Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer HELP with Organic Chemistry!

Photoreading has been great for many books, magazines, and brochures that I pick up. I can also easily photoread and activate many textbooks, including biology and history. However, I do have a problem I have been struggling with: anything in chemistry, or specifically organic chemistry. I'm sure this would apply to math and physics as well.

I am have a very difficult time activating the chapters in my Organic Chemistry textbook. I'm sure that my preview and photoreading are working fine because I am able to use these techniques with many other books successfully. However, with organic chemistry, when I activate the material, I pick up pieces of information and facts. But I simply cannot understand what they're saying. It seems like the only way to actually understand the logic and explanations of various reactions and synthesis is that I must actually read through in a normal flowing way instead of skipping and dipping (forgot the correct terminology). It's like I won't understand the logic/explanation unless I actually read normally. It seems like photoreading/activation only helps me pick up facts. Can somebody help me? I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

Orgo (organic chem) is by far the most detested course ever taken, hands down, by every engineering student I know.

I would recommend using rapid reading instead. See, depending on how the textbook is done, it may be pointless to superread and dip. Without having the textbook in front of me, it's hard to say.

To be honest, on most material, I usually rapid read the whole thing, then activate two more times with super read and dip. Believe it or not, I'll still finish under the amount of time it would have taken me to read it once.

Logic gets tricky with the system, admittedly. I can't even imagine how to PR a math textbook, although this has supposedly been discussed before.

My recommendation is:
1) Rapid read and follow with two SR&D sessions
2) Mindmap like a crazy son of a...
3) Do a search on this forum for math books and see if that helps
4) Shake your fist angrily at the science gods, wishing there never was an Organic science course.

It's the best I can tell you =(

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
("The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?" - So laughs, Ramon, the liberal arts major, who now questions his existence. =( ")