SINGLE RETAKE POLICY FOR FIRST YEAR 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 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.

ONE RETAKE ONLY AND ONLY A WEEK’S TIME…

You may retake a test only once. You have one week from the day that the original in-class test was handed back to the class in which to complete a retake. Your absences from class during this period do not extend the retake window. 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).

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.

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 last day of the week-long window.

Unfortunately, Ms. Munificent took ill and missed the appointment. She now wants to retake a day later.

Too bad.  Ms. Munificent cannot retake the test after the week-long retake period, no matter how good the excuse. Her final score is a 67.  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.