Study Plan for the Practical #1

The Practical #1 is only one week away! If you haven't started studying for it yet, it's the highest time that you do.

There will be 75 questions on the practical, each worth one point. These 75 questions will be divided between 25 "stations." Each station will have a model (e.g. a skull, a cell model, a bone, e.t.c.) and there will be three questions associated with the featured model. The majority of questions will be "Identify A," "Identify B," "Identify C,"–where "A," "B," and "C" will be marked on the model. But occasionally there might be other questions too, for example: (1) We might ask a type of cell/fiber that can be found in different tissues or we can ask where in the body the tissue can be found; (2) We can ask about a function of some of the cellular organelles; (3) We can ask with which other bone the bone in question articulates (connects), or if it's left or right bone. Still, the majority of questions will simply ask you to identify what you can see, so you should first study these kinds of questions.

Typically, on the practical there are more questions from the last lab, as this is the one from which you were not quizzed yet on the entrance quiz. So on the upcoming practical you should expect a lot of questions about appendicular skeleton. There will be a lot of questions about the skull, too. Study at home as much as you can, and please come on Saturday and Sunday to the Open Lab Review to look at the models. It's impossible to learn all those difficult concepts just from the book, without carefully examining the models. I'll be in the lab on Sunday afternoon (4 P.M. to 6 P.M.), so please come and ask me as many questions as you want! (Likely, on Sunday the lab will be open 4 P.M. to 8 P.M., and it will also be open on Saturday afternoon, probably after 5 P.M. I will update the times once I know them. They will be on the blackboard too.) 

Good luck!  


Study Plan for the Practical #1

TODAY (during and after the class):               Appendicular skeleton (lab 4)
WEDNESDAY:                                                          Appendicular skeleton (lab 4)
THURSDAY:                                                              Axial skeleton (lab 3)
FRIDAY:                                                                    Anatomical terms, Cells, Tissues + Skin (lab 1+2)
SATURDAY:                                                             Open Lab – Review Appendicular skeleton (lab 4)
SUNDAY:                                                                 Open Lab - Review Axial skeleton (lab 3)
MONDAY:                                                               No Open Lab. Review Labs 1+2+3+4

1) Study at least 3-4 hours a day.
2) While you study, make a list of questions. Ask those questions to other students and the lab instructor during the Open Lab Review.
3) I'll be in the lab on Sunday afternoon 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. You can get back your entrance and exit quizzes then.