<p>I will probably be taking organic chemistry in the fall, without having taken genchem at my university (I will be using my AP score to play me into orgo). How much knowledge of genchem do you really need to know for orgo? what type of concepts do you need to remember?</p>
<p>In my experience, you need very little general chem knowledge for organic chem. Knowing the elements and super basic things like that (and some bonding, maybe). But really, don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Oh, solubility might come in handy…I’m trying to remember what else you’d need, but since I took orgo and gen as one class, it’s hard to remember what was what.</p>
<p>the pre med area of this forum can probably help you better</p>
<p>I think you should know the basic stuff of general chem, but not the specifics. I’ve heard that organic chem is less math based than general chem.</p>
<p>you don’t need to know too much. Fundamentally O-chem is “here’s a 500-page book; memorize everything” .</p>
<p>I placed in to honors organic chemistry from my AP score and I did very well in both halves. Ochem is completely different from gen/AP chem. Theres very little to no calculations except for maybe some simple percent yield calculations in the lab. The things that would be helpful to remember are bonding and solubility. I thought ochem was actually pretty interesting. I’m sure you’ll be fine.</p>