Many schools, colleges, and universities require a minimum 75% attendance to sit for exams. If your attendance is below this limit, it will affect your exams and internal assessments.
Can you sit in exams with below 75% attendance?
In many institutions, don’t allowed to student to sit on exams if their attendance percentage is below 75%. Actually, it depends on your institute; some may allow for a valid reason, but the majority do not.
Other possible consequences
Loss of internal marks if your attendance is below of your institute required percentage, a warning from the administration, some institutes’ extra assignments, or fines, and you could get attendance shortage notices.
Can you fix the low attendance?
Yes, if enough time is available, you can attend more classes to reach requried percentage, for example, 75%. Track your attendance weekly so that you know where you stand and plan your routine accordingly.
Simple example (very important)
Example:
- Total classes = 100
- Attended = 65
- Current attendance = 65%
You need to attend more classes to reach 75%
Use the Calculator
If you want to prevent confusion and manual errors, you can use our online attendance calculator to check how many classes you need to attend, and if your percentage is above so can also figure out how many classes you can miss.