I am a newbie nursing student. Of course you understand my urgency. I need Anatomy & Physiology flashcards QUICK. So I would like to order them tonight and overnight them if possible. Hopefully this stays under $40, but urgent times call for urgent measures...or something like that.
Basically, I need a REALLY good set for learning EVERY SINGLE LITTLE SKELETAL BONE, NOTCH, ANGLE, etc.
I'm terrified. While I find this stuff fascinating, I have about 3.5 days to learn this. It will be practical. The prof. will point to the skeleton and BAM, I better know the correct name for whatever part needed. We also have to identify tissue under the microscope which I hate so much, because it seems to vary from slide to slide. I'm figuring if I can ace the skeletal part of this exam, it will SAVE me.
There will be around 150 questions, and most of them will be practical with around 1/3 of them being on the skeleton.
PLEASE give me suggestions! I just need a way to learn these and make them stick. I have most of the skull (head) down and I consider the rib cage area fairly easy. Now I need to know every little other thing on top of that. Not general..I'm talking EVERYTHING on EVERY single bone.
HELP HELP HELP. I'm stressed because I just finished 4 exams yesterday, and have 4 more coming up in a few days. Not tests, exams . Feel my pain!:imbar
Thanks Jenn and us2k. Yes, we have a skeleton, but the lab hours are awful and my college is not open on weekends. However, I am thinking I will try to memorize most by card, and then when Monday comes around, I am out of class at 5:30, so perhaps I can stay 1 hour (if there is no other class in that room) and study on the actual skeleton. Then I can do this on Tuesday as well.
Yikes! You have probably already had your test by now, so my reply will be in vain, but I have had a lot of recent experience with flashcards. Everyone in my class seemed to have a different approach to them, but for me, the making of the flashcards helped me more than the studying of them afterward. The time I spent photocopying pictures, whiting out words, gluing to index cards, and writing the information was invaluable. Sometimes if my exam was soon, I never even used the flashcards I made, but I somehow knew all of the information. After my exam, I would loan my flashcards to a friend in a different section- she learned by looking at them. I wish you the best on your exam- you will make it through! :)
Labeling was super helpful for me. I would take a page of the lab manual (since in my experience that was what we had to label during a lab exercise) and I made photocopies of it. I'd do like 2 at a time, just straight repitition is what helped me get it. A year later I can still remember quite a few of the little tricky bones, fossas, condyles, etc just because I had such trouble learning them, I came up with weird associations to help me remember.
Thanks you guys, I haven't had it yet. I went out and bought AP Flashcards by Mosby and I am pretty darn pleased! This saves me a lot of time with scanning, etc. Believe me..I'm at Staples every other day making up my own worksheets :-p. So I am just going to memorize those, then on Monday and Tuesday, practice them on the actual Skeleton.
. Feel my pain!:imbar
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Thanks Jenn and us2k. Yes, we have a skeleton, but the lab hours are awful and my college is not open on weekends. However, I am thinking I will try to memorize most by card, and then when Monday comes around, I am out of class at 5:30, so perhaps I can stay 1 hour (if there is no other class in that room) and study on the actual skeleton. Then I can do this on Tuesday as well.