This post contains specifics and logistics for our first exam in General Histology (DDS 6214).

Start and end time

The exam is scheduled for Thursday, August 28, and you may take it any time between 12:01 am and 11:59 pm that day. Once you open the exam you have two hours to complete the exam. All submissions must be uploaded by 11:59 pm on Thursday in order to receive a grade.

Accommodations

If you have accommodations for exams, please send me a quick email reminder (if you haven’t already) just so I’m sure I have a complete and accurate list.

Password

The password for the exam is statefair2025.

Classroom availability

Our classroom will be open and available from 1:00 – 3:00 pm on Thursday, if you want to take the exam at that time in our classroom. I’d suggest that if there are several people in the the room, please try to space yourself out well so there’s no way anyone can suggest the possibility of you looking at someone else’s computer 🙂  You can, of course, take the exam anywhere you want – so take it wherever you’re most comfortable.

Content

I aim for roughly 5 questions per lecture hour on our exams (in this class and in our future classes). For this exam, the Intro to Histology lecture was quite short, so I only have two questions on that lecture. Here’s the full breakdown by lecture:

Intro to Histology: 2 questions
Embryology: 5 questions
Epithelial Tissue: 10 questions
Muscle Tissue: 10 questions
Nervous Tissue: 5 questions
Connective Tissue: 6 questions
Cartilage and Bone: 9 questions

All questions are multiple choice with one correct answer, and each question is worth one point.

Please take a look at the Sample Exam Questions post to get an idea of how I write questions. There will not be any tissue microscopic images on the exam, but as I mentioned in class, there will be an electron micrograph image of the sarcomere on the exam. Questions 16 and 17 in the Exam 1 Review Kahoot, and question 4 in the Sample Exam Questions post show this image and give you an idea of the kinds of questions I might ask on the exam.

Examplify Information

You will take this exam using Examplify installed on your PC/Macintosh laptop or desktop computer. If Examplify is currently installed, it may require an update and computer restart before the exam. If it is not installed, you should download and install the most up-to-date version of Examplify before the exam.

No scratch paper is allowed during the exam – but I have enabled the digital notepad feature within Examplify, so you can use that if that helps. Also, just a reminder that using electronic devices (phones, tablets, smart watches, headphones) is not allowed while taking the exam.

Also: this is not an open-book, open-note exam – and I trust that you will adhere to the honor code and not use any outside references.

Grading

After you take the exam, you will immediately receive your raw score. Final scores will be posted to your Canvas after I’ve reviewed the exam metrics.

Finally…

If you have any questions please feel free to email me any time.