What is your passing percentile?

BBswan · Nov 29, 2006

At my school, regular nursing classes are 94 for an A, 87 for a B, and 80% to pass with a C, no rounding. In skill casses and math classes, the scale is 96 for an A, 91 for a B, and 85 to pass with a C, again, no rounding up. During all the classes in the LPN and RN programs, I only remember 1 extra credit assignment, and that was in a 1 hour diet class.

This scale did not bother me until someone mentioned recently that they loss out on a scolarship because they only had a 3.44 GPA and they needed a 3.5.

RNfromMN, BSN, RN · Nov 29, 2006

Ours is 76% to pass...for the next few weeks. Apparently, our NCLEX pass rate isn't the greatest, so next semester they're changing our pass rate to 78% for all nursing classes.

emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Nov 29, 2006

My school also has A = 94 and up, B = 87 to 93 and C = 80 to 86 for nursing classes including pharmacology. We have a math test every semester that has to be passed with 100, you get 3 tries. Don't believe there's any rounding.

love2beanurse · Nov 30, 2006

80% Is passing here, but our school was just recognized yesterday for the only school in the state to ever have 100% pass rates on all the allied health programs boards, certifications etc. So I am not going to complain about it!

GWENLYN18 · Dec 1, 2006

I go to St. Francis Medical Center School of Nursing in Trenton NJ and our passing % is 80%. It sounds bad but you get use to it. I guess that's why we have a 100% passing rate on the NCLEX for the past few years.

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Dec 1, 2006

73% to pass and 94% to get an A

But I think pharmacology is harsher...I am taking that next semester so I do not know yet, but I have heard...like having to have 100% and stuff.

cherokeesummer · Dec 1, 2006

Our school is 79.5 for passing but that is for test average. Doesn't matter how well you do on the other stuff...the testing average is what passes or fails you.

TennesseeSN · Dec 2, 2006

75 to pass each course with an 80 required on the dosing exams. No rounding.

StudentNurseAbby · Dec 3, 2006

73%

Right now I have a 78%. I feel lucky, they're dropping like flies.

mysterious_one, ASN, RN · Dec 3, 2006

i think all our schools are similar with passing percentile and passing at NCLEX. What would be interesting to know is, how many from beginning of the program to the end will actual make it,to be able to take the boards, because these schools can all brag about their NCLEX passing as much as they want. The real deal is , in between is were it counts, do they actually teach the stuff, or do they just set the passing percentile high to weed you out, so their NCLEX rate looks good at the end?

By the way, our passing is 78%, but if you make two tests 70 or below you are out, no matter your average, and our NCLEX passing rate is 98%. But as far as I know, only a very small amount (I don't know the percentage of hand) of all the students who start the programm will make it all way through the end.

Kemccanha · Dec 3, 2006

Ours is 80%..No rounding off either!

s8ntollie · Dec 4, 2006

78% and 97% for dosing exam.:uhoh21: