LPN exam in NC

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my daughter is a student at local community college in nc she had just completed her final exam for the lpn program there. she failed this exam by two points but was also told that the instructors threw out seven of those questions on the exam during their review of grading the exams. my daughter was told when they throw out any questions on the exam this can either help the test grade or hurt the test grade meaning if she had the test question marked right and they decided to throw out that question then she would get a deduction in her test grade.

how can this be fair? and if this is allowed then what should she do now? what options does she have? can she retake this exam somewhere else if this college doesn't let them retake it? please help us with some advice of what to do now without having to repeat the whole entire nursing program she completed her 101 course with a high b average and her overall course average was 82%.

i appreciate any help or advice you could give us.

sincerely,

proud mom

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If she had gotten all 7 of the questions right that they had thrown out, it would hurt her average. However, if she missed the majority of the 7 questions (which is likely since they threw them out), it would have taken her test grade lower if they had left them in.

I don't have much advice for you as far as taking the exam elsewhere... speak to the lead instructor or department chair at the school and see what options are available to her.

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She had to set up an appointment to look at her graded exam tomorrow so there's no way to tell yet which of those seven questions were thrown out but I don't understand why any questions would be thrown out after an exam was taken to begin with it doesn't make sense to me.

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In our school, any exam questions that over 50% of the class missed are evaluated by the instructors. Nursing questions are unlike any other questions asked on tests, sometimes the questions are simply not fair so they get rid of them.

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Yes that happened with one of their exams earlier in the program where the whole class failed the exam but because two weren't there to take the test the test was never granted a retake (this also did not make sense). It seems to me that if the questions were unfair and were thrown out then they should of never been on the test to begin with they they should review the test questions before giving out the final exam. I understand that some questions in Medicine have more than one answer so they should just either not put the question on the test begin with or accept the multiple answers that pertain to that question.

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I don't know what to tell you... welcome to nursing school :confused:

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I agree nursing school is definitely confusing...

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All schools are different and she just needs to follow her chain of command. And since she is going to her instructor to review her exam she is doing just that. At my school when they throw out questions, our grades never go down. However, if we got the questions right that were thrown out our grades stay the same, but if someone missed all the questions their grades are raised, usually higher than the people who got them correct. I don't think it is fair one can go from a 69 to an 86and I started out with an 84 in the first place and still at a 84. Oh well. That's just nursing school I guess.

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retakes do not happen at most nursing schools in nc, so a retake is not something to be expected.

i am sorry that she failed by a few points for the final grade, but truthfully it was not just 2 points. she had a lower average to begin with, it was the result of many lower test grades.

if someone had a 94 average, failing the test with a 70 would still have them passing the class as a whole.

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