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number of times a course was repeated. However, this cannot be assumed tobe the number of repeats required for a successful result. Many of these courses were neversuccessfully passed, since many poor grades occurred during the final semester(s) at ERAU. Table 13: Number of times a course was repeated for students who left ERAU Repeats for one course Single repeat 80 Double repeat 9 Triple repeat 6 Quadruple repeat 1Similar to earlier sections of this paper, Table 14 provides details of each attempt, and Table 15documents the improvement upon each

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