A candidate’s level of English is not assessed in Cambridge examinations (except English examinations), so examiners will not penalise candidates for misspelling a scientific term or name, so long as the word is still recognisable. Extra care should be ta

A candidate’s level of English is not assessed in Cambridge examinations (except English examinations), so examiners will not penalise candidates for misspelling a scientific term or name, so long as the word is still recognisable. Extra care should be taken with similarly spelt scientific words such as ethane and ethene.