1991-1993 Catalog - Catalogs - West Virginia University

Pass-Fail GradingPass-fail grading encourages you to take elective courses not related to yourdegree concentration. Pass-fail grading also facilitates grading in competency-basedcourses which may be an integral part of your program.Student Option. Any full-time student who has completed 15 hours or more andwho has maintained a 2.0 grade-point average may take a maximum of four (4) hourseach semester or summer session on a pass-fail basis. Any course taken on a passfailbasis must be a free elective. You are limited to a total of 18 hours of pass-failcredit in your collegiate career. Unless otherwise indicated, courses in your major,courses in other subjects that are required by the major, and courses taken to satisfyUniversity, college, school, or departmental requirements are excluded from pass-fail.For example, courses elected to satisfy the English, Liberal Studies Program (LSP), orforeign language requirements may not be taken for pass-fail grading.If you elect a course on a pass-fail basis, you are graded as a regular student.The instructor turns in the appropriate letter grade to the Office of Admissions andRecords. This letter grade is then converted to a P on the basis of A, B, C, or D for apass and F for a fail. The grade of P does not affect your grade-point average.However, any F grade affects your grade-point average whether it is a regular grade ora pass-fail grade.You choose the option of pass-fail grading for a course during the registrationperiod. Once the registration period has ended, you may not change the grade statusin the course.College or School Option. A department or unit may designate any performanceorcompetency-based course as exclusively pass-fail. To institute this, the college orschool must have the approval of the Faculty Senate. Courses offered only as pass-failare not included in the maximum of 1 8 hours that may be freely elected under thestudent option.Grade PointsEach letter grade has a numeric value. Grade points are based on thisnumber value and the credit-hour value of the course.A B C D F I U4 3 2 10The grade-point average is computed on all work for which you registered, with thefollowing exceptions:*Courses with a grade of W, WU, P, S, and X carry no grade value. The grade ofincomplete (I) initially carries no grade value.*The grade of I is given when the instructor of the course believes that the work isunavoidably incomplete or that an additional examination is justified. To remove thegrade of I, you do not register for the course again; instead, you arrange to submitincomplete or supplemental work to the original instructor of the course. When youreceive the grade of I and later remove the incomplete grade, the grade-point averageis calculated on the basis of the new grade. If you do not remove the I grade within thenext semester in which you are enrolled, the grade of I is treated as an F (Failure). TheAcademic Standards Committee of the appropriate college or school may allow you topostpone removal of the I grade if you can justify a delay.* If you are working toward teacher certification, you are responsible for everyregistration in a course in which the grade of A, B, C, D, F, WU, P, X, or Iis received.34 West Virginia University