First A&P 1 test tomorrow--any advice/tips?

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ok, so i am kind of freaking out b/c tomorrow is my first test in a&p1 (lab) and i do not feel well prepared. the only stuff i'm worried about is stuff we have not spent any time on in class (highlighted below), and integument (we spent the last 10 minutes of class on this). we are going to be tested on the cartilage and osseous tissues, skeletal system, and skull, but we have not gone over any of it in class. we will start learning all of this after the test. does it make sense to anyone that we are being tested on stuff we haven't even looked at?

here's what will be on our first test...

-anatomical terminology

-cell structure

-the microscope

-tissues;stratified squamous epithelium, adipose connective, areolar connective

-cell cycle

-membrane transport

-integument

-cartilage & osseous tissues

-skeletal system

-skull

i've been studying my butt off since last thursday when my professor told us what all would be on the test.

anyone else ever get tested on stuff that they haven't gone over in class?

any tips, or tricks for remembering things? (acronyms, etc)

thanks to anyone who can offer some advice!

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Where do you go to school? That sounds a lot like our first Lab exam. Are you saying that your Labs are ahead of your lecutre? I hate that! The same thing happened in my A&P 1 and 2. To answer your question, NO, it doesnt make sense, but in your Labs they should have told you what to expect and given you time to learn it there. (on your own ofcoorifice)

Do you have a Lab guide or workbook? At my school, the Lab book and the contents including all the assignments were meant to be our guide to the Lab exams.

Are you going to be tested on models or is it a paper exam? Did they tell you the style of the exam?

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When we had our Lab exam we had models for the most part. We had to identify the pieces/parts. Sometimes they would ask what bone connects to another bone or to identify what the tissue was under the microscope. Know your integumentary layers and if you do have models and do not have access to them right now, go on youtube and see if you can find them!

This is what I did in my A&P Lab, especially A&P 2. I took a video camera with me and taped the lab so I could watch it at home and make sure I know everything. My video camera even was able to tape the material under the microscope, I just put the lens right up to the eyepiece and it recorded what was on the slides.

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I also took my digital camera with me and took pictures of everything, so I could study at home. I dont know about you guys, but I had a hard time with identifying different tissues, etc under the microscope.. everything always looked the same! It did get better as the class continued..

The only other thing I did in AnP1 and 2 was study, study, study. I constantly reviewed my notes, used the textbook websites, READ THE BOOK (I dont know why people dont do that one more often!!), and had a really great study group with a couple of girls in my class. We spent 3-4 hours every Saturday afternoon drinking coffee and quizzing each other over the lab stuff and the powerpoints. It worked! :up:

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Rescuegirl, yeah that sounds like the same thing I did minus the study group. Its just hard work, there are really no tricks that can substitue and Im a book learner too, read and read the chapters. Some people just dont understand when they get into A&P they just have got to bust their butt for an A.

I had a nurse in my class and even he thought the histology was a joke.

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This website url http://www.pc.ctc.edu/hart/ has similar photomicrographs to the Atlas of the Human Body we used in our lab.

These are the kinds of photos we had to identify along with knowing where in the body these tissues would be found.

HTH, best wishes, L.

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Reread your course objectives to narrow down what you need to know.

"Squamous" looks "squa"shed, "areolar" looks airy, and add pounds to get more adipose tissue.

Helpful for learning the skull: time in the lab handling the models, and Kapit's anatomy coloring book. In both cases, trace where the bones go (with eyes and hands), notice how they fit together and study them from various angles.

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wow this test looks pretty comprehensive. Im assuming by 'skull' its just the bones right? I mean, the skull has hundreds of foramin, processes, grooves, canals, sutures, depressions, etc; We had to know all of them.

Our first test was just on histology. Im pretty sure the skull was its own test. Crazy.

Good luck!

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That does sound like a lot for your first exam. We only had the first 4 chapters (anatomical structure, chemistry, cellular form and function and Genetic) on our exam. And YES, we had lab exams on stuff that we never learned about because our lab was ahead of our lecture. Our second week of lab we had a quiz on histology which is Chapter 5 in our book. UGH! We also had few questions on our exam about the skeletal system, that was mostly lab practical #1 and lab practical #2 was the muscles and joints.

My advice is to "read" the whole question word for word. My biggest thing is reading the question too fast and I miss one little detail.

I finish A&P I with an 87% and I am in A&P II now.

Good luck to you!!!

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When I did A&P I (this past summer semester), my study partner found a website called anatomyarcade.com. I used it to study things like muscles and bones. It starts out easier and as you get high scores, it adds more and more to what you have to memorize. Of course we sometimes had more than what was on the games, but it helped me get the basics down before I got really in depth!

Good luck!

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