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Friday, December 25, 2009

WTF: I can't believe I took incompletes in 3 out of my 4 courses. I feel like the biggest university failure ever.


16 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 25, 2009 at 10:35 PM

    What year?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM

    well i failed two courses. does anyone what it takes to be on academic probabtion? how many courses do you have to fail or what are the conditions? uw's site sucks, it's hard to find info on there

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  3. AnonymousDecember 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM

    *probation

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  4. AnonymousDecember 25, 2009 at 11:57 PM

    you have to search the undergraduate calendar here:
    ttp://www.ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca

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  5. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 12:01 AM

    also depends on what program you're in

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  6. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 12:54 AM

    what does NG stand for? its showing up in my quest.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 1:21 AM

    3 out of 4 courses? is that possible lol.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 1:43 AM

    that is absolutely dismal...I'm curious as to why you did so dreadfully, unless you've got a damn good reason you might as well pack it in b/c university clearly isn't for you.

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  9. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM

    yeah, drop out unless you're in upper years. you're toast. changing programs/faculty might not even help you

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  10. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 3:29 AM

    doesn't getting incompletes mean that you didn't finish or do all the required components of a course? in that sense, it's worse than getting failing marks, because INCs mean that you didn't even try...

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  11. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM

    hmm, i think that if you fail more than 2 courses in a term, you're kicked out. You can only come back after 8 months. If you fail one course and your average is still above the min req. for your program, then it's ok. Otherwise, you go on probation, which means you have to get your average up in the next term or else you get kicked out. I don't think you can switch programs if you're on probation either. You should check with your advisors. They're nice people and don't judge you.

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  12. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    9:05 is wrong. You can fail two or more courses and continue on. There are conditions and you will be on probation, but it all depends on your program. (i.e. you'd be kicked out in engineering for failing two courses).

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  13. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    not sure why you fail courses unless you're in a legitimately difficult program like AFM, some engineering, etc

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  14. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM

    how about if you fail two courses and you're in arts? but those two courses are just electives (not electives needed for arts degree -as you've taken those and passed) but just two other extra electives you wanted to take -and just ended up failing. But you passed the courses required for your program. do you go on some kinda probation or what happens?

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  15. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 11:24 PM

    ^ to prevent being kicked out, and to stay in your faculty, as long as you meet the minimum requirements for arts (65% arts average and 60% overall average), you *should* be fine. i know a few years ago, if you fail 4 courses within 2 terms then you'll be required to withdraw. but you're only asking about 2.

    and all that about "extra electives" or not: uhh i'm assuming you mean that these 2 courses you failed are in arts but they don't fulfil any sort of breadth requirement because you've already fulfilled them? it doesn't matter - they'll still be counted toward the averages.

    and academic probation just means that you have 1 school term to pull your grades up from that offending term.

    so at the end of the day, to prevent being failed out of arts and thus failing school, the very minimum you need is 65% arts and 60% overall, not considering the requirements you need for your major/minor. of course, i'd ask the advisor just to make sure, though.

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  16. AnonymousDecember 27, 2009 at 1:08 AM

    11:24, very helpful; thanks.

    7:24

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