Dear college student who's not happy with your grade in my class:

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13. I had a law school contracts professor who had a thing for the statute of frauds.

Basically, it’s a rule that says certain types of contracts have to be in writing to be enforceable. He told us the first day of class that there would be a statute of frauds question on the essay portion of the final, and you had to recognize the issue in order to pass. You didn’t necessarily have to get the answer right, but you had to articulate that there was an SoF issue raised.

He gave his test in two parts — essay and multiple guess. He used to give the essay portion first, collect the blue books, and check them for the SoF question. Then he’d come back to class during the multiple choice section, write the test numbers of those who failed to recognize it on the board, and tell the class if your number was on the board to stop the test; you had already failed.

A new dean stopped that practice, but he still had the rule. He just gave the essay portion second. When I took his class he had five essay questions on the test, but you only had to answers four of them; your choice. I immediately recognized that there would be more than one SoF question. In fact, there were three. He was a gigantic prick!