Punzi's Corner Blog: Cheating your way to bar admission

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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Cheating your way to bar admission

With the recent controversies surrounding the nurses' admission test, the focus now shifts to the bar exams that will start this week.

The bar exams, mind you, is not exempt from controversy. In 2003, there was a leakage in the exams for Mercantile Law which led the Supreme Court to invalidate that portion. I think the reviewer was reprimanded and the one that actually leaked it was disbarred. The official case can be found here.

A part of me is screaming unfair. When I took the bar, my grades in Mercantile and Criminal Law saved me from taking the test again. What if I took the test that year? I could have failed. Why punish the entire lot for the sins of the few. And those who benefitted then were traceable.

I'm just thinking aloud at this point. What will it take to assure passing the bar?

1. Know all the bar examiners. And I don't mean just acquaintances. I mean enough that they will let you give them a sample of your handwriting and pass you...

2. Know the bar chairman. So he/she will let you pull it off...

3. Know the bar confidant and everyone in that office...

4. But of course, the best way is to know the answers. Because knowing the questions is not a guarantee. That's why a leakage is the bar is almost useless.

And if you ever do cheat the system and get admitted to the bar not based on merit, half of the people will vilify and crucify you... The other half will call you a "damn good lawyer."

Oh, you may want to read this from a year ago... and this one too

Good luck! And particularly to you Ron...

1 Objection(s):

At 3:30 PM, Ronald Allan said...: Thanks man. Now if I can only keep my sanity till the end of September...:-)

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