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Attending an Academic Progress Committee (APC) hearing

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Monash University

Last checked: 8 Oct 2026 UTC

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Purpose of the hearing
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Purpose of the hearing

If you’re required to attend a hearing, it’s important to be prepared. The purpose of the hearing is for an Academic Progress Committee (APC) to review your academic progress and decide whether you can continue with your studies at Monash.

At the hearing, you’ll get the opportunity to demonstrate that you can successfully complete your course within the maximum course duration.

You’ll need to show:

that you understand that your academic performance so far is not satisfactory
that you understand the factors that have negatively affected your academic progress
the actions you’ve taken to improve your performance, including completing My Progress and Support and My Academic Progress Response
that you have a viable plan to resolve the problems affecting your academic progress.

What you need to know

I got an email about unsatisfactory academic progress - what does it mean?

Monash reviews academic progress after each review period and assigns one of three risk levels. Level one (Advice) means you failed a unit but did not meet any unsatisfactory progress criterion. Level two (Monitoring) means you met a criterion for the first time: you must complete My Progress and Support, and your faculty may set conditions on your enrolment. Level three (Intervention) - for example meeting a criterion two periods in a row, or failing a compulsory unit twice - means you must complete My Academic Progress Response and may be called to an Academic Progress Committee hearing, which can exclude you from your course. Do what the email asks by its deadline: your engagement is taken into account later.