<p>I envy your school.
A lot of seniors in my school are exempted from taking midterms/finals for AP classes b/c their seniors lol.</p>
<p>Last year, to motivate most of the students to actually focus on the material, my APUSH teacher had this policy where if you score 70% or higher on like 7/10 of his practice tests, you were exempted from the finals. It was best thing ever, considering APUSH was a double block, therefore 2 exams over 4 hours.</p>
<p>In my county, prior to the Swine Flu’s existence, if you were not absent at all for the entire semester, you could exempt up to four of your exams. If you were absent once, you could exempt three exams, and so on. </p>
<p>However, once the Swine Flu came about, the county decided that it wasn’t a good idea to put kids in the situation of: I’m sick with Swine Flu, but I want my exemptions, so I’m going to go to school anyways and infect everybody around me.</p>
<p>…So they did away with exam exemptions. This was my first year taking ALL 7 of my exams, and it wasn’t easy preparing for them all.</p>
<p>I wish the county would offer exemptions for students with good grades (i.e., all A’s).</p>
<p>Seniors, as long as they maintain a C-average, can exempt one of their mid-term exams and all of their final exams.</p>
<p>For those who don’t take midterms or take just some of the midterms, how the hell are you going to deal with college?</p>
<p>They make you take midterms in college. You kind of don’t have exemptions there.</p>
<p>I honestly can’t take this kind of grade inflation. If you don’t take a midterm or if it doesn’t count towards your grade, obviously it would make your grade higher, than if the midterm did count. It’s just a type of grade inflation schools, private and public, are now preaching.</p>
<p>esmee16, I have had to take plenty of midterms (including gym LOL), and I’ve always scored well on them with minimal additional studying than i would for a regular test (usually 5 minutes before the test starts, for finals maybe 20 minutes the night before). I’m one of those people who does really well on tests, my lowest test grade I’ve gotten in HS was an 87 on a french test that most of the people in the class scored like less than 80 in… OH and I took a college class where I did a midterm (albiet it was take home =P) so yeah. High school midterms don’t really compare to college anyway… but I understand what you’re saying, and thats why my school is actually probably going to change the policy, because most of the people who don’t take finals are those who are definitely going to college.</p>
<p>ahh midterms definitely broke my back this year. my school has a policy where you dont have to take the midterm if you get a B or higher in the class and if you have less than 10 absences that semsester but if you exempt the clas that first semester you have to take the final in june, so either way you have to take the exam (unless you are a senior; only seniors get to exempt all of their finals) . but you always have to take any AP midterms you have. </p>
<p>i think it sucked worse because i had to take two exams each day (for two days) and then i had my calc exam on its own. but i am still mentally wiped out.</p>
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<p>That’s not necessarily true. Both of my math classes this quarter have built in safety for if you screw up on one of your midterms. Of course if you do, you’re unlikely to do well on the final (which is bumped to 60 or 70% of the grade). IOW, midterms are the easy part of the class.</p>
<p>I didn’t want finals to come and during finals week I was really feeling horrible but now I feel great again that finals is part of the past ( well at least for now).</p>