So, i am guessing we've all registered for our classes for next semester...i wanted to start a thread where everyone taking the course can come together to ask questions they need help with or just vent or LOL....watever the case may be...so if you are taking A&P 1 in the spring...introduce your self...
a. How many credits you are taking next semester
b. What part of A&P 1 you are looking forward to, are you nervous?
c. How long you have to apply?
d. Some random thing about you?
Lets gooooooo................
Check this thread for some amazing notes by a member.... Polka-dot.(You Rock!!)...for notes on A&P....and welcome to anatomy heaven...:)
We dont do drawings in my class, which is lucky since I can only make stick figures.
I know right. This has been my one gripe with my lab.
It counts for 15% of our grade, which is too much IMO. We had a report to do that is 10% of our grade which to me, it should have been the other way around. 10% for the histology drawings and 15% for the lab report. I have 4 more left, to do so I hope to do better on those. These 4 left are easier so I feel better about these than the epithelial drawings.
We just had a our most difficult lecture exam to date today.(muscles) There were lots of micro style questions on it. Everyone thought they did poorly. We find out on Th. Im so nervous.
I keep trying to guess what our Proff will ask and its so hard! I know so much that is not on the exam. I cant figure him out.
Specializes in Putting band-aids on boo boo's :-).
Hi everybody.
I'd like to join this discussion if it's alright. I have completed A&P I and passed with an A so if anyone has any questions maybe I can be helpful. :)
I am taking all of my BIO's by themselves each semester so that I can focus on that and not have to share my time with another subject. So I may take all of my required courses, gen ed courses and TEAS then attempt to apply for the program and hopefully enter Jan 2012. That way I would only have to do the nursing courses by themselves and not share with any other courses per semester.
In my A & P class, the way the test works is for our review guide, our prof gives us about 150 multiple choice questions from each chapter to study for the test. He doesn't give us the answers. Each test covers 4 chapters, so we have around 600ish questions to review. He then chooses 100 of those questions to be put on the test.
The thing is, these 'review' questions are obviously from a test bank, but not for our book. So, the a lot of these questions cover material that I have to google because it's not in our book nor in our lecture for class (which I don't think is fair).
Anyways I made an A on the first test. For the second test, he decided that too many people did poorly on the first test so he gave us all the answers to the study guides. This doesn't sit too well with me. I feel like I am getting cheated out of a real education. If I wanted to teach myself I would have taken an online course.
In my A & P class, the way the test works is for our review guide, our prof gives us about 150 multiple choice questions from each chapter to study for the test. He doesn't give us the answers. Each test covers 4 chapters, so we have around 600ish questions to review. He then chooses 100 of those questions to be put on the test.
The thing is, these 'review' questions are obviously from a test bank, but not for our book. So, the a lot of these questions cover material that I have to google because it's not in our book nor in our lecture for class (which I don't think is fair).
Anyways I made an A on the first test. For the second test, he decided that too many people did poorly on the first test so he gave us all the answers to the study guides. This doesn't sit too well with me. I feel like I am getting cheated out of a real education. If I wanted to teach myself I would have taken an online course.
If you don't want the answers because you are "getting cheated out of a real education", then don't use them. Look up your own answers.
I start Anatomy the week after next. It is my last pre-req. I already took Physiology. I'm a little nervous as Anatomy sounds like a lot of memorization. I liked Physiology because it was so much about function--how things work. If you understood how things work, you didn't have to memorize as much. But from reading here, it sounds like Anatomy is so much memorization. Yuck. I just want to understand not have to memorize, because you can always look up the names of bones and such later in life, if you forget. I am keeping fingers crossed and hoping there is a lot of "function" in my Anatomy class too.
I start Anatomy the week after next. It is my last pre-req. I already took Physiology. I'm a little nervous as Anatomy sounds like a lot of memorization. I liked Physiology because it was so much about function--how things work. If you understood how things work, you didn't have to memorize as much. But from reading here, it sounds like Anatomy is so much memorization. Yuck. I just want to understand not have to memorize, because you can always look up the names of bones and such later in life, if you forget. I am keeping fingers crossed and hoping there is a lot of "function" in my Anatomy class too.
Our school separates anatomy and physiology as well. However, we take anatomy first. I cannot imagine having taken physiology before anatomy. At least in our course anatomy was mostly (I would say 70%) memorization. Ours was broking up basically by quadrent. We started with tissues, then lower limb, back and upper limb, head/neck, thoras/abdomen/pelvis was basically the divisions we studied. Lecture exams had some function, but our lab grades (basically identify on the cadavers and models) were a huge portion of our grade and were all memorization.
If you don't want the answers because you are "getting cheated out of a real education", then don't use them. Look up your own answers.
Even if I don't use the answers, I am still getting cheated out of a real education. 60% of the study guide questions are not found in the book nor are they concepts we learn in class. I am having to google these answers, and sometimes I'm not even sure I get the right answer. I wish our prof would actually teach the material that's going to be on the test, or make up his own tests and not use these 'study guides'.
I want to actually learn something in this class from the lectures. I am just having issues with the way the professor teaches and how he runs the class...just venting a little is all. Didn't mean to go off-topic.
Serene Peach, that is tough. I dont understand this strategy either. Why are the schools making it so hard to suceed? You can study all day and night and then you get questions on the exam that will wreck your grade.
I just got back my last exam today and it was a 94. I was not really happy with it to be honest. I should not have had a score that low with all the studying I did.
It should be possible for people to get 98 or 99 on the exam from working hard. This is showing that Im learning the material coverd in the course, not random information that comes out of thin air.
Serene Peach, that is tough. I dont understand this strategy either. Why are the schools making it so hard to suceed? You can study all day and night and then you get questions on the exam that will wreck your grade.
I just got back my last exam today and it was a 94. I was not really happy with it to be honest. I should not have had a score that low with all the studying I did.
It should be possible for people to get 98 or 99 on the exam from working hard. This is showing that Im learning the material coverd in the course, not random information that comes out of thin air.
Anne ITA. I know people will think we're nuts, but back when I had A&P 1, I busted my butt day and night non-stop for 3 months, pratically ignored my chemistry class, and had no life because of this ONE class, and I never got higher than a 96% on my exams. With all that work, you should be getting 100%, but my teacher did the same thing yours does - decided she wanted to throw in a few questions that were NEVER covered in the notes, thus we never had to know we had to read them! She did this every test! I still hate her (for reasons other than this as well). I ony came out with an A because she knew she was wrong (about the lab exams as well) and she gave us extra credit the second to last week to make up for it.
This semester though, my teacher gives us essay style questions, never throws in tricks and I score over 100% on my exams. FINALLY I'm getting the grades I truly deserve, dammit.
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Anne36, LPN
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That is so unfair , what is this an art class?
We dont do drawings in my class, which is lucky since I can only make stick figures.