Rule 15-504. Grading and scoring.

A. Policies and graders. Subject to the approval of the Supreme Court, the board may adopt grading policies and standards consistent with NCBE policies for grading of the various examinations administered by the NCBE, may delegate grading responsibility to the NCBE for any examination administered by the NCBE, or may adopt grading policies and standards, and appoint graders for examinations administered by the board. B. Nonidentity grading. For examinations administered by the board, every applicant shall be assigned an examination number. Grading of examinations shall be anonymous, and the information matching the names and code numbers of the applicants shall be kept in the custody of the secretary of the board, or another person designated by the board, until all papers have been finally graded, all numerical or percentage grades for each applicant have been compiled, all examinations eligible for regrade have been regraded, and each applicant has been determined by examination number to have either passed or failed the bar examination. This information will not be provided to exam graders during the grading process.