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UST posts lower passing rate in bar exams
March 26, 2015, 10:42 p.m. - THE UNIVERSITY recorded a lower passing rate in the October 2014 bar exams, with no Thomasian entering the top 10.
The UST Faculty of Civil Law registered a 59.13-percent passing rate or 68 passers out of 115 examinees, lower than last year's 63.67 percent or 47 passers out of 75 examinees, exam results showed.
More than 6,000 law grads take 2014 bar exams at UST
Oct. 5, 2014, 10:06 p.m. - A TOTAL of 6,344 aspiring lawyers trooped to UST earlier today for the 2014 Bar Examinations.
The bar exams, to be conducted during all Sundays of October, cover Political Law, Labor Law, Civil Law, Taxation, Mercantile Law, Criminal Law, Remedial Law, and Legal and Judicial Ethics topics. Essay questions make up 80 percent of the exams while the rest are multiple-choice questions.
The number of examinees went up from last year's 5,593.
