CONTRARY to text messages that circulated yesterday, the Bar examinations will push through as scheduled tomorrow.

The Bar examinations was originally set last Sept. 27 but the Supreme Court moved it to Oct. 4 due to the heavy flooding in Metro Manila brought by typhoon ?Ondoy.?

Lawyer Joan Largo, assistant dean of the College of Law of the University of San Carlos, said there was no truth to the text message that the SC had decided to postpone again the exams.

The text message read: ?Dear Examinees, the SC will meet en banc to deliberate whether the bar exams this Sunday will be moved or postponed. Notwithstanding such meeting, continue your review up to Saturday pm with the end in view of mastering all the topics in remedial (law) and ethics. God bless!?

Largo said she received the same message but she was told there was no such meeting.

?I talked to the bar confidante (lawyer Cristina) Layusa, she said there is no advice from bar examinations committee chair (Antonio Eduardo) Nachura on any bar for that matter,? she added.

Largo forwarded a text message to CDN that said the en banc meeting was for the retirement of Justice Consuelo Ynares-Santiago.

?If La Salle would be passable, there would be no change in venue,? she said.

The bar examinees are set to tackle the most difficult subject, Remedial Law, which carries a grade weight of 20 percent, and Legal Ethics which is five percent. The two subjects combined make up one fourth or 25 percent of the entire examinations.

More than 200 Cebu-based law graduates have been in Manila to prepare for the month-long examinations./EDITORIAL ASSISTANT MA. BERNADETTE A. PARCO