THERE is no truth to rumors circulating in legal circles and social media of a supposed leakage in this year’s Bar examinations, which will end on Sunday, a Supreme Court official said Thursday.
Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr., chairman of the SC’s 2016 Bar exams committee, denied allegations of leakage of questions for the commercial law and criminal law subjects during the third day of exams last November 20.
“There is no iota of truth to these statements. These unfounded reports that are being irresponsibly circulated in social media only undermine the efforts of the Bar chairperson to safeguard the confidentiality and integrity of the Bar exams,” Velasco said, in a statement read by SC spokesman Theodore Te in a media briefing.
According to Velasco, his office immediately conducted an investigation on the reported leaked questions and the “findings show that there is no truth to any of these unsubstantiated social media rumors.”
Te said Justice Velasco assured the Bar takers this year that the two subjects would not be canceled or readministered.
“He [Justice Velasco] requests the help of the public not to add more stress and anxiety to the examinees,” he said.
In the ongoing 2016 Bar examination, there are 6,831 Bar candidates. Of the over 6,000 candidates, only 3,317 are new candidates.