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22 THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 9 AND 10: MATHEMATICS
Evaluation and Reporting of Student Achievement
Student achievement must be communicated formally to students and parents by means of the Provincial Report Card, Grades 9–12. The report card provides a record of the student’s achievement of the curriculum expectations in every course, at particular points in the school year or semester, in the form of a percentage grade. The percentage grade represents the qual- ity of the student’s overall achievement of the expectations for the course and reflects the cor- responding level of achievement as described in the achievement chart for the discipline.
A final grade is recorded for every course, and a credit is granted and recorded for every course in which the student’s grade is 50% or higher. The final grade for each course in Grades 9–12 will be determined as follows:
• Seventy per cent of the grade will be based on evaluations conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
• Thirty per cent of the grade will be based on a final evaluation in the form of an examina- tion, performance, essay, and/or other method of evaluation suitable to the course content and administered towards the end of the course.