how do you make chemistry easier to understand and remember

Question: how do you make chemistry easier to understand and remember
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Asked by reham a to Mark on 14 Oct 2025.
- Mark Ridgill answered on 14 Oct 2025: last edited 14 Oct 2025 13:02
  
  Interesting question!
  There’s a lack of chemistry knowledge in the general public and I’ve done a schools talk on my job which is discovering new medicines. I tried to lay out the tasks we follow and of course the chemistry but I feel that as long as people know what chemistry is and what chemists do then the details don’t matter for now.
  For me chemistry got easier the more I studied it and I specialised in organic chemistry (the chemistry of carbon) where things are well behaved and follow the rules! You can at least plan the synthesis of molecules by joining together smaller molecules, although the actually making things is an art in itself and not always straightforward.
  
  Hope this answers your question?

Question: how do you make chemistry easier to understand and remember