use Anki to study for the HKDSE (especially for chemistry).

Credit for special note types from other people:

• Image Occlusion Enhanced from Glutanimate
• A custom basic card type from u/xalbo on Reddit

(Yes, there are 1200 cards in this deck but 260 of them are literally just ions and ionic compound solubilities. Again, this deck is kinda scuffed)

17/7/25 Update: Got 5** in Chemistry. I can't tell you how much of that was due to this deck, though.