Westcott Human Anatomy & Human Physiology Project

Mim12345 · Jun 8

Hello, how is the class I'm interested in enrolling is there prerecorded videos? Do you recommend it?

**txnurstud, CNA** · Jun 8

Mim12345 said:

@txnurstud

Hello, how is the class I'm interested in enrolling is there prerecorded videos? Do you recommend it?

Hello, I would ONLY recommend the Human Anatomy and Human Physiology class if you have already successfully taken these courses before and they have expired for the school of interest. There are several YT videos to support the reading that is assigned to you from the OpenStax "free" textbook but you teach yourself. "BTW there is not answer key for the chapter review questions in OpenStax A&P so you have to research each question that is required for you to study for each final exam". Also, there is a required video presentation for each science course that you must complete (research a topic, make a PowerPoint slide, must present on video for 4 minutes and no second longer than 4 minutes).

The chapter homework and quizzes come from the OpenStax and the YouTube (YT) videos. There are lab quizzes and practicals that are of a cadaver that I think are really cool. There are several Quizlet that help you study for those practicals and quizzes. The Midterm comes from the textbook review questions and chapter homework/quizzes. The Human Anatomy final questions came from review questions, homework/quizzes and majority of it came from off the wall questions (I cannot tell you how to prepare).

To give you a little history about me, I have taken Allied A&P, Biology: A&P I, and Human Physiology made As in those classes; but in this course, I made a C. On the Human Anatomy final it is required that you make a 50% to show that you are know the material well I made just above that ... the average is 65% which is horrible. My biggest problem, I did not realize I could not complete two chapter homework or quizzes in one day. The syllabus stated that you could not do two discussion questions in one day but it was not until I was ready to take the final exam and grades were deleted that "I noticed" the bold print next to the percentages that stated you cannot complete two chapters in one day (at the bottom of the GRADES tab). Nearly 40% of my overall grade was impacted by my lack of my understanding of the policy and I read the syllabus and policies the day I started Human Anatomy and did not see that policy. I am not sure how I overlooked that rule.

I am about to take Human Physiology final and near the end of Microbiology. I am about halfway complete with Chemistry.

Would I recommend? Only if your nursing program have already accepted you and they are just waiting on you to complete these courses...absolutely I would recommend Westcott. Since that is my case and my school will accept my grade C. In fact, a nursing program was the reason I even heard of Westcott, I had never heard of them until my nursing program.

On the other hand, if the science course grades are critical for your acceptance into nursing school... then NO, I do not recommend Westcott!

Go to portage learning, they are more expensive but it will be much better in the long run. Also, eduKan, a community college nursing school program director told me about that school offering online science courses.

Sorry for the long message but I hope my response help you and anyone else who considers Westcott for pre-nursing. Anatomy / Physiology is already a tough subject. I have already experience some amazing professors who have made Anatomy & Physiology interesting and consumable for students to ingest I think it is distasteful when there are instructors that make it hard on purpose. The subject is already rough and tough there is no need to make exam extremely hard on purpose.

ivy poku · Jul 7

How did you study for the final to get 65. Can you share tips on what you studied ?

**txnurstud, CNA** · Jul 24

ivy poku said:

How did you study for the final to get 65. Can you share tips on what you studied ?

The minimum grade for all science courses (with lab) "on the Final Exam" is a score of 50% in order for a student to receive grade C or better (and to receive the 4 credit hours needed to transfer to their respective school).

What I was saying that one of the Proctor's told me that the overall average grade for the Human Physiology final exam is 65% which is horrible.

Study Tips:

Reading the Textbook (review key terms*, answer the questions in textbook in the back of the Chapters before doing each Chapter Quizzes in Canvas (print the results of each Chapter Quiz before you leave the page--you will never be able to see those results again) -- if you are not a reader -- there is a Read Aloud YouTube Playlist just for OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology -- the textbook used for Human Anatomy and Human Physiology

Human Physiology / Human Anatomy / Microbiology (Labs):

Know your Labs - Questions with photos --- they will be on the test (roughly 10 questions on each final per course) -- create quizlet, print them out, whatever you need to do but make sure you have the exact questions/answers aligned with the photos from the Labs

Supplemental Resources:

Science with Susana (Microbiology, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology)

Level Up RN (Human Physiology, Microbiology)

Tyler DeWitt (Chemistry)

Quizlet (all science courses) -- use this to prep for MidTerm and Final (there are some for individual chapters but I would save it for the two major exams)

Hope this helps! My apologizes for the delayed response...I have been trying to finish these course before nursing school starts.