Rileys Freaky Fridays

Organic Chemistry was WAY WAY harder

For me, physical chemistry was 100x harder. I remember my first PChem exam. It was open book and open notes. There were over 120 equations. 60% of the class got an F. I got a D. Only one kid in the class got an A.

As a point of reference, I got As in OChem 1 and 2.

They’re different. Org is a whole lot of memorizing. Although technically you should understand and be able to work out reaction mechanisms, you still have to do alot of memorizing trivial things. P. Chem has a lot of theory and calculations in it, and it may be more difficult to understand at first, but once you get it, there’s not much you have to commit to memory.
So really it depends on what you’re good at. If you found memorizing the large volume of material in org difficult you may find the concepts easier in P. Chem, but adversely, you may find P. chem difficult to wrap your head around.
In the end, don’t worry about it, these are classes all chemists have to take, So just go at it one piece at a time.