What is your grading/test criteria at YOUR school?

MB37 · Oct 28, 2007

74.50 is the lowest C (we round up), and 74.49 is an F. There is no D at my school. Then it's 84 for a B, 93 for an A. In our core classes, we have several exams (6 this semester in Fundamentals) worth 10% each. Then our instructor-made final is 20%, and our percentile on the HESI is another 20%. I believe in both Med-Surg classes next semester (I'm accelerated, we take I and II together) the instructor doesn't make their own final, so the HESI is 40%. Everything else - labs, careplans, med term tests, etc. - are pass/fail. Of course, you have to pass everything to pass the class. So far (this is our second semester of NS, but first of clinicals), I have all As, but most people have seen their grades slip a little. Everyone that I know is passing though, and we have about a 95% NCLEX pass rate - HESI passage correlates to NCLEX passage, so that's why my school ties most of our classes to them.

RheatherN, ASN, RN, EMT-P · Oct 28, 2007

in core classes, we have to maintain an 80% TEST average. so pretty much if we do crappy homework we are only hurting ourselves. they dont matter towards our grade in the end.

As the saying goes..or so i hear..

C'S GET DEGREES!!

-H-

litlamp · Oct 28, 2007

Anything below 80.5 is failing for us. Skills are the same for us, a check off. If you "fail" that, you cannot continue.

stef77 · Oct 28, 2007

for our nursing classes we have to have a 77 to pass and they don't round up. There are 4 people from last year that failed with a 76.whatever. It's tricky because there are only 3 exams and 1 final. The exams count for 60% and the final is the other 40%. Our clinicals are just pass/fail.