<p>In most of my classes 70% of our grade are quizzes and tests. And our grading scale is tougher. But then again my school is known for being rigorous. I guess I shouldn’t complain. It can just be upsetting to get a 92% and have that be a 3.0 on my GPA. Not even a 3.4/3.5. 
Oh well.</p>
<p>^If your school is known for being rigorous, adcoms will know that and it will explain your GPA.</p>
<p>My school is supposedly the best in the county, but I live in Appalachian Ohio and that isn’t saying much.
We have this online grade-tracking program and this is the distribution of points for my classes. We do get a lot of homework. I wish more of our grade was based around tests. </p>
<p>English
Tests and quizzes = 38%
Homework = 19%
Other = 43%</p>
<p>AP Bio
Tests = 38%
Homework = 31%
Other = 31%</p>
<p>Spanish
Tests = 61%
Homework = 39%</p>
<p>Financial Lit
Tests and quizzes = 25%
Other = 75%</p>
<p>I was actually discussing this with a friend earlier:</p>
<p>"computer repair has 45-lab, 35-test, 20-participation
precalc H has 55-test, 35-quiz, 5-homework, 5-participation
chorus H has 25-honors assignments, 15-participation, 10-quiz, 10-homework
office apps has 60-projects, 25-participation/attendance, 15-test</p>
<p>my regular/precalc & chorus classes do breakdowns, while my APs do not."</p>
<p>Math and science classes here are fairly test-based.</p>
<p>Calc BC: 90% tests and quizzes
Physics C: 70% tests (no quizzes)
Ap chem was 80% tests/quizzes when I took it.</p>
<p>In Pre-Calc, it is 50 percent tests, 20 percent homework and 30 percent projects. Honors physics does not weigh things…</p>
<p>Where, I live- a large portion of our grade (often 50%) is decided by the final exam. For my Calc class, last year, I think the breakdown was:
30% Tests
25% Homework
5% Quizzes
40% Final Exam</p>
<p>So really, it was…75% tests. The HW was also graded somewhat harshly too, so it wasn’t exactly an easy boost. Still, I think we all learned the material well. My current school also doesn’t do letter grades- it’s an outright percent. My old school does percentages for all the quarters and averages them, with the final to give a mark that is scaled. So, 93 and above = A, 90-92 = A- etc. Everything is unweighted and we don’t do class rank since it’d be SO competitive. I suppose it’s unfair in that someone could get a 4.0 in easy classes but there’s no ranking and colleges look at transcripts/GC letters, so it seems ok.</p>
<p>Hope y’all had merry christmases btw!</p>
<p>I forgot about finals. With that in the mix, quizzes and tests are around 80-85% of my grade in most classes. Lol I guess my principal means it when she says we are college preparatory.</p>
<p>Finals are 10% of my semester grade in every class.</p>
<p>Just saw the Hobbit. So good. About to go destroy the book (not literally, of course).</p>
<p>Final Exams weigh between 15% and 20% of your overall final grade. I know that in my Psychology class, one of my classmates got a 83 on the final and dropped her grade from a 91 to an 88. On my final I got a 109 and my grade jumped from a 95 to a 98.</p>
<p>Finals are always 20 percent of our grade, it is evil. Also completely random, but Les Mis was amazing!</p>
<p>Because of the slew of suicides that occurred before and after finals one year at my school, there was apparently a rule set in place that didn’t allow finals to be more than 12% of the grade. However, it seems that’s a lie since all my finals were between 15 and 20% of my grade. Last year and freshman year, I did horribly on the finals compared to my normal tests. However this year, I did much better on the finals. :’(</p>
<p>I wanted to watch Les Mis… I read the book once, and it’s giant (like 1.5 thousand pages) but it’s like the best “classic” novel of all time. Too bad it’s not that portable. 
The soundtrack for the movie is amazing.</p>
<p>The Hobbit… I was supposed to start reading that around now. OOPS</p>
<p>Yeah, some of our teachers make the midterm/final a bit easier then our normal tests because of their weight. In English we always write an essay and the math finals always have some short answers on them, which allow the teachers to be a little bit more generous in their grading. I tend to get As and Bs, but I failed my honors chem midterm (I barely scraped by with a B in the end) and got a D on my gym final (I go to a school where gym is a joke, but we all fail the final).</p>
<p>You have to go see Les Mis! Did you think it was worth it to read the book? It looks excellent, but I am not sure if I am willing to devote the time to reading it when I could read an entire series in the same amount of time.</p>
<p>At my school, the math finals are always completely multiple choice. In English we always have a project or an in-class essay. </p>
<p>I felt it was worth it to read the book. Well, it depends. I definitely found it less dry than The Tale of Two Cities, which I also like. Perhaps because it had to be translated from the French, but it is more readable than some of the British classics in their original language. Technically, since the book is written in 5 “volumes,” it is a series.</p>
<p>Everyone freaks out about finals on here, but at my school they really aren’t that huge of a deal (definitely nothing like 10% of our grade). And I have a hard time believing that people killed themselves over finals, wth?</p>
<p>In Honors Precalc, we took a district final and it was extremely easy. I think I missed 2-4 questions. Tests are worth 70% of our grade (quizzes are another 12%) and are normally out of 100pts; this one was 200pts.<br>
In AP Lang, we took a district final (made for regular kids, so it was dumb easy) as well as an AP Multiple Choice final, which was also pretty easy. Each one was worth like 50pts.
In AP Physics and AP Psychology, our “finals” were just normal tests. They were actually pretty hard, but it wasn’t anything unexpected, and it wasn’t weighted any more than any other test.
In APUSH, our final was all of the most missed questions on tests throughout the semester. It was pretty hard, but then again, I didn’t even bother studying because I had a 109%. It was worth 100pts, as are all of our tests.</p>
<p>My Geometry final was 50-60 questions of Always, Sometimes, or Never. It would be like “a square has 4 sides: A, S, N”. Except the questions were MUCH harder. Everybody in our class struggled with those type of questions during the school year, so to make a final of nothing but those was evil of my teacher. I got a 73% thus lowering my 86%(B) in the class to an 84%, which is a C. My only C ever, a devastating period in my life tbh. The smartest kid in the class got a 60% for gods sake. Ugh such an evil final.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’d probably fail that. Your teacher probably wanted to avoid the easiness of multiple choice Geometry tests. Throughout Geometry, I never fully understood proofs, but I don’t think I’ve ever missed a multiple choice proofs question. :P</p>
<p>I took regular geometry with all the slacker kids and didn’t have to do any proofs. I feel like it was abnormal somehow.
They were reviewed in Algebra II, though.</p>
<p>@Reaper Maybe. But he could have made a free response final like the other Geometry teachers. I would have done much better. Ugh but whatever that was last year.</p>