What is a "passing grade" for your nursing program?

[aspiringrn1987]

I am just curious as I have noticed that it varies program to program.

For my program that I will be starting next month, a passing grade is 80% and anything less is failing. Furthermore, your exams must average out to 80% prior to them adding any of your other assignments into the grade. So even if you have an 89%, but your exams average to 79.9, you will be failing then semester.

[SopranoKris, MSN, RN, NP]

Ours is 76% in each component. So, you can't average out your grade. We also have pass/fail clinicals and a med math exam which requires a 90% or better. Failure to meet any of those standards and you fail the entire semester.

[kp1987]

65% for passing

[loveofrn, BSN, RN]

65% for passing

Is that a typo?

[aspiringrn1987]

We have med dosage exams but we have to get 100%. I believe you are allowed one retake though. 100% is intimidating. I think it is one per semester for the dosage exams.

[Cohiba]

My program had 90% as passing and there was ZERO averaging or rounding so that meant students had to earn that grade on every...single...assignment. It was hellaciously tough, but "GPA 4.0/4.0" does make for a nice resume bullet. :)

[Cohiba]

Is that a typo?

Scary, isn't it?

[aspiringrn1987]

Off topic, but what do these bronze, bronze 2, and bronze 3, etc mean under the avatar?

[vanessaem, BSN, RN]

A 77% was passing in our program.

A 90% was passing in med math.

[Everline]

75% with no rounding.

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

For my ADN, it was 77%. I think the test average had to be 77%. The "final" was the ATI which was worth 10% and the highest grade you could get was a 95%. It was 95%, 85%, 75%, or 65% depending on the level you received.

For my BSN, I think it's like 80. It works out to be a B- is the minimum you can get.

The BSN portion is completely different than ADN.

Keep in mind that it's hard to compare programs to programs. A program may require a 85% but have the easiest tests in the world and have many different assignments factored in whereas another program may have it set at 70% but have four super hard tests and that's all you're graded on along with a pass/fail clinical that doesn't get factored into the grade.

[Tinman1017]

73.5% in the RN program I finished. and 100% med math with 4 retakes of you needed them.

[aspiringrn1987]

Well my program requires an 80% exam average to pass. and the grading scale is skewed from normal so if you do get an 80 percent it is a C. 80-84 is a C, 85-91 is a B and 92-100 is an A. Regardless of the other assignments, you have to average 80 on the exams.