Statistics on the 2014 Bar (Part 16)

Statistics on the 2014 Bar Examinations

(Part 16)

by

Thads Bentulan

thadsbentulan@gmail.com

Give it away

The gap between the 1^st placer of 85.50 and the adjusted lowered passing grade of 73.00 is 1,250 pips. The 1^st placer has 1,250 pips extra to give away. There hundreds of examinees who only obtained the grade of 72.99, and are only 0.01 points or 1 pip, repeat only 1 pip, away from the adjusted passing grade of 73.00. If only one can give it away to those who need it.

Steep slope

The hyperbolic curve of the results shows the rapid deterioration in performance grades even with just a minor gap. For example, If your grade is 80.00, then your rank is 66^th place, but when your go down just  one point to 79.00, your rank is already 85^th place. Just one point down and you go from 66^th to 85^th place.

If you go down one more point to 78.00, your rank is 106^th place. Go down further one point below to 77.00 your rank is 126^th. Note that these are just one point decrements 80 to 79 to 78 to 77, and yet the ranks are decremented from 66^th to 85^th to 106^th to 126^th. That’s because the grades are incremented by 0.01, thus there are actually 100 pips between each point, and from 80 down to 77 that’s actually 300 steps.

Don’t get me wrong, if you obtained 79.00, that is a great perfomance at 85^th place. I was only showing you the steep slope going down the hyperbolic, or maybe, an exponential curve.

(End of Part 16)

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