What's up? You look a bit down.
I got my results this morning for my end of year exams.
Oh,dear,not good news then?
No, no. I failed physics.
Oh no, I'm sorry. What happened? I thought you revised really hard for it.
I did, but the questions weren't what I expected. I tried to answer them, but...
Can you retake it?
Yeah, but I'll have to take the course again next year.
What? Wait, you have to repeat the whole year?
Yeah, that's normal now.
Not back home it's not. When we fail an exam in university, we usually get the chance to retake it. But you don't have to do the whole course again.
Oh, right. Well, here you have to repeat the whole course and pay for it of course.