A and P getting harder during midterms and on?

[Hibbzem17]

Hi, jsut feeling a little discouraged about A and P. I feel like the beginning was a breeze. Now we are into Axial Skeleton and muscle contractions and all that stuff and I feel myself slipping. My grades are good in lecture, probably a B+ and in lab I have a B-. I have a lab quiz on the Axial Skeleton on Monday, and I jsut can't seem to grasp the material.

Am i crazy for thinking its getting a lot harder? Maybe I jsut feel myself slipping and starting to give up. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can learn all this materal by Monday? Or helpful study tips?

Thanks and good luck to all!

[Iridescent Orchid, CNA, LPN]

I think I'm feeling the same way you're feeling. For me, I don't think it's so much the material getting more difficult, I think my brain is tired and that I spent too much time studying throughout the beginning of the term, that I kind of got burnt out on it, or maybe having a little bit of anxiousness knowing this is my last semester before selection, and I want it over with! Just stay focused, make sure you study as much as you can, ask your instructor for more help after class or in their office. Maybe pal up with some classmates who may help you learn a different way. Best of luck! :)

[cheesecakesquared]

Try to go to open lab as much as possible (if your school offers it). Looking at the actual bones is much different than it is on paper (I kept confusing the parts of the humerus and the femur when I actually went to take the test ). If you don't have the time, you can bring a camera and take pictures of the bone models. Then you can go home and label them. My teacher tried to buy a skeleton from a halloween store to practice, but he found that the models weren't very anatomically correct

Honestly, bones was the hardest test in my entire A&P career. It's a lot of fancy names and a lot bones. Hang in there. Muscles are probably the second hardest.

[Hibbzem17]

thanks for the advice everyone, I really hope i can pull this off!