5B · Where the Questions Come From and How to Study
Exam questions come from the module quizzes and the assignment solutions, word for word or slightly changed. Free-response items look like the assignment questions and can ask you to analyze a chart. Every one of those questions is in the study tools, with an explanation for every answer.
Tool | What it holds | Count |
|---|---|---|
All 112 quiz bank questions (8 attempts per module) plus 43 written from the lectures and keys | 155 | |
Every graded question from Assignments 1–4, with the key’s points | 52 | |
Free response built on the course figures and simulation data | 19 | |
Key and quiz questions with new numbers or a flipped premise | 57 | |
Every end-of-module review question, answered | 89 | |
Terms, numbers, distinctions, core ideas, equations, chains | 266 |
A four-pass plan¶
Read the module reviews below (5C–5F) and the Focus boxes, or the Highlights tab, to rebuild the big picture.
Flashcards, one module at a time. Mark what you know; run again with “Hide known” until the deck is empty.
MCQ until you score 90% or better on every module, then turn on “Missed only” and clear those. The quiz bank questions show how often each appeared.
Problems under exam conditions: write the answer, then open the key. Do every Assignment key and Chart problem; use Variants to test that you can do it with new numbers.
Quiz questions seen in 5 or more of 8 attempts
Question | Answer | Seen |
|---|---|---|
The movement of a hydrophilic substance across the membrane will involve which type of diffusion? | Facilitated diffusion | 6/8 |
In general, what kind of effect does Na⁺ influx have on membrane potential? | Depolarizing | 6/8 |
Maximal shortening velocity of a muscle is seen when the load on the muscle is zero. | True | 6/8 |
“ They have either lost or gained negatively charged electrons in their pursuit of chemical stability. As a result, these chemicals exhibit an overall negative or positive net charge, so they are hydrophilic. ” This is a description of: | Ions | 5/8 |
What is a ligand? | Any chemical that can bind to a receptor | 5/8 |
Fast-twitch muscle fibers and slow-twitch muscle fibers produce the same power in a contraction, just at different rates. | False | 5/8 |
Which type of muscle fiber relies on both aerobic and anaerobic metabolic pathways to produce ATP? | Type IIa | 5/8 |
How does the cardiac action potential spread to all cardiac muscle cells in the heart? It originates in the pacemaker cells, but then spreads via: | Gap junctions that pass the action potential from cell to cell | 5/8 |
Which of these statements articulates a way in which cardiac muscle is different from skeletal muscle? | Only cardiac muscle uses SERCA, NCX, and PMCA to decrease Ca²⁺ levels | 5/8 |
Smooth muscle is found in all of these places in the body EXCEPT: | Heart | 5/8 |