Thank God, I have never had that large a problem. Occasional papers have gotten misplaced and students have resubmitted them. I would negotiate with the class to drop the grade out of grade calculations and restructure your grading scheme. I am a little disturbed by the rhetoric that suggests that a student who studied got nothing out of it. Didn't they learn things? Since when does learning things have to be rewarded in some way. If you are concerned about not testing on the material, include a question or two on the material in the next exam.
Mary Ann

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Either you have to give A grades to everyone or perhaps, throw out the 
exam. I'm not even sure the latter is fair. Anything else means that the 
students studied for exam 1 and got nothing for it

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, David Opderbeck wrote:

> Ok, what's the least unfair thing to do?
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>       How can you say giving another exam is "fair?" Your students studied for
>       the first exam. Now, they'd have to study for a "do-over" because you
>       lost the first one. How is that fair to them?
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>       David Opderbeck wrote:
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>       > Last night I gave a mid-term to a class of about 60 students.  I left
>       > 20 of the bluebooks on the train on the way home (moron!).  I'm hoping
>       > they will turn up in NJ Transit's lost and found today.  If they
>       > don't, has anyone had to deal with a situation like this before, and
>       > how do you handle it?  I'm thinking that if the missing bluebooks
>       > aren't found, the only fair thing to do is to write a new mid-term and
>       > give a "do-over."
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