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Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - sanantone - 04-19-2016
This is not a full review of SL's A&P courses because I did not start them. I asked for a refund once I learned a little more about the quizzes. You can see how many quizzes and tests are in each course before signing up, but you won't see how many questions there are or how much time you have to complete them. A&P I has 16 quizzes, a mid-term exam, and a final exam. Unlike Microbiology and Intro to Communication where you're given an hour to answer 20 or 25 questions, the A&P courses, which have 20 questions each, only give you 40 minutes for each quiz. That only gives you an average of 2 minutes to look up the answers. You would have to read the chapters beforehand, which is probably the point, but 16 quizzes plus two exams is excessive, imo. A&P II is the same, but it has 13 quizzes and two exams. I'd rather avoid the suffering and pay more for the Uexcel.
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - adavis84 - 04-19-2016
I've done both. They're tedious. The time limit for the exams is tighter than any of the more-than-a-few SL courses I've done. I did manage to pass both before I took the final, though. I should note that I took A&P at a CC when I was a senior in high school for high school credit (about 15 years ago) so it wasn't all new to me. I'm certain I learned more from that class than I did from the SL courses combined.
Aside from macroecon they were my least favorite courses from SL. They seemed to be designed more like a made-difficult-for-the-sake-of-difficulty scavenger hunt than a college course. That being said, they are bread-and-butter SL in that the questions are very ctrl-f friendly...
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - t3mama - 01-23-2017
adavis84 Wrote:I've done both. They're tedious. The time limit for the exams is tighter than any of the more-than-a-few SL courses I've done. I did manage to pass both before I took the final, though. I should note that I took A&P at a CC when I was a senior in high school for high school credit (about 15 years ago) so it wasn't all new to me. I'm certain I learned more from that class than I did from the SL courses combined.
Aside from macroecon they were my least favorite courses from SL. They seemed to be designed more like a made-difficult-for-the-sake-of-difficulty scavenger hunt than a college course. That being said, they are bread-and-butter SL in that the questions are very ctrl-f friendly...
Hey adavis! Do you remember what the finals were like for the A&P courses with SL? I haven't been able to find any information about them at all. Does the final cover the material from the quizzes or is it just totally random? Thanks in advance!
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - adavis84 - 01-24-2017
t3mama Wrote:Hey adavis! Do you remember what the finals were like for the A&P courses with SL? I haven't been able to find any information about them at all. Does the final cover the material from the quizzes or is it just totally random? Thanks in advance!
The final and midterm are cumulative and comprised of questions identical in style to the quizzes. I'm not 100% on this, but I suspect strongly that SL pulls their quizzes/exams directly from a test bank produced by the makers of the assigned textbook, and that the sampling is done, more-or-less, at random. That is: they don't design/curate a quiz to represent the core concepts you should have learned in the chapter/unit, but rather use a random sampling of questions from the test bank that are associated with that chapter. As has been the case with some of the other SL courses I've taken, some questions that had already been asked on a quiz did appear on the final/midterm, however most were new.
Hope that helps!
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - Silly_Me - 05-25-2017
Do you think these two courses are possible to complete in one month, back-to-back? I do intend to read the chapters & learn the material (as best that I can in a short amount of time). I'm just wondering if both courses in one month is feasible. Or, is it better to just take the full month & dedicate it to one course at a time?
Thanks for the input!
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - RANSOMSOUL - 05-26-2017
A&P I & II are the real deal. Reading your post brought back memories of how much I was not a fan of the weight felt doing them. I was over confident after finishing A&P I and thought II would be easier (practice makes perfect right?). It was just as painful but getting through them successfully was rewarding.
Semi-Review of Straighterline's Anatomy and Physiology I and II - Ideas - 05-26-2017
Silly_Me Wrote:Do you think these two courses are possible to complete in one month, back-to-back? I do intend to read the chapters & learn the material (as best that I can in a short amount of time). I'm just wondering if both courses in one month is feasible. Or, is it better to just take the full month & dedicate it to one course at a time?
Thanks for the input!
I'm sure you can race through them, but you might not learn and remember a lot. If you're trying to learn, it's still possible if you have a lot of hours and are good with learning from text.