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I'm a first year DPT student and I'm struggling. The thing is, I love the field. I do really well in our fundamentals course (patient transfers, positioning, wheelchair, etc) and I'm doing better in anatomy after switching up my study habits and I've become very comfortable with cadaver lab. However, I cannot seem to get anything above a C in kinesiology.
I'm not one to blame the instructor but we truly have a subpar instructor who makes her exams as difficult as she can. Her questions often have several right answers but you have to pick the most right answer. She says she does this because the licensure exam is like that. Well, that's all good but she also tests over material that we don't cover. Today's quiz, which I just took and I got a C on (might be why I'm posting), was over muscles. She never brought up muscles in lecture. Every lecture has been over arthrokinematics, ligaments, and pathologies but the entire quiz was over muscles. Everyone is upset but I seem to be the ONLY one who is afraid of being dismissed from the program.
I'm in C land now and I don't see a way out unless I ace the next exam and that seems unlikely.
I love the field, I don't know what else I would do honestly. But since I'm struggling so bad and I'm facing getting dismissed from the program my FIRST YEAR...is it possible I just don't have what it takes? Have you heard of people getting booted after their first semester?
Thanks you guys.
I'm not one to blame the instructor but we truly have a subpar instructor who makes her exams as difficult as she can. Her questions often have several right answers but you have to pick the most right answer. She says she does this because the licensure exam is like that. Well, that's all good but she also tests over material that we don't cover. Today's quiz, which I just took and I got a C on (might be why I'm posting), was over muscles. She never brought up muscles in lecture. Every lecture has been over arthrokinematics, ligaments, and pathologies but the entire quiz was over muscles. Everyone is upset but I seem to be the ONLY one who is afraid of being dismissed from the program.
I'm in C land now and I don't see a way out unless I ace the next exam and that seems unlikely.
I love the field, I don't know what else I would do honestly. But since I'm struggling so bad and I'm facing getting dismissed from the program my FIRST YEAR...is it possible I just don't have what it takes? Have you heard of people getting booted after their first semester?
Thanks you guys.