How to use the pass/fail participation calculator
Credit/no-credit and pass/fail courses often replace a numeric grade with a participation or attendance requirement: show up for enough of the scheduled sessions in every component and you earn the credit. The trouble is that the requirement is usually written as a single percentage in the syllabus, while the sessions are split across lab, seminar, studio and field work. This page takes one component per line with its scheduled and attended sessions and works out where you actually stand.
Each component is judged on its own. The rate is attended divided by scheduled, times 100, and a component passes when that rate is at or above the minimum you enter. The boundary counts as a pass, so 13 attended out of 20 scheduled against a 65 percent minimum is exactly 65.00 percent and passes. For anything below the line, the page rounds up the number of extra sessions needed, and the overall result is a pass only when no component is short.
The minimum rate is set by the instructor or the program, not by any national standard, so you have to enter it yourself. This page counts sessions only. It does not convert participation into a letter grade, weight components against each other, or decide whether an excused absence counts as attendance. If your syllabus forgives a set number of absences, add those sessions to the attended figure before entering it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. That works out to exactly 65.00 percent, and the boundary counts as a pass. At 12 sessions the rate is 60.00 percent and one more session is needed.
Participation thresholds are set per course by the instructor or program and there is no common figure across schools, so the value from your own syllabus is the only reliable one.
No. It reports participation rates and a pass or fail per component. It does not convert them into a letter grade or weight one component more heavily than another.