It always seems to work out after you've done the test. It's like seeing the red marks all over your working out magically gives you the ability to actually do the problems. Re-tests always seem to go much better.
Permalink Reply by Xuut on December 17, 2009 at 2:28pm
I know. >.> Especially when it's just a tiny mistake like not realizing it was 2.5% instead of 25%. And then it ruins your entire answer.
One time we had a Health test for a presentation we got earlier that week. The people who didn't watch it got a little pamphlet to help them. Everyone did not-so-great on the test, but the teacher planned it to be a practice test. The next week she gave everyone the exact same test. I got 100% (Sadly, the only 100 on a test this year), some how people who were there for the first test failed. v.v
Permalink Reply by Xuut on December 17, 2009 at 2:37pm
Oh gods, I hope I didn't do that. Eight marks on this test is worth 16%. I make so many mistakes on days when I didn't get enough sleep I just wonder, "O.o What was I thinking?"
Woah. The re-tests are generally easier for us, from what I can notice anyways.
Permalink Reply by Xuut on December 17, 2009 at 2:52pm
XD Last year we had an idiot Social Studies teacher, he basically ate in class and yelled at us when we talked things that he wasn't talking about. Which was usually not on topic.
His methods of teaching was lots and lots of movies. Then he used the movies for exams. X.X
My friend got three questions right, or something like that. She never did get a re-test.
We only get retests if everyone does spectacularly badly. If one person stuffs up then it's assumed they just stuffed up, if it's everyone then the test is flawed and you get another one.
And if it's just the teacher, well they never seem to think there's anything wrong with their teaching method or test, so....
Permalink Reply by Xuut on December 17, 2009 at 3:18pm
If someone gets a really bad grade, either falling, or really bad from the usual they're allowed a re-test.
If the entire class did pretty bad, depending on what teacher, we may get an assignment to boost our mark.
Some teachers allow you to redo it if its off your normal, but it really depends. Like I had pretty good marks in Chem, except for two fail tests which brought my mark down to C+ which I couldn't redo. Of course I then went on to pretty much fail my exam, but that's beside the point.