New Graduation Requirements, Can They Do This?

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Our school just changed its graduation requirements and I want to know if anyone has heard of this, or if the school is even able to do this. Our school now requires that after we complete all courses and pass the nursing classes that we take an Kaplan NCLEX practice exam through Kaplan. If we don't meet the benchmarch on this exam then we get an incomplete for the course (even though we've passed all our classes) and we cannot register to take the NCLEX. Can our school do this??? Please let me know. We are set to graduate in December and we are all freaking out about this!!!! Thank you!:crying2:

It reflects poorly on your school if they graduate you and then you fail the NCLEX. If a certain number of people don't pass (I believe 80% is the cut off point in my state) then that school's accreditation goes into question.

So, while it may seem shady, it's actually just them covering themselves from passing someone who isn't ready. I know this because my school is on that list.

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I've been hearing about a lot of schools that are doing that now. I've heard mine is going to but I don't have that officially.

If we do have to take the class, we better not have to pay for it!

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My school just updated their curriculum and is requiring a similar thing but by a company called ATI.

But instead of being thrown at us all at once, we're taking an ATI at the end of all of courses and you have to pass the ATI test to pass the class.

It is stressful that your pass or fail can depend on one test, but you do get two practice test first and you get retake a different version of the test if you fail the first one.

But we've been taking ATI our whole nursing school career, there was even an ATI pre-admissions test.

If all of a sudden they sprung it on me last second when I was about to graduate, I'd feel bad too.

Here's something to consider though, if you are done with all of your classes you should be able to pass that test. And if you couldn't pass that test the idea is that you wouldn't likel pass the nclex, so if somebody did fail that test why even bother taking the NCLEX?

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I just remembered, we do have to take and pass the HESI exit exam in order to graduate, even if we pass everything else.

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