Why You Need an Organic Chemistry Tuition Manual
Organic Chemistry is quite the expensive course. In addition to paying a premium in tuition for this multi-credit course, you also wind up paying a fortune for your textbook, another small fortune for private tutoring, not to mention the payment of time for the hours and hours spent studying organic chemistry. You would never waste additional funds on something as trivial as an organic chemistry solutions manual. Perhaps its a psychological fear. After all, you are not given much choice regarding your college tuition and textbook. And a tutor, how can you pass the course without one? But to pay so much for a book that simply has answers...
Actually, I disagree!
An organic chemistry solution manual may very well be the most valuable expense that will help you pass your organic chemistry course.
And that's because the manual helps you practice. The only way to master organic chemistry is to practice, practice, and practice some more.
But in order for the practice to be valid, and to ensure that you learn from your practice, you must have a means of checking your work and comparing your step by step solutions.
Perhaps your professor has shown you a handful of problems in class. Perhaps your professor even went so far as to review the homework problems in class (maybe even handing out a guided solution) and leave you feeling somewhat confident.
But your exam questions will not be the exact questions assigned in your homework. There is no way to predict what types of questions will show up. And so you have to find additional problems in your book to practice.
These include questions that show up within the chapter, as the book takes you through each concept. And the 50+ questions that typically appear at the end of the chapter for additional practice. These 50+ problems will take the information you've learned, and change each question just enough to leave you temporarily confused.
And so you are forced to think, apply concepts, and attempt to come up with a proper solution.
You work through the problems until you come up with a structure or mechanism that you are quite proud of.
How can you know or tell if you've solved the problem correctly?
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