Thinkwave & Online Exams

Your Thinkwave averages are now updated & current through work due today, 5/28.

For those of you not doing the online exams, you are:

• Getting absolutely no review because you aren't even looking at the exam questions, and you need it THE MOST if you've done no HW
• Setting yourself up for a very low 4th MP average
• Setting yourself up for failing the course, which you will be required to repeat before moving on to 12th grade Govt or Eco
• Failing the Regents Exam since, as mentioned, you have done little, at most, to prepare yourself for the exam which, again, is required for graduation.

As a reminder, you get no extra credit for review time when you don;t complete your work, and that includes online exams, video worksheets, review HW (including all directions followed.)  SO if you didn't do work that closed on 5/24, 5/25, or 5/26, don't expect any extra credit for review time on 5/23.  Same is true for the remaining 2 reviews.

And you are out of time to blow off assignments.  Your 4th MP grades end on 6/17.  What you've done, good or bad, is finished in just 20 days.  If you continue to miss or fail online exams, you will end up failing the course/Regents. 

ALSO DUE 5/29: Signed Thinkwave Sheet

Thinkwave printouts were handed out in class on Thursday, 5/23.  They are due back, signed, at the start of class on Wednesday, 5/29.  They are to be in the dark blue bin by the start of class, just like HW.  Late sheets will not be accepted for credit.

If you were not in class on 5/23, you must print out the entire 4th MP of your grades & have your parent/guardian sign it.  Not one page, not a summary sheet, all of your 4th MP grades.  Failure to do this will lead to a total loss of credit.  It is due 5/29, same as everyone else.  No extension will be given.

There were some entries made after review Thursday, so the sheet you have may not necessarily be your current average.  However, all HW & classwork up to & including 5/23 was entered into Thinkwave before I left.  Video sheets turned in were not entered.

May 31 Regents Review CANCELED

No matter how many times I asked, or how may ways I did it, many (not all of you) of the kids who attended review on 5/23 were remarkably inconsiderate with the noise level despite being told repeatedly that the Global kids were trying to concentrate on Part Is (multiple choice) & analyzing documents.  There were so many that created this that the Global kids literally expressed how rude & inconsiderate the other kids were, especially since their exam was weeks away & this was the 2nd to last review before Global.

As a result, your review on 5/31 is canceled.  The new Common Core Global Regents the 10th graders face is on June 3rd, and I simply won;t risk them being unable to concentrate the very last time they meet for review.

Your remaining 2 reviews will be June 7th & 14th.  There will be no review the night before your Regents Exam.

Sign up for June 7th will begin at 6:45 am on Friday, May 31st, and will end on Wednesday, June 5th.  That's only 2 days to sign up since you are off from school June 3rd & 4th.

Only 36 spots will be available.  I have 90 of you.  Sign up early if you want or need to attend.

If you signed up for but blew off review on 5/23, you are not welcome to attend on June 7th.

In-Class Practice Exams

In-class practice Regents Exams have no make-ups.  They are classwork grades.

If you are legally absent from school, you are exempt.  If you are not, it is a 0.  Field trips you elect to go on, music lessons, etc. are not legal absences from a Regents class at this time.   You have 12 classes remaining.  If you choose to miss class & we do an exam, you have also chosen your consequence.

THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN CANCELED

There will only be 1 day to sign up for the 5/31 Friday Regents Review.  Those at Friday review get first chance to sign up, & the remaining spaces open up on the following Monday & end Wednesday.  However, we are off this Monday & Tuesday, leaving only Wednesday for you to sign up (unless you are at review on 5/23, you can also sign up that night.)

There are just 3 reviews remaining.  Look at your score, & decide if a few Fridays at review is worth it compared to 6 weeks in summer school, or 40 weeks back in the same course...

Watch your due dates!!!

Please be sure you are doing the exam that closes in the shortest period of time.  All of your online practice exams will open on the same day, but they each close on a different day.

DUE: Monday, 6/17

August 2016 Regents Part I will be live 5/29.  It will close on 6/17 at 8 pm.  It is posted in Castle Learning.


A few reminders about these online exams:
1.  There is no make up exam.  You do it online by the time is closes or you miss the exam & will receive a grade of 0.
2.  You can do the exam at school on your free period OR after school when the library is open.  If you need a pass, please bring your agenda book.
3.  "First try only" counts, no partial credit for 2nd choices...because the Regents has & will never work that way.
4.  Any unfinished portion of the exam once it is locked will be like not finishing am exam in class - anything left unanswered will be marked wrong.

5.  Chronic & habitual cutters will receive no credit for online exams.  You must be in class regularly to receive credit.  You will NOT be allowed to earn grades while cutting, since any exam given in class you'd also likely cut (based on your current behavior.)
6.  The exam is timed at 1 minute per question.
7.  The exam will be scored in accordance with the post that addresses this information.