examinations which will be held for four successive Sundays of this
month at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Sampaloc, Manila.
The Supreme Court said the list of admitted 6,200 candidates in the
2011 Bar exams can be viewed at sc.judiciary.gov, the official website
of the SC.
The record number of examinees was registered in 2008 when 6,364
candidates were admitted to take the Bar exams.
Associate Justice Roberto Abad, Chair of the 2011 Committee on Bar
Examinations, said that this year's Bar examinations will be conducted
as follows: First day (Nov. 6): Political and International Law, and
Labor and Social Legislation (morning) and Taxation (afternoon);
Second day (Nov. 13): Civil Law (morning) and Mercantile Law
(afternoon); Third day (Nov. 13): Remedial Law, and Legal Ethics and
Forms (morning) and Criminal Law (afternoon); Fourth day (Nov. 27):
Trial Memorandum (morning) and Legal Opinion (afternoon).
The SC has approved substantial changes in the conduct of the Bar
examinations, including the moving of the schedule of the exams from
September to November 2011.
The coverage of the Bar examinations shall now be drawn up by topics
and sub-topics rather than by simply stating the covered laws.
Another change is the use of multiple-choice questions that are to be
so constructed as to specifically measure the candidate's knowledge of
and ability to recall the laws, doctrines, and principles that every
new lawyer needs in his practice, and assess the candidate's
understanding of the meaning and significance of those same laws and
principles as they apply to specific situations.
The Examinations shall also include essay-type questions which will
not be Bar-subject specific.
One such essay examination will require the candidate to prepare a
trial memorandum or a decision based on a documented legal dispute.
This essay will account for 60 percent of the exam's essay portion.
The remaining 40 percent will be covered by an essay which will
require the Bar candidate to prepare a written opinion sought by a
client concerning a potential legal dispute facing him or her.
In computing a candidate's final grade in the Bar examinations, the
results of the multiple-choice questions examinations will be given a
weight of 60 percent, while those of the essay-type examinations will
be given a weight of 40 percent.
Since this is the first time that the new format will be implemented,
the answers of all candidates in the essay-type examinations will be
corrected irrespective of the results of their multiple-choice
questions examinations, which are known earlier because these will be
checked electronically.
However, in future Bar examinations, the Bar Chair shall recommend to
the SC the disqualification of those whose grades in the
multiple-choice questions are so low that it would serve no useful
purpose to correct their answers in the essay-type examinations.
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