My class just had 20ish ppl fail because of the HESI...

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We got to take the exit HESI 3 times...today was the last test...and we lost about 20 ppl. Only 2 passed it today :crying2:

Including about 6 LPN's that I started with last summer.

It's devestating!

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I believe they need to continue allowing students the opportunity to retake it while at the same time being introspective about what kind of 'quality control' needs to be done to improve future pass rates.

This is what happened at our school. We didn't do HESI, we had to pass ATI exams to pass most of our classes. If someone failed, they were given a second chance. If they still failed, they had to meet with the term advisor and create a study exam to remediate. No one failed because of the exam, but it was in your best interest to pass if you didn't want to extra work of remidiation. I'm not sure of our exact NCLEX pass rate. I do know that out of the 60 people that graduated the class prior to mine, 1 person failed the NCLEX. I do not know what the pass rate is for my class so far.

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We have to take ATI testing at the end of every semester, but it is not counted toward our final grade at all. It is meant to be utilized as a means to both see how far we have come and what areas we are weakest in and need to study more. What a shame so many students failed. That is indeed a reflection on the poor quality of the education within that institution.

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Ohhh wait...it just gets better!

After I posted this, there was a big grassroots movement in the class, that they passed all 24 ppl that passed.

Now, I am not saying that there weren't ppl that deserved to pass...I know one LPN that studied her butt off and was 3 points away from passing.

The kicker to the situation was that on Thursday, the day before pinning, they were offered a chance to get pinned, walk for graduation, and then take a 10 week remediation course, where all they had to worry about was the stupid HESI! No other tests, no finals, just the HESI....and then a chance to take the HESI for one final time to pass it...they turned it down.

I was told that basically they passed everyone cause they were getting so nasty and mean and the staff was sick of listening to them. :rolleyes:

I hope that they (the students that failed) can get it together and realize that they really need to be busting out some study time on the NCLEX...cause the state boards won't fold as easily as the school did.

Plus it really negates all the hard work that the rest of us did to actually pass the class under the "rules"...heck, I shoulda just been goofing off, Facebooking and shopping instead of studying! I still would have passed! /sarcasm

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Don't blame the test. It is only a tool. But the blame where it belongs ... on the school that didn't adequately prepare its students for a test that they had designated as a "must pass" requirement.
If blame is to be apportioned, let's not neglect that which rightly falls upon the students themselves.

At least with the ATI tests, there was really nothing on them which the student could not have learned themselves from their textbooks. I presume that the HESI is similar.

Such a situation is as much an indictment of the students and the school's admission standards as it is of the instructors and the program.

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That is indeed a reflection on the poor quality of the education within that institution.

2/3's of the class was able to pass the HESI on the first 2 attempts, 20 on the first try. So I don't think its just a matter of that, I think its a matter that some ppl that failed it are either poor standardize test takers or they let their nerves get the best of them and then a small porportion are just literally...dumber than a box of hair.

I am sorry, but if you are graduating from RN school and you have to ask what to do with the pillows when the instructor is talking about Orthopnea...you need to go back to fundamentals! OR if you ask "um...so if you have CP, do you like, have that for the rest of your life?"

seriously? SERIOUSLY!?!? :confused:

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Yes, I have the same feelings about the HESI. I'm pretty nervous about it cause our class has to take it at the end of each quarter.

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This makes me sad that nursing schools are doing such a crummy job preparing students for the hesi if they are going to use it. My college offers the hesi, but it does not count for anything. I never opened the hesi book (we were told not to study for it) and got a 1000, the average grade in my class of 80 students was a 900...

I am no genius that is for sure! But I still wonder why I always here about people failing hesi. Are your exam questions similar to the hesi questions? I wonder if that is the difference because ours are similarly formatted. I do remember the faculty telling us that the hesi is not necessarily a gauge of how much you know but more how well can select the best answer using the test strategies we learned.

Good luck and sorry to hear about losing 20 people.

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