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Provided that the following requirements are complied with:

a) The candidate for graduation with honors must not have been charged and
found guilty of any gross violation of existing University rules and regulations
punishable by at least one week suspension.
b) The candidate must not have incurred any grade below “2.75” in any of the
courses/subjects, academic as well as non-academic prescribed in the
curriculum being pursued.
c) The candidate must have completed in the university at least 75% of the total
academic units required in his curriculum.
d) The candidate must have undertaken during a semester not less than 15
units of credit work, or the normal load prescribed in his curriculum in cases
where such normal load is less than 15units, unless a lighter load is taken
due to the unavailability of the course(s) needed in the curriculum to
complete the full load, or because the candidate is a working student. In the
case of a working student, he must have carried no less than 12 units of
credit academic subjects per semester, except in the last semester
immediately preceding his graduation when he may be allowed a lighter
academic load.

Section 2. Grades in all academic subjects/courses required in the curriculum being
pursued, whether taken in ISU or in other schools, shall be considered in the
computation of the weighted average. Courses such as NSTP and other non-
academic courses required for graduation shall not be included in the
computation of the weighted average

Section 3. The computation of the weighted average for academic honors shall be carried
to three decimal places at each step of computation which will be finally rounded
off to two decimal places. In rounding off figures, the following will be observed
a) If the third decimal figure is less than 5, the first two decimal figures are
retained.
b) If the third decimal figure is 5 or more the second decimal figure is
increased by one (1) if it is an odd number. The second decimal figure if it
is even number is increased by one (1) if the third decimal figure is 6 or
more.

ARTICLE XXIII. COMMENCEMENT AND BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES

Section 1. The Executive Committee shall fix the time and place of the commencement
and the baccalaureate exercises and shall select speakers.

Section 2. All graduating students shall attend the commencement and baccalaureate
exercises as scheduled.

Section 3. Graduates shall secure their diploma or certificates and Transcript of Records
from the office of the Registrar upon presentation of the receipt of payment of
graduation fees and student’s clearance.

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