>If you have already graded the student according to your conscience I don't grade according to my conscience, or at least I try very hard not to. I try to gra

>If you have already graded the student according to your conscience I don't grade according to my conscience, or at least I try very hard not to. I try to grade as fairly and objectively as I can. >and you don't need to drop down to the level of rules lawyering I personally try very hard not to pander to this kind of crap. I think it misses the real point and simply invites more abuse. Sometimes it takes a willingness to tell those higher than yourself in the hierarchy to sit on it and spin. That's not always easy for everyone to do. >The main (only?) value of grades is as feedback; if they want to waste that feedback, then it's their loss. That's mostly right. I wish it was absolutely right. But, it's naive ignore the notion that some will judge your grades as an objective indicator of ability. In some areas (medical school candidates?) competition is such that students are desperate to have only perfect grades.