What grade is "passing" in your nursing school??

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At my school, we had to have an 80. All schools are different. I'm just curious :)

Specializes in Psych.

77 average on exams. Nothing else counts when it comes to staying in the program, so other assignments are just for the GPA on your transcript. And we have several students who are repeating a semester because they missed it by a tenth of a point. If they fail anything again, they cannot return. It's rough.

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Specializes in Psych.

75% I am in an ADN program

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78%, i'm in an ADN program

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77% in an ADN program

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Ours is a 77 for nursing courses, but papers and projects can't help you pass. In other words, your exam grades need to average to a 77 - if they don't, you automatically fail. If they are at least 77, then they add in your other grades. So you aren't allowed to get say a 75 average for all your exams, but have 100s on papers to bring up your overall grade.

Also, similar to GeneralJinjur, you are only allowed to fail & repeat one course. So if you fail Fundamentals and have to repeat the next year, that's it - you cannot fail any other course until you graduate. If you do, you're out of the program.

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My school requires a 74

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Was 77 in my LPN program, 1 girl in my class failed by half a point, they wouldn't give it to her, harsh.

And the ADN program I am applying to it is 77 to pass as well.

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Specializes in Triage, MedSurg, MomBaby, Peds, HH.

75, because that's what NCLEX is.

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Specializes in LDRP, Wound Care, SANE, CLNC.

A 75% is passing in my school. Not sure how they can get away with having so many different passing percentages. Should be a standard % to pass.

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Man, sometimes I wish it was a 75 in my school. Ours is an 80, they don't round up on tests. But if you have a .5 (or above) they will round up to the next number on your final grade in the class.

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80% for us & I'm at a tech school.

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A 75% is passing in my school. Not sure how they can get away with having so many different passing percentages. Should be a standard % to pass.

I agree with that one. If there is ONE standard to pass the NCLEX then there should be ONE standard to pass school.

Had this discussion with some friends about clincal (and I know that's kind of off topic). But at my school, you can have 3 different clinical instructors, and all 3 of them require different things in terms of paperwork completeness, concept maps. There's a standard of WHAT has to be on there. But there's teachers that only want 1 nursing diagnosis on their maps- but others want 2..........

Cheryl

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