EXEMPTION POLICY
Secondary Schools
2009-2010
- A student must have a grade average of 80 or above in the course for which he/she is seeking a final exam exemption.
- A student must have no more than five absences in the course for which he/she is seeking a final exam exemption. Absences are counted up to the day the exam is administered. School- related absences do not count for purposes of this rule.
- An exemption from a final exam is not granted if during the semester the student is sent to Saturday class more than once, serves any time at the alternative school, or receives any suspension or expulsion.
- Any student meeting these criteria may earn exemptions from no more than two final exams in a semester. Students may not be exempt from a final in the same courses for consecutive semesters in the same school year.
- Students who register after the fifth day of a semester are not eligible for final exam exemptions. Transfer students have the responsibility to provide attendance and disciplinary information from the previous school to be considered for exemptions.
- Second semester graduating seniors are eligible for exemption from all final exams if all eligibility criteria are satisfied.
- Any student who qualifies for an exemption has the option to take the final exam. However, the grade received on the exam will be computed in the final semester average. The final exam is weighted at 20% of the semester grade. The numerical average for the three six-week periods will be the semester grade if the student is exempt and does not take a final.
- A student enrolled in dual-credit courses with Kingwood College may exempt those classes based on the above-mentioned guidelines.
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