By action of the Bloomington Faculty Council, April 21, 2009:
Any undergraduate student may retake a course for which he/she received a grade below an A. The first course must have been taken during academic year 2001 or later. A student may exercise this option for no more than three courses, totaling no more than 10 credits. A student may use this option only once for a given course.
The student’s transcript shall record both grades. For the course retaken, only the second grade shall be counted in the determination of the student’s IU-B grade-point average. Any GPA calculated in accord with this policy shall be marked with an X denoting that a lower grade has been replaced by a second grade in the course.
Deadline:
The pass/fail deadline for the retaken class. The Extended-X pass/fail deadline is generally in the third week of a regular, 16-week term, but is adjusted for sessions of shorter duration, such as first eight-week and second-eight week sessions. To determine the Extended-X application deadline for a specific class, consult the official calendar, Bloomington campus, Office of the Registrar.
The School of Journalism does not accept the Extended-X within degree requirements. It will not be calculated within the journalism degree. Both the original grade and the retaken grade will be calculated into degree requirements.
The Extended-X will be reflected on the official Indiana University transcript only. The Extended-X will be reflected on the official Indiana University transcript and in the cumulative IU grade point average. The following policies will be followed by journalism if students wish to apply for the Extended-X.
Extended-X (Amended FX) Implementation Policies
The amendments are in effect beginning with the spring 2010 academic term.
Bloomington Faculty Council Action
(Circular B37-2001; March 6 & 20, 2001; amended Circular B23‐2009, April 21, 2009)
- Only courses attempted during or after the Fall 2001 term will be eligible for replacement under the policy.
- The following grades cannot be replaced under the Extended-X policy: S, P, W, I, R, NC.
- GPA credit hours for the replaced course will be removed at the point at which the course is replaced.
- Courses repeatable with different content are not eligible for replacement under this policy unless a unit chooses to permit this by means of a specific authorization procedure.
- A student may not request reversal after asking for and applying the GPA exclusion.
- A student may not replace a grade with a second grade of W, I, R or NC.
- Students who re-enroll in a course must indicate to the school of their major or to University Division, as appropriate, their intent to apply the Extended-X policy to a specific course by the Pass/Fail deadline for the course retake.
- The Extended-X policy will adhere to FX policy (UFC documents 1975, 1976, 1979, 1984, 1987) administrative practice and guidelines regarding exceptional cases, where these are not in conflict with the provisions of the Extended-X Policy nor with these Implementation Policies. A statement of the applicable practices has been compiled and is on file with the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Edcation and with the Office of the Registrar.
- In implementation of the Extended-X policy, as under the FX policy, Bloomington joins all other campuses in honoring the principle that the grade forgiveness/course retake policy on the degree granting campus is applicable for each student. Hence, if an IUB student transfers to another campus with more liberal grade replacement policies, IUB will honor requests from that campus, on behalf of the student, to replace an IUB grade that may not be replaceable under IUB policy. Were the student to return to IUB for graduation, however, that course exclusion would not apply.