Law School Reacts To Mass Failure Of Bar Exams

The Board of Studies of the Council of Legal Education has directed
that henceforth, re-sit candidates are to attend at least eight weeks
compulsory revision classes at the Nigerian Law School.

This is in view of the poor performance of re-sit candidates at the
August 2014 examinations.

According to the press release signed by the Head, Public Relation of
the Nigerian Law School, Mr Chinedu Ukekwe, no re-sit candidate shall
be allowed at the bar final examinations until he or she has undergone
the stipulated revision classes.

The release also gave a break down of the performance of the Law
School candidates for the August bar final exam.

A total number of 5,841 regular candidates took the exam out of which
four had a first class honours, while 96 candidates had 2nd class
upper division and 620 had 2nd class lower division.

However, a total of 2,610 passed while 501 had conditional pass and
1,932 failed the exam.

The release also indicated that a total of 1,335 re-sit candidates sat
for the exam while 88 passed, 26 had a conditional pass and 1,168
failed.

The Law School authorities said that anyone who is not satisfied with
the result can call for a review in line with the extant laws of the
school.