K I was just wondering ...

Say you fail a course at mac, it counts as a 0 in your gpa. If you take the same course again, does your new mark get counted in your average? Or is it the average of the two marks?

And again would it be the same idea as above if you pass one course, but you take it again to "upgrade" your mark?

I ask because I have a course which is required, but I'm doing ... bad in it ... but compared to the rest of the class and the class average... I guess im doing "Decent" ...

Anyways since it is required, and its a 4 unit course ... if I do pass and do bad, it will affect my gpa quite a bit ..... So I was thinking of possibly taking it again if my mark is that bad... The course is available both term 1 and term 2 so if any thing I could always just take it again ?

Thanksss people from the interwebz!

Both marks (including a fail) would be entered to your CA

From my understanding both of your marks are included in the calculation of your CA.

E.G.

Say in first year you have nine 10s and one 0, and then you retake the course in the summer and get a 10:

CA1 = (9 * 10) / 10 = 9
CA2 = (10 * 10) / 11 = 9.1

Basically, it'd be the same as you getting a 1 in the course:

CA3 = (9*10 + 1) / 10 = 9.1

It depends, if you have to be reinstated they reset your CA to 0 so you get a fresh start, but your transcript reflects that you had to repeat.

So pretty much unless you have been reinstated, then you have a legit reason for you to have a fresh start in that same course but it shows on your transcript that you have failed.

And if you do bad in one class, but dont have a legit reason to get a fresh start again, your pretty much screwed? Like even if you do poorly the first time and do really good the second time ... its kinda of like a waste of time?

Or if you fail a course, without being reinstated and having a fresh start again, the second time around would pretty much be for the credit ?

This is the only info I could find on this subject. I forgot to mention is about Engineering since I noticed that different faculties had different rules.

ENGINEERING I
To be eligible for a Level II Engineering program, a student must successfully complete all non-elective Level I courses with an overall Cumulative Average (CA) of 4.0 or greater. To help students who may have had academic difficulty during the year, the Faculty of Engineering has a remedial studies plan (called the M-Opportunity) that provides the opportunity to repeat failed courses in second term and/or in the summer. The results of these M-Opportunity courses are used to calculate a new CA (failed courses are still counted in the CA).

So it does mention repeating failed courses, but it seems that people might be SOL for upgrading their marks =\