Any easy ways to revise organic chemistry!?

Hi all...i'm in need of some help..are there any 'easier' ways to revise ALL the gen reactions of organic chemistry including unit 4 organic chem (edexcel). Theres sooo manyy to learn its scaryy :eek:

, i dunno how im gonna be able to remember every single reaction including reagents!! Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Reply 1

these_apples

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sikhklutz

Hi all...i'm in need of some help..are there any 'easier' ways to revise ALL the gen reactions of organic chemistry including unit 4 organic chem (edexcel). Theres sooo manyy to learn its scaryy :eek:

, i dunno how im gonna be able to remember every single reaction including reagents!! Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Im doing OCR...but what i do is write spider diagrams for each section of reactions(e.g alkanes, alkenes, arenes, alcohols etc) and then copy them over and over untill you can do it of by heart but make sure you understand the reations aswel. :smile:

Reply 2

Jonatan

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Short answer: No.

Sorry but revising is not easy. Best thing is probably if you get hold off example questions or past exam papers and do those. Also, any task that you did more than a month ago is good enough, cus you probably do not remember them anyways...

Reply 3

BloodyValentine

14

Its pretty tough but I would follow Jonatan and say just do lots of the Unit 2 past papers the same questions tend to come up over and over again and so you just get it ingrained into your memory otherwise i used huge tables with structures and everything which i prefer to spider diagrams since they tend to get incredibly messy with the amount you have to fit in

Reply 4

danni_bella

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With studying, you could organise subjects into 'units', and tackle a unit one at a time. When I'm studying for science exams I generally do this, and I think it's also a good idea to invest in some good highlighters to either highlight or colour code units together. Otherwise you could go by a numbering system. Goodluck with it, I know the feeling - I'm currently studying too! Equipped with a large supply of Extra sugar-free gum, after hearing that apparently it increases the neuro-synaptic activity in your brain during study :biggrin:

There you ago, another tip to take note of :wink:

Danni x

Reply 5

MadNatSci

12

Reaction web!

Get a piece of A3 paper if you can, or join two pieces of A4 together, and draw a web linking all the reactions together. Start in the middle of the paper with something like 'alcohol' and work your way out from compound to compound; join the organic compounds via arrows and along the arrows write the chemicals you'd need and the conditions necessary.

It worked a treat for me :smile:

Reply 6

supreme

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sikhklutz

Hi all...i'm in need of some help..are there any 'easier' ways to revise ALL the gen reactions of organic chemistry including unit 4 organic chem (edexcel). Theres sooo manyy to learn its scaryy :eek:

, i dunno how im gonna be able to remember every single reaction including reagents!! Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Try and think this reactant plus these conditions (maybe a catalyst) produces X, then keep drawing out the mechanisms until you can remember them as there are easy marks in the exam.

Reply 7

ryan750

2

Im revising my organic too. I am reading the text book and making notes as i go along so i know i havent missed anything out and then i will make tables and/or diagrams to summarise the information so i can revise from it. Basically you need to be able to visualise everything that is on that page including reactants, products, reagents, conditions and reaction types. I plan to do something like a brainstorm and separate the page into subsections that are colour coded with basic primary colours (easy to visualise due to their substantial hue differences) and then maybe i could then do sub - sub - sections coloured with their complementary colours so it really makes sense. Its a task isnt it mate - but if thats how we will get to uni - i would treat it like the bible (not that im particularly religious or anything). Anyway back to the telly whilst my revision books and notes scream at me to be done.

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BCHL85

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i think do the chain of reactions ... to remember all

Reply 9

Ben.S.

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If you do enough of it, it all makes sense - it's a bit like maths in that respect, I think. Organic chemistry is just many variations on a few (relatively) simple themes. It's such a fudge!

Ben

Reply 10

sikhklutz

OP

Cheers guys thanks for all your help, much appreciated! Im gonna put all ya suggestions into practice and hopefully it'll pay off...and ryan750 gd luck with ya exams mate...sounds like you got it all sussed out already tho!lol!

Sikhklutz

Reply 11

ryan750

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sikhklutz

Cheers guys thanks for all your help, much appreciated! Im gonna put all ya suggestions into practice and hopefully it'll pay off...and ryan750 gd luck with ya exams mate...sounds like you got it all sussed out already tho!lol!

Sikhklutz

Thanks - u too. i probably do have it all sussed out but its just doing it which is the hard part. So far i have only got to the reactions of alkenes. Next is the halo alkanes - only another 20 pages to go!

Any easy ways to revise organic chemistry!?

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