It is the next best thing to having a private tutor. There will be two examinations, both essay in format. The midterm will count 40 percent and the final 50 percent of your course grade. The other 10 percent will be based on class participation. Since the range of intellectual ability at this institution is very large, and student commitment also varies widely, midterm grades generally range from the low thirties to the mid nineties, with the class average in the low to mid seventies.
Final grades are somewhat higher, mostly because some at the lower end drop out.
There is a high correlation between those who prepare daily and those who do well on the examinations. White, American Judicial Tradition , 3. G. E. White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes , ll and 14. The Supreme Court Compendium , 4. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accommodations be provided for students with physical, sensory, cognitive, systemic, learning, and psychiatric disabilities.