Students at the Negros Orietnal State University are given only one chance to recover a failed subject through a "retake" examination.

After the "retake", and the student still cannot get the required passing grade, he or she will not be accepted back in the university, NORSU president Dr. Henry Sojor, said.

Sojor explained that the policy was approved by members of the Board of Regents, the state university lawmaking body, to address the problem of students who keep retaking their failed subjects.

If the retake is scheduled in the semester, the student pays only P200 per unit every hour.

Retakers, however, pay the higher amount of P715 per unit per hour during off semesters.

Sojor said most NORSU students are scholars of government, and if they fail in their subjects, it is like wasting government funds, mostly coming from taxes.

Sojor told the students not to lose the opportunity of studying at NORSU, because failure to pass the retake will mean their outright expulsion from the school.*JG

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