| "I'm responding from Massachusetts, and I've never heard of exam exemptions. At my daughters' high school, exams count for 20% of the final grade, for all courses. They are scheduled for the last week of each semester. If a student wants to leave early for the summer, makeups must be rescheduled AFTER the school year, which furthers discourages anyone from missing them. Seniors here finish about three weeks earlier than the rest of the school, and do not take exams."
I'm responding from Ohio. I also have never heard of exam exemptions. At most of the Ohio schools around here, only seniors who have a senior project (usually an internship or a community service project) are done before finals and don't have to take them - they work on senior project for the last three weeks of the school year and do a science fair like presentation of the senior project around finals week. (They need to start the process of approval for the senior project six months early - it is not easy to have the project approved - they have to have a sponsor and be "meaningful")
Other seniors take finals just days before graduation. |