Final Exam — Instructions

Human Anatomy and Physiology I Free sample edition

The final exam's instructions page, as students read it before they start. The exam's questions and its answer key ship only inside the course's .imscc (Classic QTI); a scored exam's items are not published on this public page.

Overview

This is the scored final exam for the course. It is cumulative: its questions reach all eight course objectives, from the language of the body and homeostasis in Week 1 to the special senses in Week 15. It is given in Week 16, the finals week, which has no new material.

The exam has 40 questions, and every question counts the same. Most of them, 31 in all, are multiple choice with one best answer. Four ask you to select every choice that fits, and five are true/false statements to judge. Fifteen questions are on the easier side, 18 are of medium difficulty, and 7 are harder. Every question rehearses a skill you already practiced in the weekly quizzes, the lecture tutorials, the A&P Lab & Inquiry, and the paired practice final.

Coverage and scope

The questions were drawn from the course's question bank, and every one of the eight objectives appears at least once. The draw does not spread across all fifteen teaching weeks, though. Here is what this form actually contains, first by the week each question's material comes from and then by objective. Each question assesses exactly one objective.

The final's 40 questions by the week whose material each question comes from, with the objectives those questions assess
Week	Topic	Questions	Objectives assessed
9	The skeleton and joints	6	Objective 4 (6)
10	Muscle tissue and the physiology of contraction	6	Objective 5 (6)
11	The muscular system	6	Objective 5 (5), Objective 4 (1)
12	Nervous tissue, the neuron, and the action potential	7	Objective 6 (6), Objective 2 (1)
13	The central nervous system	4	Objective 7 (3), Objective 3 (1)
14	The peripheral and autonomic nervous system	5	Objective 7 (3), Objective 1 (2)
15	The special senses	6	Objective 8 (5), Objective 3 (1)

The final's eight objectives, the weeks that teach each one, and the number of the exam's 40 questions on each
Objective	What the questions ask you to do	Weeks that teach it	Questions on this exam
Objective 1	Use the language of the body and trace a homeostatic feedback loop	1	2
Objective 2	Relate the body's chemistry to its function and explain the cell, its transport, its energy, and protein synthesis	2, 3, 4	1
Objective 3	Identify the tissue types and describe the integumentary system	5, 6	2
Objective 4	Describe bone as a living tissue, sort the skeleton, and classify joints	7, 9	7
Objective 5	Explain muscle structure, the order of contraction, and the muscular system	10, 11	11
Objective 6	Describe neurons and neuroglia and explain the nerve impulse	12	6
Objective 7	Describe the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system	13, 14	6
Objective 8	Trace each special sense from its stimulus to its receptor	15	5

Read the two tables together. All 40 questions come from the material of Weeks 9–15. No question is drawn from the Weeks 1–8 material directly. Muscle (Objective 5) carries 11 questions, the most of any objective, and the nervous system carries 12 between the neuron (Objective 6, 6 questions) and its organization (Objective 7, 6 questions). Week 12 alone carries 7 questions, more than any other week, so put most of your review on Weeks 10–12 and keep Weeks 9, 13, 14, and 15 close behind.

The early objectives still count. Twelve questions assess Objective 1 through Objective 4. Six of them sit in Week 9, where the skeleton and joints are taught, and the other six sit inside the material of Weeks 11 to 15, where the later systems lean on first-half skills: the language of the body and the feedback loop, the cell and its membrane, the tissue types and the skin, and the joints and their movements. The first table shows which weeks carry them. The two habits from the first half, structure determines function and say the order and name the place, run through almost every question on the exam.

These notes map the skills the exam assesses. The questions themselves are drawn from the bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

Attempts: one. The final is a single scored attempt.
Time limit: none. There is no time limit, so take the time you need while the exam is open.
Window: the exam opens in Week 16. Your instructor sets the open and close times in Canvas, and the exam locks when it closes.
Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and you cannot go back to an earlier question once you move on. Settle each question before you continue.
Order: the choices within each question are shuffled for each student.
Materials: a few questions ask for a short calculation of the kinds the weekly labs and assignments practiced, worked step by step with units, so scratch paper or a basic calculator can help. Your instructor will tell you which other materials, if any, are allowed. AI tools are not permitted.
After you submit: your result is recorded. The keyed choices are not shown, because the questions come from a bank shared with other course assessments.

Academic integrity

This is an individual, scored assessment, and the work must be your own. That means no help from another person, no shared or posted questions, and no AI tools of any kind. The final confirms that you personally can name a structure and its function, order a process, and work a quantitative question with its unit.

The honest way to prepare is the rest of the final's bundle: the study guide, the exam-prep tutorial, and the practice final. They rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing in them appears on this exam.

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