The repetition rates of students at the undergraduate level are very high, though declining slowly (IMAD, 2009b). This rate is the highest for the first year, reaching 13% in the 2009-10 academic year, but it drops to 9.4% and 4.3% in the second and third years, before going up to 6.3% in the fourth year. The average duration in Scotland is 4.4 years.