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Professor Emet follows strict grading criteria for her doctorate students. Each of her students repeats a thesis upon receiving at least 9 Failure Points within any four consecutive months and repeats the latest project upon receiving at least 12 Failure Points within any four consecutive months. Failure Points are received for poor performance on a 100-marks weekly test. For any weekly test, a student scoring less than 80 but more than 70 marks receives one Failure Point, a student scoring less than 70 but more than 60 marks receives two Failure Points, and a student scoring less than 60 receives three Failure Points. A student may attend a doubt clarification class to make up for 5 marks on the most recent weekly test. The doubt clarification class must be attended within two days after the weekly test results are published.

The table contains descriptions of the 5 students of Professor Emet. In each case, the student had no other Failure Points and attended no additional doubt clarification classes. In the table, select a description of a student who must repeat a thesis but not the latest project, and select a description of a student who must repeat the latest project. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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Criteria-  
Duration: 4 months                   | 4 months
FP: >=9                                  | >=12
Outcome: Repeat Thesis            | repeat project

Jot down the scoring range and FP.

Note- Attend DCC within 2 days- get 5 marks. Thus note, classification may change because of the marks.

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1- 6 points in 4 consec months. Ignore
2. Consider only 1st 3. March is too far. August- 2 failure points. This is enough. Next 2 months, max 6 can be earned, no impact.
3. Sept= 3, Oct, Nov=2+2, Jan (marks increase)= 2. Total 9= Repeat thesis
4. Again 4 months, all above 6, max 8. Ignore.
5. Only option left. Repeat project
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1- 3+3 = 6
2- 2+3=5
3-3+2+2+3=9
4- 2+2+2+2 = 6
5- 2+3+3+2+3 (Max 4(last 4 terms= 13)

1-3 2- 5
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9/4x=repeated thesis
9/4y= repeated the latest project
receive 100 pointes for 1 week
80-70 = 1 failures
70-60 = 2 failures
>60 =3 failures
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1: Repeats the latest project upon receiving at least 12 Failure Points

2:Repeats a thesis upon receiving at least 9 Failure Points within any four consecutive months.

70-80 1 Failure Points
60-70 2 Failure Points
0-60 3 Failure Points

5marks increment with a doubt class.(within 2 days)

Choice 1- Only 2 consecutive months. July- August & January -March. Eliminate for both.

Choice 2- Aug- Oct-Oct-Mar
2+2+3 = 7
Eliminate for both.

Choice 3- Sept-Oct- Nov- Dec
3(No doubt point)+2+2+3 = 10
Repeats a thesis upon receiving at least 9 Failure Points within any four consecutive months.

Choice 4- Nov-Dec-Dec-Jan
2+2+2+2 = 8
Eliminate for both.

Choice 5- Jul-Aug-Aug-Sep-Oct
2+3+3+2+3=13
Repeats the latest project upon receiving at least 12 Failure Points

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Student 3 failure point accumulated within span of 4 consecutive months = 9

Student 5 failure point accumulated within span of 4 consecutive months = 13

therefore, student 3 will repeat a thesis but not project and student 5 will repeat a project
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Must repeat a thesis but not the latest project: C - 9 Failure Points
Must repeat the latest project: E - 13 Failure Point
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Professor Emet follows strict grading criteria for her doctorate students. Each of her students repeats a thesis upon receiving at least 9 Failure Points within any four consecutive months and repeats the latest project upon receiving at least 12 Failure Points within any four consecutive months. Failure Points are received for poor performance on a 100-marks weekly test. For any weekly test, a student scoring less than 80 but more than 70 marks receives one Failure Point, a student scoring less than 70 but more than 60 marks receives two Failure Points, and a student scoring less than 60 receives three Failure Points. A student may attend a doubt clarification class to make up for 5 marks on the most recent weekly test. The doubt clarification class must be attended within two days after the weekly test results are published.

The table contains descriptions of the 5 students of Professor Emet. In each case, the student had no other Failure Points and attended no additional doubt clarification classes. In the table, select a description of a student who must repeat a thesis but not the latest project, and select a description of a student who must repeat the latest project. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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­Bunuel Hi. While this is a fairly straight forward question it is quite lengthy. Reading and understanding the information itself was quite time consuming. The answer being the last two options didnt help either. I dont think this was possible to solve in less than 3 mins. 

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­For A, There are no failure points in 4 consecutive months
For B,D, Failure points are less than 9 or 12.

Answer C (Must repeat a thesis but not the latest project)
Failure points are more than 3 in 4 consecutive months.

Answer E (Must repeat the latest project)
Failure Points are more than 12 in 4 consecutive months.
 
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