Hey guys,
I was wondering, are your teachers the type to make a lot of your grade count on finals, to the point it could make or break your grade? Like either bump it up 5% or drop it down aggressively? Which teachers have you had are like this? What happened?
Most brought my grades up. German and PE brought their respective grades down.
By the end of the semester, I tend to have enough points in the gradebook where finals only affect my grade if I’m borderline. For example, I had an 86 in AP Calc AB last year first semester, fell asleep during my final, scored a 40% (I don’t recommend this) and I dropped to an 81.
@anxioussenior1 You must have nerves of steel. How does one fall asleep during a final?
Finals at my school overwhelmingly bring kids’ grades down. The teachers say that’s what happened to them in high school too.
Brought up:
AP Chemistry (94% on midterm, 85% in class)
Honors English 11 (90% on midterm, 90% in class)
Band (nothing changed 100%)
Brought Down:
Online Physics (80% on exam, 91% in class)
AP Calculus AB (68% on exam :(, 77% in class)
World History (97% on exam, 101% in class)
Finals are worth 20% of our semester grades.
@LikeThis When one is being stupid, thinks his final is two days later when it actually isn’t, starts studying at 2. I mixed up the dates of my finals and studied for the wrong test.
Our finals count as 2 test grades, and tests and the occasional large project/lab report count for 75% of your grade. Quizzes, homework, and any other assignments count as 25% of your grade. Therefore, it totally depends on the class/teacher and the amount of tests that had been taken that semester. If you have a teacher who assigns tests every other week, then it probably won’t have a massive effect on your grade. If you have a teacher who only assigns tests every month or two, then you better count on your final impacting your grade.
Overall, my grades barely changed after finals, which I was very thankful for because I had just switched schools a month before finals, so I basically had to learn all of the material on finals week. I was honestly expecting all my grades to go down. Ironically, my math grade went down (you’d think math is the one subject that has a universal curriculum, but nope; I think part of it was I got too cocky that math would be relatively easy and didn’t study as hard as I should have, especially since I had an AP final that same day) by 2% - but it fluctuated from a 99% to a 97%, so it didn’t kill me. A couple subjects went up by 1 or 2% - one, I think, by 3%. Nothing changed more than that, but that was with a hell lot of studying.