If you fail a course in the college exam and take it again next school year, it's called retaking the exam. Most colleges and universities adopt this strategy: when a student fails in many subjects in the final exam, he will be given a chance to make up the exam in the first week of next semester. If students pass the failed subjects in the make-up exam, they don't need to retake the exam, but if more than a certain number of subjects fail, they must retake these courses.