By Marisol Bo-oc | 01:42 PM April 29, 2020
A total of 2,103 candidates passed the 2019 Bar examinations, representing 27.36% of the 7,685 examinees who completed the licensure test last November, Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe, the 2019 Bar chair, said.
“Actual results will be uploaded soon to the SC website,” the SC Public Information Office said on Twitter.
Traditionally displayed on a large screen at the SC’s grounds in Manila to a crowd of candidates and their families and friends, the Bar exam results were posted online this year amid prevailing quarantine and social distancing measures due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
The passing rate is higher than the previous year’s. In the 2018 Bar exam, 1,800, or 22.07% of the 8,155 candidates passed.
The Bar exams cover political law, international law, labor law and social legislation, civil law, taxation law, mercantile law, criminal law, remedial law, and legal and judicial ethics and practical exercises.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen advised new lawyers to “Be humble. Resist greed. Learn to sacrifice,” Justice Marvic Leonen has advised those who will become lawyers.
“For those who will become lawyers, remember that the profession is not all that you are,” Leonen said.
