[tabbeycatt]

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.

Same here for me, inodou.

We also have to pass an exit test our very last semester or we don't graduate.

[brina]

Originally Posted by jerryh55

For some unknown reason I smell a BSN in here.


Jerry

Uhhhhhh, I don't know what THAT means.... but it was funny that Dave turned out to be in an ADN program!!


In my school you have to pass with an 80%. If you don't have an average of 79.5% or better at the end of the semester, you FAIL and have to repeat the entire level. I have classmates that have had to repeat with a 79.4% !!!! The good thing about it though, is that you don't necessarily have to pass the final... if you had a 90 average going into the final, as long as you made a grade on the final that kept you above an 80 average total, you passed. This was very good for me because I tend to get so burned out at the end of the semester and if I don't need but a 40 to keep an 80%.... I just sometimes will not study as hard.

Brina BSN GRADUATE DECEMBER 16, 2005 !!!!!!!

[leopold]

100% on drug calc? I can see why that's important but if we did that in my school we wouldn't have any students left. An uncorrected mistake in lab or clinicals can get you booted out so ultimately you better know those calcs, but wow.

[Sunshine Sweetheart]

Originally Posted by MLOS

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.

I was just asking a general question. I am the last person to whine or complain about one rule. I think that if a nursing student asks a question or does not like a rule it is considered by others to be whining. I as well as most others know the rules when we apply to nursing school and we comply with them, but that does no mean we agree with them. In the same retrospect just because we don't agree with them does not mean one is whining. I have seen nurses that have come out of school with A averages and pass the NCLEX with flying colors but fail miserably when it comes to their patients. One nurse I know that graduated from school with a 4.0 came into our nursing home and overdosed someone on morphine. All I am saying is that grades and rules can not predict how someone will do in the real world when they are on their on. I interviewed with a nursing school and as I was sitting in the room waiting I overheard two people talking in another room with the door open. They were saying that two girls would not be able to contiune on in the program because they did not think they would be able to pass NCLEX on first try and it would bring down the schools pass rate. Just because these two girls might not pass the NCLEX on the first try does not mean that they will bad nurses. Some of the best nurses that I have seen have not passed the NCLEX the first time. I truly understand that the 77% rule is in place to help me and my classmates at my school, but there must be flaws in it somewhere if the teachers that created the rule are having second thoughts about it and want to bring it to the dean to get it possibly changed. Anyway it goes whatever rules that my school or any other school has I know that we all will kick butt in nursing school, because allnurses nursing students are the best!!!

[Anjann]

We have a 78% rule.... but it's for the final grade, not the final exam. My guess is since Finals are comprehensive, they figure if you don't get a 77 you are not ready to move on to the next level.

Believe me, we have alot of frustrating rules at my school too, but what I have found from chatting in here is that this is simply the nature of the nursing school beast.

I will give you some advice I learned the hard way.... Don't take lightly any "rules" about passing a course at your school. Those ladies don't kid around. I got burnt in a class by getting a 77.4% when the minimum was 78. So I spent a whole semester taking the class over.

Nursing schools have to keep a tight lid on the students so they're not sending people out there who lack the minimum knowledge and skills. Just try to stay on top of things, because once you start getting behind is when those little "rules" are more likely to burn you! Good Luck!

[purpledolfin214]

We have to pass with a 78 or better. I am not a big fan of the new grading system. It is much harder to get an A , 94 and above.

[amytheodd]

Originally Posted by Sabrina's Mommy

Yes. my school also has that same rule. It is a little frusturating, but then again, I wouldn't want a nurse to take care of me unless she got at LEAST a 77%. We also have a rule at our school that there is NO TEST REVIEWS. We are not able to see our tests to know what we missed and the teachers do not go over the correct answers. How can you learn if you don't know what your weak points are? The instructors will email you the frequently missed topics (by the whole class) and they think you can learn by that. I think it's silly, but they didn't ask my opinion when making the rules

Your instructors are lazy and don't want to write new tests every year.

[allthingsbright]

Yes, my school is actually a 75% for a C--whereas other classes outside of nursing say a C=70.

Someone (a counselor in a highly respected nursing school in my area) once told me that "they" (whoever they are LOL) did studies on this that showed people who had a mid seventies average and up did better on the NCLEX--I was also that schools are going to start hiking entrance GPA's because a 2.8 shows better NCLEX pass rates in students. I actually saw them do this in Florida, but here in the midwest you still need a 2.5 GPA and a 75% to pass.

Also, in all my n. classes--you dont pass the final w/ a 75, you fail the course. YIKES!

best wishes!

Anyway,

[allthingsbright]

Originally Posted by tabbeycatt

Same here for me, inodou.

We also have to pass an exit test our very last semester or we don't graduate.

OUCH! That is rough!!!!

[hospitalstaph]

Mine also has the rule Anything below 76% is failing! I thought that all nursing programs were like this, are they not?

T