An exam to improve students' marks

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Violetz

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Some of the students' marks are disappointing and they were less than what I expected. I want to give students another exam that improve their marks. My question, what do you call that exam? I believe "makeup exam" is used for students missing the exam.
 
How will another exam improve their marks?
 
Try "retest"

Try "retest"

Thank you ,but the exam is going to be different than the previous one and its purpose is to improve students' marks .In other words, I am not going to bring the previous exam and retest students. I don't know if the word retest is suitable. In my native language Arabic , the exam is called " an improving exam." Teachers give to raise students' marks by four or six marks.
 
Do you give them an easier exam so they can get better marks?
 
Do you give them an easier exam so they can get better marks?
No.The exam will be different than the previous one. Some questions will be changed and some questions will be the same ,but I will definitely change the numbers of equations. As I mentioned, the purpose of the exam is to raise students' marks. I have never given students less than B .Instead of giving them charity ' free marks", I will bend over backwards to give them another exam.
 
That doesn't seem to be a very ethical thing to do, Violetz. You're essentially rigging the assessment in order to make your students look better than they are.

Have I misunderstood?
 
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As you are an English teacher, Violetz, please amend your profile to change your Member Type accordingly.
 
That doesn't seem to be a very ethical thing to do, Voiletz. You're essentially rigging the assessment in order to make your students look better than they are.

Have I misunderstood?

Of course.

I gave the students a crazy amount of homework and worksheets. The specified course from the department is above their levels and selected course is Science for English. Above all, human relations and participation are crucially significant and the exam is not the only thing I care about. It is such a long story to explain why no one gets less than 80.However, those who don't submit the assignments and worksheets will definitely be below B.
 
As you are an English teacher, Violetz, please amend your profile to change your Member Type accordingly.

Thx. I didn't see the option "teacher (other)" when I registered.I am teaching "Science for English" though my major is not English.
 
Perhaps something like 'bonus exam'?

My first thought however was 'makeup exam'. The term can refer to either a missed exam or a 2nd attempt at a better score.
 
Perhaps something like 'bonus exam'?

My first thought however was 'makeup exam'. The term can refer to either a missed exam or a 2nd attempt at a better

Thank you. I am puzzled between bonus exam and makeup exam, both seem to be acceptable .However, the former is used with a few questions (as far as I know) the exam I am going to give them is 30 questions, every six correct answers is worth one mark bonus. Can I call 30 question exam a bonus exam?
 
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You can call it whatever you want. There are no rules about how many questions it must contain to be labeled a certain way. I'm not sure where you're getting these preset notions about naming conventions.

There is no hard and fast rule either about what constitutes a quiz vs. an exam vs. a test, or how many questions or how many points or how many points per question.

A colleague I work with doesn't even refer to them as quizzes or tests, but merely 'knowledge checks'. That's partially because she gives them a chance to re-work missed questions with an explanation of how the original was wrong and what the correct answer is. They also have to cite page numbers from their textbook which contain the relevant information for the corrected versions to be accepted.

I had a chemistry teacher in high school that would give us a choice on which test version to take. Some versions had more questions than others, but all were worth the same total number of points. The versions with fewer questions were harder and more complex, yet shorter. The versions with more questions took longer, but were easier.

So, depending on how confident you were, you could take a short version with the risk of losing many, many more points on wrong answers where more than a couple of missed questions resulted in a failing grade, or the longer version where a mistake only cost you a fraction of the points, and you could miss multiple questions while still getting a passing grade.

He once even offered us a one-question exam on a particularly difficult chapter, but nobody took him up on it. :D
 
I would call it a make up exam if the person taking it missed the original exam. (Maybe they were sick that day.)
 
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