Are no grades given when a course is unsuccessfully completed?
If for whatever reason a course is not completed, students are assigned a “no record (NR)”–not a grade, but an acknowledgment no passing grade was earned. The “NR” symbol is used only for internal bookkeeping. On a student grade report on the web, a course for which a student as received no credit simply does not appear. Thus at the extreme, a student who earns no credit in a term receives a blank grade report. The 7 week term has one great advantage for students especially in the first year. If they do poorly, they learn of the need to improve their learning skills after the first 7-week term is over. They have the opportunity in the second term to try again, hopefully (perhaps with help from various resources available to them) to improve, and to pass their courses. In a semester system, failures are not assessed until a half year had gone by, and there’s only the spring semester in which to catch up.
