Anyone may review his or her exam. To do so, you must contact
Daniel Faron,
who has all of the exams. You can arrange either to pick up the exam
from his office in Holland Hall (Room 340) or have it scanned and
e-mailed. It will be easier for everyone if you can pick up your exam
-- it'll be easier for you to read and it won't have to be scanned.
Also, you'll be able to get it immediately; if many people request
their exams by e-mail, there may be significant delays in getting them
out as Daniel has to scan the grade sheets (and, if you wrote your
exam, your exam booklet) by hand. Therefore,
only those people who are not on campus this summer may request to have their exams e-mailed.
You will receive your exam and grade sheet assigning points to your
individual exam. In addition, you should look at the materials
I make available to you below which include the exam itself, my memo
explaining the exam, and top student answers for each question.
In order to understand how I evaluated your exam, you'll need to review
all of these materials
thoroughly.
I will not be available to go over your exam with you. This is why I've
made all these materials available. If you feel that I have made a
mathematical error in totalling your score, you should bring that to
Daniel Faron's attention. As for more interpretive concerns you may
have about my grading, please read the introduction to the memo,
available below. The upshot is that I don't change grades. You should
review your exam and these materials for purposes of understanding why
you received your grade, and what you can try to do to improve your
performance in the future.
For some really informative thoughts on first-year law school grades,
read this blog post
from a George Washington U. law professor. As the comments to
the post make clear, this a complicated issue and one's
mileage may vary, as they say.