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L E G A L  E T H I C S

Did you know that 34 % of the bar exams in legal ethics for the past 15 years, is taken from the Code of professional responsibility ?

Did you know that 78 % of the questions asked in the Code of Professional responsibility comes from Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 of said code ?

Did you know that out of 52 questions taken from the Rules of court, 29 are asked from RULE 138 for the past 15 years ?

Did you know that the "COMPLAINT" is the most favorite form asked in PRACTICAL EXERCISES, and that it has been asked for 20 times in the past 15 years ?

C R I M I N A L  L A W

Did you know that 77 % of the criminal law exam is taken from the revised penal code, 19 % from Special penal laws and other matters compose only 4 %

Observations on book 2 of the revised Penal code:

  • Book 2 has a total of 253 articles of which only  75 are asked (About 30 %)
  • These 75 Articles are asked 211 times
  • Out of the 211 times these articles were asked 178 (84 %)  were taken from those articles that were asked at least twice.
  • The most asked crime was on murder, followed by homicide, estafa, robbery with violence against persons.

R E M E D I A L  L A W

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON QUESTIONS TAKEN FROM CIVIL PROCEDURE   FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS:

 1.) Civil procedure has 56 Rules. Out of these 56 Rules, 33 were asked. 2.) About 150 questions were taken out of these 33 Rules3.) Of the 150 questions asked, 82 % were derived from only 14 Rules. 4.) These 14 Rules represents only 25 % of the total number of rules in Civil          procedure. 5.) The most asked article was on Rule 9 entitled “Effect of failure to plead”       followed by Rule 6 “Pleadings”, Rule 3 “Parties to a civil action”, Rule 2       “Cause of action”, Rule 39 “Execution of judgment” and so on. It can be       noticed that there is a very good reason why such rules were those that were       frequently asked. These rules walks you to the process of a civil

      action. (Pleadings, parties, cause of action etc.)

C I V I L  L A W

  • Did you know that the most asked book in the Civil law exam is Book 4 ? Book 4 (Obligations and contracts, Special contracts) consist of about  46 % of the exam in civil law ?
  • Did you know that 14 % of the questions asked in book 4 is about obligations ?
  • Did you know that 77 % of the questions taken from Book 1 are taken from the Family code ?

T A X A T I O N

Income taxation, Remedies and General principles constitutes 85 % of the exam in taxation for the past 7 years.

M E R C A N T I L E  L A W

  • The corporation code, Negotiable instrument, Insurance code, securities regulation code, transportation laws, banking laws, maritime commerce and the civil code make up 85 % of the exams on mercantile law.
 
  • The other 15 % is composed of other special laws namely:
 Asked more 9 times or more for the past 15 years: -          Intellectual property law-          Bulk sales law-          Insolvency law-          Chattel mortgage law

-          Retail trade liberalization law

           Asked less than 5 times for the past 15 years: -          Trust receipts law-          Letters of credit-          Anti-dummy act-          Flag law-          Electric power industry reform act-          Public service law-          Foreign investment act-          Investor’s lease act -          Constitution-          Other applied provisions of the code of commerce.  

 

 


 



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