how to memorise organic reaction pathways?

[not.yet.a.nerd]

So my organic chemistry sac is coming up, any suggestions on how to go about being able to comfortably know how to synthesise one compound from another? Should I just refer to a diagram and keep trying different questions until I remember it?

Also how much are we expected to know for the exam?

[Bri MT]

I personally prefer to take an intuitive/understanding based approach to remembering these but I understand that this might be difficult given that this isn't emphasised in highschool.

Last year I used an app called chemistry lab (available on android) and although it's more uni level than highschool level I found that that helped


If you're going to take a memorisation based approach flowcharts are probably your best bet