Supreme Court There are 11,790 law graduates who are expected to take the online bar examinations set by the Supreme Court on Jan. 23, Sunday, and Jan. 25, Tuesday in various testing centers nationwide. The increase was attributed to the postponement of the 2020 bar examinations due to COVID-19
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The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, Jan. 4, decided to reduce the coverage and shorten the duration of the 2020-2021 online bar examinations “in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. and the effects of typhoon ‘Odette.’”
Thus, instead of the examinations being held on Jan. 16, 23,
The Supreme Court reduced the coverage and shortened the duration of the 2020/21 Bar Examinations, amid the uptick of COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant and damaging effects of Typhoon Odette that ravaged parts of the country late December.
(File photo) MANILA - The Bar Examination will push through this month amid calls to cancel it for the third straight year due to the pandemic and the destruction caused by Typhoon Odette in December. The Supreme Court (SC) announced Tuesday that the Bar exam with revised coverage will be held on January 23 and 25, with examinees taking four sets of examinations, pro hac vice (for this occasion only). For the first time, the exam will be held in multiple sites. Previous Bar exams were held for four Sundays with two subjects each and at the University of Santo Tomas as the venue in recent years. Before the announcement, the Bar exam was supposed to be held on January 16, 23, 30, and February 6. "In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, fueled by its new dominant variant (Omicron), and the effects of Typhoon Odette, the Supreme Court, upon the recommendation of the Bar Chairperson, has resolved to reduce the coverage and shorten the duration of the 2020/21 bar examination," the SC sai