I just finished grading my assigned stack of memos for the writing competition for my journal. Experiencing the other side of the grading process gave me a lot of insight into what goes on behind the scenes in the exam process and has furthered my belief that law school grades are almost completely arbitrary.
Some observations:
Everyone writes pretty much the same thing, using the same style.
Little mistakes cost people big – partly because this is for the journal where technical perfection is important, but also because there wasn’t much else to distinguish the writers.
My mood and the order of the papers definitely affected people’s grades. I feel like this is fair because they are in random order, and blindly graded, but it increased the amount of luck involved. Hopefully the differences were negligible, and the papers I graded best really were the best.
Contrary to discussions with my friends, I didn’t think any of the papers were “really bad”. There were some typos, but no misspelling or horrible grammar.
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