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I added this latest article in Inquirer.net, since, this article lacks any history on these aspects. Please do not vandalize. -- The first bar exam was held in 1901, with 13 examinees, while the 2008 bar examination is the 107th (given per Article 8, Section 5, 1987 Constitution). The 2001 bar exam had the highest number of passers -- 1,266 out of 3,849 examinees, or 32.89%, while 2006 had the highest examinees -.6,187. Also, the 2003 bar exam was marred by controversy when the Court ordered a retake of the Mercantile law due to questionnaire leakage. Inquirer.net, First bar exam in RP held in 1901, with 13 test takers
The 2001 bar exams is also special in that all the valedictorians of the recognized top three law schools in the country placed in the top ten. Moreover, even the salutatorians of two of these top schools likewise placed. Furthermore, even the first honorable mention of one of these top schools also placed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.1.18.241 ( talk) 16:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
With 4 of the 10 top placers, Ateneo made Philippine history, when Ona got 83.55% breaking the latest lowest record of 84%. - -- Florentino floro ( talk) 08:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I updated this sub-section but it was vandalized. I updated the 1920 entry there since Ona erased that record with 83:55%. Wikipedia had done lots to fight vandalism by vindictive editors, or those with troubled minds. We cannot really do anything since such is an epidemic, and the more we correct the same as in cancer it causes eruption. So, I discovered a way to prevent vandalism in Wiki, by copy pasting my important edits in the article's talk page, hoping that others will revert the deleted edit. But I am not a paranoid to believe that vendetta will be cured, since it is therapy for Filipino crab mentality. So, I reproduce here my entry which might be vandalized (I have no problem with vandalism in foreign articles since some Filipino crustaceans could not muster the vote vis-a-vis foreign editors who put in their watch list, the articles where I edited (giggle): The lowest is 83.55%, obtained by Ateneo Law School's Mercedita L. Ona, 83.55%, 2008, which erased the prior record of 84.10%, obtained by Adolfo Brillantes of Escuela de Derecho de Manila (now Manila Law College Foundation) in 1920. [1] [2] - -- Florentino floro ( talk) 05:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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Remember that it was in 1973, the Ericta Bar Scandal, when the bitter quarrel of money and corruption erupted between Justice Vicente Ericta and Justice Amuerfina Melencio-Herrera (now PHILJA directress). Herrera exposed the peeping tom by Ericta to the grades to let his son pass. So, all the S.C. corrupt Justices resigned and Ferdinand Marcos appointed the new S.C. Justices. The Supreme Court permanently banned the changing of passing grades other than 75% with 50% passing in any and all subjects. So, since 4 incumbent S.C. Justices CJ Puno, Ynares-Santiago, Carpio Morales, and Velasco had relatives, then they inhibited, but the OBC did dilly-dally from Friday to Saturday the release of the Bar Exams, submitting the false reason that the OBC would still review the names of 109 law schools. So, in order that bar flunker children and kins of these 4 Goddess/es of Faura would pass and escape the FUN of the 3 mystic dwarves, as what happened in the 1948 Bar Flunkers case and 1973 folly, the Rules of Court since 1973 was perforce amended, making these lucky and prosperous children happy and benevolent. But since Wikipedia does not permit original research, I would need data or facts and links from Wikipedia genius or beloved Filipino editors or even admins who are blue blooded Ateneans who believe in crab mentality or crustacean concept of truth, justice and rule of law, which St. Ignatius formulated at Loyola, Spain. Please do submit here or in Tambayan, the numbers and grades of Ateneo (and other law schools) bar passers, to determine if the kins of S.C. Justices got grades in any subject below 50% and average of less than 75%, so that I can say bingo and I will edit this article accordingly. When I personally met thrice, Tricia Nicole Q. Velasco, daughter of then Court Administrator Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr., in 2002, I told her to desist from taking law at the Ateneo (she failed the UP entrance test), coz I told her that I was full second honors Ateneo 1982 and placed 12, 87.55%, 1983 bar with only 21.3% passed (UP and Ateneo, 60% failed and they cried in groups), but I was accused by the Court Administrator of gross ignorance of law (like here of Wiki rules). Later, on April 6, 2006, with all my honors and records, I was convicted and sentenced guilty beyond reasonable doubt of gross ignorance of the law as recommended by her father Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr. and fined by him and them $ 780 or P 40,000 [10]. Without bitterness in my heart, I congratulate Tricia Nicole Q. Velasco for passing the tough bar exams, and I vouch that my mystic angel of death LUIS would confer upon her the medal of valor and fortune cookie. Please edit my trance message if this is too long. But I want Ateneans to read this, since Wikipedia must expand this article to ferret the truth. - -- Florentino floro ( talk) 07:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
The scandals that rocked the Court are hereunder, but if you have still other scandals and links, please add. In the 1930s, a distant relative of Imelda Romualdez Marcos who was a Justice in the High Court resigned after a controversy involving the bar examinations. Justice Ramon Fernandez was forced to protect his name and honor when he resigned because of a bar examination scandal. [11] On November 23, 1979, the High Court, per Justice Pacifico de Castro ordered new examinations in labor and social legislation and taxation. On May 7, 1982, 12 of the Supreme Court's 14 justices resigned amid expose "that the court fixed the bar-examination score of a member's son so that he would pass." Justice Vicente Ericta was accused to have personally approached the bar chairman to inquire whether his (Ericta's) son passed the bar. Ferdinand Marcos accepted the resignations and appointed the new Justices. Chief Justice Enrique Fernando wept at a news conference as he accepted responsibility for rechecking and changing the exam score of Gustavo Ericta, son of Justice Vicente Ericta. [1] Associate Justice Fidel Purisima, chairman of the bar committee, did not disclose that he had a nephew who was taking the bar examination in that year. He was merely censured and his honoraria as bar examiner were forfeited. On September 24, 2003, the Supreme Court, per a bleary-eyed Associate Justice Jose Vitug, annulled the tests results on mercantile law after "confirmation of what could be the most widespread case of cheating in the 104-year-old bar exams". [2] Since the 1982 "Ericta Scandal", it was only in 2008 that the Court relaxed the fixed rules on passing grades amid the inhibitions of 5 Justices whose relatives took the exams. -- Florentino floro ( talk) 10:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
At last C.J. Panganiban wrote on this: In 2008, only 5% (of the 5,626 who took the 2007 tests, or less than 300) got the passing grade of 75%. Thus, the Supreme Court adjusted the standard to 70% and the disqualification rate in 3 subjects (civil, labor and criminal law) from 50 to 45%. Accordingly, 1,289 or 22.91%, “passed.” This passing grade reduction is highly unusual, since it last happened in the 1981 exam when the passing grade was lowered to 72.5%, which led to the resignation of all the justices. President Ferdinand Marcos re-appointed all but 2 of the Justices. Prior to 1982, the passing mark jumped unpredictably from year to year: 69.45 percent in 1946; 69 in 1947; 70 in 1948, 1963, 1972 and 1974; 71 in 1961; 71.5 in 1953, 1964 and 1965; 72 in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1967; 72.5 in 1954, 1962 and 1981; 73 in 1950, 1956, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1978 and 1980; 73.5 in 1955 and 1979; 74 in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1966, 1971, 1973 and 1977; and 74.5 in 1976. In 1954, the Court lowered the passing grade to 72.5%, even if the passing percentage was already at its highest at 75.17%. In 1999, moves to lower the passing grade to 74% failed, after Justice Fidel Purisima, bar committee chairman failed to disclose that his nephew took the examination. He was censured and his honoraria was reduced to half. [3] But he failed to point a finger on the 5 S.C. Justices who inhibited so that their children or kins would pass, when these kids really failed. - -- Florentino floro ( talk) 07:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC) Here is a good or the best part of this article on TIPS for future research. [12]-- Florentino floro ( talk) 04:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
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The old link of the official website of the Philippine Supreme Court was changed from the old http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/ to the new: http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/ Hence, all former links of the e-library and decisions added or edited here in Wikipedia are deemed dead links and you can now look at them all in this new link.-- Bar 2009 ( talk) 06:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
User:Iron.bridge has been adding lists of the law firms which certain bar examinees now belong to, as well as their respective fraternities. I've removed them because I think that's unnecessary advertising, promotion, and boosterism not compliant with WP:NOT. Moreover, I also think that it is no longer contributory to the development of the topic of the article, which is the examination. There might be a way to discuss the relationship between high-scoring examinees and certain law firms and fraternities in general terms, however. Hopefully discussion here can help flesh out the matters that need discussing. Rmcsamson ( talk) 07:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)