^ YES, indeed.

This is precisely what my DD often experienced as a secondary student. If she'd been scoring 50% all the time, an A was still within reach because of re-do policies.



However, the fact that most of the time, she was scoring 95%-100%, with a few oddball off days at 75%-80%, she often had to WORRY about her grades, and seldom got second chances at anything.

So fundamentally, an A+ was NOT within reach of most A students-- unless they happen to be of the "always on" variety.

All of HER assessments were summative.


For her struggling classmates, many of them were formative.

NOT cool to mix those two systems IMHO.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.