Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 12:55     Subject: finals?
Some teachers have them, others don’t.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 12:29     Subject: finals?
High schoolers take AP exams in May, if they're headed for selective colleges.

While I understand your opinion OP, and I myself come from France with its very stressful Baccalaureat exams... Americans just don't do things that way nowadays.

But I guarantee teens study for their AP exams!!!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 12:25     Subject: finals?
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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not coming back.

2 of ours are in college now, after graduating from MCPS, 1 still in an MCPS HS. For the top kids, they know for every exam what they need for their A (can get a 59 on some assessment for example). For the bottom, they don't care. So exam scores weren't good and that was bad optics for MCPS.

Because teachers give a rubric, kids are taught how to game the system - do the minimum to get the maximum

Our college kids (one in private one at an OOS flagship) are doing great, one will to graduate summa cum laude amd the other expects to do the same.


[b]That isn’t how rubrics work.



Yes, it is. Kid has a 96.2, has an assessment worth 15% of their grade, they can and do, do the math, and figure out they need xx on the assessment and can skip the rest of the 10% homework assigments and still get an 89.6, which equals an A in MCPS.

Rubric lays it all out for them


That’s a problem of the course grading structure and not one of the teacher using a rubric.

Rubrics ensure fairness. Jane and Jalil are graded on the same criteria as Jack.

Rubrics also ensure students are aware of how they will be graded.

School systems can alter grading structures so that half finished assignments and missing hw will not result in an A. That is independent of the U.S. if a rubric.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 17:30     Subject: finals?
I think the final exams serve a far greater purpose than preparation for college exams, they also reinforce the material that was supposed to be learned. And that is really important, for the following year's study whether in HS or college.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:55     Subject: finals?
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Anonymous wrote:And MCAP


MCAP doesn’t affect students’ grades in any way. It’s a report card for the school. Not the same at all.


You're clearly not the parent of a secondary student, for which certain MCAP exams factor into the 2nd semester grade


I'm the parent of a sophomore and the only MCAP that has factored into his grade is the biology MISA. Are there others?


https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/curriculum/eoc/mcps_eoc_studentflyerwfaqs-updated2024-06v1.pdf


Looks like it's just gov and bio, but it doesn't apply if your kid takes AP gov, as mine did last year. It fulfills the requirement but the AP test doesn't count toward the grade.