This year’s Ghana Law School entrance examination saw a total of only 790 students out of 2824 passing.
The figure represent 28 percent of prospective law students making it through this year’s School of Law entrance exams.
The 790 out of 2824 students who passed this year also showed a 10 per cent drop from the total number of 1045 students who passed in 2020.
The rate of failure in the entrance exams for the Ghana School of Law has become a matter of national discussion over the years.
In 2019, over 90 per cent of students who sat for the entrance examination failed to make the cut for admission.
Results showed that of the 1,820 candidates who sat for the entrance exams, only 128, representing 7 per cent passed.
The mass failure comes on the back of a similar failure in the Ghana Bar exams few months ago. More than 90 per cent of the 727 students who wrote that exams failed, sparking agitation amongst the students.
The affected persons marched to parliament where they presented a petition to have the General Legal Council addressing what they termed as a “systemic problem” at the School of Law.
Key among their concerns were the mass failure, the fees charged for resit and remarking, as well as the policy of rewriting all papers if a student fails more than 3 papers.
The difficulty in getting admission into the Ghana School of Law for the professional course to become a lawyer has provoked questions on the accessibility of legal education in Ghana.
