April 16, 2004
One down and...
Four to go. I had my LRW "exam" today. And I believe I am now officially dumber for having taken it. We were asked three questions:
1) Talk about legislative history and the research process for finding it
2) Comment on the effectiveness and/or problems of a sample brief
3) Describe the Administrative Law research process
That is all fine and good, except the test was open book. The entire class had printouts of the research guides and tutorials for Leg Hist and Admin Law research available from the GULC library. Ultimately, the test amounted to who could copy the research guides the fastest and most legibly. Why bother?
The exam is worth 15% of our total grade, so it was not totally pointless. The problem is 99% of the class undoubtedly wrote the same thing and will all receive full credit. If everybody gets full points, the course grades will have to be curved solely on the other portions of the course. The end result is the other 85% of the course becomes weighted more heavily and, in effect, becomes the basis for 100% of our grade.
If that's the case, I don't understand why we bothered with today's exam at all. Oh well. At least it's done. One down, four to go. Up next, Civ Pro.
1) Talk about legislative history and the research process for finding it
2) Comment on the effectiveness and/or problems of a sample brief
3) Describe the Administrative Law research process
That is all fine and good, except the test was open book. The entire class had printouts of the research guides and tutorials for Leg Hist and Admin Law research available from the GULC library. Ultimately, the test amounted to who could copy the research guides the fastest and most legibly. Why bother?
The exam is worth 15% of our total grade, so it was not totally pointless. The problem is 99% of the class undoubtedly wrote the same thing and will all receive full credit. If everybody gets full points, the course grades will have to be curved solely on the other portions of the course. The end result is the other 85% of the course becomes weighted more heavily and, in effect, becomes the basis for 100% of our grade.
If that's the case, I don't understand why we bothered with today's exam at all. Oh well. At least it's done. One down, four to go. Up next, Civ Pro.
