Students Lied - Law School Management Speaks out Over Exam Failure

The Management of the Nigerian Law School has spoken out on the failure tantrum against the institution.

Claims that about 4,000 students of the institution failed its August 2014 Bar Final Examination is baseless. Read here

The student blamed the mass failure on Professor Olarenwaju Onadeko, Director General of the School who they claimed gave instructions that lots of scripts be marked down.

For that reason, the allegedly victimized student staged protest over what they described as  mass failure in the final examination at the Nigerian Law School which is the main prerequisite for young lawyer graduates to be called to the Bar.

Contrary to the students blame on the Law school, Mrs. E.O Max-Uba Secretary to the COuncil of Legal Education and Director of Administration of Nigeria Law School said its 57.01 per cent of those who wrote the exam passed rightly.

More so, Mrs Max-Uba noted that Bar exam is like any other professional examination which is either failure or pass rate varies from year to year.

 For the 2013/2014 examination, a total of 5841 regular candidates registered and only four students made a 1st Class Honours while 96 students passed in the Second Class (Upper Division) and 620 students made Second Class Lower Division.

The remaining 2610 or 44.68 per cent of the students had ordinary pass. Also, 501 students recorded conditional pass because they have reference in one subject while 1932 students failed the examination.

Failure is high from the re-sit candidates with  about 11 68 out of 1335 students who registered failing the examinations while 88 student recorded ordinary pass. This failure rate is associated with student who are either working or based outside the country.

Also many failed students refused to participate in revision classes organised for them prior to the examinations. Mrs Max-Uba refuted the victimisation claims of the students by lecturer of the management.

She said, henceforth the management has directed that re-sit candidates must attend  at least eight weeks compulsory revision classes at the Law School to be allowed to sit for the examination.




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