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9,183 ASPIRING LAWYERS COMPLETE LAST DAY OF BAR EXAMS

ALMOST 92% of all registered examinees attended the last day of the 2022 Bar examinations, data from the Supreme Court revealed.

/ 22 November 2022

ALMOST 92% of all registered examinees attended the last day of the 2022 Bar examinations, data from the Supreme Court revealed.

The court’s Public Information Office said that 9,183 out of 10,006 bar examinees took and completed the tests on November 20.

This translates to a 91.77% attendance rate, lower than the 9,190 or 91.84% who attended the third day of the bar exams.

Records showed there were 823 absent applicants, with 304 of them in the Ateneo de Manila testing center.

This was followed by the University of Cebu-Banilad in Visayas with 82 absent examinees and Ateneo de Davao University in Mindanao with 75 examinees.

The first three days of the examinations were held on Nov. 9, Nov. 13, and Nov. 16.

The chairperson of the 2022 Bar examinations committee is Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa.

Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando will be the chairperson of the 2023 Bar examinations committee.