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Requirements for the Bar Examinations

IMPORTANT: Please USE THE APPROPRIATE PETITION FORMS (whether for

new applicants or bar repeaters), printed on 8x13 SIZED BOND PAPER.
INCORRECT PETITIONS SUBMITTED WILL NOT BE PROCESSED.
A FIRST TIMERS
B. REPEATERS (TWO-THREE TIMERS)
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RULES ON THE CONDUCT OF THE BAR

EXAMINATIONS
1. No refund of the examination fee will be allowed, whether or not your petition to
take the Bar Examinations is approved. In case you are unable to take the
examinations, seventy-five percent (75%) of the said fee may be applied to
a future Bar Examinations.
2. Failure to take the test in any subject will bar you from taking the rest of the
examinations. (Res., October 1, 1968)
3. Always bring with you your Notice of Admission, which shall serve as your pass
to the examination compound/room.
4. Bringing of deadly weapons, cameras, tape recorders, cellphones, other radio or
stereo equipment, communication gadgets or any other electronic device is
STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
5. You are required to come early. Gates open at 5:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. on
examination days and close at 7:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M., afterwhich no one
will be allowed to enter without permission from the Chairman.
6. Upon arrival at the examination compound in the morning of each examination
day, consult the bulletin boards along the ground corridors and on the floor
to which you are assigned for your room assignment.
7. For an easy and orderly location of your assigned building and room, you are

required to wear your color-coded Identification Card at all times. When

you arrive at the examination area, you are required to proceed to your
room assignment and not to wander around.
8. Eating inside the classrooms and anywhere inside the examination buildings is
STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Eating is however allowed in the following areas:
a) gazebo area, b) pebble wash area, and c) Chess Plaza. As mandated
by the De la Salle University Administration SMOKING is STRICTLY
PROHIBITED anywhere within the premises even in open spaces.
9. You will be allowed to enter your room before the start of the examination upon
submission of your Notice of Admission to the headwatcher, but you have to
conduct yourself properly by avoiding loud discussions and conversations.
Attend to your personal needs before the FIRST BELL.
10. At the sound of the FIRST BELL (7:45 A.M. and 1:45 P.M.), no examinee will be
allowed to leave the room. All books and notes should then be placed in
front of the room. An examinee will be considered cheating if caught with
notes or codigos during the examination.
11. A name card will be given to you by the headwatcher which should be
STRICTLY ACCOMPLISHED in the following manner and order:
1.

PRINT your complete name as follows family name, given name and
middle name on the first line;

2.

Affix your CUSTOMARY SIGNATURE on the second line;

3.

INDICATE THE SCHOOL where you finished your law course at the
bottom of the card;

4.

Affix your RIGHT THUMBMARK on the space provided therefor;

5.

INSERT the name card into the envelope, which is attached to the
examination notebook, after the headwatcher has signed at the back
thereof ; and,

6.

Ask the headwatcher to SEAL THE ENVELOPE.

12. Only fountain pens and sign pens in permanent blue, blue-black or black ink
should be used during examinations. Variation in the color of ink and the
style of your handwriting should be avoided.
13. Begin answering at the sound of the SECOND BELL (8:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.).
Anyone caught answering before the Second Bell will be dealt with
accordingly.
14. Per SC Resolution dated 3 February 2009 in Bar Matter No. 1161 (Re:
Proposed Reforms in the Bar Examinations), each Bar subject is now
divided into two (2) parts, namely: Part I and Part II. There will still be
one (1) set of questionnaire and notebook per Bar subject but the
same shall be divided into said Part I and Part II. Examinees may start
writing their answers for each part beginning on the page of the
notebook where the words Begin Answering on this Page appear.
He/she has the discretion on which part to answer first.
15. In correcting a mistake in your answer, simply draw a line across the word or
words you want to change. DO NOT ERASE OR TEAR OFF ANY PAGE
OF THE NOTEBOOK.

DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE

NOTEBOOK OR MAKE ANY UNNECESSARY MARKING OR USE ANY

IMPERTINENT EXPRESSION which may be construed as a means of

identifying your notebook. Names of persons should be represented by
letters of the alphabet such as A, B, C, etc., unless particular names are
called for.
16. Write your answers on one side of the paper only on the face and not on the
back page. In case all the front pages have been consumed, you may use
the back pages commencing on the first leaf and so on.
17. The THIRD BELL signifies that only five (5) minutes are left before the end of
the examination.
18. When you finish answering or at the sound of the FOURTH BELL (12:00 NOON
and 5:00 P.M.), as the case may be, submit your notebook together with the
questionnaire.
19. After every examination and before leaving the room, ask for your Notice of
Admission from the headwatcher who shall accomplish the certification at
the back thereof.
20. Your Notice of Admission will be retained by the headwatcher at the end of the
last examination. i.e., Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises.
21. ANY VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RULES WILL BE CONSIDERED
SUFFICIENT

CAUSE

EXAMINATION
EXAMINATIONS.

AND

FOR

THE

NULLIFICATION

DISQUALIFICATION

FROM

OF

FUTURE

YOUR
BAR