Test Postponement

Test Postponement

Criteria

If you have three or more of the following assessments - test, announced quiz, paper, individual project or presentation or formal lab report - due or taking place on the same day, including at least one test or announced quiz, you may request a test postponement. Please note that if you have three or more assessments on one day, but none is a test or an announced quiz, you cannot request a formal test postponement.

Assignments other than tests and quizzes have significant preparation time in advance; therefore, the test postponement policy does not pertain. You can, and are encouraged to, discuss any concern and/or stress related to these assessments with your teacher(s). 

Once you realize that you may need to postpone an assessment, you should inform your teachers that you have multiple assessments scheduled for one day. Student-teacher discussions may resolve the situation without having to use the policy. It would also be helpful to discuss how much stress you are feeling in relation to each assessment, so that your teachers can help you better manage the stress. Once the determination is made that you will need to postpone a test or a quiz, you, the student, must submit the test postponement form found under Students on the ABRHS website 48 hours before scheduled assessments.

Testing after Vacations

Tests should not be given the day after Thanksgiving break, December, February or April vacations.

Tests, Quizzes and Homework Expectations during MCAS

A reminder will be sent prior to each MCAS testing period regarding homework, test, and quiz policies. As a general policy, on the days of English, Math and Science MCAS testing, no tests or quizzes are to be scheduled for sophomores; no papers or lab projects are to be due from sophomores; and only limited homework is to be due from sophomores.