• Exams & Exam Exemptions:

    A final exam worth 20% will be administered for every course.  Exams are given the last four days of the semester and cannot be changed without the permission of the school Principal. Some courses will substitute a Milestone test or Advanced Placement test for a final exam. Exams will not be given early.

    Exam Exemption - Academic Final Exam Exemption 

    As a reward for academic excellence, a student may choose to exempt a final exam provided he/she has a grade 95 or better in the class. Once the exam exemption has been noted, the grade could drop below a 95 if the teacher still has outstanding grades to be entered

    • Any student who maintains an overall grade point average of 95 or better in a class may choose to exempt the final exam in that class
    • All students enrolled in 7 courses on SMHS campus may use up to three (3) academic exemptions
    • All students not enrolled in 7 courses on campus (opt-out/dual enrollment/credit recovery) may use up to two (2) academic exemptions

    Exam Exemptions - Attendance Final Exam Exemption (Choose one)

    Each semester, a student may exempt any one final exam provided the student has a semester average of at least 70 in the course he/she wishes to exempt and has 5 or less unexcused attendance occurrences (including tardy to school)

    NOTE: A student may exempt under one exemption category only. He/she may not exempt one exam for general exemption and one exam for academics. End of course test cannot be exempted.

     

    Senior Final Exam Exemption - 2nd Semester

    • A high school senior who will be graduating at the end of the second semester may exempt the final exam in any course(s) provided the senior has a grade of 80 or higher in that course.  A senior may use the General Final Exam Exemption in lieu of the Senior Final Exam Exemption if the student chooses. For the final exam exemptions a. If a student qualifies for both general and academic final exam exemptions, the student must choose only one type of exemption (general or academic). A student may not combine the two types of exemptions b. A student may not exempt the first or second-semester final exams for courses with an End of Course Milestones assessment, AP Courses, and IB courses. c. Final exams in dual enrollment courses are under the jurisdiction of the post-secondary institution.  FCPS final exam exemption procedures do not apply to dual enrollment courses