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I don’t know…I think even if someone was really interested in something like organic chemistry or biochem, unless they had a very very abnormal memory they’d get wrecked on an exam without studying.

I used SRS when studying for OChem and got the highest grade across all sections my prof was teaching.

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Well, I'm taking OChem next semester, so I guess we'll see.

And to be clear I don't mean "don't study" I just think that it's going to be better to connect each chemical I need to memorize to something I already understand about biochemistry though little research projects. What I end up with might end up looking a fair bit like flash cards, but I don't intend to flash them, it's the making that does it.

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