I am a sophomore at my nursing school and when I first began it was required for nursing students to pass the class with a 75% or higher on their exams and have an overall score of a 75% or higher to pass the class (this included hw as well). Well now out of nowhere they have decided to change that rule and starting next fall you will need to pass your classes with an 80% or higher.
What is everyone else's minimum to pass their nursing classes at their nursing school?
The program I graduated from required a 76% minimum (2.5) to pass each course.
That said, math is treated like a separate component of each course. That means you can have 100% average on everything else, but if you failed the math portion, you failed the course and were exited out of the program. When I started nursing school, the math requirement was 76%, just like everything else in the program. Partway through, the department heads made the decision to change the math requirement to a minimum 90% to pass. That only applied to the math portion; everything else stayed at 76%. After much protesting from students who were part of the way through the program, the "powers that be" decided to grandfather in the existing students under the old rule of 76%. I believe my cohort was the last to be grandfathered in - all students now must past medication math with 90% minimum.
they (the program) could have saved themselves all this argument by simply increasing the rigor of the program. If you are losing such a large number of students, they were not properly vetted before being accepted.
Specializes in Med/ Surg/ Telemetry, Public Health.
That is so unfair, they should have at least let the remaining classes until the fall continue with the 75%. My school changed pharmacology you could take it anytime up to your fourth semester and now they changed it to where the new incoming students have to take it with first semester fundamentals class. There's nothing you can really do because if you go to the dean they will say that's the new rules. As nursing students we are subjected to changes at the last minute. The clinical section I was in got changed at the last minute and there was nothing I could do about it. My program requires a 77% with no rounding.
In my program the exam scores have to average to 78%. Clinicals and Lab are pass/fail, but in order to pass you have to get at least 80%. If you fail a class, you can reapply to the program for the following cohort, but are not guaranteed to get in. If you fail a second time you are out all together. There is no rounding. My first quarter I missed an A by 0.2% (an A is 95% and I got 94.8%...that was a bummer).
Ours has always been 80%, but we are a private Catholic university. Our math is 90%. I was told it is because we are accredited by another institution that is optional. Our graduating class this semester has 9 students, out of probably 50 that started the ADN program in fall 2012. =/
In my program 77% is passing so as long as you have a 76.5% you're good. They don't do anything like making sure all the tests average that and then adding in papers, HESI, ect. You just need that as an average. It's still difficult and a lot of people fail. They've had a 99% first time NCLEX pass rate for about ten-ish years straight, not sure the exact number of years.
32 started, 10 are left, 75% overall to pass the class, my pharmacology class was only 6 weeks long. So um yea I am not in your run of the mill nursing program to say the least, I THINK>
Think about it. Is a nurse who gets it right 7.5 times out of 10 good enough to take care of your child, calculate your chemo rate, teach your dad about his insulin? Would knowing that s/he was at least right 8/10 times be better?
OneDuckyRN
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The program I graduated from required a 76% minimum (2.5) to pass each course.
That said, math is treated like a separate component of each course. That means you can have 100% average on everything else, but if you failed the math portion, you failed the course and were exited out of the program. When I started nursing school, the math requirement was 76%, just like everything else in the program. Partway through, the department heads made the decision to change the math requirement to a minimum 90% to pass. That only applied to the math portion; everything else stayed at 76%. After much protesting from students who were part of the way through the program, the "powers that be" decided to grandfather in the existing students under the old rule of 76%. I believe my cohort was the last to be grandfathered in - all students now must past medication math with 90% minimum.