Tag: 2020/2021 bar exams

SC says some bar examinees disqualified for violating honor code, published policies

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Sunday, Feb. 6, announced that some bar examinees were disqualified from completing the 2020/2021 bar examinations. In bar bulletin no. 39, s. 2022, 2020/2021 bar chair Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said based on reports he received, the disqualified examinees deliberately entered the local testing centers without disclosing that they had previously contracted the COVID-19 virus, smuggled mobile phones inside exam rooms, and checked social media during lunch break. […]

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2020/2021 bar exams rescheduled to Feb. 4 and 6

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has rescheduled anew the conduct of the 2020/2021 bar examinations. 2020/2021 bar chair Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said the exams, which were supposed to take place on Jan. 23 and 25, were moved to Feb. 4 and 6 instead following results of an SC survey that showed 16.8 percent of the 8,546 bar examinees who responded to the SC email were either positive for COVID-19, living with someone positive […]

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JUST IN: 2020/2021 bar exams moved to January and February 2022

  (Eagle News) — The 2020/2021 bar examinations which were supposed to be held this November have been moved to January and February 2022 instead. According to Bar Bulletin No. 28, S. 2021 signed by Associate Justice and Bar Chair Marvic Leonen, the resetting to January 16, 23, 30, and February 6, 2022 of the exams was approved by the Supreme Court upon Leonen’s recommendation, based on the advice from various experts and “after considering […]

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SC studying possibility of “online but proctored bar exams,” 2020/2021 bar exams chair confirms

Mix of online and written exams also being looked into (Eagle News)–The next bar exams will not be conducted in the same manner as the previous ones. This was confirmed by 2020/2021 bar exams chair Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, who issued the bar bulletin  after Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta told  a budget hearing for the judiciary that the Supreme Court was “considering” online bar exams. Leonen confirmed that his  office was specifically studying the possibility […]

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