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@WAMOM2

Can anyone confirm if a D is still a pass?

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<p>A D is not a pass. You will fail the class if you are on pass/fail and you get a D. Like Suin said, C- or C.</p>

<p>If you’re asking about first-year classes though, those are different in their pass/fail-ness. It’s just some arbitrary standard, like 40% to pass. They’re not compared to letter grades on a scale.</p>

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Also, if you knew the materials and did ok in the class prior to the final, but just blew the final, is there ever any chance to retake the final (or rather thake another final) as opposed to having to repeat the whole class? Does it matter if there was a reason for the poor performance?

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<p>First semester, yes. I know some people who failed the Math 12 (Linear Algebra 1) final and go to retake the exam. I don’t know about finals for other classes. I would imagine that they wouldn’t let you, because it’s not like you’ll fail if you were doing ok before and bombed the final. In order to pass Math 12 you need a certain grade on the final though, so those people who didn’t get that retook the test. For other graded tests you can fail the final and still pass the class.</p>

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@BicoastalMamma

Do you know anything about the relative merits of summer math, underloading, the 5 semester core plan/5 year plan, or taking a summer school classes other than summer math at a state school? For example, physics or bio instead of math? Do the other students/faculty look down on a kid who is taking it slow? It seems that a lot of the stress at Mudd is workload, but you can do the 5 year plan. Lots of other tech schools have a five year plan because the students can’t get their course or fail a lot of classes.

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<p>Summer math is a b*tch, subjecting yourself to 10+ hours of math a day for 6 weeks is really the least fun thing you could ever do. They’re cutting down the math core, so eventually summer math will either be phased out or it will just cover 1 semester instead of a year like they used to. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re an engineering major or a biochem major or something with a horrible number of requirements like that.</p>

<p>I’m not really sure what you mean by 5 semester core PLAN, but some people do take core classes in their 5th semester because a) they either failed or dropped a core class (typically E&M or STEMS if they’re taking it 5th semester) or b) they’re physics majors and due to scheduling difficulties are unable to take Bio 52 until 5th semester.</p>

<p>5 year plan means you don’t get financial aid in your 5th year.</p>

<p>People don’t look down at you for doing a 5 year plan/taking it slow, I don’t know why they would. There are quite a few people who don’t graduate within 4 years, although they typically finish at 4.5 years, they don’t take the full extra year.</p>