The bar examination goes on

Published by the Visayan Daily Star Publications, Inc.

NINFA R. LEONARDIA Editor-in-Chief & President

CARLA P. GOMEZ Editor GUILLERMO TEJIDA III Desk Editor NANETTE L. GUADALQUIVER Busines Editor ERIC T. LORETIZO Sports Editor (On Leave) RENE GENOVE Bureau Chief, Dumaguete MAJA P. DELY Advertising Coordinator

CARLOS ANTONIO L. LEONARDIA Administrative Officer

More than 6,000 graduates of various law schools from all over the country qualified for and started to take the bar examinations last Sunday. They will be taking tests in the different subjects they will have to hurdle for three more Sundays during which tensions will be high and many will be tested also on their tenacity and resolve to become lawyers.

The duration of the examinations are going to be nerve-wracking days, not only for the examinees, but also for their parents, their teachers and their schools. The results will not only be personal triumphs for the student, but will also reflect on the quality of the training given them and the competence of their mentors. For sure, the country's top law schools will be holding their breaths, hoping and praying that one of their bets will get the highest score and bring honor to their institution and assure an increase in enrollment the next schoolyear.

If there is one thing that may disturb the mental set of this year's examinees, it is the recent scandal that hit the nursing profession with the discovery of a leak in the test questions that some examinees had taken advantage of. Despite the fact that many law graduates and professors have declared that there is no way cheating can take place in the bar examination this year, some doubt may persist, and we hope this will also prod those in charge to be very meticulous in assuring that no such irregularity mars the procedure.

It was heartening to see that schoolmates and friends of those who were to undergo the grueling tests gave them a send-off that would lighten their spirits and inspire them to do their best. For these examinees, passing or failing in the bar examinations will determine their future in a more vital way than for some others. It is the only way they will be able to practice the profession they have studied and spent for for ten long years, a decade of their student life.*