THE Supreme Court (SC) plans to release the results of the 2023 Bar examinations in early December.
Speaking to reporters on the first day of the exams on Sunday, Bar chairperson and SC Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando noted how examinees ”have had to endure several months of perceived agony of waiting before the results of the professional licensure exams for future lawyers are released.”
”This year, however, following the examples of my recent predecessors as Bar chair, the time spent by the examinees waiting in agony for the results of the exams will be cut short,” he said.
”My team and I are eyeing the release of the results of the 2023 Bar examinations in early December, before Christmas Day. Yes, you heard me right; the results will, God-willing, come out in early December, before Christmas Day,” he added.
There will also be simultaneous oath-taking and signing of the Roll of Attorneys before Christmas Day ”so that we will have our new batch of full-fledged lawyers before the year ends,” Hernando said.
”It will be an additional reason for those who will hurdle the Bar exams to celebrate the holiday season.”
A total of 10,791 individuals were expected to take the exams this year, the latest data from the SC showed, with 5,821 taking them for the first time and 4,970 taking them for the second time.
There are six core subjects in this year’s exams, which will continue on September 20 and 24.
These are Political and Public International Law (15%); Commercial and Taxation Laws (20%); Civil Law (20%); Labor Law and Social Legislation (10%); Criminal Law (10%); and Remedial Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics with Practical Exercises (25%).
