ERI Exit exam

[TSURN2B]

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!

[TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP]

Jasper, I'm right there with you. It's nothing but a way to give the instructors a break and putting the blame on somebody else. If the pass/fail ratio's are bad, look at the instructors or the material that is being taught. I have compared my school's test's to the NCLEX review books and I'm gonna be busting my tail to pass NCLEX. So there you go. And it costs me more money to have to take ERI. I'm trying to pass the Growth and Development part now and none of my six NCLEX review books are helping and the ERI coaching materials on the web site are helping so I don't know how to study for this test that I have failed except look up some of the particular questions that I had problems with. So if I fail the test again, I don't go forward and I only have one semester to go in nursing school. So if this keeps me from graduating, I'm not going to attend the same school. What a let down and frustrating thing to get this far and have this happen. And to top it off, you ask your instructors for help on this test and all they can tell us is review what they have already given us. We have and we all tested on it in class and passed but we none of us can pass the ERI G&D test. So now what?????

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.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

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.

[r&r10]

I hope is not hard like Hesi, My school has Hesi and is a nightmare