SC Justice Leonen vows 2020 bar exam to have higher passing rate

MANILA, Philippines — The 2020 bar exam will have a higher passing rate.

This assurance came from Associate Justice Leonen, who is slated to be the chairman of the 2020 Committee on Bar Examinations, on Friday.

“It [bar exams] will have a higher passing rate,” Leonen said in a Twitter post, in response to another Twitter post.

https://twitter.com/alterlawstudent/status/1124169216586727424?s=20

“1,800 out of 8,155 examinees passed #BarExam2018.  That’s only 22%.  Mas matindi pa kay Thanos mag-decimate.  Paano pa kaya kapag si Justice @marvicleonen na ang Bar Chairman. Huhu,” a Twitter user wrote.

The 2018 bar results only posted a 22.07 percent passing rate as only 1,800 out of 8,155 examinees passed the bar exam.

READ: 1,800 of 8,155 pass 2018 bar exam — source

The Supreme Court (SC) announced the 2018 bar exam results on Friday. The list of Barr passers was flashed on an LED wall at the grounds of the Supreme Court building in Manila.

Sean James Borja, a law graduate from the Ateneo de Manila Univesity,  topped the 2018 bar exam with a score of 89.306 percent.  /muf/kga