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How to name an event, where someone has to go for the classes once again because he/she was unavailable at the time?
Alice missed her swimming pool class tonight. She has to [catch-up/repeat/work out/???] the classes tomorrow, before the next week exam.
In particular I am interested in the name of this classes:
A class repeated because of a need to improve skills sometimes is called a remedial. As an adjective, remedial means “intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject”.
A session attended because of missing a class is often called a make-up, as Mitch remarked. Here, make-up is being used in its compensatory sense. See, for example, wiktionary's sense 3 of makeup: “Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up”
