Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Final exams set in algebra

By RAYCEE THOMPSON
Room 210 News Editor

On May 6, all eighth grade advanced math students will start taking the final exam for algebra, (the exam will last for about 2 class periods). The final exam for algebra is a test over everything the students have covered over the year. Mr. Brian Neugebauer, teacher, compared the exam to the MAP, except this test will cover what the advanced math students have been covering, because it was made for algebra students, not eighth grade math students.

The government recently decided that since algebra is a high school class middle schoolers taking algebra should be held to the same responsibilities of covering the material and knowing it. From here on out, if this works well with this year's students, all algebra students in middle school will be required to take the final exam for algebra.

This year, the exam will count for 15 percent of the eighth grade algebra students' grade for fourth quarter. Next year, the exam will count for 25 percent of the eighth grade algebra students' grade for fourth quarter. Whether a student does well on the exam or not will not affect his or her placement for next year, but this test will help teachers see if a student may need to retake the class again. This test now helps parents and teachers have a better idea of where a student should be, Mr. Neugebauer said.

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