Focus on understanding the concepts through the text. The theory behind chemistry. If it takes you 7 hours to compelte a chapter then so what? do it.
What i like to do is after a section, i do the sample question try to answer it myself and then see hwo they did it. The solution guide is there to show you but not to assist you along the way to the answer. It cannot be used as a crutch for the questions because then you will not be really learning it.
You'll be better off spending the time NOW understanding the material through the textbook and/or professor, doing the requisite practice questions for the MCAT in the long term. Because everything you do right now will be forgotten in the next year- 2 years before mcats and you'll have to revie wit all over again. Whereas if you focus on concepts you will remember more. If you carry this mentality not onyl will it help you for chem II and mcats but for the other sciences especially physics and organic chemistry.
One suggestion for many chapters is that you try to visualize what's going on. Since chemistry is a microscopic science you can't see anythign so it's hard to conceptualize somethign that you can't see! Use the textbook's diagrams, your creative mind, your own sketches whatever to understand the respective concepts. One trick for many chapters is to really understand the atom to atom, proton-proton, proton-electron, electron-electron interactions that occur.
If you need more help with chemistry go on google and type "doing well chemistry" "studying for chem" etc. there ar emany good websites for doing well.
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and i was complaining more over the book's dry text than the actual concepts. I realized that the chapters go into detail to help you reinforce the material, to understand the overall concepts than to memorize the little bits and exceptions here and there.
my main point is that it's better to get used to the textbook early on in the game so by tthe time you take organic chem, physics, biochem, etc. you will be very indepedent and will only need the professor's help only in extreme situations.
in med. school there just won't be time or shortcuts to getting passed the reading no matter how boring the text is. The discipline that you accrue now will reward you plenty in the next years.