THE Supreme Court yesterday said more than 11,000 law graduates nationwide are expected to participate today in the country’s “first ever regionalized and digitalized” Bar examinations.
The high court said 11,790 examinees are slated to take up the 2020/2021 Bar exams in 29 testing centers nationwide. The number of examinees, however, may go down depending on the number of examinees who will test positive of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Students infected with the virus will not be allowed to take the examination, SC spokesman Bryan Keith Hosaka said, even as he failed to give an update on how many examinees have tested positive of the virus.
Previously scheduled for four days in January, the Bar examinations will now be held for only two days – February 4 and 6.
Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, who is the Bar Committee chairperson, postponed the January examination dates due to the spike in COVID-19 cases all over the country, and because many of the examinees either tested positive or were under quarantine for exposure to sick individuals.
In adjusting the examination date, the SC also merged the eight subjects covered by the previous Bar exams to only four, effectively reducing the coverage of the 2020/2021 exams.
