The IUPUC Grade Replacement Policy (formerly know as the FX policy) was
revised effective with the Fall 1996 semester. The new policy will allow
approved undergraduate students seeking their first degree to repeat a
maximum of 15 credit hours subject to
school/division approval. If a student chooses to repeat a course
and achieves the same or higher grade, only that grade will be counted
in the cumulative gpa.
Certain restrictions apply and the grade replacement policy may not be
honored by some IUPUI schools when considering admission to the school
or in computing graduation honors. Please contact your school/division
for more information on the grade replacement policy and to determine
if this option is available to you.
It is the student' responsibility to notify the school recorder that the
course has been taken a second time and that the student wishes to
exercise this option for the first grade. Replacement does not happen
automatically.
This policy is not available for graduate students or students seeking
any second undergraduate degree.
Undergraduate units will not consider petitions for change of grade from
concluded courses
older than 5 years.
IUPUC Grade Replacement Policy
The purpose of this policy is to allow students who have done poorly in
a course to repeat the course and remove the weight of the earlier grade
from the student's cumulative grade point average. The committee sees
this policy as an expansion of the current Faculty Council policy by
extending the replacement option to courses in which students receive
any grade rather than just grades of F. Schools retain the right to
consider the student's complete academic record for purposes of
admission to the school, granting of honors, or in meeting the minimum
gpa required for conferral of the degree.
- The effective date is the beginning of the Fall 1996 semester. Any
course being used to replace an earlier taking of the course must be
taken in the Fall of 1996 or later.
- The provisions apply to students pursuing an undergraduate degree
only.
- A student may exercise the grade replacement policy for a maximum
of 15 credit hours. The 15 credit hour limit includes any course
previously replaced using the FX policy.
- Grade replacement replaces use of the FX option. Grades previously
granted FX will be honored subject to #3 above.
- A student may exercise the grade replacement policy no more than
two times for a single course. Each attempted replacement will count
towards the 15 credit limit.
- Once invoked, a student may not subsequently request reversal of
the grade replacement granted to a particular course.
- Any grade may be replaced. The replaced grade will then be excluded
from the cumulative grade point average. However, the course listing and
the replaced grade will remain on the student's academic record with an
"X" denoting that the grade is excluded from the cumulative grade point
average.
- Invocation of the Forgiveness option does not preclude a student
from using grade replacement for work taken subsequent to re-enrollment
as defined by the Forgiveness Policy.
Grade replacement is available only for courses taken at Indiana University.
The grade being replaced must have been awarded in the Fall of 1975 or
later. Schools retain the right to consider records of performance from
other universities in determining admission to the school, granting of
honors, etc. (Note: this assumes that if the student's initial course
was taken on another IU campus, that campus is willing to place the
replacement flag on the course at IUPUC's request).
Approved by the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee with the
stipulation that Academic Units will interpret as appropriate for their
unit or not implement if it is not applicable and in concert with their
requirements.
