Nursing Grading Scale

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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So I went to my nursing program orientation yesterday. Clinicals will start in January and I'm excited but some of the guidelines and restrictions seem a bit outrageous. The fee's are ********. But the grading scale seems so odd to me. We were informed that we are unable to receive anything less than a 78% as a final grade for any of the Nursing Courses. Anything less than a 78% is considered an F and you'd have to retake the course (which is only allowed once) Whats your experience been like with this scale? Is it more difficult or is it not as hard as it seems?

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[TR]

[TD]93-100[/TD]

[TD]A[/TD]

[TD]4.0[/TD]

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[TD]85-92[/TD]

[TD]B[/TD]

[TD]3.0[/TD]

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[TD]78-84[/TD]

[TD]C[/TD]

[TD]2.0[/TD]

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[TD]77-below[/TD]

[TD]F[/TD]

[TD]0.0[/TD]

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Basically, it's this: If you got a 70, you aren't learning enough of the material. Even a 78 means 22% of the time you're just wrong.

This is bad for patients. You may not even pass the NCLEX with that level of mastery.

at least your allowed to retake a class. the first year we aren't allowed the fail a class or else we will be dismissed from the program and not allowed to reapply to the school. we are allowed to fail a class in the second semester and retake a class though . but yea those are normal grading scales for nursing

Pretty standard for an undergraduate program

I agree, with he nation wide shortage it would be nice if they changed the scale of passing to at least a 75%, that would make more nurses, less shortage and more people willing to work hard for it. 78% while it is doable is extremely difficult for some people not to mention the amount of money someone has to put into to be a nurse, I say make it worth to study nursing, but making it affordable or fixing the grading scale so more people are willing to enter into the program and more people can become successful, not to mention this will save a lot of short handed hospitals, abusive nurses can be removed from clinic care and replaced with nurses who will actually care about there patient. Now a days companies can't afford to kick the bad nurses because they are so short handed! Getting more nurses in the field will save a lot of stress

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