I failed.

Thank you all for your responses! You all don't know what this means to me. I will take everyone's advice from here on forward. I just pray I do remotely well on the Practical since it's worth 10% of my grade too.

Please, all the positive vibes and prayers you can spare. Thanks again for the advice!

Brush it off and move on. :) Its hard to swallow Cs and Ds, but its only one grade. You'll get plenty more chances to bring the grade up.

what helped me in A&P was buying the kaplan anatomy flash cards. Anatomy Flashcards - product summary - Bing Shopping inexpensive but a life savor!!! they have all the systems with pictures on the front labeled with numbers and the back had what they were and what they do!!! good luck you will do great!!

Checkout A&P for Dummies from the library. The concepts are easier to digest and they explain a little more than the text might.

Usually the first test is toughest of all because you're not sure where to put your studying focus and what the test style is. Now that you know, you'l have a better plan for studying.

I've been there love. My first lab exam in A&P I was SO ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS that I actually laughed out loud when I saw my grade. Well down into the 40s, like a 41% if I remember correctly. I was more embarassed than anything. After that I bought the anatomy flashcards and moved on up. I made sure I met with my teacher and explained that I somehow dropped the ball and asked for study tips. I hated the idea of a teacher thinking I was some slacker. I mean, c'mon, a 41?

Try out the flash cards. Look around for an A&P for dummies kind of book. I made up songs, watched youtube videos, explained entire systems and mechanisms to my kid in a super animated voice like when I'm reading her stories. Maybe you aren't a study group kind of person? They've never worked for me. See if you can call on friends for help with the baby (you said you have a baby right?). You may be surprised to find out how willing people are to help, even if it's just to give you a few hours in a quiet room to review. RECORD THOSE LECTURES and listen to them constantly; in the car, going to bed at night, on the treadmill, at the playground, eeeeeverywhere. I can darn near quote entire nursing lectures like extended monologues at this point.

ONE failed exam in A&P isn't the end of the world. It may feel like it, but I promise you it doesn't make you less of a person or less likely to succeed. Chin up, friend. Get back in the game and kill it.

I haven't forgotten about this thread!

Thank you all for your suggestions.

The practical went a lot better than I expected - I got an 85%. Our professor is also pushing back Exam 2 until AFTER Spring Break so I'll have an extra undisturbed [well...kinda] week to study.

Recording lectures, rewriting my notes and merging them with info from the book, old notes, handouts, and the lecture is suuuupperrrr tedious...BUT it seems to be working. When I do that I feel like I get a better grasp of the details of the material.

I'll keep everyone posted. Thanks again!

This may sound pretty ridiculous, but the greatest tool I used to help me understand things in A&P was my Anatomy Coloring Book. I bought the Kaplan version at Barnes & Noble, picked up a fresh pack of colored pencils, and used it all throughout A&P I and A&P II. What I would do was label everything on the page and then went back and colored in each part, and as I colored it in, I just said the name over and over again. And then I'd go back and make sure I understood how everything fit and worked together. Don't get me wrong, I still referred to my notes and textbook all the time, but for some reason the coloring made everything stick. And I ended up getting an A in both classes. So, yes, I am 28 years old and love to color, and I'm not ashamed of it! Lol.

FINAL UPDATE **

I stopped getting online [for the most part] so I wasn't able to update you all. As the semester progressed I continued to get D's on every single regular exam No matter what I did, no matter how I studied, I still got D's. However, my practicals were still very stellar. As a matter of fact, on my final practical with the cadaver I got an A [probably because it is hands on?]

Then, with a stroke of luck I managed to swing a C on my Final Exam! awesome! so with all my quizzes, the final practical and exam, then the extra points from the lab manual, everything averaged out. I finished this semester with a B!! :w00t:

I really don't know how...I just knew this class was going to kill me. So to all those reading and feel like you're struggling, DON'T GIVE UP! you can turn it around too!

thanks for all the advice and encouragement everyone!

That is awesome!! :yeah:Truly a testament to sticking it out until the end--you never know what may happen!

its only ONE 65.... and a 65 isnt' that low of a score. Add some great scores and you will still average out and still have a good chance to get a fantastic grade. Consider it a learning experience and just study every day. :)

FINAL UPDATE **

I stopped getting online [for the most part] so I wasn't able to update you all. As the semester progressed I continued to get D's on every single regular exam No matter what I did, no matter how I studied, I still got D's. However, my practicals were still very stellar. As a matter of fact, on my final practical with the cadaver I got an A [probably because it is hands on?]

Then, with a stroke of luck I managed to swing a C on my Final Exam! awesome! so with all my quizzes, the final practical and exam, then the extra points from the lab manual, everything averaged out. I finished this semester with a B!! :w00t:

I really don't know how...I just knew this class was going to kill me. So to all those reading and feel like you're struggling, DON'T GIVE UP! you can turn it around too!

thanks for all the advice and encouragement everyone!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

that is awesome!! i am so glad that you decided to push on!!

i just had the same thing happen to me this semester...it wasn't in a & p, it was in my nursing fundamentals class...i was doing awesome on the quizzes, scoring 100% on all of them and doing awesome on the competencies. here comes the first exam, i studied very hard like you, doing almost identical to what you did [flashcards, etc..], took the exam and was in SHOCK. those nursing tests are like no other! NCLEX style questions, talk about shock, especially for someone who has never had to answer those type of questions before...i got a 66% on that exam, with it being 20% of my grade! talk about panic mode! my grade went down...fast [the quizzes were only 1% of our grade]...

i sat back, reflected, moved forward like you and succeed, getting an 82% on the second exam and an 83% on the final.

i like you finished the class with a B.

this just goes to show that you can start out weak, but finish strong.

best of luck to you!