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A graduate of the University of the Cordilleras in
Baguio City topped the 2006 bar examinations.
The results, released Tuesday by
the Supreme Court, showed that 1,893 of the 6,187 who took the exams
passed for a 30-percent passing rate.
Leading the passers is Noel
Malimban with a rating of 87.6 percent. University of the
Cordilleras is the former Baguio Colleges Foundation.
The other topnotchers:
2. Debora Acosta (University of
the Philippines) and Ricardo Pilares III (Ateneo de Manila
University) 87.40 percent
3. Erika Ana Andrea Jimenez, (Ateneo)
86.6 percent
4. Maria Charizza Carlos (Ateneo)
86.1 percent
5. Gina Lyn Rubio (Far Eastern
University) 85.75 percent
6. Anjuli Larla Tan (Dr. Vicente
Orestes Romualdez Educational Center) 85.70 percent
7. Karen Gaviola (University of
San Carlos) 85.68 percent
8. Al Shawid Ishmael (University
of Cebu) 85.65 percent
9. Timothy Joseph Mendoza (UP)
85.55 percent
10. Alain Charles Veloso (UP)
85.05 percent
The bar was given in September
last year at the De La Salle University on Taft Avenue, Manila. The
Supreme Court, which administers the tests, said the number of
examinees last year was the highest in the bar’s history.
The 2006 bar consisted of eight
tests and were administered through Deputy Clerk of Court and Bar
Confidant Ma. Cristina B. Layusa.
For the first time, the results
were displayed on giant screens on the Court’s front yard on Padre
Faura Street in Ermita. The results can also be accessed at www.supremecourt.gov.ph,
the Court’s official website.
Last year, 1,526 of 5,607
examinees passed the bar, a 27.22 percent passing rate.
In 2004 the rate was 31.61
percent. In 2003, it was 20.71 percent.
The most punishing bar was in
2002, when only 917 examines of out 4,659 made it, a dismal 19.68
percent passing rate.
To pass, a bar examinee must have
a general average of 75 percent in all subjects without a grade
below 50 percent in any subject.
The Supreme Court said this
year’s bar marks the second time the “five-strike” rule is
being implemented. The rule limits to five the number of times a
candidate may take the exams.
The 2005 bar was topped by Joan
A. de Venecia of the University of the Philippines, a niece of
Speaker Jose de Venecia with a grade of 87.20 percent.
The highest passing percentage
for the past 10 years was in 1998 - almost 40 percent. The lowest
was in 1999, 16 percent.
The first bar was administered in
1901 with just 13 examinees. There were four presidents among its
topnotchers: Manuel Roxas (1913), Carlos Garcia (1923), Diosdado
Macapagal (1936) and Ferdinand Marcos (1939).
The examinee with the highest
grade is reportedly Florenz Regalado of San Beda, who scored 96
percent in 1954. Regalado is a retired Supreme Court justice.
--ABS-CBN Interactive with
Jomar Canlas
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