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Just curious as to what the pass rate is for various schools. My school had a pass rate of 90 or 95% as of the year I applied, but there was a huge drop. The pass rate for last year was 78%. I am a little stressed by that. My instructer said it was b/c the NCLEX had made a change that year and that they have changed the format of the program to accomadate this. I'm still stressed b/c this school is ridiculously priced and I will be darned if I fail that thing. Our school is $880 a credit hour. I Better pass the first time. After all, I will have a giant student loan to pay back:chuckle. BTW I don't grad until May 2009, but never to early to start planning, right?

Specializes in ED.
Just curious as to what the pass rate is for various schools. My school had a pass rate of 90 or 95% as of the year I applied, but there was a huge drop. The pass rate for last year was 78%. I am a little stressed by that. My instructer said it was b/c the NCLEX had made a change that year and that they have changed the format of the program to accomadate this. I'm still stressed b/c this school is ridiculously priced and I will be darned if I fail that thing. Our school is $880 a credit hour. I Better pass the first time. After all, I will have a giant student loan to pay back:chuckle. BTW I don't grad until May 2009, but never to early to start planning, right?

That is VERY low. Our school's pass rate last year was 97% (2 year AD program). It is always above 95%. If there was a change year, it did not lower the pass rate at all at our school, it actually went up to one of the highest ever. I have not heard about any format change, and we just had our info session from someone who was on the board of nursing and she did not mention it. She gave us a lot of info about the test and I would think she would have mentioned something like that. do you do well on the HESI tests and overall in school? I'd maybe plan to take a Kaplan course or something to make sure you are prepared. I do not plan on it, but I'm confident I've learned what i need to know. I plan to study saunders review book.

That is VERY low. Our school's pass rate last year was 97% (2 year AD program). It is always above 95%. If there was a change year, it did not lower the pass rate at all at our school, it actually went up to one of the highest ever. I have not heard about any format change, and we just had our info session from someone who was on the board of nursing and she did not mention it. She gave us a lot of info about the test and I would think she would have mentioned something like that. do you do well on the HESI tests and overall in school? I'd maybe plan to take a Kaplan course or something to make sure you are prepared. I do not plan on it, but I'm confident I've learned what i need to know. I plan to study saunders review book.

I am doing well in school. We take the ERI tests and I score about avg on those. When we signed up for ERI we signed up for a 4 day NCLEX prep at the end of school. I have the Saunders NCLEX review book. I have been studying a bit into it. I havne't done much though but I am planning on using it a lot this summer so I don't forget anything during the break.

Your telling me that you hadn't heard anything about a change really stresses me more. I am going to ask my advisor really what's going on. Something must me wrong with the way they are teaching if there was that huge of a drop.

Specializes in LTC, Nursing Management, WCC.

I would be nervous with such a low pass rate. I am surprised that the BON hasn't said anything yet. My school had 100% pass rates for quite some time. Very intensive.

My advice is to study your butt off in addition to what is required from your school. It isn't just for the NCLEX but for when you are out in the real world with real patients. And I really didn't care for the 4 day ERI review... the material was rather...confusing. Their questions just never made sense to me or my classmates. My school switch this semester to a different company but I graduated last December so we still had to use the ERI. Ick!

Good luck... you can do it!:up:

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

i don't understand why you students worry about the nclex pass rates of the schools you attend. each school of nursing has different reasons for the choices they make in the students they admit to their nursing programs and a 100% passage rate on the nclex often is not one of the reasons! many times college districts have an initiative to offer opportunities to applicants that apply if they meet certain criteria.

(#1) you need to worry about learning how to be a nurse, the procedures and methods. (#2) you need to learn the nursing process which is the problem solving process that nursing uses. you'll be using this until the day you retire from nursing. many questions on nclex can be correctly answered through nursing process reasoning. (#3) you need to learn about the various medical diseases and conditions and how they are treated. if you do that, you should pass the nclex. it is you taking the nclex, not the school. it is you who is doing the learning of nursing, not the school. the school should have given you a list of the objectives that all the students of the school must achieve each term--this list had to have been approved by your state board of nursing. it is not a mystery. make sure you are learning what is in those objectives as you go through your nursing program and, definitely, by the time you take the nclex. each state board of nursing is a member of the organization that administrates the nclex exam and the state board must approve the curriculum of the nursing schools in their state minimally based upon what is tested on the nclex. otherwise, your school wouldn't have state board approval to open its doors and teach nursing. you should be able to get a list of the range/domain of information tested on the nclex from the ncsbn (national council of state boards of nursing) which administrates the nclex exam. (https://www.ncsbn.org/245.htm) the $300 you must pay to take the nclex goes to the state board of nursing, not your school of nursing. if it were me, i'd be doing everything in my power to make sure i passed this test, not complain about what the school should be doing.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

The pass rates don't impress me. My school's job is to give me a foundation and teach me the basics of being a nurse. My job is to study and pass the NCLEX. The NCLEX is the least of my worries. I believe I could have passed it before I even set foot in a classroom if I studied for a few months but I wouldn't have been a competent, safe nurse so off to school I went. :)

Specializes in ED.
i don't understand why you students worry about the nclex pass rates of the schools you attend. each school of nursing has different reasons for the choices they make in the students they admit to their nursing programs and a 100% passage rate on the nclex often is not one of the reasons! many times college districts have an initiative to offer opportunities to applicants that apply if they meet certain criteria.

(#1) you need to worry about learning how to be a nurse, the procedures and methods. (#2) you need to learn the nursing process which is the problem solving process that nursing uses. you'll be using this until the day you retire from nursing. many questions on nclex can be correctly answered through nursing process reasoning. (#3) you need to learn about the various medical diseases and conditions and how they are treated. if you do that, you should pass the nclex. it is you taking the nclex, not the school. it is you who is doing the learning of nursing, not the school. the school should have given you a list of the objectives that all the students of the school must achieve each term--this list had to have been approved by your state board of nursing. it is not a mystery. make sure you are learning what is in those objectives as you go through your nursing program and, definitely, by the time you take the nclex. each state board of nursing is a member of the organization that administrates the nclex exam and the state board must approve the curriculum of the nursing schools in their state minimally based upon what is tested on the nclex. otherwise, your school wouldn't have state board approval to open its doors and teach nursing. you should be able to get a list of the range/domain of information tested on the nclex from the ncsbn (national council of state boards of nursing) which administrates the nclex exam. (https://www.ncsbn.org/245.htm) the $300 you must pay to take the nclex goes to the state board of nursing, not your school of nursing. if it were me, i'd be doing everything in my power to make sure i passed this test, not complain about what the school should be doing.

wow, i feel like we just got a lecture when we were just talking about passing rates, not a big deal. no one seemed to be complaining about what their school should be doing, and i think it is normal to wonder about the nclex and pass rates, etc. i think we all know it is us taking the test and doing the learning not the school. no one had said that the school should be doing anything for us. and i didn't see where anyone thought the money went to the school. i think most studnents know that the nclex is a totally different deal than school. we may be "just students" but we do know a few things. and i think it is normal to wonder about the nclex. and to ask questions. i thought this student nurse forum was for asking questions and talking about things with other students. sorry if you were offended...

Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

Ours has had 100% for both RN and LPN for the past 3 years so I figure they must be doing something right lol of course we only have around 24 LPN and 24 (this year there will be 31 of us)RN students sit boards

Specializes in LTC, Nursing Management, WCC.

I think pass rates are very important. If a college has really low scores, it really can't be that all of their students are that bad. It would stand to reason that the school has some serious flaws in their academic approach. A few students not passing NCLEX on the first try is one thing, but if a lot of the student body is not successful at passing, then it would make sense that the school sucks.

Obviously the BON thinks pass rates are a big deal. They will intervene if they feel a school is not doing what it needs.

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
Wow, I feel like we just got a lecture when we were just talking about passing rates, not a big deal. No one seemed to be complaining about what their school should be doing, and I think it is normal to wonder about the NCLEX and pass rates, etc. I think we all know it is us taking the test and doing the learning not the school. No one had said that the school should be doing anything for us. And I didn't see where anyone thought the money went to the school. I think most studnents know that the NCLEX is a totally different deal than school. We may be "just students" but we do know a few things. And I think it is normal to wonder about the NCLEX. And to ask questions. I thought this STUDENT nurse forum was for asking questions and talking about things with other STUDENTS. Sorry if you were offended...

Get over it and don't be so sensitive. It wasn't a lecture, but my opinion.

The licensing exam is a measure of the minimum requirements to practice nursing--let me repeat that, minimum. Before NCLEX, some states (i.e., New York, California) required a higher score in order for an examinee to pass and get a license. Amazing how things have changed.

i don't understand why you students worry about the nclex pass rates of the schools you attend. each school of nursing has different reasons for the choices they make in the students they admit to their nursing programs and a 100% passage rate on the nclex often is not one of the reasons! many times college districts have an initiative to offer opportunities to applicants that apply if they meet certain criteria.

(#1) you need to worry about learning how to be a nurse, the procedures and methods. (#2) you need to learn the nursing process which is the problem solving process that nursing uses. you'll be using this until the day you retire from nursing. many questions on nclex can be correctly answered through nursing process reasoning. (#3) you need to learn about the various medical diseases and conditions and how they are treated. if you do that, you should pass the nclex. it is you taking the nclex, not the school. it is you who is doing the learning of nursing, not the school. the school should have given you a list of the objectives that all the students of the school must achieve each term--this list had to have been approved by your state board of nursing. it is not a mystery. make sure you are learning what is in those objectives as you go through your nursing program and, definitely, by the time you take the nclex. each state board of nursing is a member of the organization that administrates the nclex exam and the state board must approve the curriculum of the nursing schools in their state minimally based upon what is tested on the nclex. otherwise, your school wouldn't have state board approval to open its doors and teach nursing. you should be able to get a list of the range/domain of information tested on the nclex from the ncsbn (national council of state boards of nursing) which administrates the nclex exam. (https://www.ncsbn.org/245.htm) the $300 you must pay to take the nclex goes to the state board of nursing, not your school of nursing. if it were me, i'd be doing everything in my power to make sure i passed this test, not complain about what the school should be doing.

i was only expressing concern that the school may not be giving us the education required to pass the nclex. obviously if only 20 out of 40 students pass it the first time, it seems to me a teaching problem. i am working my tale of learning all that i can and making good grades also. i just don't want all this hard work to end in me failing this exam, especailly when i have worked so hard for it. i understand that what i learn is all me or us as students, no one disputes that! but it is the faculty's job to teach what we do need to know. that's why they get paid, to teach. oh and i do know where the nclex money goes. i never thought it went to the school. however, i still have to pay the school to teach me what i need to know.

Specializes in Above.

It looks like someone may have not done so well in the thearapeutic communication portion of Nursing!:chuckle

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