Why in the hell must a community college impose a grading policy that is absurdly difficult to maintain a 4.0 in? At my school an A is 92-100, B is 86-92, and C is 80-86..... WHY???!!!! This is only for the nursing program, the rest of the school has the standard policy of 90+A, 80+B, 70+C.
So last semester I got a 90.8 in Nur 111 (8credits) and a 91.4 in Health Assessment (3credits) so my GPA is 3.0 when in any other school it would be 4.0! I am distraught. I am a 4.0 student with lofty goals of nothing less than grad school. How can I succeed like this? I went from above average 4.0gpa to an underwhelming 3.0gpa. People failed out of our school for having a 79. One person in particular was by far the best in our clinical group on the floor and is a CNA, yet she did not move on to 2nd semester due to scoring a 79 overall (a high C anywhere else).
Why on Earth does a community college have a more difficult grading scale than many major universities?
I love how my school's staff boasts about how they have the highest NCLEX pass rate out of any school in the state. Well of course you do! Anyone who isn't gifted in scholastics is beaten into submission long before they ever get to the NCLEX.
I did the math for my personal GPA and if I got a B in every single NUR class for a total of 35 credits, I will graduate with a total of 77 credits (69 minimum to graduate NUR program) and still have a 3.5 GPA.
Do the math for your own forecast, it might make you feel better. Getting a B in one 8 credit class does not bring your entire GPA down to a 3.0 and that is why it is so important (to me personally) to get a 4.0 in every supporting course and pre-req. I am an over-achiever like you. But I am not going to beat myself up over grades during nursing school.
Specializes in home health, peds, case management.
" i'm not so concerned with being "a great nurse", i am more concerned with getting into a good grad school so that i can delegate to "great" nurses like you. i just have a hard time accepting that i can score in the top 9% for a course and it not be considered an a.
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this reminds me of an old saying..."people rise to the level at which they can no longer function."
" i'm not so concerned with being "a great nurse", i am more concerned with getting into a good grad school so that i can delegate to "great" nurses like you. i just have a hard time accepting that i can score in the top 9% for a course and it not be considered an a.
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this reminds me of an old saying..."people rise to the level at which they can no longer function."
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I did the math for my personal GPA and if I got a B in every single NUR class for a total of 35 credits, I will graduate with a total of 77 credits (69 minimum to graduate NUR program) and still have a 3.5 GPA.
Do the math for your own forecast, it might make you feel better. Getting a B in one 8 credit class does not bring your entire GPA down to a 3.0 and that is why it is so important (to me personally) to get a 4.0 in every supporting course and pre-req. I am an over-achiever like you. But I am not going to beat myself up over grades during nursing school.