Test Make-up Policy

Each grading period (each semester in AP US History and AP Government), your low score from the chapter tests will be dropped. For example, if your test scores for First Semester were 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, and 65%, the score of 65% would be dropped and would be replaced by “X” to show that the score had been dropped and would not count against you in your grade.

If you miss a chapter test, that becomes your dropped score for that grading period. (Temporarily, a Z will be recorded for that missing test.) However, if you miss a second chapter test during that grading period, you must make up that second missing test. The normal make-up policy would apply; you have five school days to make up work from an excused absence. If the absence is unexcused, you may not make up the work and you do not earn credit.

If you are missing just part of the school day, you have the option to take the test along with another section of the class. For example, if you are leaving early for a game and will miss the test during your normal 7^th Period class, you could come in to take the test with, say, my 3^rd Period class if they are also testing on the same material.

Note that this does not apply to any final exam. Nor does this apply to other assignments; in-class essays that you miss, for example, must be made up.

Also note that the low test score will not be dropped until the end of the grading period. Until all chapter tests for that grading period are completed, your low score or a Z (for a missing test) will appear on the Pinnacle grade report. But I’m confident that you can do the math and calculate an accurate grade in the meantime.

Why Implement This Policy?

Over the past few years, the number of students missing tests for family trips, sports, music concerts, and field trips has increased dramatically. After some tests, I have had to schedule as many as twenty-five separate make-ups. Unfortunately, there just isn’t time to do that. So if you miss a test and it is the first one you miss in that grading period, it will be your dropped score.