PHHe was a memory whiz but the claim that he got the “highest score ever” in the bar exam is false? Source Filipiknow
Marcos was so smart he single-handedly topped the 1939 Bar Examinations (with near-perfect score) despite being in jail for 27 days. Or so the viral photo above claims.
However, as confirmed by the Philippine Supreme Court, the distinction of having the highest bar exam score in the country belongs to former associate justice Florenz Regalado who scored an average of 96.7% in the 1954 bar exam. Marcos, on the other hand, indeed topped the bar exam in his time but with a relatively lower average score of 92.35%.
He was a memory whiz but the claim that he got the “highest score ever” in the bar exam is false.
Although the photo above is nothing but fake news, we can’t deny that Marcos was one smart man.
Several people attested to Marcos’ incredible memory, including the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who once served as Marcos’ speechwriter.
“One time, the Secretary of Justice forgot to tell me that the President had requested him to draft a speech….” said Miriam during an interview with the Philippine Star.
“And then, on the day the President was to deliver the speech, he suddenly remembered because Malacañang was asking for the speech, so he said, ‘This is an emergency. You just have to produce something.’
…He (Marcos) liked long speeches. I think that was 20 or 25 pages. And then, in the evening, I was there, of course. President Marcos recited the speech from memory.”
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Marcos was so smart he single-handedly topped the 1939 Bar Examinations (with near-perfect score) despite being in jail for 27 days. Or so the viral photo above claims.
However, as confirmed by the Philippine Supreme Court, the distinction of having the highest bar exam score in the country belongs to former associate justice Florenz Regalado who scored an average of 96.7% in the 1954 bar exam. Marcos, on the other hand, indeed topped the bar exam in his time but with a relatively lower average score of 92.35%.
He was a memory whiz but the claim that he got the “highest score ever” in the bar exam is false.
Although the photo above is nothing but fake news, we can’t deny that Marcos was one smart man.
Several people attested to Marcos’ incredible memory, including the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who once served as Marcos’ speechwriter.
“One time, the Secretary of Justice forgot to tell me that the President had requested him to draft a speech….” said Miriam during an interview with the Philippine Star.
“And then, on the day the President was to deliver the speech, he suddenly remembered because Malacañang was asking for the speech, so he said, ‘This is an emergency. You just have to produce something.’
…He (Marcos) liked long speeches. I think that was 20 or 25 pages. And then, in the evening, I was there, of course. President Marcos recited the speech from memory.”
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