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Grading papers.

Coming from an engineering background I assume I don't grasp the full scope of your dilemma.

It seems to me that the student should get marks for what he did right, and not get marks for what he did wrong. If he used many good things to support an incorrect argument, that would indicate failure to correctly answer the question, and a commensurate failing grade.

Don't feel guilty about the grade you have to give him. It is he who wrote the test, and it is your duty to mark it correctly. Not many firms in the real world will give him a break because he's got neat handwriting and speaks glibly if he is spouting garbage. If your grade means he gets into a less desirable firm, maybe that's how it should be.

Again, I probably don't understand the full scope of your dilemma.
 
cbish said:
What are the reprocusions if he fails? Is it just time & tuition or do we start cutting off body parts?
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Higher education in Greece is public that's why it's very difficult to pass the exams that lead to the University and of course to graduate it. Those who fail an exam might repeat it in September and if they fail again they can pass the exams again to the next period. Serious people though don't even think to lose a period and in important courses like this one.

If he fails he will come again on September if he passes he will have an average grade on him and I am not sure he will like that.

The scale is from 1-10. You need at least 5 to pass. The A starts from 8.5. Many students ( I used to do the same when I was a student) ask the professor to grade them with F if their paper can't get more than 8.5. Unfortunately this one hasn't written such a thing.

epepke , last year that I got involved to that I realized that there isn't any law that describes the way papers whould be graded. It's up to the professor. In this particular exam we test everything. Knowledge, ability to build arguements and fluency in expression.

Tez of course law students complain a lot and some times they do it as an exercize!!! I remember that I was accepted to a very good firm as a trainee because when I was a student I wrote a long letter to the rector of the university --who at the times happened to be a lawyer-- to complain about an issue. When I graduated he appointed me to a friend of his who had a big and really respectable firm. So, I am sure that we will hear from this student anyway.

Yesterday I faxed the professor the paper and he said that he would give him a 7. Seven is not a bad grade but I am certain that this particular student was hitting 9.

Badger I think that in theoritical studies things are more complicated. You get grades about the general image your paper presents.

For example in Greece we don't have tests with multiple choice answers so it's not easy to grade papers 25 and 30 pages long.
 
Ya, I figured it would be something along those lines.

I'd never make a lawyer.
 
I love grading papers. Oh sorry. Off subject. I think you should give him half credit for stating out the paper so well, but then screwing it up.
 
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