How to approach examination questions selected problems and answers

How to approach examination questions selected problems and answers 

No matter how intrinsically interesting students find the study of organic chemistry, there will usually be one or more hurdles that need to be overcome, the examinations. Examination technique is undoubtedly a skill, and this chapter is aimed at developing such skills for organic chemistry. Throughout the book, we have tried to convince the reader that, by applying principles and deductive reasoning, we can reduce to a minimal level the amount of material that needs be committed to memory. 

This section contains a selection of typical examination questions, many of them based on real ones used at Nottingham, together with the answers. However, it is not so much the answers themselves that are important, but developing the skills to answer them. We wish to show that, in many questions, the information given can actually direct us toward the answer. Thus, emphasis has been placed on what to look for in the question, how to approach the problem, and how to develop the answer in a logical manner. We are not looking at questions that ask for essay-style answers, and thus require a lot of memorized material, but are concerned predominantly with those questions that start out Propose a mechanism for. .. or Explain the following observations. ..  

Rather than having questions at the end of each chapter, we have purposely decided to put all these problems together in a separate chapter to help emphasize links and the integration of different ideas. One of the disadvantages of the almost-universal modular system as a study method is that particular 

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HOW TO APPROACH EXAMINATION QUESTIONS SELECTED PROBLEMS AND ANSWERS... 

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