GRADING SYSTEM

An alphabetical grading system is used by Rend Lake College. Each letter grade denotes a certain level of achievement in a particular course:

A – Outstanding accomplishment

B – Accomplishment above that attained by the average student

C – Acceptable performance

D – Work of an inferior quality, barely passing

E – Performance of an unacceptable quality

Other abbreviations often used when grades are noted:

AU – Audit

CR – Credit only, no grade given; Transfer; CLEP; Proficiency; Military; Advanced Placement; Correctional/ Law Enforcement Academy

F – Fail

I – Incomplete work

NC – No credit given

P – Pass

R – Repeat

S – Satisfactory

TC – Transfer Credit

W – Withdrawal after second week but by end of the 13th week.