Word: pass-fail
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...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...
...adoption of the new method followed a student protest last week which called for mandatory pass-fail grading for all first-year students. The protest concerned only first-year grading because the first year is generally acknowledged to be the most difficult and pressured of the Law School's three-year program...
...response to the protest, a student-faculty committee designed the new method for choosing pass-fail grading and expected the method would result in an increase in the number of students choosing pass-fail...