Rene Acosta / Reporter
LAW graduates trooped to the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila on Sunday for the start of the
Bar examinations amid a tight security that was imposed by Manila policemen.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin Villarama Jr., chairman of this year’s Bar Examinations Committee, said a total 5,710 law graduates applied to take the Bar, but 19 of them withdrew their applications, while others were not allowed to take the tests.
The examinations will take four Sundays, with the examinees tackling a total of eight subjects, or two subjects for every examination day.
The subjects are political law and labor and social legislation, which the would-be lawyers took up on Sunday, and mercantile law, criminal law, remedial law and legal ethics and practical exercises.
Villarama said the examinations were in the forms of multiple-choice questions, which has a total weight average of 60 percent; and essay, with a total weight average of 40 percent.
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