Finals are worth 25% of my semester grade.
By “suuuuuper short” I mean I’m cutting off six inches. It’ll still be down to the small of my back.
I’m done with finals! Here were my grades:
Geometry: 96
German: 90 (this is at least the second of 4 german semester exams I’ve gotten this score on.)
Lifetime Wellness: 89 (I had to run the pacer with a very swollen ankle. I should have gone to the nurse ;_
Biology: 96
Orchestra: 100
English: 94
APHG: Exempt
So my final grades for the semester are all As, both on the county and state grading scale.
@northeastgirl24 What % did they used to be? Mine have always been 20%, midterms just go in as test grades (but math is normally the only class that has midterms.)
It used to be each quarter was 20%, and midterms and finals were both 10% of our final grade
Now each quarter is ~22% I think
My school doesn’t average year grades. So each quarter is 37.5% of your semester grade, and the semester exam is 25%.
Heck, my diff eqs midterm and final were each 35% and for linear algebra, the two tests were each 20% and the final was 30%…
haha 20% doesn’t seem so bad anymore
My hair is now only down to my elbows. It’s so weird…
That’s a lot @awesomepolyglot
Are “member”, “junior member” etc due to post count or what
Oh yeah and my mom bought a gym membership for summer so yayyyyyyyyyyyy I can swim for once in years! I was swimming last night and at first I couldn’t even swim one length of the pool (20 yards) although by the end I could at least swim 3 consecutively in bad form
It used to be long enough for me to tuck the very ends into my pockets @CharlotteLetter
Our final grades are calculated by 40% quarter 1, 40% quarter 2, and 20% final exam. The quarter averages can change depending on the teacher. Most use 40-40-20.
Our final grades include every assignment from the class; how much tests/projects vs homework is weighted depends on the class, but it’s typically around 50% for tests, 30% for homework, and 20% for final exam. Final exams are weighted the same for every classes. The few yearlong classes that my school offers take the average grade from both semesters. (the gradebook “resets” after winter break)
I can get a 68% on my Bio Honors exam and still get an A because my grade is high and it’s only worth 20% of my grade. Super happy, I don’t even have to study 
An 86.4 is still an A? Did the class get curved, or was there extra credit? @literallyliteral
all aside, though, congrats yo!
Biology Keystones were a breeze today… no one has ever gotten a perfect score at my school, but a girl last year got a 65/66. My bio teacher told us if one or more get a perfect score we can have all her fish omg. Honestly preparing for the biology subject tests helped a lot. gotta make her proud 
and tbh I think my school has major grade inflation omg…
there is nothing quite like getting the first perfect score on something or other @collegeyouth
I did it once on a history presentation and it was such a great feeling o.o
super good luck! What’s Bio Keystones, by the way?
I miss my long hair… this cut was a bad idea and it’s kind of uneven… :((
Eh, I’ll probably be over t in about a week or so.
@OMPursuit Tests are curved, but even then it’s still really difficult. Test average is between 72-78%, although it’s been as low as 68ish% on a test. I barely scraped past an A, got like 90.5% first semester. This semester I just got REALLY lucky the first three tests or so, and after that my grade was basically set up for the rest of the semester. 90% for an A, like normal, and never extra credit.
Oh, woops! Sorry- In see what I did there @literallyliteral
that math final must have trashed my working memory; I subtracted your weighted 68% instead of the other 6.4% you’d missed, as if you’d gotten a 32% (which would leave you with the percentage I mentioned above).
It’s very nice when you do super well for one length of time and have to worry less for other sections. I just get worried sometimes that the fear helps me learn :s
Yay, my English teacher is going on a vacation to Hawaii for a week. Yaaaaasssss