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Originally Posted by salukigirl
haha I would NEVER write cuss words on a test. The part I made a note on was a diagram of a beetle. I wrote that 2 of the areas he asked us to identify had never come up in a key before and we had never talked about them in class or in the lab so that part was unfair. The rest of the test I answered fine.
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I don't think that would be too big of a problem then.
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
Its stuff like if you write middle femur and he wanted meso femur. Even though its the same exact thing and you encounter both terms in different keys you will get marked off for it. And you can't tell when a pointer is pointing to the coxa whether he wants forecoxa, coxal cavity etc... you can have several different names depending on what part of the body part you're talking about so I just don't think that's fair to put something like that on a lecture exam.
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If the pointer is too large so that it covers various areas, then that I think is not done properly because it shouldn't be the students' responsibility to determine what the professor wanted the arrow to point to. The part about middle femur vs. meso femur I can understand and don't think that's unfair because the scientific name is meso and not middle. I know it has the same meanings, as does saying a blood vessel is the ventral aorta vs. front aorta because the proper name is ventral, not front.
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
Especially because we have a lab for the class also where we have to identify 50 insects by memory so obviously if we can identify them by those characteristics we know what we're looking at. grrr....i'm still mad lol
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We had lab exams, not with 50 insects but with 5 animals, such as a cat, and we had to identify the parts a certain pin pointed to. So fortunately for us, the animals were very different (i.e. eel vs. cat) so we didn't have to identify the animal but we did have to identify the specific parts, the functions and what the parts may connect to (although that is easier because you can examine the animal and figure it out very fast).