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On a list usually dominated by big Metro Manila-based universities, three graduates of law schools in the provinces managed to make their mark as 2013 Bar exams top passers.
Rudy Ortea, 2013 Bar exam third placer, became the first law graduate from the University of Batangas (UB) to make it to the elite list of Bar exam Top 10 passers.
Ortega graduated valedictorian under the Juris Doctor Program of the UB College of Law Batch 2013, according to a post from the university's official Facebook page.
Two law school graduates from Cebu also made it to the 2013 Bar exams Top 10—Tercel Mercado-Gephart of the University of San Carlos, who finished fifth, and sixth-placer Manuel Elijah Sarausad of the University of Cebu.
The 2013 Bar exams have been the strongest showing from provincial schools over the past six years, when only one or two graduates from law colleges and universities outside Metro Manila managed to make it to the Bar exams Top 10.
During the 2009 Bar exams, all of those who made it to the Top 10 were from Metro Manila-based schools.
For the past seven years, Bar exam first placers have also come from law schools located in Metro Manila.
The last time a provincial law school graduate topped the Bar exams was in 2006, when Noel Neil Malimba of the University of the Cordillera bested all other examinees with a grade of 87.6 percent.— Andreo Calonzo/KBK, GMA News
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