YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

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Final grade for med surg II: 92.67%. Grade needed for an A: 93%.

YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! NOOOOOOOOO!

But for real...that is cruel.

Tell me your final results. Are you happy? Are you surprised? Anyway else get the middle finger like me?

That would hurt! In my program you would have gotten the A since they round to the whole number for final grades.

Yep, would be a 93 at my school!

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"Rounding" isn't a "law of basic math" it's a choice one can make or not. If one chooses to round, there are established guidelines/recommendations about how to do that, but there is no requirement to "round."[/quote']

Oh SORRY meant laws of rounding. But for the record when you learn BASIC math skills, you're taught to round. And the school not rounding a 92.something up to a 93 is ridiculous. This original post was meant to vent the frustration of being so close and missing it. Everyone giving her and the people who feel for her crap are taking it just a tad too seriously.

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People are super super serious on AN. If I said "knock knock" half of the people would go check their front doors. Chalk it up to the internet and lack of social cues available.[/quote']

Spot on. Love this.

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People are super super serious on AN. If I said "knock knock" half of the people would go check their front doors. Chalk it up to the internet and lack of social cues available.[/quote']

You are speaking the truth! Lol

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.
People are super super serious on AN. If I said "knock knock," half of the people would go check their front doors.

Chalk it up to the internet and lack of social cues available.

Steph, you kill me :D I needed a good laugh!

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I wonder why they make nursing school so hard? Why can't it be that70-79 is C 80-89 is a B and 90-100 is an A? Why do they have to change it that now a 90 isn't good enough to be called an A? I feel like it shouldnt matter if a student have 70 or 95... you passed. Degrees dont display grades.

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.
I wonder why they make nursing school so hard? Why can't it be that70-79 is C 80-89 is a B and 90-100 is an A? Why do they have to change it that now a 90 isn't good enough to be called an A? I feel like it shouldnt matter if a student have 70 or 95... you passed. Degrees dont display grades.

I know in my program, they wanted 75/80 to be passing, and everything failing. But they have to have district approval to fail someone with a C. So one solutions would be to change to grading scale in the courses. That didn't fly with our district, either but they tried.

I hate the grade scale changes. Don't mess with my GPA!

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

I have been .10 away and not gotten it, and I have hit the magic number right on the head and gotten my A. Now, in my 3rd semester, taking extra classes, working and having a family, I'll take my 87.7 B and call it a success!!!!!

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I wonder why they make nursing school so hard? Why can't it be that70-79 is C 80-89 is a B and 90-100 is an A? Why do they have to change it that now a 90 isn't good enough to be called an A? I feel like it shouldnt matter if a student have 70 or 95... you passed. Degrees dont display grades.

At our orientation in January, our director explained their grading scale: 80-84.9 C. 85-89.9 B, 90-100 A. She said that statistically, students who score less then 80 overall did much more poorly on the NCLEX, so for my program it is to keep their pass rates up. It works for them, but it does make it stressful!

We just got our final grades for this semester: 89.94. I definitely shed a tear. Lol. So close!! It was a crazy hard semester though, so I should be proud of that very high B.

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