Ghana Law School Entrance Exams Record 33% Increase in Pass Rate
Jonas Danquah 
The results of the 2020 entrance examination into the Ghana Law School showed a 33% increase in the pass rate.
Last year, only 7% of those who sat the exams last year passed, triggering agitations among law students.
This year, however, per an article by ‘theghanareport’, approximately 40% of the students who sat for the examination passed, data released by the school suggests.
There are at least 14 institutions providing an LLB education to thousands of students. But after obtaining an LLB, students need to be admitted to the Ghana School of Law for their professional course.
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To deal with the overwhelming numbers, the School of Law introduced an entrance examination in 2012. The results have been abysmal.
It has culminated in a campaign for legal education reform. They have claimed there is a deliberate attempt to maintain an elitist caste and deny several thousand an opportunity to become lawyers.
The establishment, led by the Ghana Legal Council, however, insists the quality of the lawyer-assembly line would not be compromised in favour of quantity.
“Just like you can’t mass-produce doctors and surgeons, Ghanaians must not have mass-produced lawyers imposed on them,” the then Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo said in 2019.
In the 2020 examination, however, there is a significant increase in the pass rate.
Some 2,637 students sat for the examination last August. 1,045 students passed– a 40% pass rate.
A year earlier, 1,820 LLB holders sat for the entrance examination. Only 128 students were successful, representing a 7% pass rate.
The campaign for legal education reform has taken on a political twist with the governing NPP and opposition NDC making space for it in their manifestos.
The NDC has promised to decentralised legal education by granting certified law faculties accreditation to run professional law qualification course instead of only Ghana School of Law.
The NPP has promised to expand infrastructure to increase access to professional legal education.
