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Criteria: A school must have a procedure for determining whether a Title IV aid recipient who began attendance during a period completed the period or should be treated as a withdrawal. If a student who began attendance and has not officially withdrawn fails to earn a passing grade in at least one course offered over an entire period, the school must assume, for Title IV purposes, that the student has unofficially withdrawn, unless the institution can document that the student completed the period. In the absence of evidence of a last day of attendance, a school must consider a student who failed to earn a passing grade in all classes to be an unofficial withdrawal. Condition: Based on professional judgement, we selected six students who received all failing grades for testing and all students had documentation of last date of attendance at an academically related activity. Three of the six student?s documented last date of attendance at an academically related activity was before the 60% point of the payment period, for which a refund would possibly be required if the student did not attend any class through the end of the period. Cause: The University has a grading policy that includes an F, failure to meet standards, and FA, failure primarily due to poor or non-attendance. Instructors enter a last date of attendance if the student failed to attend class; however, there is no written policy to rely which instructors are required to enter a last date of attendance.