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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Guild approves new UWI grading system

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Af­ter weeks of dis­cus­sions, the stu­dents Guild at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has ac­cept­ed the new Grade Point Av­er­age (GPA) grad­ing sys­tem.The sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to be in­tro­duced at the start of the next se­mes­ter. The GPA sys­tem rais­es the pass­ing grade from 1.0 to 2.0, which is sup­posed to be more in line with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards. How­ev­er, a me­dia re­lease from the guild on Sat­ur­day re­vealed the changes were on­ly cos­met­ic."The scheme is one that will work in favour of the stu­dents," the re­lease said.

The grad­ing sys­tem, the guild said, on­ly changes the way the grade is re­port­ed and does not in­ter­fere with the qual­i­ty of the stu­dents work."Con­se­quent­ly, an A-wor­thy es­say should re­main as such and the new sys­tem," the re­lease not­ed.The guild al­so not­ed that a pass de­gree which would be al­tered to 2.00 as op­posed to 1.00 pre­vi­ous­ly, "will fa­cil­i­tate the up­ward read­just­ment of cu­mu­la­tive GPA's un­der 3.00 to con­form to the new stan­dard"."For ex­am­ple 1.00 un­der the new scheme would be 2.00, 1.50 will be 2.25 and 1.99 will be 2.49," the re­lease stat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, fails would al­so be treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly-F1, F2 and F3 which will re­quire stu­dents to sit sup­ple­men­tal ex­ams.De­spite the Guild's ac­cep­tance and ap­proval of the new sys­tem, there re­mains sev­er­al unan­swered ques­tions re­gard­ing the cur­rent Gov­ern­ment As­sist­ed Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion pro­gramme (Gate).The cur­rent Gate sys­tem ap­plies to stu­dents who pass in ac­cor­dance with the ini­tial GPA sys­tem.


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