A STUDENT of the San Beda College of Law scored 85.5 percent to top the bar examinations last year.
“It was hard. I almost did not sleep during the bar exams. It was all plain reading,” topnotcher Irene Mae Alcobilla, an intern at the Office of the Solicitor General, told the ABS-CBN News Channel.
out that she passed the 2014 Bar examination at the grounds of the
Supreme Court in Manila on Thursday. DANNY PATA
“What I only wanted was to become a Bedan lawyer, to pass the bar. But while I was reviewing, I said to myself I needed to set standards for myself.”
Alcobilla was one of the 1,126 examinees who passed the bar exams in 2014 and who made up 18.82 percent of the total 5,984 examinees.
Christian Drilon, a nephew of Senator Franklin Drilon, placed second while the senator’s son Patrick also passed the exams.
Sandra Magalang, the class salutatorian of the UP College of Law class of 2014, finished third.
Magalang was a beneficiary of the Oplan Sagip Mata program of the late Health Secretary Juan Flavier for poor, vision-impaired Filipinos.
Rounding up the top 10 were Mark Leo Bejemino, Gil Garcia, and Reginald Laco, who were all tied at 4th place, and Michelle Liao, Jose Angelo David, Adrian Aumentado, Rhey David Daway, Fideliz Cardellie Diaz, Jamie Liz Yu and Tristan Matthew Delgado.
Alcobilla, Magalang, Bejemino, Daway and Yu are all legal interns at the Office of the Solicitor General.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta, the chairman of the 2014 Committee on the bar examinations, said the oath-taking of the successful bar candidates will be on April 24 at the Philippine International Convention Center.
Of the 2014 bar examinees, 3,115 were first-time takers while 3,229 were repeaters.
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