Bachelor of Jurisprudens
Examination statistics 2011-2012
The statistics for the May/June 2012 examinations show the overall results for all those sitting examinations in this session. They do not distinguish between: • those sitting for the first time and those re-sitting examinations; • the results for candidates on Graduate Entry Routes and candidates on Undergraduate Schemes; • Zone A and Zone B. We intend to publish statistics distinguishing between Zone A and Zone B at the end of October.
Diploma in Law
The results for the four Intermediate courses: Common Law Reasoning and Institutions, Criminal Law, Elements of the Law of Contract and Public Law that appear in Table 1 are the overall results. Table 2 provides a breakdown of the pass rates distinguishing between students registered for the Diploma in Law and those registered on the LLB. The Diploma in Law candidates represented around one third of candidates entering examinations in the Intermediate courses and the pass rates for Diploma in Law candidates are lower than those for LLB sitting the same examinations. This main reason for this is that there are no entry requirements for the Diploma in Law 1 and the majority of candidates enter the Diploma in Law with qualifications roughly equivalent to ‘O’ level.
LLB
The results for the Intermediate (Year 1) courses are weaker than those for subsequent Years of study (Compulsory Finals, Optional Finals). The number of Intermediate candidates continued to increase, exceeding 5,000 in three of the Intermediate courses this year, and the overall Intermediate pass rate decreased from 64.75% in 2010-2011 to 58.72%. Performance across the Intermediate courses varied and it is difficult to identify any clear pattern.
Course Year Total candidates Overall LLB Diploma
Common law reasoning and institutions
2012 2011 2010
4932 4719 4159 5325 4856 4321 5037 4810 4235 5059 4768 4412
55.8% 67.1% 59.9% 53.1% 56.1% 54.4% 52.1% 60.2% 61.5% 56.8% 53.0% 43.3%
63.2% 74.4% 69.9%
The statistics for the May/June 2012 examinations show the overall results for all those sitting examinations in this session. They do not distinguish between: • those sitting for the first time and those re-sitting examinations; • the results for candidates on Graduate Entry Routes and candidates on Undergraduate Schemes; • Zone A and Zone B. We intend to publish statistics distinguishing between Zone A and Zone B at the end of October.
Diploma in Law
The results for the four Intermediate courses: Common Law Reasoning and Institutions, Criminal Law, Elements of the Law of Contract and Public Law that appear in Table 1 are the overall results. Table 2 provides a breakdown of the pass rates distinguishing between students registered for the Diploma in Law and those registered on the LLB. The Diploma in Law candidates represented around one third of candidates entering examinations in the Intermediate courses and the pass rates for Diploma in Law candidates are lower than those for LLB sitting the same examinations. This main reason for this is that there are no entry requirements for the Diploma in Law 1 and the majority of candidates enter the Diploma in Law with qualifications roughly equivalent to ‘O’ level.
LLB
The results for the Intermediate (Year 1) courses are weaker than those for subsequent Years of study (Compulsory Finals, Optional Finals). The number of Intermediate candidates continued to increase, exceeding 5,000 in three of the Intermediate courses this year, and the overall Intermediate pass rate decreased from 64.75% in 2010-2011 to 58.72%. Performance across the Intermediate courses varied and it is difficult to identify any clear pattern.
Course Year Total candidates Overall LLB Diploma
Common law reasoning and institutions
2012 2011 2010
4932 4719 4159 5325 4856 4321 5037 4810 4235 5059 4768 4412
55.8% 67.1% 59.9% 53.1% 56.1% 54.4% 52.1% 60.2% 61.5% 56.8% 53.0% 43.3%
63.2% 74.4% 69.9%