SC Releases List of Top 20 Passers in 2025 Bar Exams
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Supreme Court on Wednesday released the list of the Top 20 passers of the 2025 Bar Examinations, highlighting outstanding academic achievement among thousands of aspiring lawyers across the country.
Topping the list is Jhenroniel Rhey Sanchez of the University of the Philippines, who garnered an impressive 92.70 percent rating. He was followed by Spinel Albert Declaro and Alaiza Advent, both from the University of Santo Tomas–Manila, with scores of 92.46 percent and 91.91 percent, respectively.
Other universities represented in the Top 20 include Ateneo de Manila University, Arellano University, De La Salle Lipa, University of the East, Bukidnon State University, University of San Jose–Recoletos, and University of La Salette, Inc., reflecting a wide geographic and institutional spread of top-performing examinees.
The release of the Top 20 coincided with the official announcement of the 2025 Bar Examination results, which showed that 5,594 examinees passed out of 11,425 who took the exams, from a total of 13,193 registered applicants.
The 2025 Bar Examinations were conducted over three days on September 7, 10, and 14, 2025, in 14 testing centers nationwide, under the Supreme Court’s institutionalized electronic and regionalized bar exam system.
The High Court said the continued implementation of digital and regional testing aims to make the bar examinations more accessible, efficient, and resilient, while maintaining the integrity and rigor expected of the country’s licensure examination for lawyers.
