A TOTAL of 12,246 law graduates have registered for the three-day Bar examinations that will be held in 13 testing centers nationwide starting Sunday, September 8.
Other examination dates are set for September 11 and 15.
Testing centers spread across the country will be conducted in the following schools:
– National Capital Region: University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City; Bonifacio Global City, Taguig; University of Santo Tomas and San Beda University, Manila; San Beda College-Alabang, Muntinlupa; Manila Adventist College, Pasay City
– Luzon: Saint Louis University, Baguio City; University of Nueva Caceres, Naga City
– Visayas: University of San Jose-Recoletos, Cebu City; Central Philippine University, Iloilo City; Dr. V. Orestes Romualdez Educational Foundation, Tacloban City
– Mindanao: Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City; Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City.
Liquor bans and road closures will be implemented around the testing centers. In Manila, road closures are from 2 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the actual exam dates.
The exams' six core subjects include Political and Public International Law (15 percent); Commercial and Taxation Laws (20 percent); Civil Law (20 percent); Labor Law and Social Legislation (10 percent); Criminal Law (10 percent); and Remedial Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics with Practical Exercises (25 percent).
The Bar exams shall be conducted through Examplify, a secured computer-based program downloaded and installed on the examinee's laptop.
The laptop must run on MacOS or Windows only.
Smartphones, tablets, computer accessories and similar devices are not allowed during the exam period.
According to the rules, examinees must set the default font size to 14 for the actual examinations. The use of a font size larger than that prescribed while taking the Bar exams and which suggests to a reasonable person that it was employed to flash, exhibit or display one's answers to an adjacent examinee is prohibited.
“It is a ground for the examinees' disqualification or imposition of disciplinary sanction,” the rules stated.
By now, examinees should have ensured their laptops were in good working condition, disabled all antivirus and unnecessary software, turned off automatic system updates, and synced date and time settings to Philippine Standard Time, according to the Bar rules.
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