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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it apply to just the second semester or will they retroactively apply it to first, too?[/quote]

My 9th grader’s bio teacher said second semester grade.[/quote]
Yes, the 20% is factored into the second semester grade. (The same for the Gov test.)

I think most folks posting haven't been around long enough to remember how high school exams worked. They were 25% of each semester's grade, and really nothing to freak out about. The exams had a scoring guide to convert them to a letter grade, and then there was a matrix that converted the two quarters plus exam to an overall grade (AAC = A). Because CCE = C, many kids worked just as hard as they needed to get Cs, and then bombed exams because they didn't matter, which led to freakout over failed exams and the eventual elimination of them.

This MCAP process is final exam lite. The only thing not clear yet is if the incorporation of the grade is going to be similar (based on already rounded up letter grades) or based on actual percentages.[/quote]

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