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70% fail 2019/20 LDC Exams as 332 students are discontinued

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70 per cent of the 2019/20 Law Development Centre students have failed their Bar Course exams.

LDC exams are the meant to qualify one into an advocate in order to practice as a lawyer in Uganda.

“The Law Development Centre is pleased to release the results  for the Bar Course Academic Year 2019/20 and Academic Year 2018/19 (Supplementary/ Special examinations) results for earlier years will be released on Monday  June 7 2021. Qualified students will graduate virtually on Friday June 11, 2021” reads the memo signed by Frank Nigel Othembi the Director.

In Academic Year 2019/20, Kampala centre got four distinction (1st class which accounts for 4 per cent while Mbarara centre got two first classes. Those with merit (2nd class upper) are 18 at Kampala centre while Mbarara has 16.

Kampala centre has 40 2nd class lower while Mbarara has has 29. Those with pass are 19 in Kampala while Mbarara centre has 13.

In the supplementary category Kampala centre has 743 accounting for 72 per cent Mbarara centre registered 343 which accounted for 27 per cent. Kampala centre registered seven students in the Special category while Mbarara centre had two.

In the fail/discontinued category, Kampala centre registered 194 students while Mbarara centre had 92 of the total 1682 students that sat for the Bar Course.

LDC said in a statement that they had registered a decline in performance as compared to the last academic year and attributed it to challenges of #Covid-19 and online learning in the 3rd term.

“Students not subjected to the LDC pre-entry examination which was suspended in 2019, this is the first group of Bar Course students admitted without undergoing the pre-entry examination. A number of the students were unable to cope with the academic demands of the Bar Course”.

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