Hello my little gang of nasties 😈😜 I hope you’re having an amazing and peaceful holiday season because December? Shiiiiii… December is about to be DIFFERENT. I’m launching 30 DAYS OF ASCP across all of my social media platforms, and I’m going all in for y’all. Every. Single. Day. I’ll be dropping: 🔬 One 30 to 60 second high-yield ASCP concept (clear and simple, not like how grandma lectured you in college) 🧠 One ratchet study tip to make the info stick (you'll never forget some of the crazy sh*t I say) 📚 One thing MLS school absolutely FAILED to teach you (and you KNOW they left a lot out especially for my online MLS/MLT students😭) That’s 3 posts every day all month long because I want you to walk into 2026 knowing how to use and implement the strategy, with clarity, and confidence in your studying, not confusion and anxiety. Everything I’m dropping PUBLICLY is designed to help you PASS this exam once and for all. But if you want to go from: “I’m studying…” to “I KNOW I’m going to pass this exam,” that shift happens inside the Inner Circle. The Inner Circle is where I give you the things I cannot explain in words: 🔥 Weekly Study Sessions every Sunday with me (alternating between 8AM PST and 4PM PST) 🔥 Breakdowns of topics like biochemical reactions, antibody IDs, morphology, etc. 🔥 Charts and .pdfs of high-yield concepts (like some of the ones I've dropped in here) 🔥 Direct guidance so you STOP wasting time reading nonsense and trying to make sense of it 🔥 Accountability + a community of students tryna pass just like you If you love this 30-day series, you’re going to THRIVE in the Inner Circle. It’s where students go from overwhelmed → confident → certified. Want in? Drop “ASCP” in the comments and I’ll send you all the Inner Circle details. Or Click HERE to join now! Let’s finish this year strong. Let’s hit January confident. Let’s get you certified. Happy holidays, nasties. 😈🎄🧪✨

Is anyone utilizing quizlet to take the 50 practice question's a day? Or is there another site of recommendation? 🤓

Let’s go through this question step-by-step because this is a great example of how biochemicals and clinical context will lead you straight to the right answer (if you’ve studied your foundational organisms and their “bread-and-butter biochemicals“). Case Info: A pure culture of gram-negative rods was isolated from pulmonary secretions of a 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient with pneumonia. ***Right away, before we even look at the biochemical data, “cystic fibrosis” + “pulmonary secretions” should make a few key organisms pop into your head 🧫 Biochemical Profile: - Oxidase = + - OF Glucose (open) = + - Red pigment (non-fluorescent) - Growth at 42°C = + - Motility = + - Gelatin hydrolysis = + - Arginine dihydrolase = + - Flagella = polar, monotrichous Which is the most likely organism? A. Burkholderia pseudomallei B. Pseudomonas stutzeri C. Burkholderia cepacia D. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Marilyn’s Thought Process: Let’s say you don’t immediately recognize the bug. That’s okay. This is how I’d narrow it to 2 before deciding: 1. Think about what Cystic Fibrosis is. If you don’t know, then look at other clues. It says pulmonary secretions and pneumonia. You gotta at LEAST know what pneumonia is… 2. Next, you have to eliminate at least two of these. Two choices are Burkholderia and two are Pseudomonas. Clearly, they’re trying to get you to narrow it down, but it might be tricky because (assuming you know what cystic fibrosis is)… CF patients are highly susceptible to Pseudomonas AND Burkholderia spp. 3. Oxidase (+) and Growth at 42°C are strong differentiators. Only certain Pseudomonas spp. reliably grow at 42°C. 4. Red, non-fluorescent pigment rules out P. fluorescens and similar fluorescent species. 5. Arginine dihydrolase +, gelatin hydrolysis +, and polar monotrichous flagella further point toward a specific profile. 📌 Bottom Line: Even if you’re stuck between Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the oxidase positivity and growth at 42°C should lock in your answer. That combination is biochemically distinctive, so you just need to know your core organisms cold.