How To Handle A Final Exam Screw-Up: Law Professors Take Note

It's an exam screw-up, but this time the professor handles it admirably...

PROFESSOR RICK PILDES — LAW AND DEMOCRACY

With input from the central administration, I have resolved that this is how we will handle the problems caused by the use of the exam you took today. First, I have been given permission to suspend the grading curve for the course. I will not be bound by any required or recommended grading curve that would normally apply.

You will have the following three options. To preserve blind grading, you should email your choice to [redacted] by this Wednesday at noon:

(1) Students who wish to be graded on the basis of their answers to today’s exam will be permitted to do so.

(2) Students who instead wish to take the exam that was written for our course will be able to take that exam as a 3-hour take-home exam on a self-scheduled date and time during the exam period. You will be able to take that exam starting tomorrow, Saturday, AND THE EXAM WILL BE DUE THREE HOURS AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD THE EXAM OR ON MAY 21 AT 11:59 PM, WHICHEVER IS EARLIER. Once you start taking that exam, you will be graded on the basis of that exam.

(3) Any JD student who wishes to be graded on a Credit-Fail basis shall be able to choose that option, subject to these requirements:
A. Once you start the new exam, if you do, you will have waived your right to take the course Credit-Fail. You will be graded on the new exam.

B. If you want to be graded Credit-Fail, you must let us know by Wednesday at noon. We will send out reminder emails.

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C. Unfortunately, the LLM program does not permit LLM students to take courses on a Credit-Fail basis.

Again, my apologies. I think this is the fairest and most flexible system we can devise, given all the different constraints involved.

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