Preparing For Your Final Exams

Please explore the following slide decks developed by our Student Services team to support Leaside HS students as they prepare for their Final Exams. Click on the topic to access the slide deck.

NOTE-TAKING & STUDY-STRATEGIES

TIME MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION

OVERCOMING TEST ANXIETY

SEMESTER 2 END OF TERM CALENDAR

Use the Semester 2 Year End Calendar to help organize your upcoming Final Assessments & Evaluations (Culminating Tasks, Presentations, Final Exams, etc.). Please make a copy for yourself!

Absence from Final Evaluations:

Absence from a Culminating Activity Evaluation

Culminating activities are completed toward the end of a course and are part of the student’s 30% final evaluation.

Culminating activities and examinations carry the same importance and the same attendance requirement. Thus, attendance during culminating activities is mandatory. Most Culminating activities occur in stages over several days.  Teachers will inform parents early on in the culminating process if they see that a student is beginning to fall behind in the culminating assignments.  In order to honour and respect everyone’s time, due dates for culminating activities must be strictly adhered to.  

In the event that a student is too sick to complete a culminating activity, the parent/guardian must provide documentation of the illness.

The parent/guardian is asked to contact the school before the culminating activity due date. The parent/guardian will be given the Leaside ‘Missed Evaluation’ form to be completed by a medical doctor and submitted within two days of the missed culminating activity.

Family vacations are not considered excused absences and as such, students are expected to be in class for all culminating activities.

If satisfactory documentation of the illness is provided on the missed evaluation form, the culminating activity may be accepted/rescheduled. Otherwise, the student will receive a mark of “0”.

Absence from a Final Examination

Exam dates and times for all courses are set out in the exam schedule which is distributed to students and parents/guardians. We are not able to accommodate any changes to the exam schedule or requests to write an exam at a date/time other than the scheduled date/time shown - please plan accordingly.

Students are urged to check their exam schedule carefully. If a student misses an exam because of misreading a schedule, the student will receive a mark of “0”.

In the event that a student is too sick to write a final exam, the parent/guardian must provide documentation of the illness.  The parent/guardian is asked to contact the school before the exam is written. The parent/guardian will be given the Leaside ‘Missed Evaluation’ form to be completed by a medical doctor and submitted within two days of the missed exam.

Family vacations are not considered excused absences and as such, students are expected to be in attendance for all examinations.

If satisfactory documentation of the illness is provided on the missed evaluation form, an alternative evaluation may be scheduled. Students granted an alternative evaluation will receive a mark of “0” until they complete the alternative examination.

Moratorium

A moratorium is defined as school days where there should not be any excursions or any activity that has evaluation based on the 70% of the course work connected to it. Moratorium days include four days prior to the scheduled January and June exam/evaluation days. If the course happens to be a “single section” course the final written examination may be written in class during the “Moratorium Schedule”.

It is important for both students and parents to understand that evaluation is a continuous process from semester start to semester end. In particular, the months of January and May/June are critical months during the school year. Evaluations will be ongoing throughout these months and student attendance for all types of evaluations is required.

Exam Lengths

The length of the exams is either 1 or 1.5 hours.