THE 2024 Bar examinations will remain “digitalized and regionalized” with a “condensed” schedule, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
This was contained in Bar Bulletin No.1 issued by Associate Justice and 2024 Bar Exams Committee Chairperson Mario Lopez on the shift from the traditional pen-and-paper method of taking the test to the digital platform.
“Considering the achievements and wealth of experience from previous years, the 2024 Bar Examinations shall remain digitalized and regionalized with condensed schedule and multiple examiners,” Lopez said, adding that it will “bridge the gap between the study and practice of law and will usher qualified examinees in their transition from law students to practice-ready and capable lawyers.”
The digitalized and regionalized conduct of the Bar started in the 2020-2021 Bar exams amid the restrictions imposed due to the pandemic.
He said the examinations, like this year’s Bar, will be held in September in local testing centers across the country.
Fourteen local testing centers, including six in Metro Manila, were used in the 2023 Bar exams.
The first day of the 2024 Bar will be conducted on September 8 with the examinees taking political and public international law as well as commercial and taxation laws while civil law and labor law and social legislation will be held on September 11.
The last day of the exams on September 15 will be for criminal law, remedial law, legal and judicial ethics with practical exercises.
Matters regarding the application procedures, venues of the local testing centers, and other guidelines in the conduct of the 2024 Bar will be announced in subsequent bulletins, Lopez said.
