HAPS Exam

[lildan]

my cc requires that all a&p students take the human anatomy & physiology society exam at the end of a&p ii. the exam is worth 25 points toward our final grade. you received 15 points for taking the exam and then the other 10 points are awarded based on how the overall class performed. according to haps, a 70 or better (90th percentile and up) on the exam is considered an "a". so our grades were broken down like this:

25 points: 70 & up raw score 20 points: 50-52

24 points: 64-69 19 points: 47-49

23 points: 60-63 18 points: 44-46

22 points: 57-59 17 points: 39-43

21 points: 53-56 16 points: less than 39

i ended up getting a 72 on the exam and that placed me in the 91st or 93rd percentile (i cannot remember which).

anyway, my prof went on and on about his exam in both a&p i and ii. about what a big deal it is to get an "a", etc. about how difficult the exam is and so on. everyone is deathly afraid of this exam. our class had 7 as. there were two other a&p classes and combined they only had 3 as.

but, whenever i ask any other a&p students or nurses if they have ever heard of this exam, they say "no".

has anyone here taken it or heard of it? is it really as big of a deal to ace it as my college/prof says?

here's the website in case you are interested: http://www.hapsweb.org/index.cfm

x-posted to pre-nursing students

[KEL2BanRN]

I was one of 7 students in my class to be specially selected to take the HAPS at the end of spring quarter, after I completed A&P III. We had the choice of taking our regular final, or if we wanted, we could take the HAPS and forgo our final exam - it was a reward for having a 4.0 through all three anatomy classes. The HAPS would not count against us or toward our grade, either. The school just wanted to see where they fall in alignment with other colleges across the country. I scored in the 99th percentile. I thought the test was very easy. I just read thru my notes for an hour or so beforehand, otherwise I think I might've gotten even more of them correct.

[lildan]

Kel2BanRN: I am glad that you said that because I didn't think it was as hard as my prof and other students said it was. I think there were probably 8 to 10 questions that I was totally unsure of. And, maybe another 20 or so that I really needed to take my time with. But, other than that I was surprised. I really thought there was going to be stuff on there that would just totally blow me away.

That said, I think that my teacher gave us a lot of good preparation, especially with the clinical scenarios and I think our exam questions were worded similarly. I think the two other A&P profs at my school were not as in depth as my prof, so the issues/complaints their students had probably came from that issue.

And, way to go on the 99th percentile! The highest at my school was a 98th.

Also, just because I am curious, I've never heard of of school doing 3 semesters of A&P. It acutally sounds like a good idea because of the amount of material. How did it work?