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Cedavis6 wrote:I am doing this event as a substitute for Invitationals. Because I am only serving as a substitute, I do not have the rules. I want to be as prepared as I can for this event, so I have some questions.
1. Is there a copy of the rules somewhere?
2. What exactly is physiology?

Remember, I'm only doing this as a substitute.

1. That's a direct violation of soinc copyrights, so nope.
2. Anatomy is how the body is built. Physiology is how the body actually functions.

foreverphysics wrote:

Cedavis6 wrote:I am doing this event as a substitute for Invitationals. Because I am only serving as a substitute, I do not have the rules. I want to be as prepared as I can for this event, so I have some questions.
1. Is there a copy of the rules somewhere?
2. What exactly is physiology?

Remember, I'm only doing this as a substitute.

1. That's a direct violation of soinc copyrights, so nope.
2. Anatomy is how the body is built. Physiology is how the body actually functions.

Okay, thank you. What kind of notes are brought to this event? Binder or notesheet?

No excuse, Seedy. Get a copy of the rules from your coach or teammate. In the days of copy machines and e-mail, this isn't hard. And A&P is a cheat sheet event. The craftier you are making it, the better.

As a supervisor, though, I can tell you that the notesheet is not everything. I can always tell the bottom of the pack by their lousy notesheets, but at the top end that doesn't work. All of the leaders have good notesheets, but the kids with the very best sometimes end up towards the middle of the pack, because they have to look up every question and they run out of time.

Certainly. Using <8pt font and cramming pages worth of text into one page with small diagrams does nobody good. I've seen cheat sheets like those. If the event was intended to have that much information brought in, they rules would allow a binder.

Skink wrote:Certainly. Using <8pt font and cramming pages worth of text into one page with small diagrams does nobody good. I've seen cheat sheets like those. If the event was intended to have that much information brought in, they rules would allow a binder.

Meh. I did fairly well with my 3-pt font, 10,000-word cheat sheet with small diagrams. It was the act of making it that taught me the information, and I knew exactly where everything was on the cheat sheet in case I needed to look anything up (which wasn't often). I studied my cheat sheet beforehand and knew it backwards and forwards.

The rules are somewhat vague. For the nervous system, would they be allowed to test us on the cranial nerves? Also, can you guys give me an idea of what they are going to test us on.

There rules could be clearer, yes. Treat anything that can be classified under the listed topics as fair game. After that, be smart. I've seen many things come up outside the scope of that, and there isn't much you can do, particularly at the invitational level of competition. If I recall, the first topic under the nervous system is The Brain with subtopics being major brain regions somethingorother (it could be under the second topic, but what that is eludes me currently). That said, what you suggested does seem beyond the scope of the event. I would not overfamiliarize yourself with it, but, at least, you will know what they are when they come up.
Diseases and drugs are straightforward. The digestive system lays out the subtopics better than the nervous system, I'd say.

Cranial nerves? Study them anyways. I know we do, and in Anatomy, nothing is considered too much or too in depth. I believe once we actually spent an hour learning all twelve cranial nerves, functions, connectivity, links, and location.

That being said, we usually place in the top ten at Nationals in Anatomy.

Kokonilly wrote:

Skink wrote:Certainly. Using <8pt font and cramming pages worth of text into one page with small diagrams does nobody good. I've seen cheat sheets like those. If the event was intended to have that much information brought in, they rules would allow a binder.

Meh. I did fairly well with my 3-pt font, 10,000-word cheat sheet with small diagrams. It was the act of making it that taught me the information, and I knew exactly where everything was on the cheat sheet in case I needed to look anything up (which wasn't often). I studied my cheat sheet beforehand and knew it backwards and forwards.

I agree that there is nothing wrong with size 3 or 4 font as long as you are intimately familiar with the location of each piece of information on your sheet.