Over 12K register for 2025 online Bar exams
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PNA
There are 12,114 examinees who have completed their registration for the 2025 online Bar examinations, which will be conducted by the Supreme Court (SC) on 7, 10, and 14 September 2025 in various local testing centers nationwide.
The SC said that as of Thursday, 20 March, it was still verifying the registration of 1,239 examinees based on requirements such as the payment of the P12,800 registration fee.
The deadline for registration was last Monday, 17 March.
The Chairperson of the 2025 Bar Examinations Committee is SC Associate Justice Amy C. Lazaro-Javier.
Six core subjects are included in the exams, which will be administered in two subjects per day, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
On 7 September, Political and Public International Law will be the subject in the morning, while Commercial and Taxation Laws are set for the afternoon.
On 10 September, Civil Law will be in the morning, while Labor Law and Social Legislation will be in the afternoon.
On the last day of the exams, 14 September, the subjects will be Criminal Law in the morning and Remedial Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics with Practical Exercises in the afternoon.
Justice Lazaro-Javier, in an earlier Bar Bulletin, said that each examination will be prepared by her with the assistance of four examiners per subject “to facilitate the expedient yet thorough correction of answers.”
She also said: “There will be a total of 20 essay questions per exam, with only a single question per number. Answers will be graded with a total of 0 to 100 percent or five percent per question. The questions will be straightforward and will be designed to assess the examinee’s understanding of basic and fundamental legal knowledge expected of entrants to the legal profession.”
The SC conducted the first online Bar examinations in 2021 for the years 2020 and 2021. The examinations for 2020 were postponed due to the then-raging COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chairperson of the SC Committee on Bar Examinations for the 2020-2021 period was Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen.