ABS-CBNnews.com reports today that the results of the 2011 Bar examinations will be
released this Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
Last week, there were reports (rumours)
that the result will be out last Tuesday after the Supreme Court en banc
session, but that turned out to be a dud for many examinees and their friends
and loved ones.
The waiting is an ordeal for the
examinees. And as the day of reckoning draws nearer and nearer, there are those who resign to the fates. They wax fatalistic and go que sera sera. But many just want to get over with it so they can already
map out their next moves.
The Philippines Bar examinations is
certainly one of the most rigorous, not to mention elitist, State-sanctioned and
Supreme Court-regulated qualifying examinations. These examinations determine
who among the candidates from all over the archipelago deserve to become
members of the Philippine Bar.
The University of Cebu (UC) College of Law, of which I am an alumni and
a faculty member, has several candidates who took last year’s examinations.
Together with our dean, Atty. Baldomero Estenzo, we are eagerly anticipating the coming results
as hopes are high that after three years (2008, 2009 and 2010) of hiatus, the UC
is again ripe for another Bar topnotcher.
Incidentally, the UC College of Law
has already produced two Bar topnotchers in the 2006 and 2007 Bar examinations.
Atty. Al-Shwaid Ismael, from the pioneering class of 2006, placed 8th
in the 2006 Bar examinations. Atty. Christian Llido, of batch 2007, placed 10th
in the 2007 Bar examinations.
The 2008
batch, which I belong, did not produce a topnocher. But we had
the highest percentage of passers for first takers among all Law Schools in
Cebu. [The University of San Carlos (USC) has a
higher passing percentage if the repeaters are included.]
In the list
of top Law Schools in the country released by the Commission on Higher
Education in September 2009, UC managed to land in the Top 8, behind Ateneo de Manila University, San Beda College, the University of the Philippines, Far
Eastern University-DLSU, Ateneo de Davao University, USC, and the University of
Santo Tomas. UC was ahead of No. 9 University of Perpetual Help-Rizal and No.
10 Arellano University.
On a personal note, I have friends and acquaintances who have taken the
2011 Bar examinations. Having had the experience of going through the agony of
waiting, I now watch from the sidelines as their own time slowly – but surely – unfolds.
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