<p>Is it true that (in law school) in many courses you don’t know what your grade is until the end of the course? This is what my high school calculus teacher told me about her nephew who graduated from Duke Law.</p>
<p>In law school your entire grade for the semester depends solely on your final (and only) exam in the course and you take that exam with a designated number instead of your name so the prof does not know whom he is grading. The exceptions to that are writing and trial practice courses.</p>
<p>It’s often true that you don’t know your grade until the end.</p>
<p>However, in reply to drusba, I would say it depends upon which law school you attend.It’s very common for a law school to base all of your grade on one exam in a course. However, some law schools give mid-terms, which usually count about a third of your grade and give you some idea of how you are doing, especially first year, and some law schools offer lots of paper courses, particularly in seminars. (Maye drusba is counting those as writing courses, but many aren’t designated as such. ) Not all 185 or so ABA-accredited law schools do things the same way.</p>