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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the school profile include, “We allow re-tests?”  Do these same students imagine there is a re-testing policy in college?  Any college professors, please chime in. [/quote]

My DH is a professor and if he had a dime for every student who asked him about retakes… Even when he goes over the syllabus, he still had students asking about them. He does offer students a chance to show him what they are writing ahead of the due date for feedback. He said nobody takes him up on that offer. [/quote]

Wow. Thanks for the update. Re-takes are so normalized,v the kids think everyone does it. Hard dose of reality [/quote]

College professor here.  I offer retakes and I accept late work.  Learning is my goal for students, not sorting and gatekeeping. So when you tell high school students, college isn't like this, that isn't necessarily true.  Oh, and all college professors blow past their own deadlines. if you've ever edited an academic journal you know this - peer reviews never come back by the deadline. And a revise and resubmit is basically a retake. Most academic journals accept articles either as accept with revisions or revise and resubmit. Very few unconditioned acceptances in my field at least[/quote]

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