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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he's doing really well on formatives and his summatives don't reflect that level of mastery of the material, I'd say you really have a different problem than not enough assignments to pad the grade.  I'd be wondering why my child can't perform as expected on the summatives.[/quote]

What the teacher said above is a big part of the issue ^^. I would argue that getting 75% on a summative that consists of 4 multiple choice questions [b]could[/b] mean they didn't master it, or it could be just bad luck because they misinterpreted a tricky question. [/quote]

four was just an example.  We have no idea whether this was an issue for OP's child.  If there were so few questions that a single missed question resulted in a C, I bet there would be a lot of different sorts of complaints and I bet that would have been OP's complaint, because it is hard when each question is worth 25% of your grade and it's an all or nothing without any partial credit.[/quote]

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