I am currently enrolled in a 6 week summer EMT class but I am really having a tough time with the instructor and the class. I stayed up till two in the morning (8 hours studying) reading the Anatomy and Physiology chapter last night. We were told we would have a quiz on the chapter the following day.
I was really trying to understand the whole chapter and try to grasp it. I finally felt I had a good handle with it understanding the way cells work, how glucose is used inside our bodies, the creation of acid in our bodies due to anaerobic metabolism and many other items in the chapter.
Come quiz time I absolutely screwed the pooch. I received a 50% on the 20 question quiz.
The test was on some of the easiest parts of the chapter. He did not ask a single difficult question.
Some of his questions were what does Hypo mean (Low/ Below normal) or what does osteo mean (Bone)
I know these answers but I still managed to get them wrong. This instructor is not teaching us anything he is just telling us his stories of calls he has been on throughout his career. I don't doubt his knowledge of EMS nor do I think he does a bad job in the field.
This is my question. Out of this class should I not worry about the small stuff and focus on the large points of chapters? He is not telling us what we will be tested on he just says which chapters.
Help me out guys this is something that I really want to do as a career and I have been really looking forward to this class but right now all my energy for it kinda went out the window after failing miserably. I have never done this bad on something I have worked so hard on
I appreciate your help
MLoper
I was really trying to understand the whole chapter and try to grasp it. I finally felt I had a good handle with it understanding the way cells work, how glucose is used inside our bodies, the creation of acid in our bodies due to anaerobic metabolism and many other items in the chapter.
Come quiz time I absolutely screwed the pooch. I received a 50% on the 20 question quiz.
The test was on some of the easiest parts of the chapter. He did not ask a single difficult question.
Some of his questions were what does Hypo mean (Low/ Below normal) or what does osteo mean (Bone)
I know these answers but I still managed to get them wrong. This instructor is not teaching us anything he is just telling us his stories of calls he has been on throughout his career. I don't doubt his knowledge of EMS nor do I think he does a bad job in the field.
This is my question. Out of this class should I not worry about the small stuff and focus on the large points of chapters? He is not telling us what we will be tested on he just says which chapters.
Help me out guys this is something that I really want to do as a career and I have been really looking forward to this class but right now all my energy for it kinda went out the window after failing miserably. I have never done this bad on something I have worked so hard on
I appreciate your help
MLoper