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Survival Guide for
Success
in
Anatomy and Physiology
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Here
are just a few tips to get you started:
(for a
detailed list click here) 1. Know your learning style
-how you learn best. Do you learn best by hearing it, seeing it,
feeling it, reading about it? Then tailor your learning
activities to suit your style --it'll be faster and more fun
2. Read the textbook
--the textbook has the "meat" of the matter and some useful
diagrams and tables, too!
3. Draw a picture of each concept
--if you can map it out visually, you've gained significant understanding of
the concept.
4. Approach your course as if it were a foreign language
course: study the new "foreign" words first, then use your
new vocabulary to build an understanding of concepts
5.
Keep a running concept list for each new concept
that you learn. Many concepts show up time and again in a course . .
. often with new connections to other concepts. If you keep a list
handy for each separate concept and add to it throughout the course,
you'll learn it a lot more easily!
6. Form a study group! Nothing works better than
pooling your efforts and interacting with other students in your
class. Make sure you meet weekly, not only just before a test.
7. Use your learning outline as
a skeleton for your own notes and study sessions. Use your outline as
the "skeleton" on which you hang all the "organs" of the
course.
8. Practice for tests!
Get to know what kind of items will be on a test and make up your own items
to practice with. Develop a test-taking strategy that will improve
your test scores.
9. Learn from your mistakes!
Go over each test and study the items that were marked wrong to find out how you
can better improve your skills for the next test.
10. Take time to have fun. If you study, study,
study you'll get burned out on your courses and won't have the balanced
attitude necessary for success.
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This original Lion Den
Survival Guide for Success
was featured in
American Nursing Student
Sep/Oct 2004 (Vol 6 No 1)
"It is our
duty
as men and women
to proceed as though
the limits of
our abilities
do not exist."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you don't WANT to learn A&P, then
get out now!
Nothing is
easy
to the unwilling.
Gaelic Proverb
If
English is not your first language . . .
check out this link:
A & P and
English as a
Second Language
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