Semester Exams

[Merina 0]

At my high school we can opt out of them if we meet the requirements.

[Nemesis 0]

At my high school we can opt out of them if we meet the requirements.

I'm a genious I was exempted out of all my exams but alas the end of the year exams you have to take darn it :)

[Dumbass 0]

Well it's been too long since I've had to take High School finals, although I do remember my last one. It was optional, but I was 5 points away (out of about 1500 for the semester) from an A+ so I figured I might as well show up and take it. I took the exam, put my name on it, answered the first 5 questions out of a 100 question multiple choice exam, turned it back in to the teacher, shook her hand, and took the rest of the day off. :)

 

College, on the other hand, was different. It was college policy that the instructor had to offer a final. Again, sometimes it was optional. You could take it for the chance of improving your grade, but at the same time taking you ran the risk of lowering your grade if you did poorly.

[Seiben 0]

Ahh, high school exams.. ::singing:: Memories, of the way we used to be, percious water coloured memories of the way we were..::sniffs::

Well, I remember my first high school, a Business and Technical Institute, when you can be exempt from an exam if you get more than 60%. But in my second highschool, a regular Colleigate Institute, you were unable to be exempt from an exam regardless of your pre-exam mark. In college it's the same.. no matter what you get, you still have to take the exam, as it ranges from 20-40% of my total mark.

[ens_tino 0]

I have to take them :)

[John_Anderson 0]

I don't know where in the heck you people are from but at my high school last year the semester final was 10 % of your final grade in the class (Might be the final if it's a semester class, but if's a yearlong class it's the midterm) and the school year final was another 10% of your final grade. I have never heard this nonsense of opting out of the midterm or final, they are all mandatory here. Even if you were a genious (Trust me I know......::Shivers thinking of all his AP classes last year:: )

 

You foreigners are soooo wierd....

 

Of course this year in college all of my finals are mandatory if not you get a WF (Withdrawl Failing) for the course. Meaning they drop you out of the course and fail you even if you were there every single day and had a 100% in the class. The WF doesn't hurt your GPA, but you get no credit for the class, and it looks horrible on your transcripts if you want to go to graduate school. I sure know that isn't going to happen to me.

 

::Scoffs, thinking of how easy young people today have it:: :):)

[Travis Kroells 0]

Ha! This is great, my school doesnt even have semester, or year end finals!!! This week before christmas break is spent lounging around the school, hanging out with the girls!

 

I love my highschool!!

[Marris Krax 0]

::Scratches head::

 

Well, I haven't heard of just opting out of finals. Some of my classes in high school didn't have finals, like orchestra. Well, take that back...our "final" in orchestra was to randomly shout out answers to extremely easy questions about scales and composers. The weird thing about my high school is that we had *four* rounds of finals/midterms. Yeah, gotta love those quarter schedules.

 

College...well, usually how it works here is that you either have a big end-of-semester project or the final. As a result, this semester I only took one real final. And I have a quiz tomorrow, which should have been a final except the professor got sick and had to push our last quiz back. They were all given equal weight anyway.

 

Hmm...actually, I suppose I did opt out of a test. In econ, the professor offers four tests, including the final, with each given equal weight. Since she also drops the lowest grade, if you're happy with what you have by the end of the third test, you don't have to do anything else for the rest of the semester. I haven't even been to class in a month. Thank goodness, too. I hated that class.

[HyperDrive 0]

We can "buy" our way out of finals but, in most cases, we all have to take them.

 

For every 100 AR (Accelerated Reader... it's stupid, to put it nicely) points a student gets, the student is granted one 100-point Exam Pass. (Which is the final. :) ) But, most people don't get 400 points every semester (we have block scheduling), most have to take at least one final... given what class it is. (Like Marris said, music classes and P.E., and a few others, don't have any type of finals here.)

 

Let it be known that I do have to take all of my finals. :) (Well, I have a midterm in AP European History... but it's over the French Revolution of 1789.)

 

~HD

[Dumbass 0]

Hmm...actually, I suppose I did opt out of a test. In econ, the professor offers four tests, including the final, with each given equal weight. Since she also drops the lowest grade, if you're happy with what you have by the end of the third test, you don't have to do anything else for the rest of the semester. I haven't even been to class in a month. Thank goodness, too. I hated that class.

LOL - let me tell you about one of MY econ classes. Intermediate Macroeconomics. The only two things I learned in that class were 1) John Maynard Keynes was full of (explative deleted) and 2) so was the instructor. I think I went to 6 classes total, counting the midterms, and got the best grade in both class sections he taught that semester. :)

Edited December 17, 2003 by Dumbass

[Brex X'Dill 0]

Ok here It is a written exam you HAVE to take it but teacher choose how much they're worth. Here is my schudule.

 

Math: 15%

PE: 20%

Band: 0.25% <YEA!!!!>

Sci: 7%

Seminar: 0%

English: 20%

Consumer skills: 20%

Soc. Studies: 20% (but can only help you)

 

The Best one is band .... They dont grade the tests!!!!! Here is a sample questions on the WRITTEN test.

 

 

1. Spell Chezcloslovica. (I cant spell it)

 

2.Who is beried in Bach's Tomb?

 

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He said, "Study like it was a blood test"

[Nemesis 0]

There all 30% for any course and in grade 12 with the manditory provincal exams they are 40% of your mark.

[Dumbass 0]

1. Spell Chezcloslovica. (I cant spell it)

 

2.Who is beried in Bach's Tomb?

Man, this teacher must have been an idiot. # 1 is a GEOGRAPHY question, not BAND! :)

 

Actually, in the 6th Grade I did get a written quiz in "Music Appreciation" or whatever it was called. There were only two kinds of students who took the class: 1) Intelligent, artistic types who really liked music 2) Stupid/lazy stoners who wanted an easy elective. I was a little of both but probably closer to the 2nd group than the 1st.

 

I remember one question was "Who wrote Beethoven's 5th Symphony?" Half the class answered AC/DC because they were offended by the stupid question. The other half answered AC/DC because they honestly didn't know any better. :)

[Brex X'Dill 0]

He is NOT an idiot. I am I couldnt spell it. Anyway he doesnt GRADE it. you can put down Yo Mama and still get an A.

[Nemesis 0]

He is NOT an idiot. I am I couldnt spell it. Anyway he doesnt GRADE it. you can put down Yo Mama and still get an A.

For a Music class Yo Yo Ma would be more appropiate then yo mama :)

[Dumbass 0]

For a Music class Yo Yo Ma would be more appropiate then yo mama :)

Close enough

[ens_tino 0]

I get lucky with music though cause I'm in band so I dont have to take a music test.

 

Which is a good thing because learning about composers and that type of stuff is boring to me.