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

Start and end time

The exam is scheduled for Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday 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 to be sure I have everyone’s time accommodations correctly listed.

Password

The password for the exam is Bubbles2025.

Classroom availability

Our classroom will be open and available from 1:00 – 2:55 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 a roughly proportional amount of questions based on the duration of each lecture (and, to some extent, the number of slides in each lecture). Here’s the full breakdown by lecture for this exam:

Skin: 9 questions
Blood: 6 questions
Hematopoietic system: 6 questions
Lymphatic system: 9 questions
Endocrine system: 10 questions
Cardiovascular system: 7 questions

All questions are multiple choice with one correct answer, and each question is worth one point. No photos or images.

Study resources

Please make sure to take a look at the following, which will help you focus on the material that is most important for you to know for this exam:

• Lecture objectives (at the beginning of each ppt)
• Lists I put together of stuff you DON’T need to know (and a few things you DO need to know) from each lecture. Skin and Blood lists are in this post, and this post contains lists for the remaining lectures.
• The Exam 2 review Kahoot.

Here are some things that are optional, but you may find useful:

• Kahoots on individual lectures covered on this exam
• A few mnemonics on Blood and Endo
• Some student questions on blood, the hematopoietic system, and the lymphoid system

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: 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.