Did we fail the test or were we failed by our educators?

That is a terribly stressful situation you are going through, no negativity from me. Don't really have practical advice but will say that for every class I had in school, teachers would assess questions and either throw them out or add a point if too many of us answered wrong. What kind of questions are you failing? Are you doing practice questions from the book and also an NCLEX guide like Saunders? Once you get that critical thinking down sometimes you can answer a question even if you aren't quite sure of the answer. Hopefully somebody else will have more practical advice. Remember why you went into nursing, I think pretty much all of us had a terrible class or 2 that we dreaded trying to get through. *hugs*

Yes it is! Over 30+ grand for this program.

I speak for myself right now, but when I do practice NCLEX & HESI questions I do much better than I do on these so called tests. I know we all try to find resources to pass the test & learn but we are so lost where our test info is coming from we don't even know where to look!

Hmm - commercial schools are focused on maintaining revenue by keeping tuition and fees rolling in so It would actually benefit a school to keep students enrolled & as long as possible. But right now, there's some background stuff happening that could be having a major effect.

At the same time though, the whole for-profit education industry is under a lot of scrutiny. ACICS, the primary for-profit 'generic' accreditation agency has recently been stripped of authority by the DOE... which means those schools have a limited amount of time to become accredited by a legitimate agency or they'll have to shut their doors completely. So - - the for-profits seem to be trying to clean up their acts in order to achieve re-accreditation because if they can't, they'll have to shut their doors.

Important factors accreditation for higher education include the 'graduation rate' and job placement rates of their students. For nursing programs, this includes NCLEX pass rates. Obviously, there is insufficient information to determine whether any of these factors are affecting OP's program, but.... it might explain why they are taking such a hard line.

This is a situation that is definitely unique as you mentioned the entire class is failing, not just one person. If that's the case, then it does sound like there's some issues with the teacher.

Just curious, is this an online school or brick-and-mortar?

I've had a crappy experience with a "hybrid program" at one point. An ENTIRE CLASS failing is just such an obvious money grab...

Good day:

In my opinion, if an entire class fails the class, then it is the professor, material, test questions; aka it is a systemic problem vs. localized to a small number of students. Now, the sad part is that chances are very high the root of the problem is you are going to a private college. I do hope you and your classmates can appeal and complete your journey.

Thank you.

Hmm - commercial schools are focused on maintaining revenue by keeping tuition and fees rolling in so It would actually benefit a school to keep students enrolled & as long as possible. But right now, there's some background stuff happening that could be having a major effect.

At the same time though, the whole for-profit education industry is under a lot of scrutiny. ACICS, the primary for-profit 'generic' accreditation agency has recently been stripped of authority by the DOE... which means those schools have a limited amount of time to become accredited by a legitimate agency or they'll have to shut their doors completely. So - - the for-profits seem to be trying to clean up their acts in order to achieve re-accreditation because if they can't, they'll have to shut their doors.

Important factors accreditation for higher education include the 'graduation rate' and job placement rates of their students. For nursing programs, this includes NCLEX pass rates. Obviously, there is insufficient information to determine whether any of these factors are affecting OP's program, but.... it might explain why they are taking such a hard line.

this is very interesting... you would think if we are all failing they'd be more worried about pass rates? We are currently the first class to begin a "concept based" curriculum and it is absolutely awful. I learned so much during my LPN ... RN not so much

Just curious, is this an online school or brick-and-mortar?

I've had a crappy experience with a "hybrid program" at one point. An ENTIRE CLASS failing is just such an obvious money grab...

There are 5 free standing colleges in our state. We are the first students of a new concept base curriculum vs. a knowledge based one. It's terrible... we are stripped of resources and told to "critically think" but we aren't even taught the material we need to "think" about. We've had online classes, which I've aced them all, but this course is ridiculous.

Good day:

In my opinion, if an entire class fails the class, then it is the professor, material, test questions; aka it is a systemic problem vs. localized to a small number of students. Now, the sad part is that chances are very high the root of the problem is you are going to a private college. I do hope you and your classmates can appeal and complete your journey.

Thank you.

That's how we all feel too... however we are overpowered by the school faculty who will not let it out that we are doing so poorly. Also, we discussed appealing our final if we all fail again but they won't put our grades in until the week after finals as our appeals have to be in the week of finals. Make sense right? I don't know who go to who is above the school itself!!!

This school will not have a graduating nursing class then? I would think they would not want that kind of publicity. Read your student handbook and go up the chain. Something is very wrong.