“The pressure to wait for LDC results is worse than when you wait for the results of an HIV test”, joked some students at the Law Development Centre (LDC) about their anxiety while waiting for bar course results.
The only upside for the LDC results is that there is an actual cure. Do a supplementary examination, pay some money to verify your results, explain why you did not do clerkship, and the worst reality, a student would be discontinued from LDC and required to resit the bar course. HIV on the other hand hits you for good, any promised cure simply ameliorates your health, an actual cure, still a scientific mystery.
Campus Bee has been informed that yesterday, the 7th November, at around 6pm, results started trickling in and by close of day, people knew their fate from the snapshots that had been shared.
The results of LDC had been anticipated for long. Earlier in October, rumour started circulating that the marking had been complete and that was the start of the anticipation. The board of examiners sat on the 1st November, where as the management committee sat on 5th November to formally release the results.
From what we have seen, a total of 403 students from both Mbarara and Kampala campus have passed LDC out of the total of over 650 students. Representing at least 60% pass rate. The names of other students have issues that they need to work on before the deadlines that have been set.
Unlike the previous years where supplementary exams were sat before graduation, this year is unlike any other. The supplementary exams have been pushed and scheduled for sometime while the current enrolled students are sitting their exams. Group A and electives will be done during third term exams. Group B exams will be sat during second term, where as oral examinations will be conducted at the end of the second term.
Verification fee is paid before 12th November, while those with issues are to appeal to LDC management, those with issues with clerkship have been asked to explain why they did not do clerkship.
Congratulations to the students that made it through the bar, a few more formalities and you are Advocates of the High Court, and all courts subordinate.
