VENT: 2 Points away from getting an A

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Oct 13, 2010

I feel for you, one of my friends missed it by 1 point, and if you do the math for the points it comes out to 93.88% and another friend missed it by 2 points. I feel so bad for both of them. This is like the 3rd time they have missed the A within a few points.

RNCEN · Oct 13, 2010

I once missed an A in Microbiology by 1 question on the final exam. ONE QUESTION! I was not happy, but que sera, sera!! This type of thing helps us learn how we can be better!

Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN · Oct 14, 2010

I am so upset and mad at myself right now. I literally just missed my grade of an A by 2 POINTS. Not percentage but POINTS. Had I answered just two more questions correctly throughout the entire bi-semester I would've ended up with my A. I know that a B is a great grade but 2 points...that just hurts. And I kick myself because if I would've just paid more attention to those trick questions, I would've given myself the extra 2 points. It stings to miss an A by less than a half a percent. UGH....Nursing school!!!

Been there, done that...and yeah, it sucked. 2 points got me too, and I knew which of the questions I could have answered correctly but didn't.

But you'll find that the world doesn't end, you don't change, and life (and nursing school) goes on regardless of your grade. So give yourself permission to beat yourself up for tonight only, then put it behind you and get back in there. You did the best that you could and you should still be proud of yourself!

agldragonRN · Oct 14, 2010

i am so upset and mad at myself right now. i literally just missed my grade of an a by 2 points. not percentage but points. had i answered just two more questions correctly throughout the entire bi-semester i would've ended up with my a. i know that a b is a great grade but 2 points...that just hurts. and i kick myself because if i would've just paid more attention to those trick questions, i would've given myself the extra 2 points. it stings to miss an a by less than a half a percent. ugh....nursing school!!!

i know what you mean. but i would take your b anytime compare to what i had to go through in lpn school. i repeated my psych rotation because my final grade for the theory class was 74.6 or 74.8 (can't remember, this was 3 years ago) and the minimum passing grade is exactly 75. had i gotten one extra point in my finals (or 2 extra points in the previous quizzes), i would have passed. anyway totally my fault though because my finals was monday at 9am and i woke up at monday 6am to study for the first time. not an excuse but i was having personal problems at the time. anyway, i tried to appeal my grade and told the nursing program coordinator that in college they will round up my grade and get a 75. she told me nope it had to be exactly 75 above in order to pass. so i repeated the class and got an a.

good luck with the rest of nursing school. nursing major is totally different compare to other degrees. it is very difficult to get as.

angel, rn

CBsMommy · Oct 14, 2010

I just got off the phone with another person in the program and she ended up failing the class which is the second class she's ended up failing and she's out of the program. I feel bad for her because I know she wanted this as much as any of us and tried really hard but just couldn't master the material or the testing part. I am humbled and will graciously accept the B I earned without another complaint.

Thanks for everyone's replies!

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Oct 14, 2010

I just got off the phone with another person in the program and she ended up failing the class which is the second class she's ended up failing and she's out of the program. I feel bad for her because I know she wanted this as much as any of us and tried really hard but just couldn't master the material or the testing part. I am humbled and will graciously accept the B I earned without another complaint.
Thanks for everyone's replies!

We lost 1 to psych on Monday. (makes 16 o 17 so far from the start of 50), she got a 76.6 min. is 77% Sucks when it happens like that.

CBsMommy · Oct 14, 2010

We lost 1 to psych on Monday. (makes 16 o 17 so far from the start of 50), she got a 76.6 min. is 77% Sucks when it happens like that.

We are in the same school system so I'm curious...what class knocked out the most people? Was it med-surg? I know there were fellow classmates that had trouble with that this semester but I haven't heard any that failed yet. Just curious.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Oct 14, 2010

We are in the same school system so I'm curious...what class knocked out the most people? Was it med-surg? I know there were fellow classmates that had trouble with that this semester but I haven't heard any that failed yet. Just curious.

Are you Front Range? I didn't realize that. We actually lost close to the same amount first semester as Med/Surge the first half of second semester. We didn't lose anyone for maternity and Peds. We lost 1 to Pysch this first half of this semester. We started Advanced med/surge last week so it will be interesting. The semester are funny though. 1st we had 3 classes going at once, than second we had only med surge the first half, than the second half we had Peds OB split up but taken same time. This semester we have the advance pharm during Pysch and advanced med surge, but Psych was done before Starting med surge. (just not the final. The class ended 2 weeks ago but we just had the final monday) Now the Handbook says they will round up the final grade. But that hasn't been what they are doing which is really messed up. Apparently the fine print (which know one can see) says that the teachers can decide whether to go off points or percentages. If they go off points than it's points that round up. Doesn't make much sense because out of 3 semesters we have only had 2 projects that would maybe earn half points to even have points to round up. All our exams are whole points. So anyway, if they go off percentages than that rounds up BUT they determine points off percentages.

I know that all probably didn't make any sense. But scenario with my friend that missed the A by 1 point. The got 418 points. If you convert that to the percentage and round up she would have got the A. But since it was in points it didn't get rounded. It makes no sense.

SAHMStudent · Oct 15, 2010

I'm nearing the end of my final semester, and so feel I have a small nugget of advice. Let it go. It took me 3.5 semesters to do this and I am the nicest mommy and wife I have been in a long time. I have been anywhere from 2-5 points away from an A each semester in each class, and guess what? I'm not the A student I used to be (and weren't we all for the most part to get into NS?) so I had to get over it. If I was really good, I wouldn't by crying about 2 points away, I'd have nailed it with room to spare. So, I do the best I can. A or no A, I'm still graduating. Now, if I was scraping the bottom of the barrel and passing by the skin of my teeth that would be another story.....

DayDreamin ER CRNP · Oct 15, 2010

I hear ya LOUD and clear!! Ask any of my close nursing school friends what my 'standard' grade is and they will all tell you, "An 88." I seriously get an 88 on everything.

Last semester I actually got an 89.4 in a pysch class and our teacher didn't round me up. I was pretty mad since I made the highest grade on one test which was also the only A on that test out of 145 students. What made me even more upset about that was that a lot of people complained that it was an online test and it kept 'messing up' for a lot of students. She allowed everyone to retake the test but her error came when she didn't take down everyone's submissions so we could see which questions we missed and what the correct answer was. She only opened the test on this one day which happened to be a day I had to work AND had a clinical so I couldn't retake the test. What did everyone get on the retake? You guessed it, a 100.

I did well, better than most, on every other test too but no one got an A in the entire class of 145.

And to add insult to injury, there was one girl in our program that was a complete and total slacker who also had the absolute worst grammar you've ever heard got a 66 for her final grade. She actually told me about how she went to the teacher and told her that she just had a tough semester and how her grandmother was in and out of the hospital, etc, etc, and the teacher gave her FOUR points to get a C in the class. I was L I V I D!!! The teacher could give a total slacker four freakin points just to pass and she couldn't give me 0.6 points for an A? :devil:

I would never ask for anything I didn't deserve but I felt like I worked my azz off and didn't miss a single day of class and I thought I deserved those 0.6 points. Yeah, a B is still a decent grade but we don't do the +/- system either so I might as well be a slacker too and gotten an 80. It still would have been a B.

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CBsMommy · Oct 15, 2010

Are you Front Range? I didn't realize that. We actually lost close to the same amount first semester as Med/Surge the first half of second semester. We didn't lose anyone for maternity and Peds. We lost 1 to Pysch this first half of this semester. We started Advanced med/surge last week so it will be interesting. The semester are funny though. 1st we had 3 classes going at once, than second we had only med surge the first half, than the second half we had Peds OB split up but taken same time. This semester we have the advance pharm during Pysch and advanced med surge, but Psych was done before Starting med surge. (just not the final. The class ended 2 weeks ago but we just had the final monday) Now the Handbook says they will round up the final grade. But that hasn't been what they are doing which is really messed up. Apparently the fine print (which know one can see) says that the teachers can decide whether to go off points or percentages. If they go off points than it's points that round up. Doesn't make much sense because out of 3 semesters we have only had 2 projects that would maybe earn half points to even have points to round up. All our exams are whole points. So anyway, if they go off percentages than that rounds up BUT they determine points off percentages.
I know that all probably didn't make any sense. But scenario with my friend that missed the A by 1 point. The got 418 points. If you convert that to the percentage and round up she would have got the A. But since it was in points it didn't get rounded. It makes no sense.

No, I'm not at Front Range but I'm in the CCC system so our classes are tailored the same way. I was just curious. I haven't heard anything about anyone passing/failing med surg but I heard that a lot were struggling with it early on. I start on Monday so we shall see. Thanks for the info!