im doing a posion paper in goverment and my topic is the exit exam and im not for it becaues if u are a senior and you meet all of the other requriments and you cant graduate becaues you didnt pass one test. i think that dumb. 41,000 seniors didnt graduate lasty year caues of it.. and i want to know what other people think about..

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Well Triss, look at the bright side, you live in Canada.

True, true, i'm not complaining.

Well Triss, look at the bright side, you live in Canada.

I live in Canada so we don't have a test like that. instead we have provincial exams. which, when they say a C is average, they acutally mean it. you take them in grade 10, 11 and 12 academic course, and they are worth 40% in grade 12, 30% in grade 11 and 20% in grade 10. i think its dumb that one test has so much weight on your overall mark... what if you're not good at tests?

I took it. A thrid grader could pass it. If you can't pass it as a senior that means you had failed it not just once since you can take it twice a year and once the year after you are a senior. If you can't pass it by then you honestly shouldn't be aloud to graduate because you have learned nothing.

I never took an exit exam... Heck, I've never even heard of exit exams. I think that's just a California thing.

While it does seem like a good idea to keep people who don't academically deserve a diploma from getting one, I don't see what it really accomplishes. What alternatives are there for kids who fail the exit exam? Do they just drop out and are never heard from again?