2024-2025 Student Exam and Grading Guide

EXAMINATION INFORMATION

To keep examinations anonymous, remember:

• Always use your exam number on your exam NOT your Student ID number.

• Never identify yourself to the Professor in any manner whatsoever in the typed exam or exam booklet.

• Never speak with your Professor regarding a rescheduling of your exam or any accommodations you receive.

• Do NOT call or email your Professor about the exam after the examination has been administered

• and prior to the date on which grades are posted by the Office of Academic Services. Please contact the Office of Academic Services for assistance with any examination issues. Maintaining the integrity of the anonymous grading system is a student responsibility and a critical component to student conduct. Breaching anonymity constitutes a violation of the Law School's Academic Integrity Rule (II.F) as set forth in the Student Handbook and is subject to disciplinary action. Midterm/Mock Examinations Midterm Examinations are defined as in-house examinations required of all students in a class and for whom grades earned will count toward the final term grade. Students will be provided with a unique exam number for the midterm examination (refer to Examination Numbers on previous page) .

Mock Examinations are defined as an in-class examination that will not count toward the final grade.

Assignments are defined as those exercises that may be a take-home examination or other assignments or quizzes that may or may not count toward the final grade.

Final Examinations Final examinations may be essay only, multiple choice only, or a combination of essay and multiple choice. Final examinations are generally three hours or less, except for Summer Tax LLM examinations which are four hours in duration. As mentioned under Examination Numbers , students are provided with an exam number for each semester. Academic Support Professors in the law school’s Academic Support Program (ASP) are available to help every student master the skills needed to excel in their law school examinations. To start, ASP offers voluntary classes during the fall semester. By early October, the focus in these classes is exam preparation. Every lecture is recorded and made available online so that you can access these materials wherever works best for you. In addition, any student can schedule a meeting – or a series of meetings – with an ASP Professor to address exam preparation. During these meetings, you will be shown how to: organize a legal argument; incorporate the law into your answer; utilize the facts to support your conclusions; and effectively address reasonable alternative points of view. Students who have any questions about how ASP can help, please contact Professor Ramy, at hramy@suffolk.edu. Law Library The Moakley Law Library occupies floors six and seven of Sargent Hall. The Law Library provides comfortable research and study areas, study rooms, and study carrels. The library has many resources that can help prepare you for examinations. For more information please click HERE. Reading Period

There will be a reading period of approximately 2 days, between the end of classes and the start of the final examination period.

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