Repetition means that you must study this year's courses again at the beginning of the next school year.
Demotion is to drop one level of study from now on or next school year (determined by the academic affairs office of the general school).
2, the severity is different
If you can't upgrade your grades in most subjects this semester, you will repeat them.
If it is found that the scores of subjects in the previous year were falsified or revised by bribing teachers, they will be demoted.
Demotion is more serious than repetition.
According to Article 16 of the Measures for the Administration of Students' Status in Full-time Colleges and Universities, those who fail three or two specialized courses in the semester or school year after the make-up exam will be relegated and demoted.
First-year students who fail the course after the make-up exam in the first semester can try it with their classes and be allowed to make-up exams again at the end of the first academic year; If the courses failed after the make-up exam or the courses failed after the make-up exam in the second semester meet the requirements of repetition and demotion, they will be graded.
Extended data:
Eighteenth courses when students fail, according to the following provisions:
(1) A course is taught in several semesters. If it is assessed in each semester, it will be counted as one course per semester;
(2) All practical teaching links specified in the teaching plan, if they fail to pass the examination separately, will be regarded as one course;
(3) Failing in graduation design, graduation thesis and graduation practice shall be treated as failing in a main course;
(4) physical education class's failure is not included in the number of courses retained or downgraded.
Nineteenth students who have passed the examination before leaving school or demotion are allowed to enter school without examination. Students have the spare capacity to study, and with the approval of the school, they can study some follow-up courses. Those who pass the exam may be exempted from the exam in the future; Those who fail the exam are not allowed to make up the exam, nor are they counted in the number of failed courses, and they will be re-taken later.
Twentieth undergraduates are not allowed to stay in school or be demoted for more than two times during their study in school; You can't repeat or be demoted twice in the same grade. College students can only repeat or be demoted once during their study in school.
Reference source:
Baidu encyclopedia-repeat reading
Baidu encyclopedia-demotion