My school requires a 900 to pass. Two attempts are offered in the final semester. If you do not pass, you still graduate, but grades are not released to allow you to register for the NCLEX. After another whole semester of this one class, grades are released, whether you pass or not. It seems to me that putting off the NCLEX another whole semester would lower NCLEX grades even more, because so much time will have passed from regular classes, clinicals, and practicum. I'm looking at it as a godsend, because I will continue to prepare for the HESI and not have a lapse from now 'til the end of the semester when grades would be released anyway and those that passed the first attempt of final HESI may not be as fresh off studying....My glass is half full!