A friend told me the only way to pass Organic Chemistry was to memorize the book. He was right. 50% of our tests was a “road map”. That’ where you start with coal, limestone and air to make A. Then a sequence of reactions gets you to Z. If you don’t know all the reactions and their products, you’ll never get to Z.
Organic chemistry is a recipe book. You just can’t eat what you make (usually).
It was an easy A.