2020-21 BAR Exam gains high passing rate since 1954

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On Tuesday, April 12, Supreme Court released the Bar Examination result for the year 2020-2021.

Chairperson of the exam, Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen declared a passing rate of 72.28 percent.

This counts to 8,241 passers out of 11,402 examinees, recorded to be the 2nd highest rate since the 75.16 percent rate of the 1957 Bar.

Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) was named as the number 1 Top Performing School for 2020/21 Bar with 99.64 percent out of their more than 100 examinees.

Next on the list is the University of the Philippines (UP) with 98.84 percent, followed by San Beda with 98.11 percent.

While Adamson University (AdU) records a 72.64 percent passing rate counting 61 passers out of 81, with 20 out of 28 first-time takers passing the Bar examination.

AdU may not be on the list of top-performing schools. It still proudly welcomed its new Vincentian lawyers.

Through a Facebook post, Adamson congratulates the faculty and staff of the College of Law headed by Dean Anna Maria Abad.

In the same post, they left a message to the Adamsonian Bar hopefuls, "This whole Adamson Community is proud of you!"