Just curious...

tbell2 · Dec 29, 2009

I have wondered, though -- since exams themselves (taken in school) are not standardized, I would imagine that some schools are just harder than others - so it may be harder to pass a test at 74% at one school than to pass one at 80% at another school.

This is very true. No one knows what another school's tests are like. I know in my school, very very few people get any As on the tests. I would say it averages one per test in our class of about 25.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Dec 29, 2009

Ours is 77% classes and 100% on the Dosage Calc exam and our pass rate last year was 100% I don't know the prior years, they just told us at Orientation what it had been the previous year.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Dec 29, 2009

This is very true. No one knows what another school's tests are like. I know in my school, very very few people get any As on the tests. I would say it averages one per test in our class of about 25.

I don't even know what they are in our class unless people share and are honest. Our teachers don't post the grades publicly (with code names or something) or even the overall averages.

EDRN-2010 · Dec 29, 2009

77% or better to pass, 98% pass rate

I just thought it would be interesting to see these numbers side by side.
What is your school's lowest passing grade and what is their NCLEX pass rate (first try)?
My school's lowest passing grade is 76 and has a 97% first try pass rate.

tbell2 · Dec 30, 2009

I don't even know what they are in our class unless people share and are honest. Our teachers don't post the grades publicly (with code names or something) or even the overall averages.

Only for the first class did our teacher post our grades under the last 4 digits of SSN. No one got an A in that class. Now we all check our grades online and can see the class statistics. Highest grade, lowest grade, median, and distribution of A B C without the percentages.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Dec 30, 2009

Only for the first class did our teacher post our grades under the last 4 digits of SSN. No one got an A in that class. Now we all check our grades online and can see the class statistics. Highest grade, lowest grade, median, and distribution of A B C without the percentages.

Yeah a few of our teachers in non nursing classes did that, but for our nursing classes they don't. They just say that it's because it doesn't matter. So only way we know who got what is if the students say and of course they might not always be honest. One girl in our class lied numerous times about stuff, not sure why because it's not like people asked, she would just come out saying stuff that we knew weren't true because she would tell other people different things. Same thing happened with another student. She was telling everyone how she only had a 9 point margin on the last 2 exams in one class and how freaked out she was because before our previous test she had an A. Well going off what she said she got and the margin she had their was no way she could have an A. Then she told another group of students that she felt like she was smarter then and better than that she had a much higher margin. So yah never know. Sometimes I wish they would post the info.

SCSTxRN · Dec 30, 2009

78 - you can fail one course and get back in, the second course you're permanently out... 98% pass, but they also require an 850 on the Hesi in order to graduate; which predicts a virtual 100% passing rate on NCLEX.

We have 3 tries to pass the Hesi before graduation, then they have to take a bunch of summer classes and preceptorship in their 'weak area' - then one more try to pass Hesi, fail it - you don't graduate - so you don't count against the school's pass rate for NCLEX.