EXAMS

Teachers must give a written explanation at the beginning of the school year to indicate what percentage value is given the exam in determining the semester grade.  (Exams should not exceed twenty-five percent of the semester grade).  Students may not visit other schools while they are on exam schedule. 

Exam Exemptions
As a positive incentive and reward for those students whose grades are exemplary, the following procedure is an available option:

All seniors qualifying as spring graduates who have maintained a grade average of "A" or "B" in the course for the year through the week preceding the examination shall be exempt from taking the second semester examination and will accept the currently earned grade.  Students in grades 9-11 who meet the following attendance/grade standards will be eligible for second semester exam exemption:

Students with an "A" or “B” average for the course for the year through the week preceding the examination with no more than 6.0 total absences in the class for the year (reminder – check-ins and check-outs count 1/3 and can cause you to go over 6.0).

Students who have more than 6.0 absences in a class may not use credit recovery/Saturday School to regain exam exemption.

Students may choose to take the exam if they qualify for exemption.  The exam will only count if it raises the grade for those students who qualify for exemption but who opt to take the exam.  STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR EXAM EXEMPTION DUE TO THEIR YEARLY AVERAGE BUT WHO HAVE A "C" AVERAGE FOR SECOND SEMESTER ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO TAKE FINAL EXAMS.

**  Any assignment of Out-of-School Suspension/Phoenix Center or any assignment of 4 or more cumulative days of ISS/Saturday School will eliminate the student from exempting exams (including students who have taken AP exams).  **

If a student drops a course after 10 days of membership in the course, the grade shall be recorded as an "F" for the year in which the course is dropped.