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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 9th grader at a "W" school is panicking while preparing. She has a strong A average in her honors biology class but only got a 69 on the MISA practice test.

Some of what is on the test is physics -- material they haven't even learned (perhaps because she is taking bio this year!).

How can they make the score on this test count for 20 percent of the second semester grade in the course. It seems really unfair. She's done "A" work in class all year and may see her average dragged down to a "B" or even a "C" if she has a bad day on a test that the teacher has ill-prepared them for.[/quote]

This is no different than taken a final exam or AP exam.[/quote]

I think what you may be missing if you don't have a current student in "Honors" Biology is that the schools are not treating this the way they would an AP class. My child's "Honors" Biology class is full of sophomores who took Life Sciences last year, so not exactly your academic superstars. Both semesters, the class has been taught by a teacher barely out of undergraduate.

If MCPS high schools were taking this seriously, they would at least make sure to give these kids teachers with more than four months of teaching experience, to prepare for a test that could seriously impact their GPA. [/quote]

The test is for all Bio students throughout the state.  So don’t think your child’s Honors or non-Honors Bio class is going to make them an anomaly of students more unprepared.[/quote]

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