I see a lot of different posts talking about grades and wonder what their grading scale is.
My school uses a 10 point scale as well as rounding. So an 89.5 is an A, 79.5 a B, and so on. We also do not have pluses or minuses, which is nice at times but not so nice at others. I'll take it though, especially given the grading scale and the rounding.
In my program (entry level CNL Master's degree) you must maintain a 3.0 at all times or you have to repeat the course you got a C in. There are also certain courses, such as patho, you must get an A or B in to continue, no matter what your cumulative GPA is.
Ours actually goes on a points system, so they break it down for the points of the quarter and then equate a range with a grade point average. They also equate it to a percentage. For example this quarter we had a total of 600 points, 582 and above was a 4.0, and it went down in increments of 6 points. Passing is a 2.0 or 75% and no rounding is done...I missed getting a 3.4 in theory by 1 point...so frustrating, but I still felt pretty good about my grade especially since I got a 3.9 in clinical.
I don't recall the exact breakdown of what was considered an A, B, etc---I do know that rounding up didn't happen. If you earned a 79.9, you GOT a 79.9 and 80% was what was considered passing.
is our grading scale. You need a 76.0 or higher to pass and a 75.9 is failing. Our points only come from our exams though. They should be universal though.
They aren't universal because as you can see some schools have higher standards for passing. I'm betting those people in a program that have 76% for passing don't want to be in one where 80% is the minimum. That's a big difference in my opinion. I'm glad that my program held us to such high standards and we are one of the ADN programs getting hired easily after graduation as well. We had a 100% NCLEX pass rate for 6 semesters in a row and the streak was broken last semester when two students didn't pass but they passed the second time. Also of people passing over 80% are passing with 75 questions because we are so prepared.
As far as end grades go, to move on to the next semester it has to be a C or above...so 81.99 in lecture, or 87.99 in clinicals, you don't go on. C is the make or break point. It says in all of our syllabi that a D or an F is an unsatisfactory grade and you will be dismissed from the program, and man, they aren't kidding.
And they most definitely do NOT round. I once missed an A by .05 percent. Was the only A I missed. They have it written on their syllabi in capital, bold letters that there is no rounding.
But I have to say, the local hospitals love to hear when we're around. For a state college, we put out some great nurses!
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We had to have 80% average to pass. They had a 6-point scale, but when we complained that they were seriously hurting our GPAs (I had an 86.4% avg in a class-that was a C) they modified it, but we still needed an 80%. I think 80-84 was C; 85-93 was B and 94 and up A, no +/-. They did round so a 79.5% would pass.
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93-100 a
92-85 b
84-77 c
76-69