Procrastinated like a ****, have one week to cover 40 lectures.

[DoctorLacrosse]

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Yeah, I know. I just need to get my ass in gear.

I hear you, the daily routine really does suck lol

 

[On Eagle's Wings]

My school requires above somewhere between 65-68% to pass, depending on the class. We are not ranked; we have honors, high pass, pass, marginal pass, and fail. We tend to have a lot of people still do very well, mostly because the non-competitive nature of our education here (there is no curve) means everyone helps everyone try to do the best they can. I cannot imagine being at a school with rankings or a 76% being the threshold for passing.

I love my school 😀

 

[itsogre]

I have taken my 1st exam and on seeing my preliminary scores, I'm either going to barely fail or barely pass (within like 1% - neither of which are optimal lol).

So I need some wisdom dropped on me - I only had the chance to cover most material once before the exam because I was studying what I see now are trivial details. I'm planning to pre-study the power points now, and pass the material 2x during any week (more before the exam). Any good memorization/anatomy tips? I am so angry and upset I spent most of my time studying so badly/inefficiently before this exam ;-;

 

[TheRobin]

I have taken my 1st exam and on seeing my preliminary scores, I'm either going to barely fail or barely pass (within like 1% - neither of which are optimal lol).

So I need some wisdom dropped on me - I only had the chance to cover most material once before the exam because I was studying what I see now are trivial details. I'm planning to pre-study the power points now, and pass the material 2x during any week (more before the exam). Any good memorization/anatomy tips? I am so angry and upset I spent most of my time studying so badly/inefficiently before this exam ;-;

Pull out all the stops. Talk with your professors and/or upperclassmen about how to study for your school's course. In general, if you're struggling, I would recommend going to class, following along by annotating the PPTs as the professor lectures, going to lab knowing what structures you need to find, quizzing yourself and your lab partners as you dissect, spending some time on the weekends in lab reviewing/quizzing, and going home and sitting down with the PPTs and a copy of Netter's atlas/flashcards to review. Make handwritten flashcards or rough drawings of things that you have trouble remembering. If you need a source of questions, the UMich anatomy website or BRS Anatomy can come in handy.

 

[Ace Khalifa]

I have taken my 1st exam and on seeing my preliminary scores, I'm either going to barely fail or barely pass (within like 1% - neither of which are optimal lol).

So I need some wisdom dropped on me - I only had the chance to cover most material once before the exam because I was studying what I see now are trivial details. I'm planning to pre-study the power points now, and pass the material 2x during any week (more before the exam). Any good memorization/anatomy tips? I am so angry and upset I spent most of my time studying so badly/inefficiently before this exam ;-;

Hey bud, don't beat yourself up over it! We all struggled at the beginning, trying to find a study method and routine that worked for us. I personally would recommend you do a lot of active studying - flashcards like Anki, drawing out pathways and vasculature, doing practice questions, quizzing each other during group study sessions. Even the simple act of writing things down can help you learn something more than passively reading slides and sh**. I just took my 2nd anatomy exam (3rd exam overall), and I felt a little better even tho it was harder than the first one. My classmates and I all readjusted our study methods after the first exam - I think you just need to reflect and reassess to see what's been working for you and what you can improve. Good luck!

 

[cs24]

My school requires above somewhere between 65-68% to pass, depending on the class. We are not ranked; we have honors, high pass, pass, marginal pass, and fail. We tend to have a lot of people still do very well, mostly because the non-competitive nature of our education here (there is no curve) means everyone helps everyone try to do the best they can.

wut. you must be drinking the kool aid

If you have honors/HP/P/etc then you are stratified in some way = ranking. Curve is irrelevant.

Also, in my limited experience from my own class and what I've read on SDN, most classes have "everyone helping everyone do the best they can" regardless of their true P/F vs graded status. (With your school apparently being another example)

 

[amichel]

wut. you must be drinking the kool aid

If you have honors/HP/P/etc then you are stratified in some way = ranking. Curve is irrelevant.

Also, in my limited experience from my own class and what I've read on SDN, most classes have "everyone helping everyone do the best they can" regardless of their true P/F vs graded status. (With your school apparently being another example)

Not if everybody can theoretically honor.

 

[On Eagle's Wings]

Not if everybody can theoretically honor.

Exactly.

 

[itsogre]

Pull out all the stops. Talk with your professors and/or upperclassmen about how to study for your school's course. In general, if you're struggling, I would recommend going to class, following along by annotating the PPTs as the professor lectures, going to lab knowing what structures you need to find, quizzing yourself and your lab partners as you dissect, spending some time on the weekends in lab reviewing/quizzing, and going home and sitting down with the PPTs and a copy of Netter's atlas/flashcards to review. Make handwritten flashcards or rough drawings of things that you have trouble remembering. If you need a source of questions, the UMich anatomy website or BRS Anatomy can come in handy.

Thank you! I will draw it until I know it. I am planning to re-draw/annotate any structures I see on my powerpoints and in Netter for what we are studying. It's about repetition, repetition, repetition right now.

Hey bud, don't beat yourself up over it! We all struggled at the beginning, trying to find a study method and routine that worked for us. I personally would recommend you do a lot of active studying - flashcards like Anki, drawing out pathways and vasculature, doing practice questions, quizzing each other during group study sessions. Even the simple act of writing things down can help you learn something more than passively reading slides and sh**. I just took my 2nd anatomy exam (3rd exam overall), and I felt a little better even tho it was harder than the first one. My classmates and I all readjusted our study methods after the first exam - I think you just need to reflect and reassess to see what's been working for you and what you can improve. Good luck!

if anything this exam has taught me that drawing structures and pathways and such is much more 'high yield' than passively understanding the slides, and that I can't just read anatomy and expect to be fine.

I just hope I will not be in the bottom 1% of my class lol... but even if I am, someone in every class has to be last-ranked, and I do not much mind being that person this time.

 

[TBV]

I have taken my 1st exam and on seeing my preliminary scores, I'm either going to barely fail or barely pass (within like 1% - neither of which are optimal lol).

So I need some wisdom dropped on me - I only had the chance to cover most material once before the exam because I was studying what I see now are trivial details. I'm planning to pre-study the power points now, and pass the material 2x during any week (more before the exam). Any good memorization/anatomy tips? I am so angry and upset I spent most of my time studying so badly/inefficiently before this exam ;-;

Get the netter flash cards. Puche can rock you with details but I found time to go through the material 5-6 times just got to put in the work on the weekends. And check out the study rooms in the library and the law library is a good change of pace.

 

[Im76at711]

We are not ranked; we have honors, high pass, pass, marginal pass, and fail.

this is literally an A B C D F system with fancier words... lol

 

[Glandzburg]

this is literally an A B C D F system with fancier words... lol

Insightful bump!

 

[Goro]

100% correct!

These things always start out as P/F, and then someone wants to recognize that there are truly exceptional students and reward them, so then it mutates to HP/P/F. After that, then you just start cutting the pie up even more, until you're back to standard A-F grading.

this is literally an A B C D F system with fancier words... lol

 

[Dredge]

this is literally an A B C D F system with fancier words... lol

No. A-F or H/HP/P/F is not ranking. Ranking is sharing the quartile/percentile/any other measure of how you did compared to your peers on your records. Do they allocate a certain percentage of students to every grade? Maybe, and if they do and they make it clear to evaluators then then they the students are being ranked. However, as someone before mentioned, if they don't have quotas then it is most definitely not ranking.