How many students are failing in your class?

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In our ADN program a little over half the class is failing. Is this normal how many people are failing in your school?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

This is the week that the warning grades come out in our program. Yesterday, I heard lots of people mumbling and worrying about getting a warning letter or an improvement contract to sign. So, I have no actual numbers of people affected. We started with 100, and daily there seems to be fewer and fewer people in attendance.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

so far the class average on our past two exams were 90 & 91 so I don't think anyone is close to failing yet *knock on wood*

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Specializes in ICU, Mother/Baby.

WE have around 7-8 that are in trouble at my ADN program. We have midterm in two weeks and after that we will lose several. They dont let you go on after midterm in Pharmacology if you dont have a passing grade after the midterm. Scary for several in my class.

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Our class is mixed LPN and RN for the first 2 semesters, so we started with 300, and not one seat left in our big lecture hall, and it seems that everyday theres more and more seats empty, not sure if its people not showing up (can only miss 4 days) and the shock of our first 2 tests last week. But i heard that 33% of the class failed the first test, which is making a 74.4 or below, and that the class avg on the 2nd was 82.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI.

As of right now there are two that got the warning letter that I know of and probably about five more. It's usually the same ones every time and some how they just squeak by but everytime less of them are making it. We've lost 18 people out of 48 and we're a little over half way.

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When I started in January we had 25% of our class (8 out of 32) fail. Passing is 75% and many of them missed by a point or two. It's expected. People think RN school is easy and that they can still work full-time and socialize w/ their friends. If they can do all that and pass, great! That's not me.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

our LVN program just got back our 3rd A/P test. We started in early Sept with 45 students; we are down to maybe 43. But over 1/2 of the class is failing I think. warning grades will be coming out soon.

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Specializes in medical.

my group started at 25ish in year one and I think theres 16 of us left now in the third year. but thats people who have left through choice, as opposed to being asked to leave or failing. 75% sounds like a high pass mark, is that for essays or for exams?

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

At my school most with the exception of a few hang on until the end of the semester. So we (me and my fellow nursing students) usually do not know how many are failing until the end of the semester or the beginning of the following semester. I hear of people saying that they are not doing well or that they failed such-and-such exam, but I have no real idea who will not be back next semester since no one seems to miss a lecture or clinical despite poor grades.

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Specializes in Med/Surg <1; Epic Certified <1.

We lost 9 from our 1st semester ADN program, and two from second semester. I know that there were 6 or 7 who were borderline each semester that managed to pass, but I think that this, our 3rd semester will be the true test!!

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We lost 31 people our first year...out of 52. Right now, we're 3rd semester of our ADN program and we're all doing really well.

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