[aft_lizard]

The hardest exam questions I have ever had were in Animal Physiology. History exams seem like grade school exams in comparison.

They would be something like(and this one is easy):

Shows EKG chart

List five diagnosis steps, why it occurs and why this patients EKG shows a sinus arrhythmia and if it can be potentially fatal.

The Professor was brutal in his grading, but thankfully he curved because his tests average was 45% but as he states if he didn’t ask them hard he wasn’t teaching us anything at all and if students expect to continue on past a bachelors classes like this were infinitely more useful then a canned multiple choice test or essay that simply depends on recall.

[CholeraJoe]

Animal Physiology was undoubtedly the hardest course I had in college. There were people taking it for the second and third time because it was a prerequisite to Pharmacology for the Pharmacy students. Most of the questions required that you reproduce a diagram in color from the class lectures.

I got one of only 3 A’s he gave that entire year. Freshman Med School physiology was easy by comparison. The other two A’s were also in my class at Med School and we all smiled at the other guys struggling and silently thanked Dr. Ottis.

[Cardhu]

if students expect to continue on past a bachelors classes like this were infinitely more useful then a canned multiple choice test or essay that simply depends on recall.

He was right, I remember sitting for a math exam - there were three questions and I had to answer two. I thought at the time that those two math questions represented a test of all the math knowledge I was supposed to have accumulated over the last 15 years.