Posted on March 25, 2008 in Bar Exams
There are a few inescapable truths for a law student. Each must face the bar exams before becoming a lawyer. Each one will agonize for months while waiting for the bar exam results.
The more painful truth is this — more than half won’t make it.
It’s not that we’re seeing the glass half empty. Of course, we celebrate with those who’ll hurdle the exams, in the same way that we, for lack of a stronger word, celebrated when we made it during our time. No amount of celebration, however, would cover the fact that more than half won’t make it. The highest passing percentage is 43%. This time it’s originally 5% , raised to 22.91%.
So what happens after the 28th of March? John, in his comment in an earlier post about waiting for the 2007 bar exam results, said it best:
For now, emotion-packed messages inundate this site.
Later on, and immediately after the result shall have been released, this site would be likened to an abandoned war zone where you could only hear moans and groans of defeated and wounded soldiers.
Victorious ones will then paint their names all over the site.
It happened last year.
It will happen this year.
For those who won’t make it, life must go on. But that’s easier said than done. This is particularly true for someone who, even from childhood, always wanted to become a lawyer. Passing the bar exams is like getting the key to a different world. There’s no middle ground. Either you make it or you don’t. In case of the latter, how should one deal with it?
March 28 is fast coming up.
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True, life goes on after the bar exams. There are more painful truths that we have to endure in the course of our lives. This is coming from a bar flunker who had mourned for months for not being in the list of bar passers. There are more challenges we have to face, bigger challenges if and when we become lawyers. Being a lawyer entails many responsibilities and there is a reason why God didn’t let us pass the first time, the second time, etc. It’s because we do not yet have the strength of character or the wisdom that a true lawyer has to face.
At first, I was rueful of the fact that I did badly in the bar exams. I was ashamed to face my friends who made it. I was likewise ashamed to meet up with my relatives and friends who knew I took the bar. I hear condescending remarks, and sometimes when I’m given sympathetic words, I just give them the cold shoulder and bring up the, “don’t you dare preach me, you don’t know exactly how I feel.” I mourned because I felt like an idiot, and I also mourned because I was embarrassed of how people would think of me. But in the end, it doesn’t matter what people think. It’s enough that you did your best at that particular time. Maybe it doesn’t live up to what you expected, but not making it to the list of bar passers could only urge you to become better persons and better lawyers in the future.
I do hope we pass the bar exams. Even if I don’t make it again this time around, for sure I will mourn again, but I’ll know how to handle the pain.
Life must indeed go on for each of those who will not make it this year or in the previous years.
It bears emphasis that not all Bar passers are superior in intellect as against those who failed.
March 28, 2008 should be marked as the start of a new beginning for both the lucky and the not-so-lucky ones.
Worry not.
It is difficult to deal with failure. It may be failure in the bar exam, failure in a board exam, failure in school, failure to win the championship in a varsity basketball game.
Failure has many faces. Each one of us has his own way of dealing with his own failure. Grieve if you must. But let us realize that there should be a limit to grieving. By such limit we can regain our courage to move on and accomplish whatever it is we planned to do.
for those who won’t make this year’s bar exams, i suggest you do the following:
after a decent period of licking your wounds, you have to prepare to enrol in yet another review class and – no matter what happens – retake the bar exams this year.
good luck!
for those who have tried several times and unfortunately still didn’t make it… reflect on your life’s purpose.
are you being led to some other career perhaps?
remember, there is much more to life than being a lawyer.
… and it didnt mean that as a consuelo de bobo.
I’m one of those who can no longer sleep soundly at night, cannot keep still and stuffing myself with food of all sorts to calm myself.To be a lawyer is what I dream of, I live for and yes it may sound so OA, but I truly believe that the Supreme Being up there wants to be a LAWYER.This is my mantra.
I am praying with all my strength that there will be no take two.
But should the One Up There decides not this time, I will mourn and scorn, and I will stand up again, for it ain’t over till the 5th time is over.
To those who sympathized what it feels like to wait, kudos to us, we survived the Four Sundays of September with our sanities intact and we will survive MARCH 28.
Hours from now, fate would tell whether my sacrifices, pressures and pain would bear sweet fruit of success or a bitter taste of defeat. Whatever it may be, I am always praying that God would grant me the serenity to accept what he has planned for me. I ask for courage to face the life after the result of the bar, be it the complicated world of a new law advocate or another battle to crack. I certainly believe that the greatest glory in life is not in winning but in rising everytime we fall. I know its better said than done. I salute you “nervous”, for the courage you had during your time. BY now, perhaps the best thing we could do is to PRAy and HOPE.. for no prayer goes unanswered, and no one walks alone, if we Trust the Lord we are never on our own. Let HIM lift us above the battle of life and give us glimpse of Hope and Victory.. Goodluck and God Bless!
True. But right now i cannot think of what to do after march 28, 2008. It’s so difficult to plan how to get things going after the reults come out.I sound so pessimistic, I know. I just think that I really have to prepare for the worst. Mas madali kase to expect for the best e.
Defensive pessimism works for me! I expect to fail. In that, im ready for what will come. If indeed, God please forbid, i wont make it, my books are already ready for another round of review. As expected, i didnt make it… But, think, if we pass, glory is ten fold coz i already expected the worse. All of us have developed our own tactics in handling our own wars and its battles…lets put them all to the test right now! We need something or someone to rest our heads this trying times! God Blesses us all always….
just continue and enjoy life guys whatever are the result of the exams atleast you tried and you really did your best un nga lng it wasnt good enough hehehhee!everything has it own reasons sabihin nlng ntin at isispin n he has a better plans for each and everyone n hindi papalarin this time than to be a lawyer.
May we not trade our faith to the outcome of the bar exam result. May we not start doubting His MIGHT. Instead, may we submit ourselves to His power without any reservation… That all things happen, as it happened or will happen, in accord to His goodness. Pass or failed,may we remain still. Let us learn to TRUST to HIS WISDOM. Let us remember that all things here on earth will just come to pass… We too will just come to pass… lawyer or not lawyer,all are alike!
Let us just pray to God the Almighty, instead, that if ever (may He forbid!) we fail in this 2007 Bar Exam, He will enlighten our hearts and mind to accept things as they are, to accept with dignity and humility His will,to have the strength to continue living and enjoying this life, and to overcome the feelings of frustration and disappointment as we continue, though with wounded feelings, following Him.
Cheer up! don’t loose hope… Pray for divine intervention because in Him nothing is impossible.
naku! nagpi-piling nko hehehehe nakelam nko hehhee para bng im one of the barristers… but the truth is that im not! nahahawa lng ako sa tensyong nararamdaman nyo kasi awaiting din yung mhal ko sa 2007 BAR result.. hay sna makapasa sya i know kasing d magiging madali ang pagtanggap ng pagkabigo di man nya aminin at sabihin. hay! i’m always hoping for the best! good luck to all! bukas n ang PAGHUHUKOM!
Nervous, John, Warrior, Cess, Ariane, Weng, Karen, CC, cntsmyl,
That’s for sharing your thoughts on this matter. It’s really an awkward situation trying to comfort those who didn’t make it. It’s impossible to say “I understand how you feel,” because one might get the reply that “you have no freakin’idea how I feel.” This is why I had to throw this question out for everyone to comment.
everything happens for a reason. whatever the result may be,think of it as God’s way of leading you to the path that he intended you to take. i am still in college. i want to enrol to law school someday, then review, and take the bar. i know its not going to be easy. but i also know that if its really your heart’s desire and if you just keep your faith, God will grant the best for you. most of the people’s reactions here are making me nervous about my future, of my plan of taking the bar…but my excitement and drive outweighs that nervousness.. and i will pursue with my plans… God bless to all the barristas!
“If things end it welcomes a new beginning, like days that surrender to night, like darkness that gives way to light”
good night for now guys! just keep on praying and may the God Almighty Bless us all……… we are all hoping for the best!
…again good luck to all!
after this night is the day before the judgement day! kmusta nman kya ang pkiramdam ng mga awaiting jn for 2007 bar result? hehehhe! nga pla s mga papasa! magpainom kayo ha! heheheeheheh wag kalimutang mag invite! hehehehehehe