A&P I Spring 2013

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I did not see another thread, so I thought I would start one for fellow students to chat and get support. Anyone else taking A&P I this spring?

For whatever reason, advisement told me to refrain from piling classes with any of the sciences, especially a&p. I'm curious to know if anyone else has attempted to take a lot of classes with this course?

For spring semester I am taking: College Algebra, English Comp II, Psychology of Development, Gen. Biology for Science Majors, Gen. Bio Lab (seperate class), A&P I, and Biomedical Ethics.

I took A&P along with with Pharmacology, Microbiology and Computer Science, but when I transferred to the college I am at now, they didnt accept the credits, so I am re-taking them. I aced A&P the first time I took it.

Personally, I didn't find it hard. Lots of memorization, sure, but not extremely difficult material such as a class like Chemistry. I loved A&P, I thought it was fascinating.

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For whatever reason, advisement told me to refrain from piling classes with any of the sciences, especially a&p. I'm curious to know if anyone else has attempted to take a lot of classes with this course?

advisement is correct. When I took these clases I would combine them with 1 or 2 easy humanity classes. A couple of times I had to drop classes cause I was overworked. The major science classes you need A's in are A&P1 and 2, microbiology and chemistry are very time consuming classes, avoid taking these together and , if possible, with only no more than 1 other class. Easy classes to take these with these would be any humanities, growth and Development, sociology, or nutrition. If you got the time, General Biology is not a prerequsite for most RN programs however, it is a good course to take prior to taking microbiology and A&P

A&P was the hardest courses for me and it is always best to partner this class with an easy one if you have to take a a another class. How are the online classes for Darton? I am thinking about transferring and taking only online classes. I would like to apply to the Summer 2013 Thomasville class but not sure when they start classes?

I took A&P 1 (both lecture and lab) along with Nutrition in the same semester, but I also worked full time. I found it very challenging but mostly because our A&P teacher was a lazy MSN who just sat down and read off of powerpoint slides. Kept us in the class the entire time...never ending early...even if it meant playing things like bogus Bingo games on things we didn't even review in class. It was ridiculous and that made it much more stressful. At the end we got lucky because she allowed open book for our final but it was a lot of content to cover so if you didn't know the chapter or where to find the stuff, you were stuck with not being able to finish on time. I took Nutrition with A&P 1 thinking it would be an easy balance but Nutrition also turned out to be a pretty difficult class. I ended up with an A in each of the 3 but I busted my rump the entire 14 weeks. It can be done..just stay focused and take good notes. GOOD LUCK!

I took four other classes with A&P1. If you read the textbook and follow your professor's objectives, it's not so bad. Only 6 people out of my class of 160 made an A. However, I finished easily with a 95 average because I REPEATEDLY read the chapters.

I'm taking A&P1 with lab, along with English Composition, SOCY 101, & Stats via MyMathLab!! So nervous for Stats & A&P1 together. But Has to be done

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I took four other classes with A&P1. If you read the textbook and follow your professor's objectives it's not so bad. Only 6 people out of my class of 160 made an A. However, I finished easily with a 95 average because I REPEATEDLY read the chapters.[/quote']

Wow, that's great. I'm looking forward to taking it now and using your advice. Hopefully we ALL successfully pass it

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Good luck! Make LOTS of note cards and study sheets. Getting a good grade in A&P1 is totally doable! :)

Also -- don't let the chapters on the nervous system discourage you. I made my highest score on that exam, but only because I was so paranoid! The insertions and actions for the muscles in lab are also tough. I would study ahead for that.

Going to try to crash it! Wish you all luck! I've started to read A&P for dummies and it seems to be helping !

I'm taking A&P I as well. I was going to take micro too but decided against it because I just got hired full-time as a CNA and have another part-time job as well :facepalm:

Took anatomy and micro in one semester, it was a breeze compared to any semester in the nursing program.

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