I always think I fail every test

[TexasTriathlete]

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After every single exam I take, I walk out thinking I failed.

At least the written portion. The lab practical is just looking at stuff and identifying it. Then there is a secondary question that is something like "list the parent artery that it branches from" or "list a significant clinical issue associated with it" or "list its embryological origin", etc.

But its stuff that you can always be pretty sure about. Especially the identification.

On the written exams, that are the standard multiple choice stuff, I feel like I failed every single one with flying colors. Then I get the exam back and I always did fine. I'm maintaining a solid B average.

I've always been a pretty good judge of how well I did on an exam, but not now. I got a 90 on an exam that I was sure I got a 30 on.

 

[SpookyDoc]

After every single exam I take, I walk out thinking I failed.

At least the written portion. The lab practical is just looking at stuff and identifying it. Then there is a secondary question that is something like "list the parent artery that it branches from" or "list a significant clinical issue associated with it" or "list its embryological origin", etc.

But its stuff that you can always be pretty sure about. Especially the identification.

On the written exams, that are the standard multiple choice stuff, I feel like I failed every single one with flying colors. Then I get the exam back and I always did fine. I'm maintaining a solid B average.

I've always been a pretty good judge of how well I did on an exam, but not now. I got a 90 on an exam that I was sure I got a 30 on.

Cool.

 

[FrickenhugeMD]

After every single exam I take, I walk out thinking I failed.

At least the written portion. The lab practical is just looking at stuff and identifying it. Then there is a secondary question that is something like "list the parent artery that it branches from" or "list a significant clinical issue associated with it" or "list its embryological origin", etc.

But its stuff that you can always be pretty sure about. Especially the identification.

On the written exams, that are the standard multiple choice stuff, I feel like I failed every single one with flying colors. Then I get the exam back and I always did fine. I'm maintaining a solid B average.

I've always been a pretty good judge of how well I did on an exam, but not now. I got a 90 on an exam that I was sure I got a 30 on.

If all you have to do is identify things on a lab practical, you are getting off way too easy...

 

[TexasTriathlete]

If all you have to do is identify things on a lab practical, you are getting off way too easy...

Part 1: Identify the tagged structure
Part 2: Something about it, or relative to it. Some of these are hard.

Did you read what I wrote?

 

[FrickenhugeMD]

Part 1: Identify the tagged structure
Part 2: Something about it, or relative to it. Some of these are hard.

Did you read what I wrote?

apparently not, sorry test day tomorrow. I'm a little burned out

 

[GZA]

If all you have to do is identify things on a lab practical, you are getting off way too easy...

I do not think this statement to be necessarily true; not at all.

 

[Eudjinn]

i just realized this post is in allo

 

[Nikki2002]

Are your written exams really long? I know by the time I get through 150 multiple choice questions, my head is spinning and i have no idea wtf is going on. It's hard to judge how well you did because there is so much perceived room for error.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

Our first written exam was 100 questions. The last two have been 50. But our course is integrated, so we take it all in the same day. Half of us will do the written part first, and half of us will do the practical, and then we switch.

Frickenhuge: no worries. I feel your pain. Just took an exam yesterday myself. Good luck.

 

[MilkmanAl]

If all you have to do is identify things on a lab practical, you are getting off way too easy...

What else is there to do during a lab practical? 😕 Were you planning to write a poem about the vertebral column? An interpretive dance about the GU tract, perhaps?

 

[LadyWolverine]

What else is there to do during a lab practical? 😕 Were you planning to write a poem about the vertebral column? An interpretive dance about the GU tract, perhaps?

lol MmA. I think what Frickenhuge meant is that, in addition to identifying tagged structures, they have to eat them once they are done. Like on Fear Factor. Medical students should be expected to know what their anatomy specimens look AND taste like.

 

[MilkmanAl]

Ah, that makes more sense.

 

[FrickenhugeMD]

Ah, that makes more sense.

yeah, it sucks too. Formalin gives me diarrhea like something fierce.....

 

[bcat85]

If all you have to do is identify things on a lab practical, you are getting off way too easy...

Word. Mine all looked something like this

1. Identify
2. Name the artery that supplies it
3. Name that artery's parent artery.
4. Name that artery's parent's parent artery.
5. Draw an anatomically correct horse.
6. Write the 3rd chapter of the Gospel of John.
7. Suppose John has a spike in his big toe. What nerve provides cutaneous innervation to that toe?
8. What spinal segment does it come from?
9. Discuss the metaphysical implications of the Omphalo's Hypothesis.
10. Who was King Tut's first wife?
11. What artery ran through the broad ligament of her uterus?

And finally:

12. Who won the 1982 World Series?

You have 90 seconds.

 

[coldweatherblue]

^ lol.

yea I just spent thirty minutes filling out mandatory peer evaluations for gross lab; I convinced myself that it was related to school and therefore studying, so now I can slack for a while. We have a gross practical exam in the morning and I'm *this* close to saying "screw it, I know this" and watching sopranos on surfthechannel.com. or I could study four more hours and maybe get one more point on the exam, or possibly lose points due to lack of sleep. decisions...

 

[TMP-SMX]

yeah, it sucks too. Formalin gives me diarrhea like something fierce.....

Unit 3 Anatomy is the best. (Only practical I honored) Enjoy it. Your Unit 4 will suck. Good luck!

 

[Cardinals]

Word. Mine all looked something like this

1. Identify
2. Name the artery that supplies it
3. Name that artery's parent artery.
4. Name that artery's parent's parent artery.
5. Draw an anatomically correct horse.
6. Write the 3rd chapter of the Gospel of John.
7. Suppose John has a spike in his big toe. What nerve provides cutaneous innervation to that toe?
8. What spinal segment does it come from?
9. Discuss the metaphysical implications of the Omphalo's Hypothesis.
10. Who was King Tut's first wife?
11. What artery ran through the broad ligament of her uterus?

And finally:

12. Who won the 1982 World Series?

You have 90 seconds.

12. Cardinals

 

[majik1213]

what's your point?

 

[majik1213]

word. Mine all looked something like this

1. Identify
2. Name the artery that supplies it
3. Name that artery's parent artery.
4. Name that artery's parent's parent artery.
5. Draw an anatomically correct horse.
6. Write the 3rd chapter of the gospel of john.
7. Suppose john has a spike in his big toe. What nerve provides cutaneous innervation to that toe?
8. What spinal segment does it come from?
9. Discuss the metaphysical implications of the omphalo's hypothesis.
10. Who was king tut's first wife?
11. What artery ran through the broad ligament of her uterus?

And finally:

12. Who won the 1982 world series?

You have 90 seconds.

8. S5!!

 

[youthinasia]

Process of elimination works wonders and I mean applying that technique to every question, not solely to the ones you don't know. If you know why the wrong answers are wrong then there is nothing to it when it comes arriving at the right answer 😀