Is this fair?

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Good afternoon!

I have an issue and I need to see if I'm just over reacting or not. This week was finals week and the pressure was of course on but it didn't start out all that great.

The first exam was a complete disaster. It was multiple choice with an essay but for some odd reason the first ten or fifteen questions they were paragraphs. To make it worse, some of the questions were confusing. I had to read one of the questions three times and even then I still didn't understand.

You would probably think I didn't study but NOTHING from the outline of the syllabus and the document with notes that we got got came on there. Now even though most of the class failed, the school rules says we have to pay to resit. I'm talking ten grand here that no one has on them and we need to pay before January.

Do you think that's fair? For almost 80% of the class to fail and have to pay for something that wasn't our fault?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Ten grand to re-take an exam? What the heck kind of school is this? (Let me guess- a for-profit, right?)

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Yeah, pretty much.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Any chance of cutting your losses and finding another school?

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Only school that accepted me. All the others are full plus they are more expensive.

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Weather it fair or not is irrelevant -- it is school policy and I must assume that you knew this going into the program.. so your choice is to pay the fee and retake the exam or move on.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Only school that accepted me. All the others are full plus they are more expensive.

I cannot imagine something more expensive than a $10K exam re-take.

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Specializes in Med-Tele; ED; ICU.

Yikes, $10k to retake an exam?

Being a nurse is not worth that kind of extortion.

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Dollars to doughnuts it's not 10k to simply resit an exam.. OP mostly likely must repeat the entire semester and tuition is 10k.... I just cannot imagine any school for profit or public that would even attempt to charge 10k for a single exam.

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Only school that accepted me. All the others are full plus they are more expensive.

Yikes, $10k to retake an exam?

Being a nurse is not worth that kind of extortion.

What about a junior college? My ADN was less than 10k!

CallMeSally: some of those for-profit schools love having students like you. They want students that "just can't wait" or "nobody else accepted me". They know these "desperate" students will pay out the butt, and once they get that first juicy chunk of your money, they don't care if you fail. More students like you will come and cough up more dough for an easy in. You had to wonder why it was so easy to get in there, right?

I would cut my losses there before you're in debt so bad, you'll never pay it back.

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Give me ten grand and I'll certify that not only did you pass, you excelled.

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Specializes in critical care.

Is this a for-profit school?

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