The short answer on Organic Chemistry Tutor
Most explanations of Organic Chemistry Tutor start with a definition and stop there. A definition is the least useful part, so this starts with what it looks like in practice instead.
Three parts are doing the work here: Organic sets the approach, Tutor names what it is aimed at, and the chemistry in between is where most of the disagreement actually lives.
Where this usually goes wrong is that re-reading notes is studying — a mistake that is invisible until something unfamiliar turns up.
Why tutor is the part that matters
Among undergraduates, postgraduates and adult learners returning to study, this is one of those ideas that seems abstract until the moment it is not — typically the week before an exam, with four chapters still unread.
Once you separate the organic framing from the tutor practice, the idea gets considerably more useful and considerably less quotable.
Two questions to work with
Open with If this question appeared on the exam in a different form, would you still recognise it? — a diagnostic, not a test.
Follow with Which step in your working are you least able to justify?, which is where the actual thinking happens.
Making it routine
In practice this means closing the book and reconstructing the argument from memory, then checking only what failed.
The signal to watch for is the student can predict which part of a question is the trap.
Next steps
The natural continuation from here is the advanced guide on question ladders, then a session on the paper you are preparing for.