| "Only needing to have an A in the class is a much more lax rule".
It depends on school. Besides, it applies only to 2-semester classes. There will be 4 marking periods before the final exam, if your average in any of the marking periods falls below 93, you are not exempt. Also, this is a school which produces around 16 National Merit Finalists each year with a class of 230. There are teachers who would give only 2 A's in a class of ~30. There is a chem class where at least 90% of students failed the first test, every year.
One drawback for those schools using attendance rule only, like in Cono's post, is that students will apply the exemptions to the more difficult classes. |