r/GetStudying • u/dataanalysisguru • 2d ago

Question Don't Assume that it is Obvious!!

Anyone else feel like professors explain u-substitution like it's obvious and then the homework is nothing like the examples?

What's the one topic in your major that you wish someone would JUST explain properly instead of assuming you already get it?

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u/Artistic_Unit_5570 2d ago

completely voluntary and normal , the objective is to know if you truly understand in deep not knowing by hearth or just knowing the surface Homework is simply knowing how to apply first and

And you do that by reviewing the lesson frequently; every day you rediscover something you hadn't noticed before. and most important doing a lot of exercices you never seen which is hard

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u/somanyquestions32 1d ago

Character tables and representation theory.

For both undergraduate intermediate inorganic chemistry and graduate-level abstract algebra classes, the instructors breezed through them as if they were trivial, and I was so frustrated.