A&P Lab Help!

[MaxAttack, BSN, RN]

I also posted this in the pre-nursing student fourm, so if it looks familiar...

I need suggestions or any help with my A&P I lab, so here goes:

As a quick background - here's how our lab grades are determined:

Quizzes - 110 points (10 question quiz at beginning of each class)

Assignments - 36 points (3 assignments @ 1 point each per class)

Practical - 60 points (one final)

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Total - 206 points

This is a lab, and the quizzes are worth more than the actual labs and practical combined! The questions are often poorly worded and confusing, and are what she calls "theory" - but isn't the point of the A&P lecture component to test our knowledge, while lab is supposed to complement what we're learning?

I have a 99% average in the A&P lecture component, so it's not as if I don't know what I'm looking at, but there's ridiculous questions like "what was the total magnification of your first objective lens?" I know how to get do this calculation, but she never said anything about memorizing the magnifying powers of our ocular and objective lenses. Another student and I spoke with her about the quizzes, and told her how we're doing amazing in A&P lecture and getting our full points for labs, but the quizzes are bringing us down, and that if she was going to base the majority of our grade on theory, then she should be spending more time on theory. She said that didn't have time to spend reviewing or lecturing and that we needed to study our book more. The reason she gave for the quizzes is because while we do get points for the actual lab, she doesn't know if we're actually learning and we know what we're looking at, or if we're just doing the steps. But again, isn't that the point of lecture, and isn't that what the lecture component tests for?

How have other instructors graded their labs, or does anyone have any suggestions or words of wisdom?

[BellasMommyOBRN]

my instructor graded us based on attendance and the practical exams. we didn't have quizzes but, every teacher is different.

i would be careful about your telling the teacher what she "should" be doing, he/she may take that the wrong way. your best bet is to bite the bullet and listen to her advice---study more from the book.

you'll get thru it, many of us have!

good luck