Grading Scale For Your Nursing Program........

[MQ Edna]

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Hello, again.

Please I am asking everyone that comes by, to please please please respond to this message and not just read it and then go on by. Please do respond to it. Thank you so much.

What is your grading scale for the nursing program that you are attending right now, or will be attending in the future, or already attended [if it has been 1 yr or 30 yrs or more, does not matter]. I want to know and need to know. Thank you.

The reason why I am wanting this information is because the nursing program that I am attending right now, the grading scale is as follow: 93 to 100 = A

86 to 92 = B

80 to 85 = C

74 to 79 = D

73 or below = F

Yes, I want to compare our grading scale and yes I am getting up a petition to take to the President of my college to have the grading scale changed for the nursing program.

I have talked to several nursing students who goes to several other colleges and their grading scale is on a 10 point grading scale...meaning, 90 to 100 = A; 70 - 79 = C -- Passing.

So please, don't just read this message and not respond to it. I would love to hear from you thank you.

And also, the nursing program that I am going through is an ADN program, 2 years.

We have 4 levels that we have to proceed through.

And believe me, none of them [the Levels], prepares you for the following level(s). But each instructors in the following level(s) expects you to come in there knowing it all.

Also, thank you for stopping by and reading the other message I have posted ["Will I ever become a Nurse..."]. Your encouaging words and support means so much to me during this time of my life. Thank you.

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[RollingThunder]

Graduated in December 2005:

University grading scale and College of Nursing were VERY different:

A=100-93

B=92-85

C=84-77

Below 77=Repeat the course

Two Below 77's during the course of the program=Try a new major

Clinicals were pass fail and did NOT count toward your final grade (unless of course you failed clinical, thus failing the course) and were a TON of paperwork (care plans, etc.)

Tests counted for 100% of your grade in all Med-Surg (3), Pharm (2), Patho (2), Assessment, Community, and Psych. Classes like Professional Development (4), Nursing Research, and Healthcare Policy and Economics et. ux. were combinations of exams, pop quizs, journals, article reviews, presentations, debates, etc.

It was tough but everyone that graduated with me and has taken NCLEX (@ 75% of the class) passed boards on the first try. All but three passed in 75 questions. My original class started with 56, we lost 17 in our first semester, 14 in our second semester, and 7 in our third (and hardest) semester. No one was lost in our final semester. These were not below average students that we lost either, you had to have a 3.25 on pre-req's and 21 on the ACT to be accepted to the program.

[lna2rn]

Will graduate in 2007 and I am attending an ADN program. Our grading is as follows:

93-100= A

90-92= A-

87-89= B+

84-86= B

80-83= B-

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Anyhting below this line you have failed and are out of the program:(

[ER_RN07]

In my diploma nursing program...anything below a 77 is an F!

[greenmiler]

In mine anything below an 80 is failure. I'm in my 1st semester of an ADN degree, the guy sitting near me had a final average of 79.4 last semester; he failed. I'm scared:(

[jimthorp]

I don't disagree so much with the school's grading scale, but that they weight the grades.

I have a lot of college besides my nursing education and every class I have ever taken weighted the various components of the course. Your grade is based on total points earned out of total possible points. The exams during the course account for a greater percentage of total possible points and thus they account for a higher portion of your final grade.

In my program anything below a 78 was failing.

A=93-100

B= 86-92

C=78-85

[pepper_rn]

In my program anything below 80 was failing. No kidding. . It was a very difficult program. The instructors refused to round points either. If you had 79.99999, even at the end of the last section, you were done. It was brutal, lot's of complaints, but to no avail. Also if you didn't pass the HESI test, you failed the program. I have to say though, I knew my stuff inside and out. By the time I got to NCLEX, it was a piece of cake.

Good luck to you,

Pepper:nurse:

[land64shark]

My ADN program is:

A = 92-100

B = 85-91

c = 80-84

Kind of a wierd distribution, but that's the way it is.

Anything under 80 is failing. There's a lot of people in trouble already in my first semester class.

[nursenaz]

At my school our grading scale was:

90-100=A

80-89=B

70-79=C

60-69=D

Anything above an 80 is passing. 79.9=Fail... and they fail people allthe time for that. 79.9 and 79.8

We also had 2-3 med math tests a semester that we had to pass with a 90% or higher. If you failed it once you could retake it in 2 weeks. If you failed it that time you were out.

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

90-100 A

80-89 B

70-79 C

anything below 79 would put you on watch and you probably wouldn't proceed through the program

I graduated 1992

[wt2001]

I only remember 77-83=C, and this was in the RN program that I was in at first. I did not pass my last semester by 76.7. This was of course a D and the grades were not rounded. I was crushed but was accepted into the LPN program the next semester.

[LadyJRN]

Anything below 80 percent was failing. And.......100 percent on our math tests given every 8 weeks. (We could retake the math test once.)

I graduated in 1991.

[land64shark]

Anything below 80 percent was failing. And.......100 percent on our math tests given every 8 weeks. (We could retake the math test once.)

I graduated in 1991.

We need an 80% on our math tests and we can retake it another 2 times.