<p>If you are more of a memorizing, visual learner, that does well with concepts, O-chem will come easy or simple to you.</p>
<p>If you are more of a quantitative, numerical learner, that learns things from methods and calculations, and likes problem solving, you will probably find O-chem to be more difficult then physics or general chemistry.</p>
<p>Unlike General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry’s primary focus is not the numerical calculation of things like pH, pKa, Ionization Energy, Stoichiometry, and Enthalpy etc, but it uses information like that about organic compounds, to predict how they will react with other compounds. The overall goal of organic chemistry for a pre-med route is learning how certain organic compounds can be made through various reactions, and later applying that knowledge to reactions and synthesis that happens in a biological system. The goal of organic chemistry is also figuring out how to synthesize new organic compounds, through specific types of reactions.</p>
<p>It’s generally regarded as hard because it’s nothing at all like AP Chemistry, or anything that the student has seen before. But it’s like a puzzle though, you have to use concepts to figure out the answer, but it’s not quantitative. </p>