[lisamc1]

We don't have the pass rule on our comprehensive finals, but they are worth a considerable amount of our grade. For instance, the final for my Med/ Surg class is worth 15% of my grade, so you can bet I'm going to keep my grades up and study hard for the final.

[cn2007rn]

We need a 77.5 or better to pass, a 77.5 is rounded to a 78, anything under a 77.5 is failure!! So nervous!!!!!

[following_faith]

My school has a rule of nothing lower than an 80. Call me a nerd-but I kind of find the challenge exciting!


Bring it on!

[mitchsmom]

Ours is 74 or better, and sometimes applies to other exams & assignments in addition to the final.

[GWENLYN18]

I wish my school had a 77% rule, it's 80% (which is really like a B anywhere else I went) where I go and our drug calc. test has to be 100% whew!

[luv2yoga]

Me too, I wish my school had that rule. Passing is 80% and drug calc test has to be 100%. Well, actually, I find that reasonable for all the reasons already posted here (won't bore you by repeating). I'm up for it. I have been told by the class a semester ahead though, that some will drop after every exam. They said look around the room, and several will be gone each time. Kind of concerns me. I was hoping that it would be tough just to get in (and it was, they accepted 100 out of 380 apps), and then they would structure it for us to succeed (I'm not saying easy). But the message I heard was "weed out".

[Altra]

77% is not passing w/flying colors - it's passing w/the minimum "C".

Let's translate this into working as a nurse - with a 77% performance you may not kill your patient. But that's not what you want to go home every day with - well, I managed not to kill anyone today.

Policies that may seem arbitrary and *unfair* serve a purpose - they prepare you for a field in which one error, one episode of carelessness, can have disastrous consequences. It's easy to whine "it's only one test ...". Translate that one test performance into one human being who is your patient and see if that changes your perspective.

We are all human ... but as a nurse you need to be aware of and prepared to live with the consequences of having an "off" day.

[inodou]

Our school is 80% average on all test with a 80% on the math comp test. Anything under 80% average on the tests are considered an F.

[purplemania]

In my BSN program the minimum OVERALL grade was 75%, for any one course. In the MSN program a minimum of "B" was required to pass (80%).

[Nemhain]

At my school we just had to pass each class with 75% and a 100% on our dosage calculation test (but we got 7 tries to do it).

I hope everyone realizes that because nursing schools are now getting lots of applications the faculty feels this is a good time to tighten the noose and raise their standards so they can get higher passing rates on the NCLEX (incidently, my school did this and their NCLEX passing rate went DOWN quite a bit).

...my friend's sister graduated in '97 and they only had to get a 68 each semester of their BSN program. ...aah the good ol' days.