Over 67 percent candidates fail 2023 Ghana School of Law Entrance examination
However, the remaining thirty-three(33) percent which equals nine hundred and sixty-four (964) have successfully gained admission waiting to start school.
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A total of thousand nine hundred and sixty-four(1964) candidates who sat for the 2023 Ghana School of Law Entrance examination representing sixty-seven(67) percent have failed to gain admission to the school for their professional law Certificate training.
However, the remaining thirty-three(33) percent which equals nine hundred and sixty-four (964) have successfully gained admission waiting to start school.
The 2023 Ghana School of Law entrance exams came off on September 8 at the WAEC examination Halls at Cantonment and the Chinese Embassy area respectively.
Candidates were assessed on Land Law and the Law of Tort which required them to get not less than a 50% score with an even 25% from each question.
In 2022, a total of 522 candidates who sat for the exams passed.
This number represented about 20% of the entire number of 2654 who sat for the exams per the pass list released by the Independent Examinations Committee(IEC) of the General Legal Council.
The 90-minute paper which comprised two compulsory questions selected from the six(6) basic subjects required for admission, took place on Friday, September 23, 2022.
Subsequently, the General Legal Council approved an additional 177 candidates as having passed the 2022 Ghana School of Law entrance exams.
This number was in addition to the already released list of 522 persons who were published as having successfully sailed through the exams.
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
2021
In this year, 2824 candidates sat for the exams, of which only 790 representing 28%, passed.
However, an additional 499 were admitted later by the Ghana School of Law soaring up the number compared to the previous year.
2020
In 2020, a total of 1,045 candidates representing 38% passed out of a total of 2,763 candidates who sat for the Ghana School of Law entrance exams.
In that year, 1718 representing 62% sadly could not meet the 50% pass mark set for qualification into the school.
Notwithstanding, this number was a significant improvement on what was experienced in the 2019 entrance exams.
2019
128 of the 1,820 candidates who sat for the exam passed to enroll in the Ghana School of Law.
We congratulate the successful candidates and to those who couldn’t make it this year, we wish you well as you prepare to take up another opportunity next year(2023).
