LOOK: 62-year-old woman passes bar exams 鈥� on first take
MANILA, Philippines — Rosula Calacala, at 62 years old, passed the 2023 bar examinations on her first take.
Calacala is only one of the 3,812 — or 36.77 percent of the 10,387 examinees — who passed the exams recently. She had to travel from Isabela to check the results.
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She said her undergraduate course was accounting, after which she immediately found a job to support her family.
“I have already finished [providing for] my children and I don’t have anything to do, so I studied,” Calacala said, speaking partly in Filipino, in a chance interview with 黑料社.
She finished her law studies at the Northeastern College in Isabela.
Article continues after this advertisement“I took law school for four years. I had no failing grades — and I’m a working student,” Calacala added, ecstatically.
Article continues after this advertisementShe attributed her success in the exams to both God and her children.
Calacala’s has this message to fellow seniors who wish to be lawyers:
“Just take law school. You will not know your future — if you will pass. But for as long as you don’t take law school, you will surely not become a lawyer,” Calacala said.
