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

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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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Mine was like yours, Truthseeker. Anything less than a 78, you failed. Dont know if you'll have much luck getting it changed--even my kids' school (middle school, 6th grade) doesn't use the old standard 90-100 for an A scale. They are 92-100 for an A, which is outrageous, I think, for 12 year olds! I think it is ok for college students though.

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I must have went to the nursing program from hell...

The school of nursing had a different grading scale, because "In nursing being wrong can kill a patient, being wrong more than 10% of the time is beyond negligence." or so the head of the nursing dept told us in our first theory class.

97-100 A

94-96 B

90-93 C

0-89 F

clinical #1 LTC pass/fail

OB, peds, med-surg, oncology, etc graded

fail a class or clinical and you are kicked out until it is repeated the next quarter. Fail 2 classes and you are perm. removed from the program.

it was brutal and we lost tons of people. 60 started the program and 35 of use made it.

The class before me lost 3/4 of the students.

No one ever batted an eye over the fail rate.... wait list for the program if all prereqs are done, and your GPA above 3.5

GPA below 3.5 and you are told to transfer because you will not get in.

i didn't realize the scale was so high until i compared it with friends at another college who could pass with 80%

peter

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93-100 A

85-92 B

77-84 C

Lower than 77-you are out!!!!

I hate this seven point scale but at least it's only the nursing program at my school so any other course work is based on a 10-point scale.:p

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100- 93 A

92- 84 B

75- 83 C

Anything below 75 is failing and you are automatically out of the program at the end of that semester.

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Like the others, anything below a C if failure.

A 93-100

B 83-92

C 75-82

D70-74

F 0-69

Ivy Tech College in Indiana

Julie

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WOW, the grading scales for other schools are tough compared to my school but I will be able to do it anyway. My school is like this:

Clinicals are either pass or fail and the other work including tests goes as follows.

92-100 =A

90-91= A-

88-89= B+

82-87= B

80-81= B-

78-79= C+

70-78= C

68-69= C-

66-67=D+

60-65= D

0-59= F

If you get anything lower than a 70 at my school it is considered failing. It is a crazy grading scale but if someone was to get a C- and then decided to come back again later and re-try then at least their GPA won't be quite as bad.

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Same as yours and below a 74% and you fail and have to wait another year to start that part of the program over again!!

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Like Julie, I go to Ivy Tech in Indiana. Anything below a 75 is failing, so I stop counting lower than 75.

WOW peter!!!! What a scale! :eek: :eek:

I guess the majority of us are pretty lucky!

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Here's how it is for my BSN program:

91-100 A

88-90 B+

81-87 B

78-80 C+

71-77 C

70 and below fails

Plus we have to get 91 or above on all math medication tests and an 85 on the HESI or we don't grad. I think it's pretty fair, even though some of my instructors won't round unless you have a .9 at least!:cool:

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So please anybody that reads this, please post/respond. I truly do appreciate it so much. Thank you

Merry Christmas and God Bless you all.

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I graduated in 1998. The scale used at my school was just like yours I think. Under 74 was a failure, out of the program.

Good Luck!

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Here goes

90-100% A

80-89.99% B

75-79.99% C

anything under 75% is FAILING and you are OUT, and can never attend Nursing School again. I've seen people with a 74.99 get thrown out. The med test must be passed with AT LEAST an 85% below that, your out and you MUST pass clinical!!!!!! I am still in school, we started in September with 36 students, we are down to 24.

I just finished finals for the first term. I have 5 "A's" and 3 "B's". My lowest grade is in A & P, got a 84.06% in that.

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