[caroladybelle]

Originally Posted by delee99

at our school anything below 80% is a D.

. Same here, and they do not ever round up.

You will find that most nursing schools have stricter grade policies than "regular" courses of study.

[destiny5]

I thought our grading scale was bad until I read others replies. 93-A, 83-B, 75-C, 74-D, 69-F. Our teachers politely told us that they have never given an A so don't expect it.-- There goes the 4.0 gpa. I got B's but they were the hardest B's I've ever had to work for. Everything is a weed out class, especially pharm. There was one guy who came soooo close everytime. He would end up with like 92.4%. I knew that if I was that close to an A, I would be ****** & looking for .1% (we round up final grades only), so I asked him how he felt about being so close to an A. He said- you know, I'm just glad I passed. I'm not really concerned about the grade, a C would have been ok. I liked him before, but I liked him even more then. He was truely a nice guy. Several people in my class would try to beat his scores, almost to the point of obsession, but they never did.

[BSNtobe2009]

Originally Posted by destiny5

Our teachers politely told us that they have never given an A so don't expect it.

This would bother me...so if you were given a multiple choice test, and got all the answers right, they wouldn't give you an A?

When an instructor has that negative of an attitude, they are in essence, downgrading their own abilities to teach. That's the same thing as saying never, in the history of the program, have they ever had a student peform at the level they have been taught. There is always, one student who will "get it".

I just think that is a terrible way for an instructor to start a program.

[bleppity]

Mine is 93-100 for A, 85-92 for B, 78-84 for C. 77 or less is F.

[morte]

hmmmm , now i am showing my age, i suppose.....when i went to hs 60 was passing....a D-....however one of the local private hs was 70....the knowledge gained was roughly the same.....ie the 60 was as hard to get at my school as the 70 was at the other.....
as was stated previously, any instructor who has the gall to state they have never given as A, is commenting on their own teaching, as much as the students performance....and should be told that very fact

[nursecher]

At the community college where I am taking pre-req's the grading scale is
90% A
80%B
70% C
60% F

At the diploma nursing school I start in January, the scale is:

93%=A
87% = B
80%=C
Anything below is failing!

[classicdame]

In the end a point or two will not make that much difference. Always try to do your best, regardless.

[Reno1978]

Mine looks like this:

A = 93 or >
A- = 90-92.9
B+ = 87-89.9
B = 84-86.9
B- = 81-83.9
C+ = 78-80.9
C = 75-77.9
C- = 72-74.9
D+ = 69-71.9
D = 66-68.9
D- = 63-65.9
F = <63

You must maintain a C average, or you're booted out of the nursing program. This grading scale is used throughout the university.

[LinZ_956]

92-100= A
89-91= B+
83-88= B
75-82= C

Below that, it doesn't matter, because we have to have at least a C to pass.

Ok, getting on soapbox--I don't see how the different grading scale helps that much...if anything, it's a pain in the butt, because the rest of our college is on the 90-100= A; 97-89= B+; 80-86= B, etc...I would rather see tougher admission standards, that way we wouldn't be weeding out people halfway through the semester. I don't see how the one point difference between a 74 and a 75 can make a person that much more capable of being a nurse, but hey, what do I know. BTW, this comes from someone with an extremely high GPA...I just hate seeing people that would make intelligent, well-rounded nurses "weeded out" because of a point. If the curriculum is appropriately challenging, I don't see why there needs to be a tougher grading scale to accompany it.

[justrissy]

At my tech. school where I am a 2nd semester nursing student our grading scale is as follows:
A 94-100
A- 92-93
B+ 90-91
B 86-89
B- 84-85
C+ 82-83
C 80-81
F <80

Pretty strict but we have a very high rate of passing the NCLEX