Accelerated A&P and 2 weeks to learn a ton of info!

[Trenata]

My A&P I class is getting heavy duty. I am in an accelerated, ONLINE 8 week class and right now I am totally freaked about all the info I have to cover and have down in the next two weeks. I have to learn 4 chapters muscle tissue, the muscular system, neural tissue, and control and regulation. This is easily over 200 pages and another 200 pages of power point slides and then memorizing the PP slides. I have 4 quizzes, 3 lab assignments, 1 lab practical and 1 exam in the next 2 weeks. I am basically not sure how I am going to do it all. My instructor is not easy and pulls random questions out of the text and really works to make us put 2 and 2 together. She gives us really tricky questions on the quizzes and exam.

If anyone has ever taken an online, accelerated A&P class - if you have any tips on how to get this stuff down quickly, I would love to hear it. The clock is ticking....

I am basically studying all day from 8-1pm (of course with little breaks), picking up my son and doing mom stuff, and then studying again for an hour or more in the evenings with a couple of hours each day on Saturday and Sunday - and even this is NOT enough time to cover all this material. Others have managed to do it...how I don't know! Maybe I will be fine, but I am feel like I can't do it...

I sometimes wonder if I should just skip reading the text, but it is an online course. So, that could be really bad!

[HammockBound]

Im starting my 8 weeks in the second half of summer...so I have all the powerpoints to study already. When I finish 1 I will be starting on 2 immediately. I plan on getting as much memorized and learned as possible.

[CDEWannaBe]

Sorry that I assumed you procrastinated. It seemed weird that you'd only covered skeletal system in first 6 weeks and had to do everything else in the last 2. I've never had an online class paced like that.

Good luck getting it done.

[MrsStudentNurse]

I'd skim read the chapters, make an excel spreadsheet of major ideas and vo-cab. Ctrl+f your excel sheet for the term that's on the exam. It'll take you to that point and you'll be able to move fast. This is assuming you can use notes.

[emergenceRN17, ASN, BSN, RN]

Quizlet helps me! I am in A&P I and it has saved my butt a few times. I swear by it!!!

[combsj25]

Basically my advice is that you need to try to find a bit more study time be that evenings or weekends. I found myself averaging 24 hours of study time per module for my 16 week on-line AP class in order to earn an A. (An A in AP1, and carrying a solid A in AP 2 now with only my Final to go).

First of all, online classes can be tougher - you have to teach yourself!!

Secondly, you are taking one of the hardest classes out there in an Accelerated fashion. AND ON-LINE

I would suggest a study schedule (which you seem to have) that puts in 40 hours per week. I know this sounds like a lot, but may be what you need and essentially if you are putting in 30+ hours - - - this means 1 extra hour per day!

The good news is - it will be over before you know it. Stay Strong and Good Luck.

And to the poster taking a 5 week version - AHHHHHH GOOD LUCK to you!! Is this your only class?

[MommaTy]

I have never taken an Online science course. I did take A&P 2 in class 4 weeks. It was intense I lived, breathed, slept A&P 2. I have 5 kids, I didn't work at that time. If I can get an A- you can pass :) The thing with the physiology part is you can't memorize it. The only way you learn it is to understand it. So as soon as you have questions you need to ask, because you can get lost very quickly. Now with lab what I did was take pictures of the models in class, then put numbers on the parts of the models that we needed to know and passed my lab tests with all 98-100. Good luck, don't look at it like it is a lot or you will get really discouraged, if they made the class they know it is possible to pass in a short amount of time.

[Nurse2b2318]

MommaTy: I am currently in A@P1 and I am registered for A@P2 over the summer. I am terrified because it is a 4 week class. Can you give me any advice for the accelerated A@P2 class?

[Trenata]

I have no doubt I will pass the class. I do have a tough instructor and I think I feel overwhelmed by muscle anatomy. I get physiology much better than memorizing anatomy and do feel much more confident with the physiology aspect because getting an understanding makes it stick. However, this muscle anatomy on top of 4 long chapters is killing me. I expected this class to come to point like this for me! I am expecting this will be the one exam that doesn't go as well. I am going to need to spend MORE time on memorizing muscle anatomy and actions - fortunately my prof doesn't want us to worry about all the origins and insertions!!!

I want to be able to study more, but by 9pm at night when I study for an additional hour - I can barely keep my eyes open!!!

Thanks all for the feedback!!! :-)

[MommaTy]

The A&P 2 class was great. I loved A&P 2 (I wasn't a fan of A&P 1). I found A&P 2 easier than A&P 1. My professor was awesome. She gave us a sheet and we would fill in the blanks with the info we needed to know in physiology. So I would just re-read that over and over and over again. With lab, I took pictures of all the models and labeled the parts on the model that I needed to know (the professor gave us a paper with the parts we needed to know) and I would quiz myself on that. I got 98s-100s on every lab test. In our class we had a lecture exam every Thursday and in Lab we had a test every Monday. After our lecture exams we got to go home after the exams. I took my class Mon-Thursday 5pm-10pm. The first half was lecture the 2nd half was lab. Just be prepared to eat, breathe, sleep A&P. I got an A- with 5 kids (no work though). Good luck. We started with the heart and ended with the reproductive. Did the urinary, digestive, endocrine system. This was Summer 2012, so I can't remember everything in the right order.