Study supplements ...Please answer ASAP

amymina · Oct 25, 2009

I took A&P and got the A, but didn't use much else besides the coloring book and my notes and textbook. I found the best help was making a friend and we used each other as study partners. I was better with the book stuff and she would make up jingles and poems, or whatever worked for the lab stuff. It worked out nicely.

CuriousMe · Oct 25, 2009

I agree, unless you're not understanding the concepts, I found the extra books to be a waste. I bought the A&P flash cards, but found I learned far more by making my own flash cards. Not only did I have to distill the information to put it on the flashcards, but the information was exactly what my Prof. wanted me to learn.

Really, I think buying blank 3x5 cards, and finding a study partner who you can quiz and who can quiz you are the best way to go.

hunydew2262 · Oct 25, 2009

A&P is a knowledge based class. You mostly memorize stuff. I made my own flash cards because I knew I learned more that way. If you don't know what your learning style is, you can google and find online tests to take. That may help more than any supplemental material. Oh, I had an 'A' in all my A&P classes as well, if that matters.

Good luck,

HD

Nursingstudent2188 · Oct 25, 2009

I always studied with a friend. It helped a lot. I know they make flash cards for ipods and such. I wanted them, but ended up not buying them. Also, our textbook had a website that was really good (sorry I do not remember the name). So you might check into that. It had study resources and quizzes, etc.

ohgreat · Oct 26, 2009

In regards to physiological processes, memorizing tons of material wasn't a method that worked for me. I really needed something more so that I could truly understand and make connections. I would advise seeking someone you can talk to about the material. This could be a tutor, a study group, maybe even your professor during his/her office hours.

If you can talk comfortably about the material and draw pictures to explain what is going on, then you will know the material for life and it will help you in your classes later on in nursing school.

If its memorizing names are vocabulary that you are struggling with, then yeah, making your own flashcards would be a good idea.

DawnSue · Oct 26, 2009

I actually took it twice -- in the late 80s and again in the 90s.

I am a learner who does best when I write things down. I photocopied lots of copies of the anatomy without diagrams, and filled them in over and over again.

I would also, for musculature, just list the muscles over and over -- with a book in front of me to check -- touching the muscles of my arm, shoulder, legs, etc, and visualizing them while I said them out loud. Borrow someone's back.

I would also just pour over the diagrams in the book and name every thing over and over. It took a lot of time but I got the A's.