That is not true. Practise is important, but there are introductory methods.
Balancing equations, you need to take note of two important things:
1. Whether the number of atoms of a particular element are equal on both sides (mass balance)
2. Whether the charge on both sides of the equation are equal.
(charge balance)
I am not sure what sort of balancing tips you want, but for simple ones, like the Haber Process,
H2 + N2 <=> NH3
you need to balance that
in this case, u don't need to consider charge since everything's netural. you have to consider the number of atoms.
now you think to yourself how would i balance number of H atoms on both sides? the lowest common multiple is 6 for both sides.
So LHS = 3H2 + N2 RHS = 2NH3
3H2 + N2 <=> 2NH3
in this exam, N atom numbers are balanced. However in many cases they might not be. That was just a rather simple example of how to balance simple equations.
As for charge balance, I don't think they'd ask you for really hard ones, it comes handy when you are doing oxidation reduction balancing.
Do you have any specific examples u want to do?