Another twist on the undergraduate grading motif is all exam grading at law school is done anonymously. When you take an exam (either in bluebooks or, more prevalently these days, on your laptop) you are given a number to put on your exam and the teacher grades the number, not the name. The records office is the only one who knows which names go to which numbers.

According to the student handbook it's a serious offense to include any information in your exam that might imply your identity ("Ever since I was a young man growing up in Singapore ... ")

The result is that brown-nosing as a competitive sport is non-existent. Being nice to a professor, or for that matter being an ass, has no bearing on your final evaluation. He or she will never know.

21 Sep 04