Make Up Policy

Resit and make-up exams are provided for students to give them the opportunity of passing the courses in which they have a failing end-of-year mark, hence, saving a year of their academic life. IAT is to aide the students along their academic endeavor providing remedial assistance when needed, encouraging academic persistence, and caring for the academic well-being of our students. Make-up exams are offered at the end of each term for eligible students only. The procedure by which Resit and Make-up exams are carried out is as follows.

Time

Resit exams are offered at the end of each academic year
Make-up exams are offered at the end of each term

Eligibility

A student is considered eligible for a resit if he has failed 1 to 3 subjects as determined by the end-of-year marks.
A Student who failed more than three subjects shall be transferred to other school in the country.
A student is eligible for a Make-up exam upon approval of school Principal based on an official documentation justifying a valid excuse.

Remedial

The remedial program shall cover the objectives of BOTH terms in the respective core courses.
The remedial program for cluster courses shall focus on the material pertinent to each term.

Assessment

The resit exam for a core course will be designed such that its content is from term-1 and term-2 materials.
The cluster courses are treated on term basis: If term-1 mark is the cause of the failure, the students shall be tested on term-1 material. The same shall apply for term-2.
End-of-year Make-up and resit exams are identical.
If a student passes the resit exam, he shall receive 60 as the end-of-year mark on the respective course. School-based and all other exam marks in that respective course are then considered irrelevant.
If a student is sitting for a make-up exam, that exam mark will be used as his end-of-term exam mark. The course final mark will be calculated accordingly.

Note:
No make-up exams are offered for students who miss any of the system-wide mid-term exams. A student shall receive the mark of the respective end-of-term exam if he misses a mid-term exam and is eligible for make-up. Otherwise, his mark on the mid-term exam(s) that he missed shall be zero. Term-1 Make-up exams follow the same rules for authoring, procedure, delivery, and marking as those followed during the end-of-term exams.

For more details, please refer to the Student Guide.