Aiming for Grade 4 LOs:

• Safely prepare a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt from an insoluble base and a dilute acid.
• Name a salt formed between a metal hydroxide or metal oxide and sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid.
• Recall a general equation for a base reacting with an acid and use it to write specific word equations.

Aiming for Grade 6 LOs:

• Describe a method to prepare a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt from an insoluble substance and a dilute acid.
• Write a balanced symbol equation to describe a reaction between a metal hydroxide or oxide and sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid.
• Explain why the reaction between a base and a dilute acid is a neutralisation reaction.

Aiming for Grade 8 LOs:

• Explain the reaction between a metal oxide or metal hydroxide and an acid, including an ionic equation.
• Generate the formulae of salts given the names of the metal or base and the acid.
• Explain how alkalis are a subgroup of bases.