dover business college fails whole class

[Kimberly M]

Hi,

I'm currently a senior LPN student at dover business college. My pinning is October 22nd but today my class of ten took a NLN exit exam and not one of us passed. We were told an 85 percent was needed to pass and it has supposedly been like this since 2008. But we were also told this exam was harder than last years. All of us have gotten grades ranging from 80 to 84. Please can someone from previous classes tell me what the requirement was for there NLN. We as a group have tried to contact NLN and the board of nursing and have only been told the school sets the standards. Please someone help us out!

[BeenThereDoneThat74, MSN, RN]

I know this bothers students very much; but yes, a school is primarily based on NLCEX passing rates. And its first time rates (doesn't matter if the 2nd time is 100%). therefore, no school is going to string along all of the students who started out in the program.

What bugs me (about nursing, in general) is that we feel this need to be so cautious, forgiving and easy going with the educational aspect. Are other respectable professions doing the same thing? If you fail your first semester on law school or med school, do these students expect special consideration? Do they all expect to make it through, regardless of their performance? We'll NEVER be respected as a profession if we let everyone through, regardless of their abilities.

[Spydered]

If this college has an entire class that can not pass perhaps they should recognize that they have been ineffective in their teaching and examine what they can do to remedy the situation.

I agree with this ^^^ It can be a reflection of their curriculum or teaching style. Has the curriculum been changed recently? I remember being part of a restructuring within our RN program and after they figured out it didn't work, they mended and modified their standards to reflect the deviation from the original program. In the end it worked out. Everyone was frustrated by the change and it even affect the always A students because the hit in grades due to the change could have dropped their averages bigtime...I hope the school helps out...:)