The Steady Decline of Board Passers in the NLE
The results of the November 2009 Nursing Licensure Exams were released a few days ago. As expected, issues on the quality of nursing education was on the limelight once again. There are a lot of things to say about this issue. Now, where do I begin?
Here are the NLE passing rates from June 2007 until November 2009
* 48.18% passed the June 2007 NLE. There were 64,909 test takers.
* The December 2007 NLE had 42.70 % passing rate.
* Only 43.07 % passed the June 2008 board exams.
* In November of the same year, the passing rate went down to 44.51 %
* Last June 2009, the NLE passing rate was 41.87%
* The recent board exam has the lowest passing rate among the past 5 licensure examinations. 39.73% of test takers passed the NLE. Out of 94,462 examinees, only 37, 527 passed the exam. This examination cycle also has highest number of examinees.
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