I dont think so, you only need to know their properties, common examples and what critical temperatures are, becasue i have looked through some past HSC papers and they had tables of superconductors which are given to u. In other words all u really need is the scientific development of superconductors from having just the element itself with really really low critical temps to nowadays which we have developed ceramics (bigger compounds) which have higher critcial temps thus making it beneficial for society as they have zero resistance=no heat