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Appendix (3)

GPA Recalculation Rules
1. The cumulative GPA recalculation may be applied if the student
successfully completes all the courses required to earn the academic
degree with a cumulative GPA or major GPA that is less than the GPA
required for graduation, provided that their cumulative GPA after
recalculation does not exceed (2.00) out of (4.00), according to the GPA
recalculation mechanism shown below:

1. To exclude any previous grade for a course the student took, they
must have successfully restudied the course and earned a Pass (D) or
High Pass (D+) grade.
2. The following grades may be excluded: Fail (F) or Denial (DN), Pass
(D), or High Pass (D+). These grades are excluded by reducing the
curriculum credits from the total credits used to calculate the student’s
cumulative average and reducing the assessment points from the
total points used to calculate the student’s cumulative average.
3. The total number of curriculum credits allowed to be excluded from
the cumulative GPA calculation shall not exceed twenty-four credit
hours.

4. The academic transcript must include all the grades of the courses the
student has taken, and the grade they have earned each time.

5. A special reference shall be made in the academic transcript to
distinguish the courses excluded from the calculation of the cumulative
average. The academic transcript shall indicate the cumulative
average after excluding the grades of the restudied courses.
2. The rules for recalculating the cumulative GPA shall be applied on the
courses that the student restudied at Prince Sultan University.

3. Re-calculation rules of the major GPA: the major GPA is calculated based
on the highest grade achieved by the student in eight different courses
according to the list of courses determined by the college for each major
in addition to the grade of the cooperative training program (COOP) or
the summer training program (Internship).

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