What Is/ Was your grading scale in nursing school?

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I have a friend who is in 4th level clinicals in a BSN nursing program. She is supposed to graduate this August. Well she calls me last nite hysterical because her final grade for her Critical Care class was a 79%.... 79.4 to be exact. Well with our schools grading scale, she has failed 4th level clinicals!! The lowest grade that we can have in order to pass is an 80. I feel so bad for her. I am trying to tell her to look on the bright side of things ( that she will be able to repeat 4th level this summer have 5th in the Fall, and graduate in December). But to her, there is no bright side..... and I can totally understand this. It makes me so mad that we are in the middle of this "nursing shortage" yet they let capable and competent people who can fill those positions slip through the cracks based on ONE question!! ONE more correct question on the final would have given her at least a 79.5 and she would have passed. How was everyone else's grading scale in nursing school? For us: 80-85 is a C 86 - 91 is a B 92 to 100 is an A. I know that we should be held to a higher standard because we will have people's lives in our hands, but in the real world an 80 is a B, and for people to fail and flunk out because they made a 79 is ridiculous! I was just curious as to what other nursing schools did. Pray that my friend can somehow put this behind her and continue on to get that RN behind her name...... We really work hard to get those 2 letters.... when I get it, I'm going to guard it like a guard dog! :chuckle

Brina BSN GRADUATE..... DECEMBER 2005

This was our scale as well at our community college, same with clinicals being pass fail.

I should direct some of the students in my class to this topic. Many of them are barely hanging on as our grading scale is:

75-79 C

80-89 B

90-100 A

Our clinicals are also Pass/Fail.

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No, I have never looked. By the sounds of it I do not want to :no: I am working on getting a NP in perinatal. There are only three programs that I have found thus far. They did not request a trnsfer of my ADN grades, only a copy of my current liscense and my BSN grades. Mabye that is the difference? :idea:

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I have my finals on Monday. Here is our scale.

77-84 = C

85-92 = B

93-100 =A

If you get less than 77% in either theory or clinicals, you fail.

If you get 98% on theory but 76% in theory, you fail.

So your final grade is an average of your theory and clinical grades, but you have to be above 77% in each part individually.

Was that as clear as mud?

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