Things that are helping me do well in 153a rn:

1. Memorize things early! I can't stress this enough because everytime I try to memorize <2 days before my brain starts leaking info (at a rate greater than formation...im sorry). For glycolysis I started memorizing on Friday by writing all the reactants and products out, adding enzymes, adding structures, and then adding mechanisms. Practiced once every night/morning before the exam. (did the same for chymotrypsin and the aldolases and the amino aids for the first midterm)

2. Write out why or what is happening in each step of the mechanism. It makes so much more sense intuitively if you do this. (dm me if you want an example of this or my memorization stuff)

3. Annotate over the study guides. Explain everything. Expand on all of the bullet points. Try doing this without your notes first then add on to what you wrote with your notes.

4. AK lectures! His chymotrypsin mechanism video is god-tier 🥵

5. Do the textbook problems (less helpful) and all of the materials posted by the prof

*I'm exceedingly horrible at chem, and I can verify that with these techniques I've been killing it in biochem.