Thread: shelf exam

If you fail the biochem shelf exam, but do just well enough in the rest of that class to keep your overall final grade above the MPS, will you still be held back to repeat biochem next semester ?

What constitutes "fail" for the biochem shelf only ?

If your cumulative grade in a given subject is higher than the MPS, you will pass the subject...even if you did poorly on the course's shelf exam. You would only be required to retake that course (in your example, biochem) if you failed another course and had a shelf score less than 56 in Biochem. Then you would repeat both the failed course AND Biochem.

In summary, if you pass ALL your courses, you move on to the next semester. If you fail one or two courses, you repeat the failed courses AND any course in which the shelf score was <56.

The exact details are in the student handbook on pages 10 and 11.