2 Mindanawons among 2024 Bar exams topnotchers

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 December) – Two Mindanawons are among the Top 10 placers in the 2024 Bar examinations, results released by the Supreme Court on Friday showed.

Joji Macadine from the Davao City-based University of Mindanao placed 8^th with a score of 83.74%.

Gregorio Jose Torres, a graduate of Western Mindanao State University in Zamboanga City, scored 83.59%, placing 9^th.

Four students from the University of the Philippines landed in the Top 10: Kyle Christian Tutor (1^st place, 85.77%), John Philippe Chua (4^th, 84.28%), Jet Ryan Nicolas (5^th, 84.27%), and Maria Lovelyn Joyce Quebrar (6^th, 84.06%).

The other topnotchers of the 2024 Bar exams, held last September, are: Maria Christina Aniceto from Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) with 85.54% (2^nd), Gerald Roxas from Angeles University Foundation School of Law with 84.355% (3^rd ), Kyle Andrew Isaguirea from ADMU with 83.905% (7^th), and Raya Villacorta from San Beda University with 83.47% (10^th).

Of the over 12,000 who took the exams, 3,962 passed or 37.84%, with a passing grade of 74%.

The results were announced by Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario V. Lopez, the Bar exam chairperson. Here is the link to the complete list of passers.

Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, the Supreme Court of the Philippines is given the only authority to set and promulgate rules concerning admission to the practice of law. 

The Bar is the lone licensure exam for professionals that is not regulated by the Professional Regulation Commission.

The examinations on Political and Public International Law (15%) and Commercial and Taxation Laws (20%) were conducted last September 8; Civil Law (20%) and Labor Law and Social Legislation (10%) on September 11; and Criminal Law (10%) and Remedial Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics with Practical Exercises (25%) on September 15.

The Ateneo de Davao University- Senior High School in Davao City and Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan in Cagayan de Oro City were two of the 13 testing centers in the Philippines. (Ian Carl Espinosa / MindaNews)