RETAKE POLICY FOR SLAV 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 RUSSIAN
If you take a chapter test and do badly you can retake it.
But as they say in the airline business, restrictions do
apply. Read carefully:
If you get under 80 on any chapter test, you are encouraged
to retake another version of the same test. In order for a
retake score to count, you must get 80 or higher. If you
fail to reach 80 on the second version, you may take a third
version, and then a fourth, and a fifth, and so on and so
on.
If you get 80 or higher on a subsequent retake, your score
is averaged in with your score from the first in-class test.
Your final grade for that unit is the average or 80,
whichever is higher. However, if you fail to reach a score
of 80, the score on the subsequent retake is thrown out.
RESTRICTIONS ON THE NUMBER OF RETAKES
You may keep on retaking the test until the day before the
next unit quiz (not the day when the next unit quiz is
given). You may not take more than one version of the test
per day. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE, NO MATTER HOW
LEGITIMATE THE EXCUSE.
RETAKES ARE A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT!
Retakes are given at the instructor's prerogative. If you
make an appointment to retake at the last minute before a
new unit test, and the instructor is unable to show for
whatever reason, you will not be allowed to make up the test
after the next unit test. In other words, do not rely on
retakes to keep your grade afloat. They are meant to be a
last resort to repair a very occasional bad grade.
EXAMPLES OF HOW THE RETAKE POLICY WORKS:
Example 1 - Theodosius Q. Zhaboluboff:
Theodosius Q. Zhaboluboff took an in class test on Chapters
1-10 and got a 40. (He was suffering emotional strain from
the recent death of his pet toad).
Mr. Zhaboluboff then retook the test, and because his pet
toad's death was still weighing heavily on him, he improved
somewhat, but only managed to pull a 56.
Two days later Mr. Zhaboluboff took a third version of the
test. Again there was some improvement. Mr. Zhaboluboff's
score went up to 78. Still, the score was two points shy of
80.
HAD MR. ZHABOLUBOFF DECIDED NOT TO DO ANY MORE RETAKES, HIS
FINAL TEST SCORE WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS IN-CLASS SCORE OF 40.
However, Mr. Zhaboluboff persevered. One day before the test
on the next chapter, he took a fourth version, and, with his
toad's memory now over eight days old, he managed an 82.
Since 40 and 82 average to under 80, Mr. Zhaboluboff gets
the benefit of the doubt: his final score for this test is
80.
Example 2 - Pulcheria Premudry:
Pulcheria Z. Premudry got a 79 on the in-class test on units
1-10. Two days later she retook a second version of the test
and did worse: 76. The second version does not count against
her. It is not recorded.
Ms. Premudry then took a third version of the test and aced
it: 100. Her score is the average of 79 and 100: 89.5.
Example 3 - Melenie Munificent:
Melenie Munificent got a 67 on the in-class test on lessons
1-10. She made an appointment with her instructor, Professor
Mark D. Stress for a retake during his office hours on the
day before the next unit test.
Unfortunately, Professor Stress, despite his usual rigid
punctuality worthy of a German engineer, missed his office
hour and consequently didn't make his appointment with Ms.
Munificent.
Too bad. Ms. Munificent cannot retake the test the next day,
since that is the day of the next unit test. Her final score
is a 67. And it was Professor Stress's fault that the
meeting didn't take place. Moral: Retakes are never a sure
thing. Do well on the in-class version of the test.
Example 4 - Redmont W. Sovershenny:
Redmont D. Sovershenny has gotten under 100 only four times
in his life. However, on the test for Units 1-10 (a
miserable test, as you can see from the above examples) he
got a 94. A score of 100 based on a retake is now
impossible, but Mr. Sovershenny wants his score to be as
high as possible. He takes a second version, gets 100, and
his final score is 97.