Basis Comps/final grades

[Anonymous]

Did Basis grade easier than usual /give more high scores on the comps/final grades (6th grade) this year (given the pandemic)?

[Anonymous]

As a general matter, grades at Basis were a bit lower during DL compared to IPL.

[Anonymous]

I think they graded easier to keep more kids above the pass line. mine did well, better than expected. I wasnt worried he would fail, but I was surprised how high the marks were, there must have been a curve

[Anonymous]

I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

How could your kid have gotten a 97+ in GP5 but scored a low C on the comps? Do you mean your kid had a 97+ on his/her interim report card then got a low C on some comps, bringing down their final GP5 grades?

[Anonymous]

^^Never mind. I see there’s a separate GP5 grade and final grade, with one being specific to GP5 and the other being cumulative for the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

Maybe reach out to the teacher in that class to see what happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

Maybe reach out to the teacher in that class to see what happened?

PP here. I think that some teacher padded the grades a bit -- and I'm not faulting them for it -- but between extra credit & rocket booster & such, it was easy to raise grading period grades. It happened in math and physics, and I was expecting a not-so-great comp score in physics but not in math. Surprising. It is what it is. I'm not angry at the school, and I think the teachers did a great job this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

Maybe reach out to the teacher in that class to see what happened?

PP here. I think that some teacherS padded the grades a bit -- and I'm not faulting them for it -- but between extra credit & rocket booster & such, it was easy to raise grading period grades. It happened in math and physics, and I was expecting a not-so-great comp score in physics but not in math. Surprising. It is what it is. I'm not angry at the school, and I think the teachers did a great job this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was frustrated that in several classes, my kid had a 97+ in GP5, but then got a low C on the comp.

Maybe reach out to the teacher in that class to see what happened?

PP here. I think that some teacherS padded the grades a bit -- and I'm not faulting them for it -- but between extra credit & rocket booster & such, it was easy to raise grading period grades. It happened in math and physics, and I was expecting a not-so-great comp score in physics but not in math. Surprising. It is what it is. I'm not angry at the school, and I think the teachers did a great job this year.

Years ago it happened in English. A student had a B+ for the entire year somehow received an 'F" in the comps, rendering the overall average D+
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The student had missed 11 questions out of 30 in mulitple choice questions. The comp, an exceprt from a previous AP literature exam for a non-AP class, was marked -11/30, which translated to 63.3% and should definitely not have been an F.
The school just wanted that student out.