But reacting, the Secretary to the Council of the Legal Education and Director of Administration of Nigeria Law School, Mrs. E.O Max-Uba, who spoke with PM News, said the students lied, that only 1,000 failed and it was mostly those who were retaking the exams after failing multiple times. She claimed that 57.01% of those who wrote the exam passed.
A document made available to PM NEWS indicated that a total of 5841 regular candidates registered for the examination in the 2013/2014 academic year across the six campuses of the Law School. A further breakdown of the performance revealed that four students made 1st Class Honours while 96 students passed in the Second Class (Upper Division).
620 of them passed in the Second Class (Lower Division) while 2610 or 44.68 per cent of the students recorded ordinary pass. Also, 501 students recorded conditional pass because they have reference in one subject while 1932 students failed the examination.
However, the failure rate was high among the re-sit candidates with about 1168 out of 1335 students who registered failing the examinations while 88 students recorded ordinary pass. Also, 26 of the re-sit students recorded conditional pass.
Mrs. Max Uba told PM NEWS that the failure rate was high among the re-sit students because some of them are either working or based outside the country.
Mrs Max-Uba said the ongoing protest is being led by some of the re-sit students that have sat for the examinations four times without success because they refused to participate in revision classes organised for them prior to the examinations. She dismissed claims that the Director General of the Law School, Prof was behind the failure recorded.
On whether the results will be reviewed, she said any candidate may apply for review in accordance with extant rules of the Council for Legal Education. She also stated that a resit would be conducted for those who failed the exams next year.
Source: PM News
102 comments:
Out of the 1335 resits that sat for the exam,1168 failed.
And the reason for that is not far-fetched.
Lemme stop here,before they come for my jugular.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
I think their result should be review.
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Oya make una go tribunal. From there appeal court. Una go pass.
Amidst all , hardwork still pays but hardwork with christ is the key. It is well. 2tim 2:15. BishopDammy#.
who is now saying the truth...the have failed and should re-take the exam....
So which do we believe now?
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Jesus. See lies! Father lord. They should please stop lying and fix the mess they caused. What rubbish. Right under our noses they wanna lie about this shit? Good God.
May God see them through...those results are nothing to write home about...owo wo gbo
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This is a huge lie...I wrote the exam too and even though I passed,over 3000 students actually did fail. I can't believe they are lying to cover this up.
Lol.... dis charge n bail association.... lieing is sopos t be against ur ethics
I dnt blame d school sha
Most of d Law students of nowadays are empty headed and all abt d fashion
Esp d females, wear short skirt,climb heels and parade d whole sch...
D profesion is deading...
The Nigerian Law School is one centre of excellence and high standards I know. There is simply no shortcut to passing the Bar finals other than to just focus and study like you never studied before. I empathise with those that failed, but then they opted to be lawyers and must pass the bar exams to qualify as such.
We all went through it, and it was excruciatingly difficult...yet we pulled through with excellent results. they can do it, only if they stop trying to fight the NLS, nobody ever stands against the council of legal education successfully. Goodluck
The Nigerian Law School is one centre of excellence and high standards I know. There is simply no shortcut to passing the Bar finals other than to just focus and study like you never studied before. I empathise with those that failed, but then they opted to be lawyers and must pass the bar exams to qualify as such.
We all went through it, and it was excruciatingly difficult...yet we pulled through with excellent results. they can do it, only if they stop trying to fight the NLS, nobody ever stands against the council of legal education successfully. Goodluck
I knew that the statistics flying around is exaggerated. But still the rate of those who had ordinary pass is high o!
Story 4 the gods #olamide's voice.
Mrs Uba or whatever your name is, you're a liar and you know you're lying to cover up you guys wickedness. The statistics you've given is false. The number of students that failed this time and I'm not referring to resit students are more than what you've stated....anyways it's Nigeria now so anything goes. You forgot to give reasons why the dg changed the cut off mark from 40 to 50 last minute and why we found out 3days to the exam that the mcq is now 50min instead of an hour. You know what? God will fight for us and be the judge...keep telling the press lies to cover this injustice. Come to think of it, how do you expect to produce quality lawyers from an institution that that clearly practice injustice and autocracy? Everything the dg did was to make students fail and to prove to the previous dg that he was doing a bad work.
The truth has prevail
I believe those that failed the exam are big boys& girls cos some are working while others are outside the country! Gbam
BORN TO SHINE!!!
Lying biyatch
Hmmmmn who us fooling who
Ehya
Go n write ur retake n stop talkin nonsense, wen odas re readin u pple wil wear dirty Equity suit n be callin urselves lawyers lol, I laff una
I can see Onadeko, my DG #bigsmile.
Very articulate man.....
They say only 1000 failed? Y are we all getting called on d 25th? d hall doesn't have such capacity. Ordinarily they fix several call days. If 4000 passed y is ther jst one call date?
So ALL these students passed and yet the Call to Bar Ceremony takes place on the 25th of November (ONE DAY.) In previous years it took place over 3 days and even then there wasn't enough space for the new wigs and their parents. Is it magic?
Why weren't the names of the new wigs published in the newspaper this year to prove that 51% of students actually passed?
Onadeko needs to explain the pass at 50% change without prior notice, the MCQ time change without prior notice, the negative marking also without prior notice and why aggrieved students must wait until after call to bar to get answers.
Furthermore, he needs to clarify whether it really costs N250,000 to remark the papers and why this is the case. The resit system should also be reviewed. Why must students take all the exams again if they didn't get a conditional pass? The process should be that you retake the papers you failed. Retakes are difficult enough without the absurdity of being required to resit the exams you passed as well. Also the cost of the retakes are N20,000 for one paper. Why should one have to pay to resit five exams when they failed two?
Additionally, students deserve to see their individual scores for each paper so they know where they went wrong and can be better prepared for the resits.
The covert nature of the Nigerian Law School grading system enables them get away with so much crap. This should not be the case.
The stats here are all lies. Law school doing what they do best, covering up their incompetency.
Apparently Onadeko cancelled May resits last year and could potentially do so again next year. I hope he's smarter than that. Especially with the amount of fails he delivered this year. I wonder how many students he plans to call to bar in December of 2015 or perhaps another mass failure he plans to blame on the resit students?
Onadeko should not be allowed to get away with this. If he thought that people would hail him for the "mass failure", He was wrong. I genuinely hope he actually has been summoned to the National Assembly on the 23rd of October.
Some people might talk out of jealousy but the facts shall still remain. There is politics even in a place meant to be the embodiment of justice and fair play.
People that didn't write that exam or that don't know anyone that did, shouldn't comment so carelessly. It reveals some level of ignorance and their apparent lack of depth.
And as for those that believe everything that's presented to them... Well that's just being plain naive ....
Linda, I dont know where the figures are from but its soo wrong and untrue!!
Wats dis woman saying
1932(regular fail) + 1135(resit fail)
= 3068
Even more than we anticipated.
Plus 501 + 88 conditional passes. They are as gud as failed. Cos they will come back next yr.
All dez figures we are spinning out are people, their families, their parents' happiness, their sanity, their money and all.
She's speaking like the resit students aren't humans. Like it's ok and better that it's resit that had the most fails? They aren't part of the lawskool students that people said 3000 failed? So why the explanation that explains nothing.
They should concentrate on providing good environment for practice of those already called to bar. The lawyers are leaving the legal world in search of greener pastures. All that suit-wearing and no money. Few jobs.
Instead, they are trying to cut out the number of people coming out. Is that ever the solution?
Their exams aren't even a true test of knowledge. They treat people's scripts not individually but as a unit. They discuss the number of 2'1s or pass 2 be had n cut d ppl to that design. Notice how she speaks like these people are sheep. Not humans.
That's lawschool for you.
All these people failed? And you can't try to know why? It's supposed to be an emergency situation as the people were taught and attended 70% lectures.So what happened?
WOW! Even a whole law skl can't tell the truth? NIgeria is finished lol! This is wow! I'm in shock }€*\ woman is telling a blatant lie. Wow wow wow
WHAT THE FUCK DOes dressing have to do with anything? Why do ignorant? It's actually bothersome. So lawyers in America who dreas fancy to court are all dumb? Bloody fucktard.
If this is the case then why is the law skl lieing? How can over 50% of the students fail and they are lieing? Why can't they stand by the actual number If they are trying to make a change? I can't with this country sha
AMEN A NIGERIAN WITH SENSE. Instead of others to quesyion facts in front of them. They just agree to whatever they read. Bunch of idiots.
Shut up you dim wit!
The woman is a liar frm the pit of hell,and ofcus she doesn't wnt to bite the finger that feeds her,so its not far fetched....And those beefing the black and white profession frm their hateful comments,no be we say make una no get sense to study law o.
Law school exam is the cheapest and easiest to fail,once you don't read all your 100 topics you can't pass. Those who are protesting should go and re-write their exam and stop wasting time Onadeko is one useless man that no amount of protest would make him change his mind. I remember how he made over 200 students from my school pay acceptance fee all because he wanted my sch to send his nieces name Adunola, he used n dump us all
50% of student that wrote an exam failed.this is normal in any medical sch in Nigeria na so law student should chill make I hear word
this idiot and fool. you comments are as silly as your name APPLELIPX , your inability to portray facts clearly just shows that you should shut the hell up and fuck off.
I cant even find any corelation with your comments and the issues at hand. if you don't have anything to say run off and bounce to hell. mychweeeee
So out of 5841 students only 4 achieved a first class, whilst only 96 achieved a 2:1. That's 100 students in total that achieved the grade they need to attain an honest career in law or 'did well'. Looking at the figures that's just under 2 per cent...
Wow
If people studied hard enough, last minute changes like you mentioned should not have given that high rate of failure. Are you saying most were studying to make 40 instead of higher?
This could be another form of population control.
If you fail you go back next year there is nothing you can do about that if by next year ur still protesting instead of reading your book ur on your own....these guys don't read at all as simple as that....
Lol so who do we believe?well it has happened so they should go resit abi na?i did not even know people fail bar exam.i only see them graduate and upload their pictures on bbm that they are done and have been called to bar.tot it was dat simple.that figure tho is extremely too much and I wonder why they would cover up.If they feel the students dint prepare ebough for the exam then they should let it out!!!
All dese lawyers shuld stop making a noise abeg..pple dat passed wit first class nd 2nd class upper do dey hv 2 heads?When dey ask u pple to go for lectures nd study u will be busy attending owambe nd jumpin arnd...wen exam comes u carry expo still u cnt pass bcos u r block heads...hw can smone re take an exam four times nd cnt pass?Na u be jona wey dey rule naija?i am sure even mummy patience jonathan can pass after 2 resit..aah..students of nowadays dnt want to study..dey just want every tin to be so easy..den tomorw wen dey ask u to come nd defend wat u read in sch,u start spking rubbish...maje una dey dere dey wait for remarking no go sit ur busy behind down nd study ur book...wen una don flex finish una dey find prof wey una go blame...olodo...imagine cut off mark use to be 40 nd dey raised it to 50 nd una wan commit sucide..wat do u guys want 30 abi 20...mschew..una no fit manage read sometin wey go give una 50 marks choi...diaris God oh...After una go say patience Jonathan no sabi spk english..see d pple who is suppose to defend our nation tomrw cnt even defend dir certificate..haba...if una like make una yab ..but dats none of my business...
U de mind dem? Liars of the century!!
@ applelipx u r an ignorant fool! U probably studied Yoruba even if u ever got admission into a university. U think law students are empty headed for dressing fashionably? What era are u from? U must be a retard! Ode oshi!
Shine shine i sat for d exam nd passed bt my more intelligent frnd failed. U dnt kno so shut up
See how we are casting our self in presence of the whole world! How can there be such mass failure and we still make excuses as to why?! Can't anybody do anything right anymore?!!!
Their are 3 sides 2 dis story, the students side, the DG's side, and THE TRUTH.
Let me nt judge any1 bt somtyms we students do tink ther is miracle centre evrywher so som of us fail 2 read tinkin dat 1 way or d oda miracle wil happen....bt 4 d public n d students 2 knw d truth,let em review d result so dat we will knw whose fault
In my days, list of those who passed Law School are published in the prominent and notable daily newspapers. These days, it may be uploaded on the internet. This way, the world will see how many passed and how many failed. Was this done in this case?
Please publish the list of those who passed in newspapers and on the internet. Then invite the police to arrest those demonstrating, for unlawful assembly.
Who's responsible for their massive failure, society or them, the students? Dullbrains.
Why is this is becoming a he said she said between the students and their school. Isn't there a body that oversees all law schools that can settle this dispute once and for all? Unless the students are accusing the school of intentionally failing them due to a scam, their failure is legit. Study harder. Nobody wants a lawyer who couldn't pass their bar exam.
My own problem is y shld non academic staff mark examinations that weren't taught and set by them????Is the NLS too broke to employ qualified n trustworthy academic staff to mark these exams?
My own problem is y shld non academic staff mark examinations that weren't taught and set by them????Is the NLS too broke to employ qualified n trustworthy academic staff to mark these exams?
I hope you are not one of the law students, because 'lying' is spelt with a 'y', not 'lieing' which is grammatically impossible!
Too badm.dey shuld reconsider dem abeg
Onadeko is like dis?
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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This lecturers and their injustice... God will surely visit them in a special way....
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I just can't trust anything coming out of the mouth of the current director general. He was the deputy dg of the Lagos campus in 2007 when I was a student there. He was such a liar! He would lie to us about the most obvious things, he would lie about things that are unnecessary. I was disappointed when I heard he'd been made the dg. I always knew he'll leave a mess in that institution. Though the law students who did their Chambers attachment in my office this year were the most unambitious, I still believe the dg is responsible for this unusual high failure rate as the small number I met cannot give me a complete picture of the rest. If he had nothing to do with the failure he won't be lying so shamelessly to hide the extent of failure
As far as I am concerned, most people are just lazy. If you don't work hard, you won't get good results shikena! Students are just distracted. Girls doing runs, Boys hustling. Everybody keeping up with the Joneses.
Omg!!! What d fu*k is "Lieing". Smh, dats why u failed my dear. Face your book oooh
failure is loud and bitter.. if you study hard you wud probably be one of those that passed knowing that every individual has one brain but what you process in it at a particular time determines the output.. stop blaming someone for your failure or analysing the failure statistics... you can do better... all the best...
Bunch of charge and bail lawyers and latest trend as land agents. SMH
Pls im getting pissed about this NLS exam ish jare.
Do u know the rate at which people fail professional exams like ICAN ,ACCA & CFA.
Let me site an example,if almost 6000 ppl write the exam half a year just a maximum of 300 ppl manage to pass all papers once despite reading like they never prayed.
Linda,let all this recent lawyers not deceive you,their predecessors had written and passed.
Pls read and understand the techniques to tactically answer question during a professional exam,its not your regular university exam. Phheeww!
If u think your NLS exam is hard,i beg you try ICAN,ACCA or CFA,you will all calm down.
I wouldn't know why the mass failure, but I strongly feel that every institution in Nigeria now want to stand out and use various means to do it.
It may be good, it may be bad.
Come ooh, u want tell us say all des students both those dat pass and d ones dat failed had a meeting 2 say one tin? Come on people make we all think. Though am not one of dem sha.Benny.
Wait, is that only 4 students out of almost 6000 candidates are brilliant enough to get a first class. Law School, God is watching yu pple in 3D. This is just mean too mean
Una get the sense 2 study law but nt the brain 2 pass...Lmao. All those yama yama schuls that produce any kain graduate, this is wer u get the wheat nd the chaff separated...so my dear I cn rock my black nd white any day nd I dnt hav 2b a lawyer buh u, u can hav the sense 2 study law nd nt hav the brain 2 pass....
All I will say is that the fear of Law school is greater than the actual law school experience itself, I have undergone LL.B; LL.M and B.L training and out of all three, time spent training and trying to get my B.L was the smoothest and easiest. Maybe it was due to the fear so I was sufficiently motivated. I thank God for taking the bar exams only once and passing... if not I may never have passed it again.
Mbanu... From appeal to supreme Court and the final judge place for them to pass is in the international court in Switzerland.
Dnt mind dis retartad legal officials.wht am so curious abt is wht they use d law school fees money in achievin.look at nigeria law court alone is not evn good enough for ur spit.each student pays almost 300k n each nigeria law sch admits upto 1000 candidate whn u calculate d whole law school students school fees.d calculator wil b readin error!error!!error!!! Cause d calculator cant contain d total amount chai! Ike gwuru obodo anyi
Very funny, even if you pay me hundreds of billions I can never study law, so plz just go pass ur exams and stop talking shit
I need to buy you a gift for talking sense i swear. You are spot on
Chai God bless you
The woman is not the cause of your problem, please go and read your books and stop cursing
@ apple or whatever you call yourself. Your English s so bad i can barely make sense of your write up. Please pay for an english tutor. Thank me later... d proffession s deading.... shivers
Please, there's no need to talk too much. Linda, if you can, come to abuja for the call to bar and see how many people are going to get called.
Linda please confirm for yourself. This is a big lie. If you go to the Nigerian Law School website you would see a post titled 'the executive summary of the result'. Download it and go through. This is a big lie. It is not true at all. More than half of the people who wrote this exam failed. What was the rationale behind reducing the time from 1hr to 50mins for MCQ exam?
its obvious Mrs Max Mba is only learned in Law, and will fail in statistics. From her figures, the number of those who failed is still above 3000...
Going with the percentage given alone, if 57.01% of students pass an exam... it simply means almost half of the total number of candidates who wrote the exams failed.. of which she said 5851 regular students wrote the exam.
and also 1168 resit candidates failed.. So how will the total number of those who failed still be about 1000. Nigeria ehn...
Over 3000 students failed the exam, simple!
Madam, uphold the integrity of this profession and stop telling lies.
*ZINNY*
Please how do you know that? Did you go round counting the number of people that failed. I've come to realise that people like spreading and blowing bad news out of proportion. Misery loves company, they say. I don't think the law school would lie because in the end they have to defend these figures. The call to bar programme must contain a list of all the students being called to bar in a few weeks. So they would be silly to give wrong figures now.
Call to bar ceremony is now a day thing and it is usually not in Abuja campus,it is now done at international conference centre.and it's always a day thing.Morning call and after calll so get your fact right.it started from my set,due to security reasons. so get your fact straight.
Lawyer!
Am sure this anonymous is from OOU!lolz,brave 600+
Hahahahahah!funny!when lasst did lawschool published names of those who passed the exam.maybe years ago.
Then you obviously don't know the country you are in. We are all getting called to bar on the same day and that has never been the case because it used to be impossible until everybody failed in this set. Instead of asking me how I know, go to law school site and find out for yourself. Download the 2014 result breakdown and then judge for youself
Imagine this people are really bitter and terrible liars,the figures lawsch gave are simly lies to distract the media and make their. Wrongs seem right
Madam pls stop lying.....who lies in this manner? They hv probably paid u to cover up for dem....this is supposed to be d legal profession....well all I want the president to do is sack the dg and appoint anoda dg to review the results.... Bonario u again abi? Must u always fool ur old and disgusting age? U mustn't comment pls @appleplix ur obviously daft so I hv no words for daft people
Exactly my point!
And linda refused to post my comment!probably she skipped it
Tell them oo my dear@fernandez,my brother started his ICAN programme b4 I got admission to lawschool.i made my paper once that was 4years ago,till date he is still writing one ican paper or the other,due to the fact he failed one course or the other.btw my brother is very intelligent than I am to the extent he tutor his other colleague yet he keeps failing.and he has never protested.am sure he doing something wrong which he is yet to discover.i pray almighty God in his infinite mercy will make his joy perfect as he plan to write anor next month.this will be the last.in sha allah
Pathetic,a pathological lack of probity. The law school shd be concessioned if need be.
Fortunedexcel.
As a lawyer too, who passed throught the Lagos law sch, i have to say this...mass failures is not a new thing at the lawsch, my set 1300 failed as well...there were no reviews...and i doubt there will be one now. The law sch is a high standard institution ans continues to be so...With the new law grads i meet this days i hav started questioning that standard.300k doesnt qualify anyone to becom a lawyer...if u can't handle the exams then pick anada career.. I agree wit Bonario....thosw who passed dnt hab 3 heads...if thos students had put thier heads down....lawsch is no joke...it has never been a joke ..and we wunt allow it become one now....chew ur kola and write ur resit...some of the biggest lawyers ddnt pass law sch the first time.
This is the best comment so far. How I wish I can see you, you deserve an office in my law firm.
I ve been there and i know what is obtainable in Law school.You have to be very hardworking and above all,be very prayerful.Because i knew what happened to me during the exam despite the fact that i prepared very well for the exam.Once you enter into law school,you have to hold GOD very strong because as you are preparing to excel,the witches and wizard from your village are also watching you closely to destroy your career.The mistakes most students make in law school is that,after writing exam they just sit and relax without following it up with prayers.And for those of you that has never been there,pls.stop blabbing and throwing insults at those that didnt make it because who nor go,nor go know.
All of you talking trash should shut up..... if you do not know how law school works pls keep quiet because sometimes even the questions some lecturers and even judges wont be able to answer them. and you are supposed to answer these questions in 3hrs where you have drafts that are running to 20.
if by the grace of God or whatever you are serving you pass just thank God and stop pulling other people down. I myself took the law school exams 2 yrs ago and I passed and our questions.... only God helped us, But last year the questions where so easy that even people who are regarded as dumb brains in my university graduated with 2:1s and 2:2s. we that are out of there and are there know how these things work we just pray to be favored that's all.
I am so surprised with this broad day light lies. aonadethief may rubbish my hardwork but he cannot rubbish my destiny. Go to Law School Website and download the executive summary of the result.I made a 2.2 but I know that is not my result. I've stopped crying, leaving everything to God who judges righteously. But onadearrongance should not be allowed to get away with this. Maybe they are keeping to their promise of punishing us for Punch Newspaper publication that revealed the rot he left in Lagos campus as the DDG for several years. I seriously suggest that the presidency intervenes and let the general result be reviewed.
BONARIO, or whatever your name is, shut your trap!!!!!!!!
You've been belching stench ever since Linda featured a complaint from students of the Nigeria Law School about mass failure in the institution...
Did you ever study Law?
Have you ever experienced the type of rigor involved in legal training?
No lawyer, not even the few and far between that made 1st class, would dare minimize the efforts put in during exams by law (school) students, although some ended up failing their papers...
Do you have any idea about what constitutes failure in Law School?
I give you the assignment of making your inquiry...
You think that the training of learned professionals like lawyers is just about the same as the training in every other discipline, just because Linda posts your comments?
You are very, very silly to minimize the efforts of future counsels, advocates, judges, justices of the Supreme Court, etc like that...
You are very silly!!!!!
If you think law is like whatever discipline you studied in the university or polytechnic, go pick up a DE form and apply to study it...
I bagged a BA Second Class Upper Division before I proceeded to study Law....
For your info most of the students complaining of failing their exams were chart busters in JAMB, Degree Exams, etc...
They were the best amongst their peers...
Yet training to become lawyers had been most challenging for them!!!
Thus, speaking from experience, legal training is no tea party!!!!
Stop making a priori comments...
Otherwise, it makes you sound like a hopeless fool!!!
As much as I sympathise with the grieving student as regards the reduction of time for the MCQ, I wish to state that in my time, the pass mark was increased to 50% and that was made known AFTER we had written all papers and still, people passed. This set would have had a case if no one or maybe just one had a 1st class. Four people made 1st class, people made 2:1, 2:2 so really, it was open for all. Just take heart and re-write. I'm against lowering our standards required to be called to bar for people who lack understanding of what it takes to become a professional. It isn't beans... And when you say negative marking was employed, your papa follow mark? When u say Onadeko marked, u wear invisible cloak go look dem? Challenge them in court, produce your evidence and don't rely on public sentiments.
Them no know book.
i dont think they read there books
I wrote law skl exams for d 1st tym in 2012 n got called in Nov of d same year n forever will I b grateful to God for dis........My experience at d law skl wasn't a piece of cake cos the way we were taught in Uni s a world of difference frm d way things were taught at d law skl. 2 months to my bar exams,I hadn't d slightest idea as to hw I wld pass d exam cos everytin just looked so difficult...luckily, I decided to employ d services of a tutor and Alas!, I realized I had bin scared for notin. Everything I didn't understand for d last 7/8 mnths started to make sense. Ds tutor apart frm teachin us each subject, showed us hw to ans questions n hw exams are marked. In a month, I was infact ready to write my exams even though I fell sick just a few days to my 1st paper, I read in d hospital n I passed eventually.....Why am I telling ds long story?Its just to let junior colleagues knw that law skl has Neva bin easy. Apart frm wat u are taught in class, u nid to seek sme form of help frm those who Av gone thru d system, let Dem put u through. Some students are naturally brilliant, n can understand anything d way it is taught, some of us nid additional help b4 it sinks in. It doesn't mk u less human to seek help wen needed. Law skl has bin known for mass failure, dis set won't b d 1st n I believe its not becos d authorities want pple to fail, its simply because a lot of Nigerian students dnt listen n take to instructions. I wld like to empathize wit d students buh I will rather advise u to go prepare for ur resit exams by doin as I Av stated above n see if things aren't different nxt yr.....Bola Tinubu's son,Seyi was in law skl d same yr as me buh he didn't pass. He had to resit. Law skl Neva bows to any form of threat cos it wnt change its standards for u.
Well, I have read all the comments, though I am not happy about the mass failure because even a brilliant junior friend of mine was affected, I can tell you that having gone through the Nigerian Law School 2006/2007, preparing for the bar finals is no joke. One thing is that apart from reading and understanding, there are ways to answer problem questions in law exams. It is very possible to know a course or subject in and out and still fail the course simply because you did not follow the principle which coincidentally is also used as the marking scheme. I really don't know why the lecturers do not take their time to teach students how to answer problem questions. I was fortunate to learn this principle back in the university and applied it when I got to the Law School. I made a 2:1 from the university. Despite all I made a 2:2 in law school because you graduate with your least grade. Even in our set, the grades were reviewed and we learned about that only after the results were released. In my set if I remember correctly, 2 people made 1st class, about fifty made 2:1 while about 200 made 2;2 out of about 4000 plus students. A good number of brilliant people who I know made pass and some good minds still failed. A friend of mine failed simply because she didn't answer fresh questions on fresh pages of the answer booklets and so she was marked down. She discovered this on the day we were writing the last paper, we thought the NLS will overlook it but they didn't. It is not easy to pass from law school. Great care must be taken. You must be a professional indeed. Still, I can't push the allegations from the students under the carpet. I feel that if the marking standards and exam procedures were reviwed, NLS should proudly come up and say so. They have the right to review the standard without prejudice. To cover up by trying to reduce the number on paper or refuting what the students are alleging, if the allegations are true, is what I don't like because it connotes something is wrong obviously.
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