1,724 law grads pass 2017 Bar Exams —source

A total of 1,724 law graduates or a quarter of over 6,000 examinees passed the Bar exams held in November 2017.

According to a high court source, the passing rate for last year's exams was 25.55 percent.

JUST IN: 1,724 passed or 25.55% of examinees passed the 2017 Bar Examinations — source | via @CecilVillarosa pic.twitter.com/XzeW6oS0oR

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UPDATE: Bar exams 1st place got 91.05% rating; 10th place got 88.4%. | via @CecilVillarosa

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A total of 7,227 law graduates have been allowed by the Supreme Court (SC) to take the 2017 Bar examinations on all four Sundays of November at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila.

But almost 500 takers failed to show up for the first of the four Sundays, whittling down the number of examinees to under 7,000.

Karen Mae L. Calam, a student from the University of San Carlos, topped the Bar exams in 2016 with a grade of 89.05 %. She was followed by Alanna Gayle Ashley Khio of the Silliman University in Negros Oriental, with a rating of 88.9500 percent.

For that year's exams, a total of 3,747 out of the 6,344 examinees passed, or a passing rate of 59.06 percent.

Then-Bar Chair Presbitero Velasco Jr. said the 2016 passing rate broke the 16-year-old record of 39.63 percent set in 1998.

The Bar examination covers eight subjects: Political Law, Civil Law, Taxation, Labor Law, Criminal Law, Remedial Law, Mercantile Law, and Legal and Judicial Ethics. — Nicole-Anne Lagrimas/MDM, GMA News