Passing Some Students Who Failed!!!!!!

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Hi I'm new to the site. I recently started back at Nursing School. I failed Med/Surg last year by a point and had to retake it. The school only offers the course 1 time per year so I had to wait a year to take it. When I returned to school yesterday, I was talking to a group of students from my old class and they told me that a certain girl in class failed OB/Peds (which is an 8 week class we take after an 8 week med/surg course) by 3 points and was allowed to continue to the next semester so they didn't understand why myself and a few others were't allowed to. I feel like that is completely unfair because I failed by 1 point and wasn't offered any options to continue.. I was more than willing to do any kind of extra credit. I'm wondering if I should talk to anyone in the Nursing Department or let it slide. I realize I'm stuck in my class no matter what, but its unfair that I am now behind a whole year of nursing school and out the money for 1 point and someone else was allowed to continue when she failed by 3 points.

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Specializes in LTC, Cardiac Step-Down.

I'm sorry you failed Med-Surg by that small of a margin :(

This has happened in my nursing school too - some people are just 'special' enough that they don't have to actually pass. I'd let it slide for now, especially since there's nothing anybody can do about it. However, keep it in mind just in case you fail again (God forbid!!!) and maybe not give up so easily. Talk to the dean or whatever next time and just ask what you can do.

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Do you know for a fact that this happen or did you just 'hear' it from other students.

I'd be careful doing ANYTHING based solely off of gossip. It's a bad habit to be in.

Life has a tendency to be unfair. One lesson that always took me a long time to understand when I was young was when I got in trouble and I didn't see someone else get in trouble. Whether they did or didn't was irrelevant. My situation deserved the trouble.

Who knows if the situation you described happened or not but YOU failed the class by one point. Take the lumps and pass next time.

If you make a mistake you don't always get to go back and do it again.

There is no reset button in life. It sucks to fail by 1 point but whether it's 1 point or 100 points that you are short, a fail is a fail.

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Don't make the mistake of making a formal complaint although you are justified. You could very well be painting a larger than life target on your back and could find yourself failing again by way more than the other woman's three points. It usually pays not to rock the boat in ns.

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

This happened in our program too. There were some students that we felt deserved to be "pulled through" because of major life events that occurred during the semester...and these students had aways performed well.

However, they allowed a few dead beats that barely lifted a finger to continue as well.

Yup...not happy about it.

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Specializes in Operating Room, Ortho, Neuro, Trauma.

It happens at my school too! Actually, last semester during the final exam (we were split into two rooms), there was one person who was sick and coughed the entire exam. Many people failed the class by one to two points so they (the faculty) gave everyone in that room two extra points for the distraction and many went on to pass but not the ones in the other room. They can do what ever they want to. I would say nothing because they have the power to make your time during NS miserable, unfortunately. Go forward and become a wonderful RN!

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Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.

Did you hear this from the person who suppossedly failed by 3 points or the class rumor mill? I'm assuming you attended high school, so you should know better than to believe everything you hear. You are already a year removed from your situation, so I would let it go and kick butt this semester. It's heartbreaking to be so close, yet so far away. There has to be a cut-off somewhere. My best friend didn't pass our last semester by one point. Honestly, though, she had been struggling all semester for her chances of passing to be by that slim of a margin, so it certainly was no fluke.

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This has happened in my school too. Some students in my school cheat too....shame. The first testing group would have people text answers to ppl in the 2nd group..some people got caught and that's why we are no longer allowed to review the test at all...so we go through a whole semester not knowing what we missed..sucks

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This happened at my school. But I see students who are somewhat close to the teachers get a pass. if you're not performing well and the teacher is facing the possibility of failing you it all depends on whether she/ he knows you or not. Whether they are able to remember seeing you put forth effort, whether you approached them for help. If a teacher knows nothing about you it is more easier for them to assume you were not putting enough effort into the course and should retake the class. I'm not saying this took place in your case, but it did in my school.

Ex: A girl who failed patho the semester prior was in my semester retaking it. She had to get an 80% or higher to pass the class (because she was retaking the class). A friend of mine was having a hard time in the class, but never approached the teacher. The student retaking the class built a student- teacher relationship with the instructor. In the end the student retaking the class got a 79.2% in the class and was passed eventhough she needed an 80%. But the other student failed by 2 points(she had a 72.6% in the class, but we have to get a 73% to pass) and the teacher failed her.

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Happened in my school too. Those students appealed their grades and challenged scores on their papers.

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Don't go by what you hear and honestly it won't make a difference at this point regardless. Focus on the semester.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.

Mark me up on the "me too" side. Some get "special arrangements" for assignments, absences or whatever.....others are just dismissed.

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