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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the retakes - so now they already know the questions and go back and answer it and get everything right?[/quote]

No, I have to write 4 versions of every test (different MC questions, different essay questions, different application problems, etc)

Version A/B for in class because kids are packed so tightly there is no way to prevent wandering eyeballs.

Version C as a retake/“I was absent on test day” version for anyone who does the retake within 2 weeks.

Version D for students who missed test day, took the retake as their first attempt, and now need a retake, or who decide in June they want to retake unit 1 (we have to let them). Version D is never handed back so I can use it for retakes the remainder of the year.

It is extraordinarily difficult in some units to write four exams of equal difficulty that aren’t just asking the same thing with different numbers.[/quote]

Why are you making the retakes “equal difficulty”?

Save yourself the trouble and get a reputation for only giving retakes that are impossible. And announce that anyone who does a retake needs to accept that grade even if it’s lower.  After a few hard lessons, no student will dare approach you for a retake.  Then you do not need to ever create retakes.  [/quote]

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