More high schools ditching final exams

PackMom
Tue, 29 May 2007 13:55:40 +0000

Everybody at my S’s high sch. takes mid-year exams and final exams for every class even PE. The final exams in June count for 25% of the entire course grade. So that one exam can make you or break you. Final average for each quarter (semester class) count 37.5% and then the exam grades makes up the rest.

I hate the thing where one teacher makes up the exam for the entire dept. S had a “B” all semester in his math class which was taught by a foreign teacher on exchange to our sch. S admitted that they did very little work in the class and spent most of their time listening to the teacher explain her country’s culture. Another teacher (who really taught the subject) made the exam. Everyone is S’s class failed so S ended up with a C for the class because the exam counted 25%.

AP classes do not have a final after the AP exam. The final AP grade is just an average of all the quarter grades. The school system pays for all AP exams. If a student enrolled in the class does not take the AP exam, their final grade is dropped by one letter grade.