a grade, a grade, i'd kill for a grade

[Bob]

one of my law school's defining features is that you don't get grades, you get written evaluations. they come in the form of a written paragraph that summarizes how well you did in the course (or more appropriately, on the exam). but generally, they can be boiled down into a buzzword that appears somewhere in the paragraph that's roughly equivalent to a grade; so depending on the professor, a "very good" is a B, an "excellent" is an A (or so I tell myself, I got two of them), and so on.

but this one, i have no idea what to make of it. here, look;

Evaluation:
You saw the issues raised by the examination problems and your treatment of them reflected a solid
familiarity with the relevant law coupled with the ability to do sound legal analysis. These qualities were
particularly evident in your thoughtful analysis of the second question. Overall, this was an effective job
of legal analysis parts of which were handled well.

now there are no buzzwords that i can see, but it generally seems like quite a flattering evaluation until you read the last sentence; "this was an effective job of legal analysis, parts of which were handled well". parts of which were handled well...what about the other parts? were they handled not well? it's not like he's emphasizing that i excelled at particular parts, he's saying i handled some parts "well". if it were just that sentence, i'd assume i didn't do so well, but it seems so inconsistent with the rest of the evaluation, which seems so generally positive.

i dunno what to make of that. i TOOK the class and i don't know what that means, i wonder what an employer receiving it is going to think?

[mikizee]

I'd say B+.

[befsquire]

so without grades, how do they decide who graduates with honors? how do you rank yourself for which percentile you graduated in?

without grades, one student can't taunt others by loudly proclaiming he is the one who 4.0'd such and such class.

[cosmo105]

goddamn hippie-ass law schools

[Otis Driftwood]

i TOOK the class and i don't know what that means, i wonder what an employer receiving it is going to think?
I wonder what employers think about numbers on a sheet of paper...

[Adam]

ask him about your other parts and why he doesn't like them as much...

[jabumbo]

grades mean fuck all in the long run. no real employer should be worrying about what your grades were. a good hiring manager should be able to tell if i'll be right for the job from my interview alone.

i don't put my qpa on my resume (it sucks, honestly, but i dont think i would anyway) because all that really needs to be picked up form is is a few bits about where i went to school and worked before, and then some of the other stuff i like to do.

[Documad]

I always thought that if you spotted the issues and know the elements it's a C. If you do some decent analysis of your own, it's a B, and if your analysis is really strong it's an A. My professors made a point of how safe answers that cover all the bases are a B but you have to take chances and hit it home to get an A. So to me that looks like a B- answer but it's probably a B+ to others.

[jabumbo]

My professors made a point of how safe answers that cover all the bases are a B but you have to take chances and hit it home to get an A.

i wish all professors were like that.


not to say that i don't know people who can make some good, strong, valid points when they DS through an essay. but for the most part, they ae just quick junkers that get the job done, and generally only warrant a high B grade if they at least took the time to revise it and make sure it flowed throughout, but yet they end up with better grades anyway.

[cookiepuss]

No grades? is this ART school or LAW school?:confused:

[Bob]

No grades? is this ART school or LAW school?:confused:

yale doesn't have any grades either

i don't go to yale though