The Importance of the Philippine Bar Exam...  

Haven't seen any "LAWYER" vanity plate around.
Well, in some sort of consolation, the nursing board exam result comes next though. But I do agree with you that many other significant professional board examinations were relegated to the sidelights. I can't even remember any doctor or engineer who topped the examinations.
And, why is the lawyer examination called bar why others are referred to as board?

Lawyers were called barristers in the olden days. That's where "bar exams" came from. Oh and you should go to Baguio once in a while, "LAWYER" vanity plates seem to be the in thing here.

Thanks for the information. That's one learning for me today.

Oh, I was in Baguio last week. I missed the plates. Maybe because I usually don't spend time where lawyers usually hang-out.

But becoming a doctor also entails the same process of having a pre-med course and four-year medicine proper. I don't think their examination don't require that much review too.

Well I am not that into medical board exams but in Bar exams I know most of it is answered in written form or essay like. That is what makes them different amongst other board exams. In Medical Board exams most of it are in multiple choice type of exams and doesn't have much of an essay type of exams.

You got a point there. But that's what they are taught in school, right? They are used to that type of examination. Also, I don't think that the low passing rate is enough to justify that they have the hardest license examination.

Well if you would also noticed that of all the professional licensure exams this career has far more influential than others too. You can see them almost everywhere from politics to the simplest criminal cases. Lawyers are really everywhere that is why they are far more influential people in our society. A doctor could heal a society, a cpa could manage financial standing of a society, and engineer could build a better society. But a lawyer can really mold a society they can engage in lawmaking, manage a society, bring down a criminal and defend the innocent. You can just imagine the scope they can do to our society. Although we can see them sometimes as a dirty job because they can also do the opposite but hey that is really their job to protect their clientele to the best of their ability.

Indeed, lawyers have the advantages and are sometimes favored to hold top government positions since they know the laws. But that does not necessarily make them the best qualified leaders of a country.