94 or higher is an A?

this thread reminds me of another one running in which a student is wondering whose fault it is if 25% of them failed the HESI. She believes it is the school's fault in not preparing them well enough even though 75% of the students passed the same test. When it comes to grades, many of those who failed the HESI were getting good or excellent grades. Maybe the problem isn't the school not preparing students to take the test but the fact that too many A's are awarded?!? It's at least something to consider, even if it doesn't answer it completely.

Welcome to nursing school! Wait until you get to graduate school!!

My nephew (who was in middle school at the time) said that the grading system was 93 or higher was an A. When I was a kid 90 or higher was so I took that as schools being tougher. Than I saw his homework and they literally gave him points for putting his name on his paper.

Point being you can make a passing grade 50 or higher and have it be more difficult than 99 or higher if your anatomy questions are no more than **singing** "The leg bone is connected to the hip bone, hip bone connected to the back bone" etc etc.

Content and quality of the Prof are more important factors outside of your abilities and commitment.

95 or up is an A for us! Imagine how frustrated students who have a 94.9 are when the school doesn't round up?

That grass always greener on da other side..

I consider your school's grading system quite generous. The ADN program I am currently attending grading system is much harder...

96-100=A

94-95=A-

92-93=B+

89-91=B

87-89=B-

84-87=C+

80-83=C

Anything less is failing.

Mine was 93-100A

84-92 B

75-83 C

Less than 74= fail

I graduated with a 95.2% average. The next two were 91.8% and 92.5%. It can be done.

I consider your school's grading system quite generous. The ADN program I am currently attending grading system is much harder...

96-100=A

94-95=A-

92-93=B+

89-91=B

87-89=B-

84-87=C+

80-83=C

Anything less is failing.

Looks like the upper range of your system matches OP's, but their cutoff for passing is 82 which actually gives you more wiggle room.

All of these grading systems look pretty standard to me, including no rounding up. I don't recall our exact range as it was several years ago. I, for one, am glad vigorous nursing programs exist. We need a good education base.

My program is 93 for A, 84 for B, and 75 for pass.

We get extra credit but we have to be at 74.6 or more for it to apply. If you have a 73 and there's 20 points extra credit it doesn't matter, you fail.

Yup that's pretty standard. Another, more blunt, view point our instructors shared with us was, "would you want a nurse responsible for you're life who couldn't get atleast a 80% in all their classes?"

i couldn't come up with any good arguments against that one, lol

Our program requires 78%, so that was a low blow for some of us were only barely passed.

My school is 92% A, 82% B, 74 C (no rounding) is the lowest you can get.

I find this really annoying that the school I want to go to... This is so crazy... they have such a low passing rate... I can't believe they haven't thought to change it...

Since you have such disdain for it, why on Earth would you want to go there?

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The obvious answer to complaints about the grading scale is to simply score 100% in each class and don't worry about the scale. It can be done, you know.