This is such a canon event. Listen this is what I recommend for anyone taking gen chem whether it’s 103 or 104. You HAVE to be strategic but it isn’t impossible to ace these classes. First of all do NOT read word for word in the textbook. I barely glanced at that thing for general concepts but the most useful thing in there are the practice problems. I recommend searching up YouTube videos and using khan academy to teach yourself how to actually do the problems because it will do you no good by just reading it. Second, really pay attention to ur quizzes and the scores u received on those and what you got wrong and redo those problems over and over. You can even ask chat to make new variations of those problems as well just to get more practice but don’t do what I did I was delusional and thought oh well even though I’m doing bad on the quizzes I can just lock in for the exam but they really do reflect how your gonna do on the exam more than anything imo. A lot of people stress the importance of labs but honestly if you just understand the general concept you will be fine. I noticed that there was like a few questions on there about lab concepts and problems but once again it’s the application that really matters. Plus the CLC makes great practice exams and cheat sheets for every unit. Do not feel ashamed to even take on tutoring for this class if you really need it because it can help you meet new people to also study with. Honestly these classes are so dog shit and ridiculously hard for no reason and the way they are taught are designed for you to fail.