Our community college has the same policy for the last semester of our 2 year associates degree RN program. No matter how well you've done throughout the past 2 years, if you don't acheive an 850 on the HESI, you're not graduating. We were required to take the HESI exam after the PN program but it was only used as a prediction of how we would do on boards. But this year it's 850 or keep trying. It doesn't even really seem legal to me. I did very well on the PN HESI but it worries me that my future could be impacted by one test when I have so far succeeded in everything else throughout the last 2 years.