Why do teachers and professors not like study guides?

I have taken Anatomy and Physiology twice. I have taken a semester at a community college and again at my university and they were very different experiences.

At community college, I never opened up the textbook once. Didn't need to. The teacher assigned chapters but it was not necessary to get an A on the exam and everything was based on the notes.

I soon learned that the class was a complete joke because at my university, you would have to read the A&P textbook. In fact, I took the full year A&P and we we had to literally memorize *everything* which required about 5 to 8 hours a week of intense careful reading. The class was mostly physiology based. We had study guides for chapters and the questions would contain a lot of detail. In some ways, the questions helped you to practice reading the chapter carefully, but really the questions were just to help you practice reiterating the information (it takes about 7 days to learn a piece of information and commit it to permanent memory and writing helps you commit things to memory). After that class, reading a textbook and getting information out of it was very easy. We also had open-ended responses to questions on the exams that were application based which means that you would need to know your cr@p to do well on the exam.

When is your next exam? Is it the final? If you need to read 6 to 7 chapters and memorize all the information, that probably ain't going to happen and you probably will not memorize everything. You gotta be honest with yourself. What I would do is make a "summary sheet" of each chapter to help you study for the exam. Have 7 pieces of paper. Write tiny and put down information that you believe is important. Making the sheets themselves will help you study for the exam even if you won't be using them in the exam.

Also be aware that some college classes have final exams that repeat questions found on quizzes and/or past exams you had in the class. I would make sure to look over your past exams for the final and any activities you did in class. If you have homework in the class, look over that too.

I notice that a lot of people in my science classes, try to memorize an answer. For example, they will try to memorize a specific answer like ____ genomic information in viruses cannot be directly transcribed by the ribosome. The answer is - sense rRNA. Some people will memorize that information, that negative sense rRNA cannot be directly translated by the host's ribosome, but these students don't really know what + sense means or what - sense means. Basically what I am saying it to go deeper into learning the questions and WHY the answer is the way it is. + sense rRNA is a single stranded rRNA while - sense is the complement of it. I'm sure this will not be on your A&P exam because it is microbiology, but the concept is the same- don't memorize but understand the concepts.

How it goes well for you! Wish you luck!