Rahul Kumar14 Years ago Read the Study Goals for that topic Read and outline the appropriate sections of the text prior to the instructors discussing them in class; Read through your class notes and merge them with the outline of the text, putting ideas into your own words; Write summaries of important points, as if you were explaining them to some one else; Make and use flash cards Make reaction summaries - both of the reactions of functional groups and of reactions that produce a particular functional group WORK PROBLEMS; really work them.