Jackson Preparatory School

Semester Examinations

For 7^th through 12 ^th graders, semester exams are given in December and May and are designed to be a comprehensive test for the current semester. Scheduled for two-hour blocks of time, the typical exam lasts ninety minutes. The minimum time a student must stay in an exam is one hour.

Exams are computed to count as twenty percent of the semester grade. The exam given at the end of the year is a semester exam…not a final exam. Semester grades are calculated by adding the first and second term grades twice and adding the number to the semester exam grade. The total is then divided by five. This average represents the first semester grade. Second semester averages are computed the same way. Final course grades are determined by averaging the first and second semester averages.

For semester exams, the school follows an “exam schedule”. With this schedule, one exam is given at 8:25 a.m. and a second one at 1:00 p.m. each day. Students are required to leave campus between exams. If a student does not have an exam at a scheduled time, they should not come to school. The first semester exam schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, December 13 – 8:25 a.m. – English

1:00 p.m. – Science

Thursday, December 14 - 8:25 a.m. – Social Studies

1:00 p.m. – Math

Friday, December 15 - 8:25 a.m. – Foreign Languages

The 6^th grade follows a different schedule. They will have their summary tests over two days, December 13 and 14. On these two days, the school day will begin at 8:00 a.m. as usual, but will end at 11:00 a.m. The English and science summary tests will be given on Wednesday, December 13, and the math and social studies summary tests will be given on Thursday, December 14. There will be no school for 6^th graders on Friday, December 15.