Dr. Pallavi Patel School of Health Sciences (PSHS)—Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences 2025–2026 233 Grading Policy Didactic courses for the B.S. in Respiratory Therapy—First-Professional program are graded on an alpha scale. Clinical courses are graded on a Pass/Fail scale. Grades lower than a C or P will result in failure of the course. Alpha Grade A AB+ B BC+ C CD+ D F Scale 4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.0 Percent 94–100 90–93 87–89 83–86 80–82 77–79 74–76 70–73 67–69 60–66 Below 60 Academic and Clinical Promotion Successful progress through the curriculum requires continuous, satisfactory, academic and professional performance. At the end of each semester, the academic director, department chair, and the CSP will evaluate a student’s performance to determine timely promotion to the next term. Students must pass all courses with a grade of C or better. A grade lower than a C will result in failure of the course. Retake/Repeat/Remediation If a student fails a course, a comprehensive remediation examination, written and/or practical, will be administered. Grades on the transcript will be notated to indicate a repeated course or remediation examination. A final course grade of less than C in any course will constitute a course failure. The grade from a remediation examination will be no higher than a C. Students who fail a course and the remediation examination will be referred to the CSP. Successful remediation does not negate the original course failure in terms of student retention in the program. A student who fails two or more courses, even with successful remediation, will be sent to the CSP and may be dismissed from the program. Failure to pass any of the didactic and/or clinical components or their remediation may lengthen the student’s time in the program, as this is a lockstep program. Failure may also delay progress in the program, incur additional tuition, or result in dismissal from the program. Each course in any given semester must be successfully completed with a passing grade to move to the next semester. If this requirement is not met, students can reenter the program upon approval of the program’s administration, successful competency evaluations, and auditing of courses starting in the beginning of the academic year in which the failure took place. The student will be charged for retaking the course(s) that resulted in a failing grade.
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