Grade Replacement Form (Formerly FX Form)
| Filling Out This Form | Restrictions | Grade Replacement Policy
Filling out the Grade Replacement Form
- Student’s full name
- Student’s 10-digit university ID number
Original Course Information
- Campus = IN, BL, SB, CO, etc.
- Term, aka Term Code = 4-digit term code (E.g. Spring 2007 is 4072) Explanation: 4 is constant, "07" is the year, 8=Fall, 5=Summer, and 2=Spring)
- Subj = Course identifier (E.g. CIT, ART, ECET, ECE, etc.)
- Cat # = Course number (E.g. 105, 201, 207, etc.)
- Class # = unique identifying number usually 4 to 5 digits in length (formerly the section number)
- Units = Number of credit hours
- Orig Grade = Original grade the student earned
Repeated Course Enrollment
- Campus = IN, BL, SB, CO, etc.
- Term aka Term Code = 4-digit term code (E.g. Spring 2007 is 4072) Explanation: 4 is constant, "07" is the year, 8=Fall, 5=Summer, and 2=Spring)
- Subj = Course identifier (E.g. CIT, ART, ECET, ECE, etc.)
- Cat # = Course number (E.g. 105, 201, 207, etc.)
- Class # = unique identifying number usually 4 to 5 digits in length (formerly the section number)
- Units = Number of credit hours
- Grade = New grade the student earned
Signatures
Q. Student’s signature and date
R. Dean’s signature and date
Restrictions
- This policy is not available for graduate students or students seeking any second undergraduate degree.
At this time only courses taken at IUPUI can be replaced. Courses taken at any other Indiana University Campus can be replaced only if the student received a grade of "F".
Grade Replacement Policy
The IUPUI Grade Replacement Policy (formerly know as the FX policy) was revised effective with the Fall 1996 semester.
- Approved undergraduate students seeking their first degree may repeat a maximum of 15 credit hours subject to school/division approval.
- If a student chooses to repeat a course and achieves the same or higher grade, only that grade will be counted in the cumulative GPA.
It is the student's responsibility to notify the school recorder that the course has been taken a second time and that the student wishes to exercise this option for the first grade. Replacement does not happen automatically.
The purpose of the grade replacement policy is to allow students who have done poorly in a course to repeat the course and remove the weight of the earlier grade from the student's cumulative grade point average. The Academic Policies and Procedures Committee sees this policy as an expansion of the current Faculty Council policy by extending the replacement option to courses in which students receive any grade rather than just grades of F. Schools retain the right to consider the student's complete academic record for purposes of admission to the school, granting of honors, or in meeting the minimum GPA required for conferral of the degree.
- The effective date is the beginning of the Fall 1996 semester. Any course being used to replace an earlier taking of the course must be taken in the Fall of 1996 or later.
- The provisions apply to students pursuing an undergraduate degree only.
- A student may exercise the grade replacement policy for a maximum of 15 credit hours. The 15 credit hour limit includes any course previously replaced using the FX policy.
- Grade replacement replaces use of the FX option. Grades previously granted FX will be honored subject to #3 above.
- A student may exercise the grade replacement policy no more than two times for a single course. Each attempted replacement will count towards the 15 credit limit.
- Once invoked, a student may not subsequently request reversal of the grade replacement granted to a particular course.
- Any grade may be replaced. The replaced grade will then be excluded from the cumulative grade point average. However, the course listing and the replaced grade will remain on the student's academic record with an "X" denoting that the grade is excluded from the cumulative grade point average.
Grade replacement is available only for courses taken at Indiana University. The grade being replaced must have been awarded in the Fall of 1975 or later. Schools retain the right to consider records of performance from other universities in determining admission to the school, granting of honors, etc. (Note: this assumes that if the student's initial course was taken on another IU campus, that campus is willing to place the replacement flag on the course at IUPUI's request).
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