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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just to complete my stories about the pre-course card distribution blues for the last term of the school year, there was also one student from the same general science requirement lab class – one of the batch mates of the student who called me up, in fact – who also sent a text message asking for a make up exam because he was not able to make it to either of the finals sessions I had set with the students.

I did not reply, but he didn’t show up during course card distribution day either, so either he really is still in vacation (most likely with his family) as he claims, or he doesn’t care about his grade anymore.

If he will be running after me to give him an exam during the start of the next term, I have the deadline of change of grades (only up to two weeks after the end of the term) to back me up. Only the dean or the Executive Vice President will be able to override that directive for the Registrar’s Office (through me, of course) to accept his change of grades.

Also for the first time in… EVER, even though I was able to complete the grades of my lab students, I still didn’t know if they would pass or fail.

This is because of the new implementation, started this term – not even during the start of the new school year – that for all classes with lecture and laboratory components, there will only be one grade, usually at a sixty and forty percent split, although for some higher engineering classes it is now seventy-thirty.

This means that even though I already I have a conception of who performed well or not in my class, I didn’t know immediately if they will pass or fail in my course because it is still dependent on how well they did in their lecture class.

So going back to the student I had earlier who did not have his finals for the lab class, I would only also allow him to take the exam if the cut off he needs to pass (I’m assuming he didn’t pass with his current standing) would be less than twenty-five percent (the part of the finals) of forty percent (the part of lab in the total grade) otherwise, it would be useless for him to take the final exam.

Session 1093 has sixty percent of the lab grade, but failed overall. Class dismissed.