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SCHOLASTIC GRADING AND REQUIREMENTS 101
A condition in any term's work must be removed during the next
term in residence on the date fixed for the removal of conditions. Each
student should consult with his instructor at least a week in advance
of this date. Any condition not so removed automatically becomes a
failure, unless otherwise recommended by the instructor at the time
the condition is given.
Failed means that credit may be secured only by repeating the
subject, except that in special cases the Registration Committee may,
with the instructor's approval, authorize a removal of an "F" by
three three-hour examinations.
Term examinations will be held in all subjects unless the instructor
in charge of any subject shall arrange otherwise. No student will be
exempt from these examinations. Leave of absence from examinations
may be obtained only from the Deans, and will be granted only
in the case of sickness or other emergency.
SCHOLASTIC REQUIREMENTS
All freshman and sophomore students are required to meet certain
scholastic standards as outlined below. Students transferring from
other colleges into the junior, senior, or Master of Science divisions
are also subject to these restrictions until they have satisfactorily
completed three full terms of residence at this Institute. In addition,
students who have been reinstated to junior standing after having
failed to make the required number of credits in the sophomore year
are subject to these scholastic requirements in the junior year and
also in the senior year if the junior work is not satisfactory.
Each course in the Institute is assigned a number of units corresponding
to the total number of hours per week devoted to that
subject, including classwork, laboratory, drawing, and field work, and
normal outside preparation. Credits are awarded on the basis of the
number of units multiplied by four if the grade received is "A,"
three if "B," two if "c" and one if "D": thus, a student receiving a
grade of "B" in a twelve unit course receives 3 6 credits for this
course.