B(log)SOP

A. Grade Point Average

1. The GPA of each student in each quarter is computed and distributed on the fifth week of every quarter.

2. A minimum GPA of 2.00 (or 80-84%) in every quarter must be maintained by a student in the Master’s Program, 2.5 (73-75) in the Diploma in Christian Ministry (DCM) program. A student will be placed on academic probation if the GPA falls below the required minimum GPA in his/her program of study.

3. For adjustment purposes, it is suggested that new students who have not studied in a formal setting for more than 10 years prior to their coming to BSOP takes only 9-10 units on their first quarter of study.

B. Assignments

1. All assignments shall be submitted on or before the Friday of the twelfth week of a quarter. For late submission of assignments, an increment of 10% will be deducted from the value of that assignment for every day excluding Saturdays and Sundays. Except for extenuating circumstances, any assignment submitted two weeks after the deadline has no credit.

2. At the start of a new quarter, if a student has more than two backlogs from previous quarters, he/she will not be allowed to take more than 9 units of courses; if three to four backlogs, not more than 6 units; and above 5 backlogs, only 3 units are allowed.

C. Extension

1. Under extenuating circumstances, an INC (Incomplete) grade will be given to students who are unable to submit assignments or course requirements after the Friday of the twelfth week of a quarter. A request for extension needs to be initiated by the student.
2. An extension is granted under circumstances beyond the control of the student viz. (a) wedding or death of an immediate family member, (b) illness of an immediate family that required the student’s care or serious personal illness that requires hospitalization, or complete bed-rest as recommended by an authorized physician of BSOP, and (c) family crisis of a traumatic nature and in which case (a), (b) or (c) occurred 1 to 4 weeks prior to the date of submission of assignments.

3. Extension granted to (a) shall not exceed two weeks, while (b) and (c) no more than four weeks. The specific duration of extension of (a), (b) or (c) is left to the discretion of the professor concerned. The general guideline of granting extension is that the duration of an extension is appropriate to the situation and commensurate with the case in view. The maximum duration of any extension shall not exceed four weeks.

4. Under extraordinary cases will an extension be decided by a committee of faculty members. If the assignments are still not submitted on/before the granted date of extension, a grade of F will be given and will remain on the permanent record of the student.

D. The deadline for submission of grades by a faculty on a regular quarter is on the third Friday of the following quarter, or on the 3rd. quarter, one month after the commencement exercise.

E. In compliance with the requirements of CHED, the official transcript of records of graduating students shall be submitted on the week of commencement exercise. In light of this, final exams and submission of assignments of graduating students on their last quarter of study shall be scheduled on the tenth week of study. Faculty are required to submit grades of graduating students one week before the commencement exercise.

F. All graduating students are required to take a graduation review on the fourth week of their last quarter of study. A graduation review is a complete survey of the student’s records for fulfillment of all academic and other requirements in a program of study. Except for the last quarter, an INC in the student’s program record (meaning backlog from previous quarters) disqualifies the student from participating in the Commencement Exercises.

G. Backlogs

1. If a student still has backlogs of course requirements on the third week of his/her last quarter of studies, he/she will not be considered as a graduating student. Instead, he/she shall be placed on the next quarter’s list of graduates (summer).

2. Based on CHED’s policy for application of Special Order (S.O.), a graduating student needs to be enrolled in at least one course on the quarter he/she is graduating. Hence, if a student is considered a summer graduate due to backlogs, he/she shall be enrolled in at least one class under the same professor in which the backlog occurs.