Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: One Retake per Semester Students are allowed one retake per semester. A parent contacts you to request their child be given a second chance to retake an exam. How do you respond? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I do not believe in one retake per semester. The purpose of a test is to check for understanding. If they fail the test, why not give them a chance to relearn and retake? If a kinder-gardener fails a test on the letter A, do we say o well and move on to the letter B without learning the letter A? No, that would be crazy. The same should be true of any subject. We want our students to learn. Some take more chances than others.