FROM THE SUPREME COURT WEBSITE 

Announcement

IMPORTANT NOTE: This bar coverage description is not intended and should not be used by law schools as a syllabus or course outline in the covered subjects.  It has been drawn up for the limited purpose of ensuring that candidates reviewing for the bar examinations are guided on what basic and minimum amounts of laws, doctrines, and principles they need to know and be able to use correctly before they can be licensed to practice law.  More is required for excellent and distinguished work as members of the Bar.

The current practice is to define the coverage of the bar exams by naming the laws that each subject will cover.  This, however, is too general and does not really tell the examinees the topics they should focus on in their review.  As a result, the examinees have been forced to memorize even trivial details lest these be asked in the bar exams.

To address this need, the 2011 Bar Committee decided to redefine the bar exams coverage by stating the specific topics and subtopics of each subject.  The redefined scope covers only laws, doctrines, principles, and rulings that a new lawyer needs to know to begin his practice, and was referred to the country’s leading reviewers and lecturers before it was approved.  This early dissemination will enable the current fourth year law students to concentrate on the basics and stay away from the non-essentials.

CAN I JUST SAY: eh putangina basic naman talaga dapat ang tinatanong sa bar.
and yes, it’s been a over a month since i took the Bar. i’m still bitter and anxious. i still get nightmares.