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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Upon first glance, I rolled my eyes at this, but the "complex formula," outside grading, and lack of transparency re: the test is odd to me. Where is the harm in "Hey, I got a D. Can we go over the test so I know where I dropped the ball"?
I'm not sure about grading in law school, but it seems alarming that one grade would drop your average that low. Their overall performance must have been lacking, in which case this is not much of a shocker.
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If they were part-time students, a 4-hour D would be > 1/3 of their GPA. Kind of hard to recover from that. Law schools are free to grade however the hell they want to. Classroom performance is a valid way to grade.
I always thought classes where classroom performance counted were better classes. Students were better prepared on a daily basis. Otherwise, you could prepare some days, volunteer like hell, then blow off reading some other time and sit back and take good notes, or not even that.
Towards your 3L year, there's not a significant relationship between your ability to be ready for class from day to day and your ability to get ready for the final, or at least there wasn't for me.