To the 2022 bar examinees: Digital prayers won’t earn you graces from the “Gods of Padre Faura.”The Supreme Court has warned aspiring lawyers against posting a prayer, a Bible verse or an outright plea to gain extra points or sympathy from the examiners in next year’s first online bar exams, saying having such “extraneous text” as part of their answers would be considered cheating. Putting any distinguishing mark in a submitted answer “is classified as cheating” and can “disqualify the examinee from the whole bar examinations,” Leonen said in a 14-page bar bulletin. The magistrate earlier pointed out that bar exams are intended to determine the “minimum skills” required of those seeking to become members of the bar. Honor and excellence“The bar examinations test both honor and excellence. “Start your legal career with the nobility, capacity for leadership, and empathy that our profession deserves.”Only 2,103 or 17.36 percent of the 7,685 takers passed the bar exams in 2019.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2021 11:58 UTC