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''The Biggest Bar Exam Ever''

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 8,241 examinees out of 11,402 takers passed the

2020/2021 Bar Examinations, dubbed the “Biggest Bar Ever,'' for a 72.28% passing

rate, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday, April 12.

Called the ''Best Bar Ever'' by the Bar Chairperson Associate Justice Marvic Leonen

it became the ''Biggest Bar Ever'' when the pandemic canceled the 2020 Bar the
first time in the history that a Bar skipped a year As a result, two batches of law
graduate took the 2021/2022 Bar last February the first digitized & decentralized
Bar Examinations in the Phiippines

University of the Philippines ranked in the groups of most exemplary and

passers having 147 and 4 respectively. Ateneo De Manila University ranked

second in the list of most exemplary passers with 100, and tied with Univesity

of San Carlos in Cebu as Top 2 school with most number of excellent passers
getting 2 each.

This is the first full-pleged pandemic batch of lawyers, as students spents the

the last years of law schoo and reviewing for the Bar while the country was

on lockdown. Classes were also held online. Because of this the Supreme

Court scrapped for this Bar the ranking of top 10 passers Instead, there

will be a very long list of exemplary passers.

The Bar Examinations were held under unprecedented and distressing the

conditions those who tested positive for COVID-19 within 48 hours of the

two-day examinations were unable to take the Bar. They would have to try

again for the 2022 exams, to be chaired by Associate Justice Benjamin

Caguioa. There is no certainty yet if the 2022 Bar will be held in November

the traditional month for the Bar.

 The Philippine Bar Examinations are still considered one of the toughest

licensure examinations, but debate about educational reform has grown

louder over the last few years to call on law schools to focus not on produ

cing Bar passers, but ethical lawyers with integrity. - Rappler.com

REFERENCE
Buan, L. (2022, April 12). Record high 72.28% pass the 2020/2021
‘Biggest Bar Ever’ RAPPLER. https://www.rappler.com/nation/passing
-rate-bar-examinations-2020-2021/