Matriculated or disqualified SJSU undergraduate students may petition to repeat courses in which they receive a C-, D, F, IC or WU for the purpose of academic renewal. Repeating courses for academic renewal does not remove the previous grade from the transcript, and only the most recently earned grade prior to Academic Renewal will be excluded from the computation of the grade point average. Only the grade earned for Academic Renewal is the grade of record. Academic renewal must be approved at the time of registration in the course.
The application of academic renewal on a student’s record will not change the academic standing from a previous semester.
Starting Spring 2005 students who were admitted to SJSU with fewer than 55 transferable units may take up to 18 units of coursework through Academic Renewal. Students who were admitted with 55 transferable units or more may take up to 9 units of coursework through Academic Renewal. This option is not available to graduate students.
Students who are not eligible for Academic Renewal may also repeat courses in which they received less than a "C" grade on the first attempt. Unlike Academic Renewal, the second grade is averaged with the first grade.
Units and grade points for all repeated attempts will appear on the transcript and will be calculated into the San José cumulative grade point average. However, units for repeated courses for which credit was received on the first attempt cannot be counted for graduation credit and will be subtracted from the total units completed when the student applies for graduation. Students should keep track of such units and not count them twice for graduation purposes.
Repeating a course in which a NC (no credit) was received on the first attempt results in the grade replacing the first in the GPA.
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