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?
