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Do any of all have to take the ERI exit exam? At our school they just implemented this requirement to graduate, and our whole class feels so unprepared to take the test. We have to make 3 points above the national average and have 2 tries to take the test. Out of a class of 36 only 6 people made the required 3 points above to pass the test on the first try. We take it again next Monday. I just wish the nursing deparment would have told us about this test sooner and prepared us for it. So what type of exit exam do you all have to take and what is the score you must make in order to graduate?
Thanks for any input!
I recently completed an RN program, and the exit exam was administered by Kaplan.
I completed an LPN/LVN program in late 2005 where the ERI was used as the exit exam. Back then, a score of 64 was the school's average and 63 was the national average. I scored a 63. The school's administration refused to send NCLEX eligibility paperwork or release transcripts for anyone who scored less than 58, although these people were allowed to graduate. Well, a total of 6 people achieved scores that were less than the school's required score of 58.
TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP
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It's not a cover-up for poor instructors. If students aren't passing the exit exam, it should be at least as bad for the instructors (...and the admissions committee...) as if their students all bombed the NCLEX-RN the first time, as it shows that students are not learning the material well enough. What exit exams do is keep the school from being sanctioned for having a low NCLEX pass rate.
Schools with established exit exams are not out to get you, they're making sure that students are retaining knowledge and learning what they need to. If the entire cohort fails a test, there's a good chance it's instructor's fault.
To answer the OP's initial question - my school uses the ATI exams through the entire program along with the exit exams. I also just recently posted a thread grousing about the ATI.