<p>You know how teachers usually average based on what grade you got on your exams and your quarterly grades? And you get a final grade that way?</p>
<p>Well I have one teacher who does a number system. Every assignment is so many numbers and the grades are, for example, 29/32 or 94/95 (usually for tests), or 16/18 (usually for worksheets, small assignments like that), and so on. This one teacher told me this helps you more than the usual way. And all year I tried my best and always ended up with like a 93 six-weeks average (our school year is broken up into 6 six-weeks), and 92 is a B, 93 an A. Okay so final exam time is coming up and I thought I had to get a really good grade since my other grades were border-line like that all year. </p>
<p>So he added up all the points from the beginning of the year (3800 points! He’s never had that many before!), and since the exam is 215 points, he just added that into the final points. And this way, the lowest grade I had to make to maintain that A on the exam is a 67.5!! I can miss 82 questions out of 219 and still make an A! I have never had that much leeway before in any class in my life. I’m #4 in the class, the #1 person doesn’t even have to show up, hence can make a 0, and still have his A! </p>
<p>I just thought that was the coolest thing. So it really does help you. Of course I havta study cuz if my parents saw an F on my report card they’d be like “get out of our house right now”…but I’d still have an A! </p>
<p>Does anyone else have a teacher that grades this way? In college, professors use this way, right? I really hope so! :)</p>
<p>The number system can also hurt you as well. Say you did average all year or semester but aced the final, and feel you’ve finally understood the majority of the course material…but if you’re using the number system, the final exam is relatively so few points that your grade still stays about the same. I had this happen to me</p>
<p>I’m sorry.
If you work hard though all year, then you can really slack off at the end of the year. Actually I wish all teachers did that. I can work hard throughout the year no matter how much I have to do, but once summer is here and the seniors are gone, I really feel like leaving too.</p>
<p>This way also helped like the first 15 in the class. So it seemed that unless you were in the lower half, it wouldn’t help. So it wouldn’t hurt then, but it wouldn’t help either.</p>
<p>I would rather have the percentage thing. Homework 15%, tests and quizzes 50%, participation 10%, 15% for classwork, 10% for notes. To me, that is better at effectively getting a grade that you deserve.</p>
<p>All of that combines make up 80% of the 2nd and 4th quarter, and 100% of the 1st and 3rd. Because of the midterms and finals, they are worth 20% of the 2nd and 4th.</p>
<p>In other words, that thing at the top is 90% of all quarters. 10% per quarter is from the finals.</p>
<p>I have another class with a similar system as yours Effulgent, but doesn’t that make the value of the Tests & Quizzes too much? It’s 50% of the grade; if you don’t do well on a test or two for that grading period, then you hurt your entire grade pretty much.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. But it’s not too much generally for us, 'cos we have a test about every week every class. Some classes have short quizzes everyday. So, if you bomb one test, it won’t matter, because you’ll have 9 or so others to improve it.</p>
<p>I prefer the numbers system because it’s much easier to stay on track with your grade and things become more steady as the semester progresses, so you know where you stand by the end. For percents, i hate how teachers say 'this project is worth 500 points!" when really, everything in the projects catergory is worth that much, so it might as well be worth 5 and have some decimal places…</p>
<p>Also, in one class this year, my teacher makes exams 30% of your grade, including the final. For the semester, we’ve had about 60-70 points worth of quizzes, and our final is worth about 300. It basically nullifies a lot of the quizzes score, but meanwhile our grades go up and dropping me a couple percentage points, while an A on an essay does nothing. just gets on my nerves…i wish she’d just make the final a separate catergory…</p>
<p>At one point sophomore year in a theology class myself and a friend of mine could have handed the exam back blank and still have earned an A+ (98.5 and above) in the class…it was quite sweet as the teacher was very generous with extra credit.</p>
<p>Yep, I have another class that does the 50% tests deal and we only have like 3 tests per grading period. It hurts though, in that case.</p>
<p>And signifying, sorry about your teacher! So I suppose you could do poorly on the quizzes and just get a good final exam grade to cancel out the bad quiz grades? See, that way makes the exam have SO much weight, which makes me nervous when taking it because I know if I screw up, I screwed up the grade for the whole year. Which is why the number system is great, if you work hard, then you can slack off a bit at the end. </p>
<p>“Quite sweet”…lol, yeah, the same teacher I’m talking about in the 1st post allows up to 50 points of extra credit each six weeks, which really adds up at the end of the year (300 maximum points if you turn it all in). AND he gives you an extra point every day if you just show up to class! Such a nice guy. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, my AP USHist does a 60% tests 30% quizzes and 10% hw for each quarter, then final is 10% of the SEMESTER. So the final is like nothing. It’s like a 3 hour party.</p>
<p>damn i wish my ap us history teacher did that. I pulled by with a 94 for the year. Woah. She knew I was so stressed about that class all year, it was my hardest class. Essays are a 1/3rd, tests a 1/3rd, and daily grades a 1/3rd, and you’re allowed to drop one daily grade. And she was soo subjective on everything you handed in. The final was a life or death matter for me. She hugged me when I found out I got an A. :)</p>
