{"id":2121,"date":"2015-08-20T18:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2015-08-20T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:57:32","slug":"organic-chemistry-study-plan-for-the-new-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/organic-chemistry-study-plan-for-the-new-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Chemistry Study Plan for the New Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CLICK HERE<\/a> to get the printable version of this New Organic Chemistry Student Study Plan.<\/h2>\n

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Congratulations on taking the plunge. Organic chemistry is one of the toughest courses you will take, but (in our humble opinion) it is also one of the most interesting. Organic chemistry is the basis of drug design, biological chemistry, and nanotechnology. All of the pharmaceutical sciences come back to organic chemistry. It really is a fascinating course. But, at this point you are\u00a0much more interested in learning the material, getting through your course, and scoring that good grade.<\/p>\n

So let’s get started, what is the best way to attack this course?<\/p>\n

We think that you need to assess yourself first before you can decide what the best organic chemistry study plan is for you. \u00a0Here is how we think you should do that:<\/p>\n

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Step 1) Accept the fact that this class is going to be a lot of work, and there is no way out of that.\u00a0If you are ready, move on to step two.<\/p>\n

Step 2) Watch the\u00a0full course review videos<\/a>\u00a0UP TO THE POINT THE END OF ORGANIC I MODULE 2.\u00a0 This will give you a 2-hour review of the essentials of the course.<\/p>\n

Step 3) Print out the guide to the Organic I Basics<\/a>, and look it over.<\/p>\n

Step 4) Go to the tutorials section <\/a>and review tutorials on stereochemistry, formal charge, resonance, alkanes and functional groups.<\/p>\n

Step 5) Take your first exam in the class.\u00a0 How did it go?<\/p>\n

Step 6) Now it is time to ask yourself an honest question: how comfortable were you with the information you looked at in steps 1-4?\u00a0 How was your grade on the exam?\u00a0\u00a0 The topics you saw in steps 1-4 of this plan are the very basics of organic chemistry.\u00a0 We asked you to look at the foundations of the course to assess how comfortable you are with these topics and\/or how easily you learn and retain chemistry.<\/p>\n

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Group 1<\/span>: “I nailed it. \u00a0Organic chemistry makes sense to me, and the first exam was easy.” \u00a0Great. You probably hear and understand science topics very easily.\u00a0 Congrats, that is a talent. We would suggest you get on the \u201cA Student<\/a>\u201d plan.\u00a0 Since you are early in the course, you should go through all of the mini-movies as you hear about the topics in lecture.<\/p>\n

Group 2<\/span>: “I got it, but it was hard and the first exam didn’t go as well as I had hoped”. \u00a0Sorry it didn\u2019t go better, but this is the group most students end up in.\u00a0 Now is the time to make sure you stay on top of the material and don\u2019t fall behind.\u00a0 Even if you are not a C student, we suggest you use the \u201cC student\u201d study plan<\/a>.\u00a0 It is actually very similar to the A student plan, but emphasizes flash cards a little more to reinforce topics.<\/p>\n

Group 3<\/span>: ” Ughh, this sucks. \u00a0This makes little to no sense to me and I got killed on the first exam.” Ok, all is not lost.\u00a0 This is going to be some work, but you can absolutely do it. Start with the \u201cbarely passing\u201d study plan.<\/a>\u00a0 It emphasizes three things: videos, flash cards, practice exams.\u00a0 They are the most bang for your buck.\u00a0 Hang in there and do as many problems as possible.<\/p>\n

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It is important to note: Just because we suggested a certain study plan, does not mean you are shooting for the grade of that organic chemistry study plan OR you have to even use those study plans. \u00a0We have tutored hundreds and hundreds of students and have found these methods to work best for certain types of students. \u00a0BUT…if it doesn’t work for you, you should try one of the other plans or make one up yourself. The biggest deal is that you have a roadmap for ingesting all of this material and you stick with it.<\/p>\n

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  CLICK HERE to get the printable version of this New Organic Chemistry Student Study Plan.   Congratulations on taking the plunge. Organic chemistry is one of the toughest courses you will take, but (in our humble opinion) it is also one of the most interesting. Organic chemistry is the basis of drug design, biological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tPTC-yd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aceorganicchem.com\/Elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}