forgiveness是什么意思

But another, related force—a policy often buried deep in course catalogs called "grade forgiveness"—is helping raise GPAs.

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College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty.

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Grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a low grade, and the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that counts in calculating a student's overall GPA.

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Indeed, grade forgiveness is just another way that universities are responding to consumers'expectations for higher education.

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That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges'own needs as well.

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