3 Study Strategies that Helped Me Get A+’s in My Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 Classes

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My peers at college told me that even though they thought they understood the lectures on Orgo, when it came to exams, something didn’t work out. Often they would ask me about my study strategies.

Quite surprisingly, I didn’t know what I was doing right and could be useful to share with my peers. I let them know the resources I was using and how I was consistently doing practice problems.

Now thinking back to the time I took those classes, I realize I was doing more than what I thought I was doing.

The extra learning might seem to be just doing something extra for no reason. But the extra I did on my part took me far. My Biochemistry class became pretty clear to me from the very beginning, I believe, because of the little extra I went in my Orgo classes.

To summarize, this is what I was doing:

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1.Read the textbook thoroughly: I was constantly reading the chapters. Most of my peers weren’t reading the textbook and relied on the lecture notes…