Semester one finals to start Dec. 17

Viyang Hao
December 3, 2018

Semester one finals will begin Dec. 17 with Blue 4 (B4) finals on that day, according to Melinda Stephan, college and career programming and resource coordinator.

Stephan said finals, expect B4 finals, will begin at 11:40 a.m. Stephan also said Gold 3 (G3) and Gold 4 (G4) finals will be Dec. 18, Blue 3 (B3) and Gold 1 (G1) finals will be Dec. 19 and Blue 1 (B1) and Blue 2 (B2) finals will be Dec. 20.

Freshman Talia Thomas said Dec. 17 will be her first time taking a high school final exam.

“I don’t think it will be that hard since my schedule allows me to take my finals in a way that I have some free time for myself,” said Thomas. By Viyang Hao

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Hello! My name is Viyang and this is my first year on the HiLite staff. I'm a News reporter and the copy editor for the Student Section/15 Minutes...

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2 Responses to “Semester one finals to start Dec. 17”

Vidhur Bynagari on December 7th, 2019 12:12 pm

The 21st is a Saturday, right? Wouldn’t that mean B4 finals would start on Tuesday, the 17th, and so on and so forth with the other finals?
Hari Patel on December 15th, 2019 2:20 pm

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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