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Letter grading, the Report concluded, is a major part of that system, and the students recommended that it be ended.
A slim majority of first-year law students favors a mandatory pass-fail grading system for at least the first year of law school, according to a poll of about 90 per cent of the class.
The questionnaire-drafted by three first-year students calling themselves the Ad Hoc Committee on Grade Reform-asked students to choose between five grading systems including possible combinations of letter grades, pass-fail, and honors-satisfactory-low-fail, for their three years.
Only five per cent chose the present grading system, which allows students a choice of the three alternatives for their first year while retaining the old system of letter grades for the last two years.
First-year students met informally earlier in the year to discuss possible reforms of the grading system, and the idea for a poll grew out of those gatherings, Schepard said last night.