2021 Law School Entrance Exams: 499 more qualified candidates excluded from admission list-NALS laments
On September 28, 2021, the Independent Examination Committee of the Ghana School Of Law released a list of 790 representing 28% out of the total 2,824 who are deemed to have passed the 2021 GSL Entrance Exams.
The National Association of Law students(NALS) is lamenting the ‘inexcusable’ exclusion of some 499 candidates in the 2021 admission list of the Ghana School of Law despite their attainment of the IEC’s agreed 50% pass mark.
According to the Association, the published 2021 success rate would have been even poorer, not because students underperformed, but because the original intention was to admit only 550 students.
“NAS regrets ascertaining thereto that, contrary to the earlier results, some 1289 out of the 2824 candidates representing 45.6% obtained 50% aggregated score hitherto set as pass mark. Yet, there was a clear very inexcusable exclusion of some 499 candidates, constituting 39% of candidates who obtained this 50% and 18% of all the candidates,” it said.
“NALS is deeply saddened and notes that the published 2021 success rate would have been even poorer, not because students underperformed, but because the original intention was to admit only 550 students predetermined irrespective of the actual performance, as captured at the paragraph 1055 at page 186 of the 2021 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Ministry of Finance,” it added.
This is contained in a press release by the Association on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
Further in the statement, NALS notes that the credibility of the examination is jeopardized by such acts and further heightens growing suspicion and lack of faith in the entire examination process and bemoaned the delay in decentralizing the course to capable Law Faculties as well as delay in publishing procedures to aid students to seek review of their results.
Addtionally, the Association describes the rejection of the 499 candidates as a culmination of an arbitrary or afterthought change to the definition of 50% pass mark to manipulate the number of qualified candidates in the GSL.
“In this circumstance, NALS cannot support this or any other arbitrary or afterthought change to the definition of 50% pass mark simply to manipulate the number of candidates considered for admission,” The statement read in part.
In conclusion, NALS called on the Right to Information Commission, Civil Society Organization, and progressive public-spirited members of the Ghana Bar Association(GBA) to immediately come to the aid of the dissatisfied candidates.
On September 28, 2021, the Independent Examination Committee of the Ghana School Of Law released a list of 790 representing 28% out of the total 2,824 who are deemed to have passed the 2021 GSL Entrance Exams.
However, Two thousand and thirty-four(2,034) LLB Candidates representing 72% failed the entrance Examination.
Read the full statement below:
https://news.dennislawgh.com/2021-law-school-entrance-exams-499-more-qualified-candidates-excluded-from-admission-list-nals-laments/
