Bar results out today

The Supreme Court will release the results of the 2006 Bar Examinations today.

Justice Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez, chairman of the Committee on the 2006 Bar Examinations, said the list will be displayed on LCD monitors in strategic places at the front yard of the Supreme Court, near the entrance at Padre Faura St. The results can also be accessed at www.supremecourt.gov.ph, the official website of the high court.

A total of 6,187 law graduates took the Bar exams in September last year at the De La Salle University in Taft Avenue, Manila. The SC said this number is a record high since the first Bar examinations were held in 1901 with only 13 examinees.

Last year, a total of 1,526 out of 5,607 examinees from around 100 law schools nationwide passed the 2005 Bar examinations. The number of those who passed represented 27.22 percent of the total examinees.

In 2004, a total of 1,659 out of 5,249 examinees, or 31.61 percent, passed. In 2003, 20.71 percent of the examinees or 1,108 out of 5,349 who took the exams passed. In 2002, 4,659 took the Bar exams and only 917 examinees or 19.68 percent passed.

According to the rules of court, a Bar examinee is deemed to have passed the examination if he has obtained a general average of 75 percent in all subjects without a grade below 50 percent in any subject.

According to the high court, this year’s Bar examinations mark the second time that the "five-strike" rule is being implemented. The rule limits to five the number of times a candidate may take the Bar exams, which is reputed as the toughest government-administered test. 

The five-strike rule is in accordance with the Court’s resolution in Bar Matter No. 1161, which states that those who have taken the Bar exams five or more times – and still failed – shall no longer be eligible to take any future exams.