Midterm Exam — Instructions

Overview

This is the scored midterm for Human Anatomy and Physiology I. It checks the first half of the course, Weeks 1 to 7, and the questions those weeks asked. How do we describe any spot on the body without ambiguity, and how does the body hold itself steady? What is the body made of chemically, and how does it keep its pH steady? Which way does water go across a cell's border, and where does a cell get its energy and build its proteins? Can you read an organ as a mix of four tissue types, and how is a bone built?

The midterm has 25 questions, and every question counts the same. Most of them (21) ask you to select exactly one option. Three ask you to judge a true/false statement, and one asks you to select every applicable option. Any figure, slide, or chart a question needs is described in words inside the question itself.

Every question practices a skill you have already used in the weekly quizzes, lecture tutorials, and A&P Lab & Inquiry activities. Nothing on the midterm comes from outside Weeks 1 to 7.

Coverage and scope

The midterm covers Weeks 1 to 7 and the course's first four objectives. Here is what the drawn form holds, objective by objective, with the weeks its questions come from:

• The language of the body, its organization, and homeostasis (Objective 1, 8 questions): 3 from Week 1, 2 from Week 2, 1 from Week 4, and 2 from Week 6. Be ready to use the anatomical position and the directional terms, climb the levels of organization in order, and trace a feedback loop through its receptor, control center, and effector. The later weeks bring that loop back: the blood's defended pH range and its buffers in Week 2, how a working muscle copes with an oxygen shortage in Week 4, and the skin as the loop's effector against heat and cold in Week 6.
• The chemistry of the body and the cell (Objective 2, 11 questions): 5 from Week 2, 2 from Week 3, 3 from Week 4, and 1 from Week 5. Be ready to count pH steps, tell the bond types apart, match water's properties to their jobs, and say what shape means to a protein. From Weeks 3 and 4, review the membrane and how things cross it, the three stages that make ATP and what they use and leave behind, and how the genetic code turns into a protein. From Week 5, review how connective tissue is built.
• The tissues and the integumentary system (Objective 3, 5 questions): 3 from Week 5 and 2 from Week 6. Be ready to sort tissues into their four families, name an epithelium by its layers and its cell shape, and tell exocrine from endocrine glands. From Week 6, review the skin's layers in order, which of them carry blood vessels, and what that means for an injury.
• Bone tissue (Objective 4, 1 question): from Week 7. Review the bone cells, the parts of a long bone, how bone grows and remodels, and the loop that holds blood calcium steady.

By week, the 25 questions come out like this:

Week 2 carries the most questions, 7 of the 25, so give the chemistry of life the most review time: atoms and elements, the bonds, water, pH and the blood's range, and the organic molecules. Weeks 4, 5, and 6 come next with 4 each, then Week 1 with 3, Week 3 with 2, and Week 7 with 1. By objective, the chemistry of the body and the cell carries 11 questions and homeostasis and the language of the body carries 8, so those two objectives hold 19 of the 25. Week 1's feedback loop returns in Week 2's blood chemistry and in Week 6's thermoregulation, so the loop is worth more than its own three questions.

By difficulty, 8 questions are easy, 13 are medium, and 4 are hard, so most sit at a medium level.

Week 8's three-step read is not scored on its own. It still pays off, because many of the Week 5, 6, and 7 questions ask you to pair a structure with its function, the first two steps of that read.

These notes map the skills the midterm checks. The questions themselves are drawn from the course's question bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

• Attempts: one. The midterm is a single scored attempt.
• Time limit: there is no time limit. Take the time you need, as long as you submit before the exam closes.
• Window: the midterm opens in the Week 8 module and closes at the due time your instructor sets. Start early enough to finish comfortably inside that window.
• Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and once you move on you cannot go back to an earlier question. Settle each one before you move to the next.
• Materials: any value a question uses is printed in the question. A few questions ask for a short step, such as counting the steps between two pH values or a one-line subtraction or addition, and scratch paper is enough for it. Unless your instructor announces otherwise, the midterm is closed-note.
• After you submit: Canvas shows your result. The keyed answers stay hidden so the midterm stays fair for every student.

Academic integrity

The midterm is an individual, scored assessment, and it is closed to AI. Do not use a chatbot or any other AI tool, do not get help from another person, and do not share or post the questions during or after your attempt. These rules come from the course syllabus. The midterm confirms that you personally can name a structure and its function, put a process in order, and work a quantitative question.

The honest way to prepare is open to you. The study guide, the practice exam, and the exam-prep tutorial rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing on them appears on the midterm word for word.

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