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| Check your grades at K12 Planet | ||
| You must have previously signed up for this service at the school. | ||
| Your grade in the course is determined as follows: | ||
| Reading Quizzes and Miscellaneous | 10% | |
| Dialectic Journal | 10% | |
| Major Exams (4) | 80% | |
| all major exams are comprehensive | ||
| Regardless of your grade in the class, I WILL NOT ASSIGN A SEMESTER GRADE LOWER THAN YOUR GRADE ON THE LAST MAJOR EXAM (Semester Exam). | ||
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The last major exam (Semester Exam) is a mock AP Test and will be graded as such. Thus, correct multiple choice answers are +1, blank multiple choice answers are 0, and wrong multiple choice answers are -.25. Free Response Questions (FRQs) will be scored according to a predetermined rubric.
If you score a "3" or better (50% of the possible points), I will will assign you a grade of "A" for the semester grade to be recorded on your transcript. |
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The format for the last major exam (Semester Exam) is: Time constraints prohibit asking four FRQs as there are on the actual AP exam. |
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| Missing Assignments, Quizzes, Tests, etc | ||
| If you miss an assignment, quiz or test, you have one week to make it up. Find me and tell me what you want to makeup. I will not remind you. If you do not makeup an assignment or quiz, your grade on the next Major Exam will be substituted for it - I will not record a zero. If you miss a Major Exam, your grade on the last Major Exam (Semester Exam) will be substituted for it - I will not record a zero. | ||
