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Law Professor Says Students Aren't the Only Ones Nervous About Exams

By Bruce Carton

Call me self-centered, but I can honestly say that at no time before or during any of the hundreds of exams I took in college and law school did this thought ever cross my mind: Is my professor nervous? Yet according to Jay Wexler, a professor at Boston University School of Law, at least some professors are just as nervous as their students during each exam. Wexler wrote yesterday on the PrawfsBlawg that his class' environmental law exam was set to start in a few minutes, and he had gone to his office early "to sit here and wait for 'the call.'" He explains that "the call" he dreads has never actually come in eight years of teaching, but would hypothetically come from the registrar during the exam telling him that: something has gone terribly, terribly wrong on my exam. For example, I don't know, something like the plaintiff's name keeps changing and so the students can't tell who I'm talking about in the second paragraph, or maybe there's a sentence missing or a page missing or it says there are three questions but there are only two or I don't have any idea what else "the call" might be...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).