Results of the 2010 Bar Exams to be released Thursday

At a news briefing, SC Public Information Office deputy chief Gleoresty Guerra said that Chief Justice Corona has called for a special en banc (full court) session on Thursday morning “for the decoding of the 2010 Bar examinations results.”

At a news briefing, SC Public Information Office deputy chief Gleoresty Guerra said that Chief Justice Corona has called for a special en banc (full court) session on Thursday morning “for the decoding of the 2010 Bar examinations results.”

In the session, the justices will also determine the passing percentage for the exams.

The decoding “is the process where the [SC] orders the Office of the Bar Confidant to open the sealed envelopes with the names of the candidates who passed the exams,” said Office of the Bar Confidant head Cristina Layusa.

After the decoding, the names will be flashed on video screens mounted near the Supreme Court’s Padre Faura gate. The exact time the names will be flashed depends on the time the decoding ends and the number of those who passed the exams, Layusa said.

“The decoding is always with the presence of the chair of the Bar exams. For this year, it was Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales. So Justice Morales will be with us during the decoding," she added.

The Rules of Court provide that “a candidate may be deemed to have passed his examination successfully if he has obtained a general average of 75% in all subjects without falling below 50% in any subject.” In determining the average, subjects in the examinations are given the following relative weights: Political and International Law, 15%; Labor and Social Legislation, 10%; Civil Law, 15%; Taxation, 10%; Mercantile Law, 15%; Criminal Law, 10%; Remedial Law, 20%; and Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises, 5%, for a total of 100%.

The Corpus Juris news team will be on site at the Supreme Court on Thursday in order to receive a copy of the official list of bar passers and will post the list on the site as within the hour of its release. Stay tuned for more details.

The following are the statistics on the Bar exams results for the past eight years: