Statistics on the 2014 Bar Examinations
(Part 17)
by
Thads Bentulan
thadsbentulan@gmail.com
Vanity
certificates
While, we are
talking about rankings, here’s a revenue generating idea for the Supreme Court.
Those who passed the bar and would like a certificate of their exact ranking,
could obtain such for a fee of, say, P2,500 per certification showing their
grade and rank.
And this certification
could cover results over the last 20 or so years, if those records are
available in the database. And the cost of printing is very low because the
templates could be programmed from the statistical software. Maybe the velvet
frame would cost about a P250.
For instance, if
there are 1,000 passers who would like to get their velvet-framed vanity certificates,
that would total P2.5 million pesos! Now, if you estimate the passers in the
last 25 years, that would be P62.5 million in additional funds for the Supreme
Court.
Conclusion
The high failure
rate of the Philippine bar is demonstrated statistically in our bracket by
bracket analysis of the distribution of performance scores. With the original
passing grade of 75.00, exactly 5,300 failed out of 5,984. And at each bracket
only a few attained the good scores, and judging by their results, these people
are the exceptionally brilliant. If an exam is such that only the exceptionally
brilliant are successful, then probably, we have to rethink it’s systemic
value. How about the normally brilliant, are they not supposed to pass?
Or may be there is
something wrong with the system. There is a possibility that the culprit of the
low grades is not so much as the students not knowing the answers as the
answers are not properly graded. The prospect of the examiner just skimming and
rounding off scores for an entire notebook instead of individually scoring each
problem tends to do injustice to the examinee.
Anyway, I have to go
now, and I hope this sharing added value to you. And I would be glad if you
could grab your mobile homes, take a photo of yor bar scores, and email to me.
It would be nice you know what is your rank.
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