Grading and weighting MUS

[bluebonnetgirl]

For those of you using Math-U-See for high school, how are you determining the final grade for the course?

What percentage do you weigh the lessons, tests, and unit tests?

Thank you!

[almondbutterandjelly]

I only record grades for tests.  I average those for quarter grades, which get averaged for semester grades.  (We don't take unit tests.  Homework is checked and corrections are completed, but I don't "take grades" on homework.)

[bluebonnetgirl]

Thank you perkybunch. Do you allow test retakes?  If so how do you calculate the retake with the original test?

[hollyhock2]

I grade 50% daily work and 50% tests. This seems to be what the local schools do here. The unit tests I just count as tests.

[almondbutterandjelly]

14 hours ago, bluebonnetgirl said:

Thank you perkybunch. Do you allow test retakes?  If so how do you calculate the retake with the original test?

That's an interesting question.  Usually my dd gets an A or high B on every test.  I am always around for homework questions and corrections, and I will work anything on the white board for her that she is having a problem with.  So she rarely does poorly on a test.  Let me think.  She has flopped at least one test.  I get mad, and then I make her do some extra work.  What do I do about the test?  Hmm.  I think I just throw it out once I'm convinced she understands the material.

Now in History, for instance, I do allow corrections to the test and she can earn back half the points she lost.  They used to do that in regular school, so I feel comfortable with that policy.  But she has to have gotten a C or worse for me to do that.