{"id":4657,"date":"2013-02-27T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:47:52","slug":"courses-corequisites-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"courses, corequisites, and confusion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you a fail a prerequisite to a course that you took simultaneously in one semester, what happens to your gpa?<\/p>\n<p>I know that if you fail a course it doesn&#8217;t help your gpa but, what about the course you passed? The course that requires that failed prerequisite?<\/p>\n<p>?????????<\/p>\n<p>Hey hey!<\/p>\n<p>If you fail a course &#8212; regardless of it being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/Guide_to_Program_&amp;_Course_Descriptions.html\">prerequisite\/corequisite\/whatever<\/a> &#8212; your GPA curls up in a corner and cries to itself. Then your CGPA crawls to it, just falls over, and they writhe together in utter agony. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m a little confused. How the heck are you in a course and taking its prerequisite at the same time? A prerequisite needs to be taken <em>before<\/em> the course. Are you, by any chance, in a merry pair of corequisites? Those are two courses that need to be taken together at the same time and that seem to suit your situation better.<\/p>\n<p>But assuming that&#8217;s the case, if you fail corequisite uno but pass corequisite dos, the department isn&#8217;t about to just say that dos no longer counts or something like that. You&#8217;ll still have it!<\/p>\n<p>Make sense? I hope so!<\/p>\n<p>soaked socks,<br \/>\naska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you a fail a prerequisite to a course that you took simultaneously in one semester, what happens to your gpa? I know that if you fail a course it doesn&#8217;t help your gpa but, what about the course you passed? The course that requires that failed prerequisite? ????????? Hey hey! If you fail a course &#8212; regardless of it being a prerequisite\/corequisite\/whatever &#8212; your GPA curls up in a corner and cries to itself. Then your CGPA crawls to it, just falls over, and they writhe together in utter agony. Sort of. Now I&#8217;m a little confused. How the heck are you in a course and taking its prerequisite at the same time? A prerequisite needs to be taken before the course. Are you, by any chance, in a merry pair of corequisites? Those are two courses that need to be taken together at the same time and that seem to suit your situation better. But assuming that&#8217;s the case, if you fail corequisite uno but pass corequisite dos, the department isn&#8217;t about to just say that dos no longer counts or something like that. You&#8217;ll still have it! Make sense? I hope so! soaked socks, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}