A&P 1: The Spring '05 Anatomy & Physiology Club

CaterpillarGirl · Feb 26, 2005

Hey everyone!

I haven't posted since the beginning of the semester, but since we're all talking about our first exams...

I got my score for my first lecture exam, and I only got an 82%. On the one hand, I'm pretty dissapointed in my grade, on the other, I know that I didn't study as much as I should have. I get my actual exam back on Tuesday in lab, and I'll see if I missed any due to stupid mistakes (which I have a tendency to make).

Ugh. I have a 90% so far in lab, and that counts for 25% of the overall grade. And I only need a 3.0 in this class (my program isn't very competitive -- so long as you pass with a 3.0, you're in). But still, I am an overacheiver and anything below a 90% hurts.

I think it's mostly upsetting becaseu I walked away from the exam thinking it was really easy. I couldn't believe that I had missed 9 out of 50! :crying2:

Thanks for letting me vent!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Feb 26, 2005

CaterpillarGirl, good to know you at least passed your first exams!

There are many who don't.

Now you know to get yourself in gear for the next one. Good luck!

BoonersmomRN · Feb 26, 2005

Hey Caterpillar Girl....hang in there. I can TOTALLY relate. As you may have read a few posts back on my 1rst lab I got an 84 and I TOTALLY thought I aced it...and truth be told an 84 is the lowest grade I have receieved on ANY test in ANY class since I started back...but you know what they say...you live/you learn...and so I just scored a 112% on my 1rst lecture exam. I TOTALLY understand the overachiever thing....I am a 4.0 student and it literally was like a blow in the gut to get a B. And you know what? HA! My friends made me realize that a B is still ABOVE average!

So you hang in there...study as hard as you can and give it your all..that's all you can do! This stuff isn't easy as cake...it takes time and energy...but it's all going to be worth it in the end run!

Here's to your next A!

Cheers!

CaterpillarGirl · Feb 27, 2005

Thanks so much! I feel better today. My next lecture exam isn't untill the week after spring break, so I'll be spending my break with my nose in a book. My classes avg for the test was a 79%, so it helps me feel better that I was above that :)

nurse2be2007 · Feb 27, 2005

I got my skeletal exam back last night! I made a 93.5!! I didn't think I did that well due to the fact that I didn't study as much as I should have. But much to my suprise I passed. I guess the bonus question helped (name all of the cranial bones).

I take my skeletal exam this coming Tuesday and our bonus question is to label 5 parts of the long bone. Could that be any easier? I am doing well with studying, I am finding that studying for this test is a lot easier than the last one. I hope I do as well as I did on the last one but if I dont then I only have myself to blame. I just hope it was as easy as the last LOL. We had questions just like Fun2care and Boonersmom posted. Questions that if you did nothing but listened real well in lecture you could pass the test. Hopefully he keeps with the same format.

Then again maybe we think the questions are easy because we were well prepared for the test. :rotfl:

Good luck to anyone taking a test next week, and :balloons: CONGRATS :balloons:

to anyone that passed they latest exam. WTG Everyone!!!!!!!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2005

I hope I do as well as I did on the last one but if I dont then I only have myself to blame. ....... Questions that if you did nothing but listened real well in lecture you could pass the test. Hopefully he keeps with the same format.
Then again maybe we think the questions are easy because we were well prepared for the test. :rotfl:

Sooooo true! If my instructor follows the same format, and I study the same all the way through.....There's my A!! :bowingpur (That's me praying!) lol

LKG6 · Feb 27, 2005

I got my score for my first lecture exam: 93%. For lab: 98%.

I am soooooooooooo happy. :) :yeah:

Katie

Fun2, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2005

I got my score for my first lecture exam: 93%. For lab: 98%.
I am soooooooooooo happy. :)
Katie

Way to go, LKG6!!!!! Keep it up! :)

einsteinsboi · Feb 28, 2005

Good start LKG! Congratulations.

I scored 59.5 out of 60 in my skeleton lab exam and 99% in my first lecture exam (which covered Marieb chapters 1 to 8). Needless to say I am thrilled.

Incidentally, the 0.5 I lost in the lab exam was because I wrote "Middle Phalange" as opposed to writing "Middle Phalange #2". Details details, how important they are. We've got to watch out for those details.

nursestudentin05 · Feb 28, 2005

Well, I managed to get my grade up to a B, got my lab result (82.3% lol). But, I am happy. It is better than a C that I had and I am motivated even more now

Fun, how did your exam go? Or, exams?

Fun2, BSN, RN · Mar 1, 2005

Well, I managed to get my grade up to a B, got my lab result (82.3% lol). But, I am happy. It is better than a C that I had and I am motivated even more now
Fun, how did your exam go? Or, exams?

I'm glad to know you've got your grade up! :) Good luck to you!

I still don't have a grade posted for my exams yet. We'll be going over the exams in class Thursday, so I may not find out until then.

CAG12345 · Mar 1, 2005

I'm glad I found this thread. I could use a support group for this experience

At my community college, Physiology and Anatomy are taught during separate semesters. I did Physio last semester and now in Anatomy I am realizing why it was so hard to do Physio and most of the other students knew some of what I didn't (b/c they mostly took Anatomy first).

In Anatomy, I feel I have a certain advantage in having taken Physio b/c most of the student's haven't, so some of the functional stuff is a review for me. Which is all the better, because all dem bones... and all those different tuberosities and processes and fossa, foramina, and w/muscles the points of origin and insertion, there's so much to memorize and we have to perform in 2 min intervals for each lab exam item, so you really have to know it.

Anyway, I did great on the first lecture exam, really well on the first lab exam, did great on my dissection, bombed the second lab exam (was busy dissecting instead of studying about bones) which is ok b/c we can drop one lab exam, just took the second lecture exam which I think I did well on and am facing a another lab exam on Friday, for which I am ill prepared. It's back to points of origin and insertion and back to the cadavers tomorrow evening to poke around some more.

Good luck to everyone else! I look forward to reading more from everyone else. Glad that there's a range of grades and a good attitude about each of us achieving our own goals on this thread, not comparing ourselves to each other. That's true support. :coollook: