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Passing cut offs

Obviously, other nursing students are aware of passing cut offs in nursing school (ex 75% or higher). But I feel like I haven't seen any other nursing programs like mine: for our BSN program, the cut off for passing is 70% and above, however, in some of the classes (not sure why it's only some of them, doesn't seem fair) that's not all. In addition to the 70% cut off in the class we also have to have an average of 70% or higher in the exam section of the class or we don't pass either. If you get a D or F as an average in the exam section, then that is your grade for the course and you don't pass. It seems really dumb to me because I've known many students in our program that have gotten screwed out of this where everything in the class came out to be an A or B yet they were a couple point's shy of that 70% average in the exam section and they don't pass, students who would all make great nurses. Does anyone else have this at their school? I just think it's really stupid. I know 70% is fairly low for nursing programs and seems easy to get for the class overall and exam section. But when it's set up like this, especially when the class had only three exams, it basically says that even if we have one test that we do more poorly on, and everyone has those tests, then we're screwed. Anyone else have this at their school too?

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    What?! 70%!!! I wish my school did allow 70%! At my school an 80% was the lowest that you could with NO rounding. Consider yourself lucky.

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    My school is 80%, and for EVERY class we have to have an exam average of 80% not counting homework grades or we fail. If it was 70, our cohort of 45 probably wouldn't be down to

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    Wow. 70%? That's it? At our school you have to get a 76% average on all the proctored exams. Get this... 75% of our grade is the proctored exams. They don't add ANY of the other 25% of your grade (assignments, papers, skills checkoffs, etc) until you obtain 76% of those test points. If you don't hit 76%, they don't even add in any of the other points and you fail the block. There is no rounding. If you get a 75.9%, you fail.

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    Wow, 70% is low! I know the nursing programs I'm applying to don't have averages that low, I wish!

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    Wow, 70% is low! I know the nursing programs I'm applying to don't have averages that low, I wish!

    I don't. The minimum for my program is 76% and that's plenty low enough in my opinion. Do you really want people passing nursing programs who don't know 30% of the material?

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    My nursing school is 75%. For the exams you must get a 75% average. My school goes by a point system to calculate the grades. 225 out of 300 points is what many people pray to get so that they can pass the class.

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    I don't. The minimum for my program is 76% and that's plenty low enough in my opinion. Do you really want people passing nursing programs who don't know 30% of the material?

    Lol. Well when it comes to test time, yeah I wish the average was 70%. But I know it's not & I'm applying any way.

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    Our school's passing is an 80%! We lost quite a lot of great people in our class. We have about 28 students now from our 60+ we started in Freshmen year.

    But let's keep rolling on, we can do this guys :)

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    80 for my class. 82 for the classes after mine. No rounding..got a 79.9999999 it was still a fail.

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    75%

    We have homework, assignments, papers, group projects... But they are just pass/fail and we only get graded based on our test.

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    76%

    And peeps still end up failing.

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    Mine is 75 percent and they do not round but people still fail every semester. My school makes sure that they prepare us for the n clex so each exam mimics the nclex. Just because the required pass mark is high or low , its not a good indication for whether the school is good or not. Before you attend a school, you should research the nclex pass rate and each semester pass rate. The nclex is getting harder and harder each year so the schools must keep up. Since you signed up to attend that school, you must follow their rules. Thats why I'm attending the adn and not a bsn program because I did not feel like the bsn programs in my area were that good . The community colleges in my state nclex pass rates were much much better too.

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