How is it at SR?

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Anonymous wrote:Which school OP?

I was guessing Gonzaga, since OP talked about boys, which seemed very specific to me.

Saint Anselms Abbey and Georgetown Prep are also all boy schools

Most local middle schools have done away with exams, so most freshman are adequately unprepared for a big cumulative exam. No idea how to prepare or general test taking strategies. Good lesson for them. Don't think an average of a C is anything unfair at all - especially if the test has strong historical data that meets the expectation and level of the course.

Anonymous wrote:Which school OP?

I was guessing Gonzaga, since OP talked about boys, which seemed very specific to me.

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I will say, this mirrors my child’s experience at BI. How can the class average be a C- or almost no one gets higher than a C? Not that things should be easy, but that doesn’t sound right to me.

That sounds familiar for one of my kid's classes this year. It sounds like there were just a small handful of B+/A- and one of those kids swears up and down that they have a photographic memory. So if that student could only manage an 85-90, there wasn't much hope for the rest of them. lol

Older sibling graduated already so we've been in the school for a while. I'm trying to console myself that it seems like midterms at BI tend to be harder, more detailed and comprehensive tests than the finals. Finals are much more likely than midterms to be a project or only testing content from 4th quarter, so not quite as heavy of a lift (though there's no guarantee). And the AP classes are all done by May so the teachers tend to go easy on them for the final, which is a small silver lining to loading up on APs.

Which school OP?

I will say, this mirrors my child’s experience at BI. How can the class average be a C- or almost no one gets higher than a C? Not that things should be easy, but that doesn’t sound right to me.