More high schools ditching final exams

Sklog_W
Wed, 30 May 2007 02:41:56 +0000

My school basically gave discretion to the teachers about how to run their classes. All needed to have a final exam period scheduled, but it the teacher didn’t really feel an exam was necessary (like for computer programming class, where a final project may be more appropriate) they can just tell the kids not to come in. They also got to decide what percentage the exams were worth. Oh yeah, and AP classes wouldn’t have finals, they were just never even considered when grading the class. My math teacher also created curved for all the teachers since no one else knew how to do it right.

I really liked this system. It taught me how to study for final exams properly, while not forcing the teachers to make ridiculous tests or grade their classes inappropriately.