I am a first year lpn student. I have found out some bad news from the second year students:
The second year students had to take some NCLEX predictor tests with ATI and Arnette. The majority of the students did not pass. They are being made to do some remedial work and are being told that if they do not pass the predictor test, they will not be allowed to graduate from the program and therefore will be ineligible to sit for their boards.
(Some of the students passed the Arnette test by Arnette standards but not by the school's standards)
Can they really do this to students who have passed and completed all other aspects of the program?
Do students have any recourse anywhere? Is there some means to fight this?
I am so afraid of this happening to me when I get there. It seems to me they should help the students improve but not prevent them from graduating after all hard work, money, blood, sweat and tears. This seems horribly unfair.
my school is this way. We have to take ATI after different sections and if you don't pass you have to remediate before you can take boards. Apparently there are still some students from last year's class who haven't taken boards because of this.
We've also been told that ATI is harder than NCLEX so its a good predictor of how you'll do. I actually like that we have something to gauge by, but I do think it's frustrating that we have to pass them to take boards. That's the problem with the system though, in order to keep accredidation schools have to have a high pass rate, so it leads to stuff like this.
AnnieMae*
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Time for a happy update... :clpty:
They are going to allow the students to keep taking the predictor tests until they pass!