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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, having third kid in HS now, the new grading system is definitely affecting GPA. It used to be that quizzes, class work and small projects could bring your grade up. Now they have a marginal effect. It is hard to compare as one kid was in during the Covid years where leniency was on overload. Middle kid HS experience was when they transition away from the Covid leniency and things became “normal”. The 70:30 split now(third kid had 1year of old grading system ) has been a bit rough. Studying habits are good, never an issue. And they are doing fine just more B/B+ than A’s. They sometimes just fall on the cusp and not in favor of the A but so close. It will be interesting to see how our 4th child does.  Arlington mixed the 70:30 after only one semester. [/quote]

Speaking of Arlington, the max you can get on a retake is 80%. So if you were hoping for an A, you are out of luck unless you get it the first time around. Most of my kid’s teachers still count summatives much more heavily than formatives (I’d say at least 70/30), so an 80% on one test pretty much means no chance of an A that quarter. [/quote]This is what it used to be in FCPS with the old grading split. You could get up to an80% on a retake. Last year FCPS implemented the new 70/30 split and you could do summative retakes for up to 100%([b]in our HS the retakes were harder than the actual-which is probably a good thing[/b]). This year the retakes are up to 90%. I suspect next year they will change it to re takes up to 80%. [/quote]

In DD's school, retakes are significantly harder than the original tests, which are challenging to begin with. This is across multiple classes. For instance, she just retook a test, where the original test was 35 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions. Her retake was 50 multiple choice and 17 short answer questions. The only reason she did well on the retake (and she didn't think she had) and not on the original, was that she got very sick on the day of the original test, and should probably not have taken it in the first place. The first time she attempted a retake, she scored 14 points lower on the retake.

This is sort of a theme, to the point where after the last retake in a different class, the teacher decided that today's test was not just going to be on new material, but on the old material as well, because so many kids did so terribly.

To OP's question, DD currently has 3 A-, and she's generally a straight As student who usually gets those with room to spare. This year, she will likely end up with at least one, maybe two A-, despite working much harder than she has had to previously.[/quote]

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