If a teacher loses your test?

Question

What are you entitled to? What are your rights? What should you do, cannot do?

Thanks.

There's no policy that states that if a teacher loses a student's test, such and such should happen?

what makes this whole situation worse is that finals is coming up next week. There's no time to retake the test.

Answer 1

Check with the principal or the school district. You can probably write the test, or a similar test, again.

Answer 2

This is a hard situation as teachers encounter students who pull all sorts of scams to get out of tests or to improve their score, and it is unlikely that a teacher will lose just one test.

How can you prove that you actually turned the test in and that the teacher really lost it? If you have a good relationship with the teacher or a good reputation in the school it'll help. If you the teacher actually lost it, you should be able to retake it or a similar test. Pushing for a free A probably won't get you anyplace, the most you should hope for is the average from your previous work. You might have to chalk this one up to bad luck.

Answer 3

That happened to a friend of mine once. The teacher made her retake the exact test and gave her a ten point curve. And she was given a couple of days to restudy.

I don't know though, I'm under the belief that if the teacher was dumb enough to lose it in the first place, you should automatically be given a 100%. I'd be pretty pissed off if I had to retake the test, because no one has time for that.

Answer 4

The teacher should apologize and then allow you to retest. Retesting puts you at an advantage by the way, you already know what's on the test.

In 12 years of high school and 27 years of college, this has only happened to me once and it was only one page of a test not the whole thing. He gave me full credit for that page. On the other hand, I have a history of getting 95-100 on all tests so that probably makes a difference.

Answer 5

You should get an A and the teacher gets a F