C870 Human Anatomy and Physiology sample papers, task by task

Reviewed by Signe Hallberg, MSN, RN Human Anatomy and Physiology Western Governors University Free custom samples in 24–48h

C870 clears mainly by a proctored objective assessment, and no sample library can sit that for you. Where a version attaches a written piece, these samples show what a body-systems explanation looks like when it is built to be evaluated.

How this shelf works

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your course of study and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. C870 is WGU’s Human Anatomy and Physiology course. It centers on the structure and function of every major body system covered in one pass rather than split across two courses. Searches like "c870 task 2 assignment example", "C870 sample paper", and "C870 task samples" land on this page.

What C870 is really about

The honest opening for C870 is that most versions of it are cleared by an objective assessment, a proctored exam you sit under supervision, and a library of written samples has nothing to offer for that. Nobody can sit it for you and nobody here will suggest otherwise. What a shelf like this can do is help with the written component where a version carries one, usually a short concept application or a systems write-up that has to explain function rather than list parts. If your course of study shows no written deliverable at all, the useful thing you can take from this page is the study framing, not a paper.

C870 differs from the two-course sequence in how much room it has. One course covering every system means each one gets a single pass, so the depth expected in a written piece is integrative rather than granular: how a system contributes to the whole, not the fine detail of one tissue. That changes what an evaluator is looking for. An answer that recites a list of bones from memory is doing the work of the objective assessment in the wrong place, while an answer that explains how skeletal, muscular and nervous function combine to produce movement is doing what a written aspect asks. Composite examples only, invented for the page, with nothing a reader could take as advice about their own body.

What C870’s tasks ask for

In current versions the assessed work here is typically split between the objective assessment and, where one exists, a small written deliverable. The written part usually asks you to take a physiological process and explain it end to end for a reader who is not a specialist, with the structures named accurately and the function stated in terms of what the body actually accomplishes. Where a version asks you to relate two systems, the relationship has to be argued rather than asserted, which means naming the place where output from one becomes input to the other. Citations to a current textbook or a professional source are expected wherever a range, a value or a mechanism is claimed. Anything a proctor watches you complete is yours alone, and that includes every practice item you use to prepare for it.

Why C870 tasks come back for revision

A written piece in C870 comes back not competent for a small set of predictable reasons. The commonest is the labeled diagram in prose form: every structure named correctly and no function explained, which cannot meet an aspect that asked what the system does. Second is depth aimed at the wrong target, where a single system is covered in the detail a majors sequence would want and the other half of the prompt goes unanswered. Third is a source problem, with values and ranges asserted from memory and no citation attached. None of these are unusual and none of them end anything. The evaluator names the aspects that came back not met, you rework those and leave the rest alone, and the task goes in again.

C870 grading scale at WGU: how the work is graded, from WGU Assignments
How WGU grades C870, visualized by WGU Assignments.

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Task 1

C870 Task 1 concept application example

Task 1 in versions that carry writing often asks one process explained from structure through to function. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Task 2

C870 Task 2 systems write-up example

Task 2 where it exists typically sets two systems side by side and asks how they connect. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Using a C870 sample the right way

Use a sample here for calibration and nothing else. Read one to see how far an explanation has to travel before it stops, and mark the sentence where the writer leaves anatomy and starts saying what the anatomy is for, because that transition is what a written aspect is testing. Then write your own, because the recall this course rests on only sticks if you build it. If your version of C870 does carry a written task, send what your course of study shows and a matched custom sample comes back inside 24 to 48 hours, the first one free.

How these samples are written

The discipline behind every task here: aspects are the outline, each gets its section, artifacts match their narratives, and OA courses get prep-note treatment instead, because the sit is always yours. Send your portal's rubric with a request and the sample matches it, revisions included.

C870 questions, answered

Can you help me pass the objective assessment?

No, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you a problem. The objective assessment is proctored and it is yours to sit. What this desk can do is written work: if your course of study attaches a paper, a concept application or a systems explanation, send it and a sample comes back written to your own instructions.

Is C870 the same as taking D312 and D313?

Not in scope. C870 covers the material in one course where the numbered sequence spreads it across two with laboratory work attached, so the expected depth per system is lower and the integration across systems matters more. Check which one your program actually lists, because the two are not interchangeable when a transfer evaluation looks at them.

My course of study shows no paper at all. Is this page any use?

Honestly, less than it would be for a writing course. If there is no written deliverable, there is nothing for a sample to model and the desk will tell you that rather than invent something. Send what your course of study lists anyway; if a written aspect is hiding inside a task you read as exam prep, it will show up.