Alcorn State Nursing Students Allowed an Unprecedented Third Try On Nursing Exam
After third try, 60 students to graduate from ASU nursing Sixty students will graduate from Alcorn State University School of Nursing on Saturday, about a dozen of those making the cut Thursday after getting a third chance to take a required nationally standardized nursing test.
“Of the 89 originally in the class, 60 of those have been cleared to graduate,” said Christopher Cason, ASU director of university relations. “Of those, 34 are associate degree nurses, and 26 are bachelor of science nurses,” he said. Students in both degree programs took the exam earlier in the spring, with about 70 students failing on the first try. On the second try, 41 of the 70 did not make the grade on the exit exam, which has been required at the nursing school since the spring term in 2000.
I’d never heard of these kind of failure rates until recently. The article says that the test has been administered since 2000. Does anyone know if these kind of percentages are typical?