Most tests and quizzes can be made up or retaken any Tuesday or Thursday afternoon after school. There are many other opportunities for retaking tests and quizzes, before school and during free periods, by arrangement. Your chemistry teachers caution you to take tests as close as possible to the times they are first given. If you fall behind in the work, you will probably not be able to make it up since the pace of the course is uniformly high.

Other assignments, when turned in late (after papers have been returned) will receive a grade followed by an L. An assignment that normally would be worth 7 points, will be given a grade of 7L if submitted after the assignment has been graded and returned to the class. The teacher must search the student’s records to find evidence to substantiate the appropriateness of the grade. L grades are subject to the 100% rule. L grades may not receive more credit than the student has earned on a test of the subject matter. A 7L of 10 will be changed to a 5 if the student receives a 50% on the corresponding test. The student may request a retest in order to earn the full 7 points. If there is no verifying test with which to evaluate a L grade, the student will have to take a special test on the subject. A 7L will often become something less than 7.

Philosophically, we do not wish to harm the record of any student who turns in late work. However we are charged with the responsibility of giving meaningful grades, and the above rules are simply an aid at arriving at more meaningful grades. You are expected to complete your work on time, however in those few cases where you have to turn in work late, we will try to get you all of the credit that you deserve.

A rule change in 1999 established the final date for a make-up test at 3 weeks after the date of the originally scheduled test. There will be occasion when you may take a test later than the 3 week period however such amnesty periods occur rarely. You are advised not to depend upon them. The reason for the rule change? We found that a few too many students delayed taking the tests and fell so far behind that they wound up in serious difficulty but didn’t quite realize it. A rule change in 2000 further addressed the problem of students delaying taking tests and quizzes by adding a one point to any test or quiz taken when originally scheduled. Thus, if a 5 point quiz is scheduled to be taken tomorrow, and you take it tomorrow and score a 4 out of 5, you will receive a grade of 5 out of 5.

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