What does your nursing school consider their passing gpa?

[geniebea]

Hi, I am researching the gpa's for various nursing programs across the state of Md. Can anyone tell me what their school considers passing? I mean while you are in the program, I know some consider a 75% or below failing. Just trying to get an idea of how it varies or if it varies much at all throughout the state.

could you tell me your school and the passing requirement?

thanks to all who respond, i appreciate it.

[chaxanmom]

I'm in Maryland but doing a distance program through Indiana State so I'm not sure if this is helpful but at ISU you need a 79% to pass. In some classes you need a 94% for an A (although most are 92%) so they're pretty sticky about grades.

[SiennaGreen]

It may vary by semester, but my first semester classes look like a 75% is passing.

I am wondering why you ask the question though?

I would be very wary of trying to make comparative judgments regarding either the quality or level of difficulty of a particular program based upon their passing GPA cut off. Obviously, a school can have a high cut off and a lower level of difficulty in testing or a school can have a lower cut off and a higher level of testing difficulty. It would be a wash.

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

75 is passing at my CC. 74.9999999 or below is failing.

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

On individual exams, an 80% or above.

Program recently changed minimum required GPA to keep from a 2.0 to a 2.5.

[HappyDay, RN]

At Frederick CC, 75% and above is passing. Anything less is failing.

[honeykrown, MSN, NP]

PGCC 74.5 rounding up is a passing anything below is a D

[Rhone]

At my school, 75% is required to pass (no rounding up--74.999% is failing), and a 75% test average is required before anything else (e.g. papers) is factored into the grade. So if you had 100's on papers and 74.9% average on tests, you still fail.

Failing one class = getting kicked out of the program (no retaking classes).