At present, students can resit individual A-level modules or retake an entire year.

A student may retake the test as many times as needed, until they make a passing score.

He added that students who missed the test because of a religious observance could have retaken it the next week.

(If a student retakes a course, the higher grade goes on the transcript.)

In September there is an extra examination session during which students can retake failed exams.

Mayor Bloomberg has said that students who saw questions in advance would retake a different version of the test.

One student of the 16 who failed the exam has retaken it and passed.

Passing out of the program is a requirement for graduation and students must retake the class if they fail until they pass.

Two decades of comparative quiet later, students have retaken the area and redubbed it People's Park.

But the students quickly retook the square.