<p>How many of you have teachers that award the kids who do crappy on tests/quizzes?</p>
<p>We had a calc test, people who got under a 60% got to retake the test (unchanged!) but anyone over a 60% isn't allowed to retake. It's outrageous, why do teachers award the kids you do crappy and punish the ones who actually try?</p>
<p>Cause it would look bad for the teacher if his or her class had a high failing rate. </p>
<p>Yeah, it sucks. Especially for people who are right above the cutoff.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got a 69% on a test once. That was not low enough to make up…</p>
<p>In my Criminal Justice class, my teacher awards kids with extra credit for volunteering to read, answering random trivia, etc. if they are failing. It’s really infuriating. Extra credit should only be awarded for actual tasks that require effort, not things that one should do anyways.</p>
<p>What AeroEngineer said. You can thank NCLB for that.</p>
<p>Exactly and it gets even more frustrating when, as Aero stated, you’re right above the cutoff.</p>
<p>I look at it like, “OK if you told us there would be a make-up for below 60% grades i would’ve completely failed so i could get 100% the next time.”</p>
<p>You think that’s hypocritical? My math teacher helps people on math tests, so they can get the answer, but I, who did it by myself lose more point because of decimal places than people who just got the questions practically answered for them…</p>
<p>“We had a calc test, people who got under a 60% got to retake the test (unchanged!) but anyone over a 60% isn’t allowed to retake. It’s outrageous, why do teachers award the kids you do crappy and punish the ones who actually try?”</p>
<p>Wow this is stupid. You should complain about this to the administration.</p>
<p>welcome to the world of “life ain’t fair”. Things like this happen, kids cheat on tests, teachers cheat for kids. Try your best to deal with it.</p>
<p>ugh! i know!</p>
<p>At my school, Health isn’t a joke. Lots of kids are close to failing so she let us have an optional paper to help raise our grades.</p>
<p>She said she wouldn’t look at any paper when the student has an A. I have 91.4%. I wanted to raise my grade >.<</p>
<p>^^^ Im sorry,dang!it reely sucks.my teacher is always helpin’ the kids that do crappy on tests.not fair</p>
<p>Haha it’s okay 
I’m sure their grades can’t gain that many points… I’m sure even with the extra credit paper, I’m doing better <em>hopefully</em> :P</p>
<p>Welcome to socialist America? haha i joke…</p>
<p>I remember I asked my calc teacher once last year about a retake. She asked me what I got on it. It was some sort of C, I don’t remember high or low, and I guess I said it too loud or maybe she repeated it, because the whole class started shouting at me for wanting to retake when I had an “okay” grade.</p>
<p>Seriously? I though all schools discounted your bottom (and top) X scores (X is arbitrary, usually hovers around 10% of the total number of tests/quizzes taken)…</p>