some sad things about the bar
1. two weeks ago, after the info cards, exam booklets, and exam questions have been handed out, a group of examinees did something that irked me — one was ‘reading’ the back of the face-down questionnaire, then started discussing what she ’saw through’ the said leaf with her schoolmate-seatmate, and even called on to another schoolmate not far from them to ask about the matter she ’saw.’
2. The queue for men are longer and slower to move when entering DLSU. The line for girls, on the other hand, is a breeze. After the first week, examinees are already aware that there are different lanes for each gender. However, there are still some guys who would queue with girls and then make ‘singit’ back to the line of the men near the entrance gate of DLSU. They would even give excuses, “ay,
mali pala; hindi ko alam
3. I learned from Josel that the bar watchers/headwatcher in his building have been warning them of possible exam-booklet-switching [talaga bang ginagawa ng ibang tao ito?! Just the same, better safe than sorry]. It happens daw after everything has been distributed, the info card has been sealed inside the envelope attached to the blank exam booklet, and then an examiner would go to the restroom. During that time he/she is gone, one examinee would switch his/her exam booklet with the one who went to the restroom (especially if the latter is from this or that law school — possibility that he/she knows more). And so, the credits of the restroom-goer examinee would go to the switcher; while the latter can just really not concentrate on answering ‘coz the points that booklet would merit isn’t for him/her anyway. The restroom-goer examinee wouldn’t suspect anything amiss ‘coz the exam booklets look all the same anyway as one’s name is completely hidden already (matakot ka kung hindi kasi may ‘marking’ na yun kung ga’non).
Sigh***
2. I agree. like, duh, 3rd week na, di niyo pa alam? kakahiya kayo. magiging abogado pa naman kayo.
3. Eh di alam ko na kung bakit di ako pumasa, if ever. I’ve left my seat to go the john a couple of times na kasi. but i doubt it. there are 4 watchers looking at all of you. the seats are wide apart. its going to be hard to switch the books. and if they succeed in one exam, the ’switcher’ has to switch all other 7 exams. otherwise, there will be a difference in handwriting. Then both ’switcher’ and the victim will both be disqualified. I don’t think that’s a risk the ’switcher’ would take.
in re “3″
a. but i doubt it. there are 4 watchers looking at all of you. the seats are wide apart. its going to be hard to switch the books…I don’t think that’s a risk the ’switcher’ would take — i don’t personally know it happened/happens. i am just relaying what i’ve been told.
b. the ’switcher’ has to switch all other 7 exams. otherwise, there will be a difference in handwriting — not necessarily.
from the tsismis i hear, the watchers themselves are the ones who do the switching.. which is really hard to avoid since they do have the authority to get your booklets. oh well, if they do switch my booklets good luck to the person who “benefits” from them.. haha.