The Board of Studies of the Council of Legal Education has directed that henceforth, re-sit candidates are to attend at least eight weeks compulsory revision classes at the Nigerian Law School.
This is in view of the poor performance of re-sit candidates at the August 2014 examinations.
According to the press release signed by the Head, Public Relation of the Nigerian Law School, Mr Chinedu Ukekwe, no re-sit candidate shall be allowed at the bar final examinations until he or she has undergone the stipulated revision classes.
The release also gave a break down of the performance of the Law School candidates for the August bar final exam.
A total number of 5,841 regular candidates took the exam out of which four had a first class honours, while 96 candidates had 2nd class upper division and 620 had 2nd class lower division.
However, a total of 2,610 passed while 501 had conditional pass and 1,932 failed the exam.
The release also indicated that a total of 1,335 re-sit candidates sat for the exam while 88 passed, 26 had a conditional pass and 1,168 failed.
The Law School authorities said that anyone who is not satisfied with the result can call for a review in line with the extant laws of the school.
