One would think that it’s tough to pass the California Bar exam, a three day torture/hazing.
Well, it is!
But for California examinees, you’re more than twice as likely to pass the California exam as you are to pass the Philippines Bar examination. The overall pass rate for the last July’s California Bar was 55.3%.
Here’s a sample question from the Philippines Bar Exam in 2007:
The City Mayor issues an Executive Order declaring that the city promotes responsible parenthood and upholds natural family planning. He prohibits all hospitals operated by the city from prescribing the use of artificial methods of contraception, including condoms, pills, intrauterine devices and surgical sterilization. As a result, poor women in his city lost their access to affordable family planning programs. Private clinics, however, continue to render family planning counsel and devices to paying clients.
(a) Is the Executive Order in any way constitutionally infirm? Explain.
(b) Is the Philippines in breach of any obligation under international law? Explain.
(c) May the Commission on Human Rights order the Mayor to stop the implementation of the Executive Order? Explain.
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1 atty. aphrodite // May 3, 2008 at 6:48 am
hello. i passed the 2007 Philippine Bar Exams on my first take. indeed, i experienced euphoria. however, i feel sad for most of my friends who never made it.
i have plans of taking the california bar exams someday. i do not know the requirements for taking it. i hope someone will tell me what they are.
they say that the calibar is extremely difficult but it’s worth trying while i am still young–if being 29 is still young. i know a Filipino lawyer who reviewed for the calibar exams only for 3 months and she passed the exams. Gosh! how i wish i could be like her.
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