He illustrates the wide variation in
law school grading curves, and points out that some schools have already been raising their grading curves, presumably to gain an advantage in the employment market.
See also Fearfully Optimistic's series on
the law school grading curve.
Not exact matches
While the
law school grading process is most commonly derided by those
law students and lawyers who fall on the western side of the bell
curve, I rarely hear of
law professors challenging the
grading process — until now.
At the same time,
grades should not be disregarded, particularly because
law schools grade on a
curve and probability of getting a higher
grade decreases in an exponential fashion.
Each year, the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) and the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) conduct a national survey of legal writing programs.48 The 2010 survey shows that almost all required legal writing classes are
graded, with
grades that are included in students» GPAs.49 Most
law schools grade the required legal writing program based on the same mandatory
curve as other required first - year courses.50
That's why Professor Joshua Silverstein, of the William H. Bowen
School of
Law, wants to go ahead and make C the new F by revising
grading curves upward to a B -.
His argument is more for normalizing the
grading curve across
law schools at a B -.