The difficult transition from high school to university means that many students need to repeat (retake) one or more of their university courses. This paper examines the performance of students who were repeating first-year core courses in an undergraduate business program. It used data from...

We examine the performance of students repeating introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics courses, relative to that of students taking the courses for the first time. The study covers 937 grades received by 439 undergraduate business students. We find that the grades of students who...

In this paper, we examine the performance of students who repeat an introductory finance course, and compare this performance to that of students who take this course for the first time. We find that students who completed the course in the past with a failing or passing grade show a...