from GMA News
(Updated 1:55 p.m.) Bouncing back from a dismal performance in 2011, the University of the
copped five of the top ten places in the 2013 Bar exams, including the number one spot taken by Nielson Pangan.
The UP Law School had failed to produce a single top-ten placer in the 2011 exams, causing much hand-wringing and even soul-searching in the nation's most respected law school. After tweaking its curriculum for better Bar performance, UP Law did respectably in 2012, bagging four of the top ten places.
But archrival Ateneo de Manila captured the top two places that year, as well as the number one spots in the two previous years. 2013's Pangan is the first UP law graduate at number one since Joan A. de Venecia in 2005.
Higher passing rate
The latest Bar exams' passing rate was 22.18 percent, according to 2013 Bar chairman and Supreme Court Associate Justice Arturo Brion at a briefing in Manila on Tuesday. That was a significant jump from the 17.76 percent passing rate in 2012, a 12-year low.
A total of 5,293 examinees hurdled the four Sundays of the exams, from the original 5,593 who were admitted to take them in October last year. According to the Supreme Court, 5,641 law graduates applied for the 2013 Bar exams.
The Bar exams are believed to be the most difficult among licensure examinations.
The exams were held for the third year in a row at the University of Sto. Tomas along España Boulevard in Manila, without any untoward incidents, according to the local police.
Prior to UST, the exams were held at the De La Salle University in Manila. The 2010 bar exams at DLSU were marred by a grenade explosion as exam takers were exiting, causing injuries to over 40 people.
The 2013 exams
For last October's Bar exams, the Supreme Court decided to change the rules. This time, the exams were mostly made up of essay-type questions rather than multiple choice.
The 80-percent essay portion was divided into eight divisions of 10 points each, with a maximum of two facts per division from which questions were drawn. Meanwhile, the 20-percent multiple choice questions (MCQ) portion of the exam was divided into four or five fact situations, from which the questions were asked.
The high court only introduced multiple-choice questions during the 2011 Bar Exams. However, for two years, or until the 2013 exams, results for the MCQ weighed more (60 percent) than the results for essay-type questions (40 percent) in computing for the final grade.
In August last year, or two months before the exams, the Supreme Court came up with guidelines for the examinees. Among them was a reminder not to use "carabao English" and an advice to construct sentences using only five to six words to increase readability.
Passing rates
The 17.76 percent passing rate in the 2012 Bar exams was the lowest since the year 2000 despite the lowering of the passing grade from 75 to 70 percent, in order to increase the number of passers from the original 361.
During the 2011 Bar exams, the passing rate was 31.95 percent with 1,913 successful examinees led by Raoul Angelo Atadero from the Ateneo Law School.
The 2011 passing rate was the second highest passing rate since 2000. Meanwhile, the passing rate in the 2010 Bar was 20.26 percent. — KBK/KG, GMA News
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