The 2021 Ghana School of Law entrance exams saw 28 percent of the LLB candidates gain entrance to Ghana’s only institution for training lawyers.
790 out of 2,824 candidates passed the exam organized earlier this year.
The pass rate is in line with previous years, except for 2020, where 1,045 students out of 2,763 passed the entrance examination.
In 2019, only 128 candidates out of a total of 1,820 passed the exam.
In 2017, 500 students were admitted into the School, with 450 students admitted in 2016.
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The poor pass rate has in the past sparked calls for a reform of legal education in Ghana.
Critics have said the General Legal Council deliberately restricts people from gaining access to legal education.
Admission to the Ghana School of Law for professional legal education requires that successful candidates obtain a minimum rank of 50%.
Commenting on the development, a private legal practitioner, Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare in a Facebook post said the whole legal education model is utterly broken down.
"Look, we were not born yesterday. 790/2824 is only a marginal improvement over 128/1820. The whole legal education model is utterly broken down. The monopoly must come to an end!!!"
"The Universities must not be happy to just collect money from so many students who get a terminal LLB. They have a responsibility to prepare the 2,034 (72%) students, who cannot be accommodated by Makola, for the Bar examination. These 2,034 students have not failed. They have just been denied a place because Makola cannot accommodate them."