This might come off as overly aggressive or too defensive and I'm sorry if it is, I don't want to be like that, I'm just trying to explain and I'm not a very good writer
It's a C+ centered curve (well at least, on the grade correlations our professor sets the top of the C range about 3% over the median and mean). I go to a school with a lot of very smart people, plus we started with about 800 people who were planning on premed and only about 200 people have made it to this final (the rest have all dropped premed, or dropped out altogether), so competition's gotten a lot fiercer. Something to consider is that on the AAMC Sample, I did very well in C/P (~90%, haven't taken scored Practice Exam yet since I've yet to take biochem). Again this might seem like an excuse, and I guess it sort of is, but it's not like I'm some slouch who's learned nothing. I only look like that compared to the people at my school.
I'm not trying to blame my performance in ochem on anything other than myself. I'm saying it's very unlikely that I'd improve on a retake, which is why I'm hoping not to have to retake. The comment about learning style is more providing evidence that I won't improve much upon a retake than it is shifting blame. I definitely could have gotten a B if I spent all my free time outside of other classes on ochem, but that's not something I'm willing to do--I'd go crazy if I had to do that.
My plan for the future is kind of reliant on an assumption, but I'd like to think it's a good one. What I've heard from everyone who's gone through medical school is that it's more memorization than problem-solving. I can't problem solve well, but I can memorize very well. As for actually being an M3/M4, I'm sure I'll have to problem-solve, I haven't really thought that far ahead yet though. Our ochem class might be unique, but there's really not much memorization involved. You memorize a bunch of reagents that can do things (I always get all my points on the tests here lol) and then 80% of the test is working with things we've never seen before and writing mechanisms for them. Like for example in the aldehyde and ketone unit we had a question about enolates, which we weren't set to cover for another month, and on the final today we had a couple questions about some organometallics we've never covered (palladium)
I don't really know why I'm writing all this to "justify" how I did to you, you're not an adcom lol. Anyway,