2011 Bar Permits Now Available for Pickup
October 8, 2011The Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC) today announced that 2011 Bar examination permits with Bar examinee numbers “1” up to “5000” are now ready for pickup at the OBC, SC–CA Multi-Purpose Building, Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila.
Deputy Clerk of Court and Bar Confidant Atty. Ma. Cristina B. Layusa also announced that applicants with Bar examinee numbers above “5000” are advised to call the OBC first at telephone numbers 5268122 and 5257929 to confirm if their respective permits are available for pickup.
Justice Roberto A. Abad is the Chairperson of the 2011 Committee on Bar Examinations. This year’s Bar examinations will be conducted in all four Sundays of November as follows: First day: Political and International Law, and Labor and Social Legislation (morning) and Taxation (afternoon); Second day: Civil Law (morning) and Mercantile Law (afternoon); Third day: Remedial Law, and Legal Ethics and Forms (morning) and Criminal Law (afternoon); Fourth day: Trial Memorandum (morning) and Legal Opinion (afternoon).
The Supreme Court has recently approved substantial changes in the conduct of the Bar Examinations, including the moving 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 lawyers 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 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. In future Bar Examinations, however, the Bar Chairperson shall recommend to the Court 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.
Source: http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/pio/news/2011/09/09301102.php
