June 2007 NLE SCHOOL RANKINGS..ALARMING STATISTICS!

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For those nurses who attended good schools and passed the NLE, my heartfelt congratulations for a well deserved accomplishment. However, I feel for those who failed because they went to substandard schools that consistently fail to graduate students who can pass the NLE. Your anger is justified!!

Here in Baguio, a consistently top performing school is St. Luis Univ. (SLU) ...always a 90% or better (this exam 302 takers ..299 passed!!!) I applaud this University for its year after year performance standards!

At the Univ. of Baguio you at least had a 50/50 chance with 527 examinees resulting in 263 passers (50%) and a better chance at the Univ. of the Cordilleras (Baguio College Fndtn) where 248 takers resulted in 150 passers for a respectable (60%).

Yet just down the street is Baguio Central Univ. who put 639 students into the exam with only 233 passers (36%).....or even more disturbing is Pines City College with 977 examinees and 277 passed...(28%) thats 1,600 plus students of which 1,100 FAILED from these two schools alone.

SOURCE: Performance by School in alphabetical order http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/examresults/20070826_NURSE-0607.pdf

There are HUNDREDS of nursing schools with similar performance of BCU and Pines City, and the loosers are the students who spent millions of pesos for a 4 year education that resulted in NO JOY at the biggest exam of their career!! I cannot believe that out of 1600 students over 1100 are not intelligent enough to pass this exam...more likely than not it was a poor education that resulted in this terrible perfomance disparity.

How did YOUR school perform?

I feel your anger.

Hoss

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Specializes in New RN Sept 8, 2006, Med/surg Geria.

the students who spent millions of pesos for a 4 year education

MILLIONS? Oh, why do we love to exaggerate....!!!!

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well..all i can say is that im happy and proud of my university because both the physician and the nursing board exam top notchers were frm my school. theyre:balloons: both number 1 on d lists

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MILLIONS? Oh, why do we love to exaggerate....!!!!

Simple math; 200 or so schools fail to get 50% pass rate with 500 students average, at 50,000pesos /semester, x 4years.........equals MILLIONS indeed!!

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I hate it when nursing schools boast their ratings...especially when kids have to go to Review Centers because they're not confident enough that their nursing schools did the best job in giving them all the education they need...

Ratings should go to review centers like SLRC or Northcap...or even Gapuz...hahahahaha!

I'm kind of surprised why SLU doesn't have a representative in the top 10...

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I'm kind of surprised why SLU doesn't have a representative in the top 10...

Having no candidate in the top ten but almost all your candidates passed is much much better than having one topnotcher but almost half your candidates failed. Are you not surprised why UP also doesn't have a candidate in the top ten?...yet all its candidates passed?..You see, only in the Philippines have this so called top ten (examinees) in government exams. If you "google" the word "topnotcher", the lists show mostly Philippine entries. In the US, there is no such thing (top ten examinees)..you either failed or passed (even US Bar exams) and they gauge the performance of the school based on how many candidates passed. I believe PRC should stop releasing the rankings of the top ten examinees (this is a source of corruption). They should only release the rankings of schools.

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i believe that the government shoul act now to close all substandard schools, nursing should not be a BUSINESS, nursing should be a vocation, nursing should be portrayed as something very special, a calling or whatever. If the government fails to lift a finger, the repercussions would be insurmountable, 1. the collapse of the healthcare system,2 the wasting of precious time and money of "forced" nursing students. all in all we are in this boat together, the long term effects of this crisis is great. the governement should act now!:ACT NOW!:

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Specializes in New RN Sept 8, 2006, Med/surg Geria.
Simple math; 200 or so schools fail to get 50% pass rate with 500 students average, at 50,000pesos /semester, x 4years.........equals MILLIONS indeed!!

I hope you didnt really mean one student spending MILLIONS for a a 4-yr-BSN program -because that was how I understood your post. Then, I stand corrected.

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Having no candidate in the top ten but almost all your candidates passed is much much better than having one topnotcher but almost half your candidates failed. Are you not surprised why UP also doesn't have a candidate in the top ten?...yet all its candidates passed?..You see, only in the Philippines have this so called top ten (examinees) in government exams. If you "google" the word "topnotcher", the lists show mostly Philippine entries. In the US, there is no such thing (top ten examinees)..you either failed or passed (even US Bar exams) and they gauge the performance of the school based on how many candidates passed. I believe PRC should stop releasing the rankings of the top ten examinees (this is a source of corruption). They should only release the rankings of schools.

I totally agree. Much better that a school has a higher over-all passing rate for their students rather than a school that has many representatives in the so-called top ten but it's over-all passing rate is just 50-60% or below and you will see that from the charts.

It is also good that they also provide the stats for the passing rate for 1st timers and re-takers as most often than not the re-takers have very low passing rates and this drags down the overall passing rate of a school. This is quite fair in my opinion, since there really is a sort of 'diminishing returns' for re-takers on any board-type exams. The more times a test taker takes an exam and fails it, the lesser the chance she'll pass.

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im really against this review center. review in preparation for board exam should be handle by school. imagine students pay thousand of pesos in crash review. review should start in senior year so that retention and good chance of passing at first take!! and how will you test your competency? if your really want nursing on your proper you start reviewing so that when your expose to the hospital you wont look like idiot, i bet if you ask student nurses now about medical surgical or any nursing related question in the ward im sure they will just roll there eyes :angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:nono::uhoh21: and pretending did not hear or they will just give you smile

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Interesting that I.T. schools are suddenly become colleges of nursing. On page 18 of the PRC results and rankings by schools, Systems Technology Institute (STI) has been advertising "Nursing" on sky cable. Here are the result of their exams at the NLE.

STI Edsa Crossing 1 examinee, FAILED

STI Legazpi 4 examinees, 4 FAILED

STI Makati 1 examinee, FAILED

STI Ormoc 1 examinee, PASSED

7 takers and 6 failures would cause some to question why they entered the education of nurses in the first place. What are the students recourse when even if they are the ONLY student from a campus taking the exam, they still fail to get a passing score? Many questions are raised indeed!!!

Or a computer and automotive institute that is now a "nursing school"....

Central Ilocandia College of Science and Technology, Inc.

Lingsat, San Fernando City

19 examinees, 18 FAILED

Again, I ask, were 18 students poorly educated/trained, or did all 18 simply fail out of ignorance or stupidity? This is just plain WRONG!!

Source:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/examresult ... E-0607.pdf

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/examresults/

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i completely agree with you hoss, no offense but computer schools should close their nursing college and focus more on their field.

remember the TV commercial about a student nurse (from STI) doing a cardio version? hah! if im not mistaken, nurses aren't allowed to do a cardio version right?

STI's slogan was "real education for real life"

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