Semester Tests

It's the end of the semester! Guess what that means? Semester tests. Everyone despises these evil tests. So much studying and stressing come along with them. They count for twenty percent of your semester grade for goodness sake!

It is difficult to remember everything you have done in school for eighteen weeks for one test! Most teachers are nice enough to give you study guides and some classes like english just require you to write an essay. But it is wrong for one test to count for so much of your grade. If you are a straight "A" student and do badly on that ONE test you could suffer greatly.

I would recommend either stopping semester tests or lowering their effect on your semester grade. One good idea is to not require students with an "A" in the class to have to take the test. These students have worked very hard for this grade and it would be a small reward for them. Also, students with high grades in the class would be the ones to actually do WELL on the test. This would inspire other students to make "A's" so they wouldn't have to take the test either.

Over a nine week period you learn so much material. The subjects can vary so greatly. In math for example, you might start the nine weeks doing linear systems then end doing matrices. If subjects vary this much in one quarter, imagine the variety in one semester!