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

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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.

That's just nuts to me. 60% isn't even passing in our gen ed classes for non-nursing majors at our school.

Just to clarify Andoo and the other user who said a passing grade at his/her school is a 65% are both in Canada. The grading scheme is different here.

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The minimum for us is 80% but we're also on a 7point scale... So that's a C on the transcript.

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For my program it was a flat 75%, encompassing tests mostly, but some online work through ATI. Kind of scary hearing these higher requirements from other programs as I would have failed out in my second semester with a 78 if I was held to those standards.

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^ I WISH my school was a 75. I was awfully close to the chopping block at 80 when my school is a 77 minimum. It's nerve wracking to say the least, cause those nursing exams are tough! I've only managed to start "getting" the NCLEX questions after my second semester, so hopefully I improve. Cause I am tired of seeing what essentially would've been a B in any other program ending up as a damn C on my transcript.

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Specializes in Cath Lab.

Mine is a 75% and if we make below that on a test we have to have a 1 on 1 with the instructor to go over what we missed/

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Specializes in Postpartum, Mother/Baby, Comm. Health, Geriatric.

80% in my program

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At our school, it is a 77% and its only based on four unit tests worth 20% each, a paper worth 10%, and the final is 10%. We still have to do skills validation, pass the dosage calc test each semester with 100%, kaplan, prep-u, and get satisfactory clinical checkoffs, but none of those count for a grade. Its all tests...hence the reason I just failed med-surg by one point, despite doing great in actually applying my learned skills. All about the NCLEX....

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Passing is 77% at my school. Anytime you fail an exam you have to have a meeting with your advisor. If you fail a specified number of exams you are dismissed from school.

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Passing is 75% at my school

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

LVN program, 2004 to 2005: 78 percent was the minimum score needed to pass.

LPN-to-RN (ASN) program, 2009 to 2010: 77 percent was the minimum to pass.

RN-to-BSN program, enrolled since May: the minimum passing score varies with each course.

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Passing for our ADN coursework is an 80% which is the lowest possible C on the grading scale.

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Specializes in Telemetry, IMCU.

Passing is 73% in our program

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