1,272 Failed Nigerian Law School Exam, 29 Make First Class Grade…

The Nigerian Law School early on Saturday released the much awaited 2017 Bar Finals results. The release of the results had been delayed for at least a week due to unknown reasons.

A summary of the results provided by the Law School indicated that 4,284 candidates out of 5,891 candidates who sat for the August/September examinations passed while 334 recorded a conditional pass. Some 1,272 students however failed to pass the Bar exams.

In percentage terms, the results may generally be deemed impressive as there was a 72 percent pass rate with 5.7 percent of the candidates recording a conditional pass while 21.6 percent failed.

A closer look at the grades revealed that there was an increase in the number of First Class results to a record 29 with 14 of them coming from the Lagos Campus. The Enugu Campus which failed to produce any First Class graduates in 2016 produced 6 First Class graduates while Abuja Campus produced 4 First Class graduates. There were also 3 First Class Graduates from Kano Campus and 2 First Class Graduates from Yenagoa Campus.

For other classes of grades, the Lagos Campus had 93 out of the 211 Second Class Upper grade results and also had 324 out of the 1,046 Second Class Lower grade results. 2,999 candidates recorded a Pass while 1,272 failed.