<p>This year my school decided to change the grading system at are school. So now 90% of are grades are from test, and the other 10 percent come from homework.</p>
<p>For example if you get as a total 85% on test and 100% on homework. You would multiple 85% by 90 and get 76.5. And then you would multiple 100% by 10% and get 10. Add them together and get 86.5%. </p>
<p>The goal is to make test count more then homework. </p>
<p>I'm just curious if anyone else has weird grade systems and if you like it.</p>
<p>WHAT?
That scares me. I thought other schools were like mine where the teacher gets to set percentages for how much everything counts. In many classes there’s more than homework and tests anyway.</p>
<p>@Dgoreilik. My school used to be like that last year, teacher could control what how much homework and test counted. Rhen they changed it to the new system, and now every teacher has to have the same system. Because they want the don’t want kids to be able to do good in classes by just doing all the homework, that’s the real justification. </p>
<p>They have so all the teachers are using the same grade scale, like what percentage an A is and what percentage a B- is. It used to be some teacher would have a different scale. Also if you score less then 70% on a test, it goes as a missing. So then you have to do a corrective assignment. </p>
<p>The thing is with the new system, a lot of kids don’t do homework. Because it is not worth anything really. Actually it only 5% of your grade, because the other 5% goes to a BS Lifeskills Grades. Basically are you coming to class on time,doing all your work, and participating. </p>
<p>Also theres no extra credit, at least theres not supposed to be. Some teachers break the rules and still do extra credit. </p>
<p>@Cranberry yeah it’s as bad as it sounds, I’m not exaggeration when I say all of the kids in my school don’t like it. Even some of the teacher don’t like it. It’s gotten a lot of backlash. </p>
<p>@MIT yeah but your probably used to it by now. I had a regular system last year. Now for my senior year, the school completely revamped the grading system.</p>
<p>lol we’re programmed to do our homework. Like our tests we suck on, Hw we jam on.So our grades fail. I actually didn’t do enough hw in math to where it dropped me down to a B+.</p>
<p>Funstuff, when homework barely counts for anything or does not counts for anything its not very fun. Because when it does count, part of your grade is based solely on effort, whether or not you did homework or not.</p>
<p>Snickerpop, no quizes? And I really miss extra credit. I never had it in high school. I miss the good ol’ days of happy no work middle school.</p>
<p>I usually do not do it fully, like I do not do the easy, mindless problems. And I don’t try to make it look neat or organized. But tests are hard. So if you want to do well, you have to do some of your homework just as practice for the test.</p>
<p>My Calc BC class is based 100% on tests. Homeworks are graded on a scale of 1-5, your scores are averaged, and this is added to your final quarter grade.</p>
<p>@Dgoreilik. My school used to be like that last year, teacher could control how much homework and test counted. Then they changed it so now every teacher has to use the school’s system. Because they don’t want kids to be able to do good in classes by just doing all the homework, that’s the real justification. </p>
<p>They have it so all the teachers are using the same grade scale, like what percentage an A is and what percentage a B- is. It used to be some teacher would have a different scale. Also if you score less then 70% on a test, it goes as a missing. So then you have to do a corrective assignment. And then retake the test. </p>
<p>The thing is with the new system, a lot of kids don’t do homework. Because it is not worth anything really. Actually it only 5% of your grade, because the other 5% goes to a BS Lifeskills Grade. Basically are you coming to class on time,doing all your work, and participating. </p>
<p>Also theres no extra credit, at least theres not supposed to be. Some teachers break the rules and still do extra credit. </p>
<p>@Cranberry. Yeah it’s as bad as it sounds, I’m not exaggeration when I say all of the kids in my school don’t like it. Even some of the teacher don’t like it. It’s gotten a lot of backlash. </p>
<p>@MIT yeah but your probably used to it by now. I had a regular system last year. Now for my senior year, the school completely revamped the grading system.</p>
<p>Okay so the 90% is called summative and that’s where all the test and projects go.</p>
<p>The 10% is called Formative, this is for homework and participation. </p>
<p>@dgorelik. Yeah we still have quizzes and most teachers put it into formative.</p>
<p>One good thing is homework is not suppose to be counted late. </p>
<p>@Funstuff. I still have homework. It just now it really doesn’t count for anything anymore. You try to do good in a class without doing any homework at all, and see how well it goes for you. </p>
<p>An A- is like 90% so yeah theoretically you could get 100% on test and then you would have a 90% in the class, but what are the chances of that. In the end your grade is closer to what you get on test and projects, but look at my example. If that person did no homework. His grade would be like 76.5%. 10% is still a lot, but it no where where it used to be.</p>