Know IL 2, IL4, and IL10 and what cells they are associated withc-padd1999 wrote:Would you guys say it's worth it to put all the interleukins on the note sheet? Or to memorize them? Or are there a specific few that are more important to know?
And a more general question: Which cytokines would you consider memorizing/putting on the note sheet?
in the event.
What do you mean by linking?coprolite_dipstick wrote:
no surprise here -- you had to link systems together. they had us link the integumentary with cardiovascular, immune, digestive, nervous, and possibly another system, but i've forgot it.
We also get that at Regionals every year; they want us to say how each of the systems relates to other systems (it tends to be vague).icanteven wrote:I remember during nationals last year, they had so many models of different things like the skin layers, ear, eye, etc. that you had to label. I'm pretty sure that they also had a pic of a brain with Alzheimers or something. If you didn't know that by heart(heh) or at least have a labeled picture on the study guide, you were screwed.
This year for nationals, most likely theres going to be a heart diagram. What else do you guys have on your study guide in terms of pictures? So far, I have: an EKG pic, heart diagram, rule of nines, pics of the different phagocytes, skin diagram, and skin cancer pics. I think I can memorize the venn diagram thing so I probably won't add that.
What do you mean by linking?coprolite_dipstick wrote:
no surprise here -- you had to link systems together. they had us link the integumentary with cardiovascular, immune, digestive, nervous, and possibly another system, but i've forgot it.
Thanks in advance!
Linking systems means to tell how the ____ system relates to the ____ system.icanteven wrote: What do you mean by linking?
As vague as it is, know what pretty much everything looks like. If you don't know them already, make sure you have all of the diseases that are listed on the rules sheet! This is something that my coach kept pushing on us... I'm glad she did. There was a page on diseases that you had to identify, not that I got a lot of time to look at them or even do that page because my partner was working on the back side of it... ugh. Either way, make sure you know what all of the diseases look like - the diseases on my test were integumentary.Anatomy Test wrote: List three symptoms and two causes of heart failure.
I would also study diseases not included on the rules, because at a lot of the invitationals and regionals and states that I went to this year, there have been questions like "Name the symptoms of Sjogrens syndrome" and some other questions about diseases that where really out there.coprolite_dipstick wrote:Linking systems means to tell how the ____ system relates to the ____ system.icanteven wrote: What do you mean by linking?
The question I had on my state test was something like this (it's been a few weeks, so I don't remember the exact wording, but it was similar):
Explain how the integumentary system relates to the:
a) Immune system
b) Digestive system
c) Nervous system
d) Cardiovascular system (Note: When I took the test, cardiovascular was crossed out. My partner asked the proctor if that meant we had to do it, and she said, "You don't have to, but you guys are smart so you can." I'm not really sure why this one was crossed out and not one of the others, but either way...)
Have a general understanding of how the integumentary, immune, and cardiovascular systems function in relation to, well, pretty much every other system in the body.
Definitely know what all the immune cells look like - distinguishing characteristics and such. Be prepared for a lot of real-life models and pictures - sounds like you already are - as well as some artists' renditions. Lots of artist renditions... sometimes it's hard to tell. Cough cough, allergic reaction diagram on the state test.
They also had some questions such asIf you don't know them already, make sure you have all of the diseases that are listed on the rules sheet! This is something that my coach kept pushing on us... I'm glad she did. There was a page on diseases that you had to identify, not that I got a lot of time to look at them or even do that page because my partner was working on the back side of it... ugh. Either way, make sure you know what all of the diseases look like - the diseases on my test were integumentary.Anatomy Test wrote: List three symptoms and two causes of heart failure.
Good luck to everyone competing at Nationals!
You say you're a rage monster... you should have seen me after the Anatomy state test. There was a diagram of an allergic reaction that you had to explain — thankfully that was the last event of the day, because I completely lost it.Bilbo McSwaggins wrote:I hate stations for any study event in general. Ever since the Solon invitational, I didn't like stations since there was "Station 4/3" (I cant remember) and then nobody went to the station at first, so it was a mad rush to get to the station because the teams had to take turns, so the event supervisors made a "compromise". They said each team that hadn't gone yet would get 2 minutes to finish completing the section which had 20 questions in which we had to identify structures on a model of the heart. Let me repeat that again. We had 2 MINUTES to finish labeling 20 STRUCTURES. The event supervisors said it was "more than enough time" to complete that portion of the test. I know I know, everybody's who's reading this probably thinks I'm a rage monster that has anger issues because that's me!
