Bar exam passing rate lowest in decade - less than 20% pass???!!!

Bar exam passing rate lowest in decade

Bar exam passing rate lowest in decade; Ateneo graduate tops 2013 passers

The passing rate in the Bar Examinations dipped below 20 percent for the first time in a decade, showing a double-digit drop from the previous year.

Only 946 aspiring lawyers out of the total 5,343 who took the four-Sunday exam last October hurdled the test, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said.

The 2012 passing rate of 17.76 percent is significantly lower than the 31.95 percent recorded a year ago.
It is also the first time that the passing rate hit lower than 20 percent since 2002, when 19.68 percent of examinees passed.

Ignatius Michael Ingles, a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University's Law School, topped the 2012 Bar exams with a score of 85.64 percent. He was followed by fellow Ateneo Law graduate Catherine Beatrice King Kay (84.72 percent) and University of the Philippines College of Law graduate April Carmela Lacson (84.48 percent).

The list of Bar exam topnotchers was dominated by Ateneo, which had six in the top 10, and UP, which had four.
A graduate from Legazpi City's Aquinas University, however, was also among the best performers in what is widely considered the country's most difficult licensure examinations.

Rounding out the top 10 were:
Xavier Jesus Romualdo, Ateneo (84.10 percent)
Maria Graciela Base, UP (83.99 percent)
Jose Maria Angel Machuca, Ateneo (83.99 percent)
Patrick Henry Salazar, UP (83.71 percent)
Ralph Karlo Barcelona, Aquinas (83.43 percent)
Marvyn Llamas, Ateneo (83.29 percent)
Carlo Martin Li, Ateneo (83.27 percent)
Francis Paolo Tiopianco, UP (83.25 percent)


It says a lot about the students and the schools they attend if they can't even get 20% to pass the bar exam!

They should not only publish who failed and by what percentage, but the school they attended to "work on" their failure!

No wonder it's so hard to find a "good" lawyer here! O-|

A good school, at least in the U.S., has a passing rate of 90%!!

 

Oh my goodness, here we go again, let's all cheer as to how great the Americans are and how lowly the Filipinos are.:(

Actually I have noticed that it is only mainly Americans who put down the Filipinos.

What about all the Yank Attorney Ambulance chasers in the US ?

How much longer do we have to put up with Filipino bashing by Americans.?

let's forget about the Filipinos who failed, as they are not Attorneys, let's concentrate on the ones who passed, shall we.?

Is the glass half full or half empty ?

 

There are reasons why people do not pass the exam

Generally when the passing rate is low for any profession there are a couple of things happening.

Many times existing licensed professionals are so afraid of competition they make the exam and licensing of new individuals very difficult. Thus the exam is used to control the number of licensed professionals and focus the income on those that are already licensed.

Then there is the other alternative that the schools are not preparing the students properly to pass the test. Since is it is in the school’s best interest in attracting students you would think that schools would do the best they could to prepared students to pass the tests and requirements so they could increase their enrollments.

Being I am from California USA,I checked the 2012 exam results for bar exam and found it to for it to for overall in-state (77 percent) educated and out-of-state (64 percent) educated. There was also a breakdown by schools if someone is interested in looking it up. There are many attorneys licensed in the State of California, and many are being hard pressed to make the type of income they are used to making or want to make. There are the amazing incomes for the figure heads on the top of the firms, but many underlings that are feeling underpaid. California has in the past put the pressure on licensing agencies which restrict the number of passing applicants for sole purpose of preserving the income of the existing licensees.

Whatever the case, a less than 20% passing rate, and reduction of the number of potential licenses by almost 45% percent from previous exam is a significant change in the passing rate by anyone’s or any countries’ standards. I would think this would be reason to ask some questions regarding the exam.

 

I'd be telling a lie if I said the glass was half full when it was less than 20% full. I used to live in California and there were a significant number of people who took the bar exam without ever having attended college, one fellow who did not attend college tested dozens of times before he passed with the miimum required score. I hope he makes a fortune fixing traffic tickets but hopefully the state will never hand him a murder case.

 

The post I read reported the abysmal passing rate for those who sat for the Filipino bar exam. The post I read reported in detail those who did pass, their scores and mentioned the top schools.

What post did you read stevewatson?

Or do you consider a simple comparison of facts (i.e., 20% vs. 90% passing) to be - bashing?

Seems to me you are the one who see's the glass as half empty.
Seems to me you are the one who is doing the bashing.

Joe