Passing grade for your nursing school

PilotJim68 · Dec 13, 2003

Ours is 80% just to pass, 92% for an "A". No rounding and no curves. Quiz grades are not counted to boost a grade, you must make at least an 80% BEFORE your quizzes count. This is just for the nursing classes though, not the pre-reqs.

Drug Dosage has the same grading scale but the final is 40% of your Drug Dosage grade and Drug Dosage grades do not count towards your GPA it is a pass/fail thing but you have to pass with an overall 80%. Its a tough program but I am glad that it is, I have learned alot in my first semester.:)

Oh...our NCLEX first time pass rate is 98% and the school usually graduates 40-60 students every semester. Not too bad for an ADN program.

mandykatrn · Dec 13, 2003

:eek:

All I can say is I'm sure glad I don't go to any of these schools you all have mentioned... geeeeeeeeezz!

My nursing program follows the traditional 70, 80, 90% grading. Much fairer, in my opinion!

How can you stand the pressure?

:nurse:

~j

PilotJim68 · Dec 13, 2003

Pressure is pretty high and results in alot of crying students. However, it is tough to get into this school so most of the students are familiar with higher academics and standards. I really haven't met anyone who wasn't totally committed to this program.

The people who can handle this program and are mentally prepared for it, are very confident that they will pass the NCLEX on the first attempt and are more comfortable with their skills. We do have alot of people either drop or fail that go to another community college near here and do ok...but their requirements aren't as stringent.

I havent seen it for myself but I have heard from many many people that they can tell a big difference between the new grad nurses from my school and the ones who graduated from "the other" school. It will be interesting to see if this holds true once I get out in the work force.

mandykatrn · Dec 13, 2003

Thanks for your reply PilotJim.

Oh boy, do I ever know about pressure being high! The competition was huge to get into our school - no one with less than a 4.0 got in (even some with 4.0 didn't get in due to the number of students)! So yeah, we're all familiar with higher standards and academics. That's why I said I'm glad our grading system is traditional. It's been stressful enough as it is. Our school's NCLEX-RN pass rate on first attempt is 96%. Just goes to show how varied our schools are in different regions of the country. With the exception, I'm sure, of the difficulty getting in!!

~j

maire, ASN, RN · Dec 13, 2003

I'm a little late in the reply but in my school passing is 77% PLUS Satisfactory in lab PLUS Satisfactory in Clinical.

NATTY SN · Dec 13, 2003

Our school policy is that you must have a 75% but you also have to have a 75% average on your test in order to pass. So if you have a 76% in the class overall, and your test average is 74% you are out. That is what happened to one of my best friends she needed a 75 on the final exam and she got a 74!!!! , but she had a 76% overall I think that sucks.

Catma63 · Dec 13, 2003

Originally posted by NATTY SN
Our school policy is that you must have a 75% but you also have to have a 75% average on your test in order to pass. So if you have a 76% in the class overall, and your test average is 74% you are out. That is what happened to one of my best friends she needed a 75 on the final exam and she got a 74!!!! , but she had a 76% overall I think that sucks.

OMG! I've never heard of the overall score not being passing. So, if someone scored a 100's on all of their exams and then took the final and failed it with a 74, they'd fail? That's cruel!

I've never heard of such a thing. What pressure!

NurseDixie · Dec 13, 2003

Anything under 76% is failing for our nursing class.

:rolleyes:

I graduated last night! Woo Hoo!!:roll

NATTY SN · Dec 14, 2003

Catma63

What I meant was that in addition to having a 75% overall average in the class, you also needed to have a test score average of 75% in order to continue in the program. My friend failed the first test we took so by the time of the final she needed to make at least a 75 on the final in order to get an overall test score average of 75. Her overall grade in the class if you tallied test, quiz, and research paper would have been 76% but she still failed because she did not meet the 75% test score average criteria.

perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN · Dec 14, 2003

75% is passing for our nursing classes, that is the overall grade for the class and not any requirements for the test portions or whatever. Clinicals are pass/fail. The rest of the college's classes (not nursing) are mostly 70% is passing, which seems a little unfair to me. I think our professors do round, because everyone keeps saying "All I need is 74.5, man!" I think I will be OK this semester, although not the A's I would have liked... oh well!

ShelleyERgirl, LPN · Dec 14, 2003

Ours is 76 average to pass and satisfactory for clinicals and labs. I feel bad for those people that need an 80 average. Whew, talk about the weeding out process, huh?

PennyLane, RN · Dec 14, 2003

Anything below 69.5% is failing for most courses at my school.