Reading in the Philippine History

OUTPUT NO.1

Sopia Ann M. Jadie

BSTM- Block-T August 25, 2023

BSTMGE2- T

Who got the highest percentage in the annals of Philippine Bar Examination?

The Philippine Bar Examination is the professional’s licensure examination for

lawyers in the Philippines. The exam is exclusively administered by the supreme court of
the Philippines through the Supreme Court Bar Examination Committee. Attorneys,
lawyers, and counsels have all been educated and trained in law. As explained above,
attorneys must pass the bar exam, and practice law in the court. Lawyers may or may
not have taken the bar exam, and may not practice law. If you have been formally
educated in the field of law, but has not yet passed the bar exam, you are a lawyer. If
you graduated from law school, passed the bar exam, and is a member of State Bar
Association in the state in where you are licensed to practice law, you are an attorney.

One of the main reasons the Philippine Bar Examination is thought to be the one of
the hardest in the world. Candidates who have failed the bar exams for three times are
not permitted to take another bar exam until they re-enroll and pass regular fourth-year
review classes and attend a pre-bar review classes and attend a pre-bar review course in
an approved law school. There are a couple of reasons why the bar exam is so difficult.
The first is that the volume of subject matter is comparatively immense. The second is
that you can’t take classes in the law school for every subject matter, because there just
isn’t time or a mandated requirement to do so. In the Philippines, for everyone wishing
to practice law in the nation, passing the bar exam is a must. It is a demanding exam
that calls for both legal knowledge and logical and analytical abilities.

According to the Google the highest percentage in the annals of Philippine Bar
Examination is Florenz Regalado, The San Beda College of Law's sole magna cum laude
graduate ranked 1st in the 1954 bar exams with a mark of 96.70%. The record is the
highest average in the Philippine Bar Examinations, to date. Regalado later served as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court appoints memberships in
the Committee of Bar Examiners, the official task force for formulating bar exam
questions, instituting policy directives, executing procedures, grading bar examination
papers, and releasing the results of the annual bar examination. The committee is
chaired by an incumbent Justice of the Supreme Court, who is designated by the
Supreme Court to serve for a term of one year. The members of the committee includes
eight members of the Integrated bar of the Philippines, who also hold office for a term
of one year. While the Justice who shall act as chairman is immediately known,
committee members must exert every effort to conceal their identities until the oath-
taking of the successful bar examinees, approximately six months after the bar exam.
Candidates who meet all the admission requirements usually enroll in special review
classes after graduating from law school. These programs are held from April to
September in law schools, colleges, universities, and review centers. Program schedule,
content, and delivery differ from one review program to another. Lecturers in these
programs are called bar reviewers. They are usually full-time professors and part-time
professorial lecturers in law schools and universities. Most review programs invite
incumbent and retired justices and high ranking public officials both as a marketing tool
and as a program innovation.