0
Well Wisher Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

make-up exams

is the term "make-up exams" used in the States to refer to the exams in which a student compensates for failure in the final exams? what terms do people use in Britain or other English-speaking countries?
  

Top answer

In the US, you take a make-up text because you couldn't be in school the day it was given. You were home sick, you had a family emergency, etc. If you're doing poorly in a class, sometimes you can do "extra credit" to help compensate for poor test scores.

— BarbaraPA

  • In the US, you take a make-up text because you couldn't be in school the day it was given.
  • You were home sick, you had a family emergency, etc.
  • If you're doing poorly in a class, sometimes you can do "extra credit" to help compensate for poor test scores.
  • But if you fail the final, you repeat the class.
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

14 Answers
0
In the US, you take a make-up text because you couldn't be in school the day it was given. You were home sick, you had a family emergency, etc.

If you're doing poorly in a class, sometimes you can do "extra credit" to help compensate for poor test scores. But if you fail the final, you repeat the class.
0
0
Grammar Geek
In the US, you take a make-up text because you couldn't be in school the day it was given.

Why text and not test 2G? Was that a typo?

[8]

0
0
I believe it was a typo; I live in the US and I have never heard of a "make-up text."

However, Grammar Geek is correct: in the US make-up work is what you are given when you are absent.

Something you may say to your teacher if you missed class the day before: "May I have my make-up work, please?"
0
0
Thank you for your explanation Tattered, you took me out of doubt, and welcome to the EF!

[8]
0
0
Whoops. Typo. Sorry for the resulting confusion. TEST not TEXT.
0
0
Never mind GG (or 2G?). We all make mistakes every now and then. Emotion: big smile

[8]
0
0
How about G^2. Seems even geekier.
0
0
You mean G²? Why not G³ then? That's even geekier, if possible. Emotion: big smile

[8]
0
0
Yes, exactly, but how do you use superscript in here? The G^2 is how you'd do it in a formual in a program like Excel, I think. I'm a math geek too.
0
0
Alt + 0178 = ²

Alt + 0179 = ³

[8]
0

Related Questions