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The number of first-year students in the Law School choosing pass-fail grading declined this year from 22 per cent to 15 per cent of the first-year class, a preliminary survey showed yesterday.
But many observers feel that the decline does not indicate a dropping off of student interest in pass-fail grading, but is instead due to a new, complex method through which students choose their grading status.
Under the new method a student can say he will accept pass-fail grading if a certain percentage--which he specifies--of the first year class also decides to go pass-fail.
Thus, on a form distributed to first-year students earlier this week, a student could have stated that he would choose pass-fail grading on the condition that 50 per cent of his classmates also do so. A student could also choose pass-fail grading unconditionally.
A group of Law students have begun circulating a petition demanding that the Administration guarantee automatic readmission to all students taking leaves of absences and institute mandatory passfail grading for all first-year students.