MANILA, Philippines?Law graduates who took this year?s bar examinations proved to be a hardy lot even in the wake of a flooded metropolis and two consecutive storms.

Supreme Court deputy court administrator Jose Midas Marquez has announced that only one out of the 5,904 examinees who took the bar examinations on Sept. 20 failed to show up on Oct. 4, the last day of the series of tests.

The last day of the examinations was originally scheduled on Sept. 27 but rains brought by Tropical Storm "Ondoy" caused massive flooding in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, prompting the Supreme Court to postpone it for a week.

Marquez added that only five examinees lost their examination permits and asked for duplicate copies.

The Supreme Court earlier announced a simple procedure through which examinees who lost their permits, presumably due to the floods, could secure duplicate copies so they could take the tests on the final day of the examinations.

Marquez said 6,080 were admitted to take the examinations but only 5,914 took the tests on the first Sunday of the examinations. The examinees were down to 5,904 in the second and third Sundays.