Exams

Teachers attempt to ensure that students do not have more than two exams on any one day. Students are normally the first to discover when this guideline has been overlooked, and teachers are usually amenable to rescheduling when students winsomely bring this to their attention. There are times, however, when circumstances may necessitate more than two exams in one day. In such cases, no “rule” has been broken by the teachers; rather, a helpful guideline is being unavoidably suspended.

For the purposes of exam scheduling, quizzes are not considered exams. Additionally, essay and project due dates are not applicable to this guideline. Efforts are made to prevent pileups, but completion dates for these assignments are normally known well enough in advance for proper planning on the student’s part to prevent a heavy load.

1. MISSED EXAMS 
   Students who miss an exam but were present the class period before the exam are required to take the exam at lunch the day they return to school (whether or not the class meets) unless they schedule a time to make up the exam with their teacher. Students who miss multiple class periods leading up to an exam will need to communicate with their teacher, understand their teacher’s expectations for getting caught up, and schedule a date to make up the exam with the teacher. Exams may be scheduled and taken early, with the teacher’s approval, if the student knows he or she will be absent on the day of the exam. If a student misses more than one exam when they are absent, he or she will take one exam at lunch a day until all exams are made up, or unless he or she schedules a makeup time with the teacher.

   A student who misses class the class period before an exam must still take the exam on the originally scheduled date if he or she is present on the day of the exam. Patterns of absences on exam days may result in academic and/or behavioral consequences. Missing a makeup exam will result in an automatic 10 percent reduction on the exam grade. Students who are absent from a class period in which an exam is given but are present for other class periods on the same day, will be required to take the exam during lunch, study hall, or after school. Failure to do so may result in academic consequences.

2. FINAL EXAMS 
   See the Academic Standing section for more information concerning Final Exams.
    

3. AP EXAMS
   Students taking AP courses may sit for their AP exams in May. These exams are administered on campus. Under most circumstances, the AP exam completes the course work for an AP course. Students in AP courses are not required to take the AP exam. As mentioned above (see AP Courses), students do not have to take an AP course in order to sit for the exam.

   Registration for all AP courses takes place in the fall, and each AP exam incurs an additional fee.

4. STANDARDIZED TESTING
   Rhetoric School on-campus standardized testing lines up as follows:
   • Grade 9: CLT 10, CTP
   • Grade 10: PSAT in October, CLT 10 in Spring Semester

   • Grade 11: PSAT/NMSQT in October and school day SAT in March

     With the aid of the College & Academic Advisor, students schedule their own sittings for the SAT, ACT, and CLT (Classic Learning Test).