RULES ON THE CONDUCT OF THE BAR EXAMINATIONS

1. No refund of the examination fee will be allowed, whether or not your petition to take the Bar Examinations is approved. In case you are unable to take the examinations, seventy-five percent (75%) of the said fee may be applied to a future Bar Examinations.
2. Failure to take the test in any subject will bar you from taking the rest of the examinations. (Res., October 1, 1968)
3. Always bring with you your Notice of Admission, which shall serve as your pass to the examination compound/room.
4. Bringing of deadly weapons, cameras, tape recorders, cellphones, other radio or stereo equipment, communication gadgets or any other electronic device is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
5. You are required to come early. Gates open at 5:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. on examination days and close at 7:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M., afterwhich no one will be allowed to enter without permission from the Chairman.
6. Upon arrival at the examination compound in the morning of each examination day, consult the bulletin boards along the ground corridors and on the floor to which you are assigned for your room assignment.
7. For an easy and orderly location of your assigned building and room, you are required to wear your color-coded Identification Card at all times. When you arrive at the examination area, you are required to proceed to your room assignment and not to wander around.
8. Eating inside the classrooms and anywhere inside the examination buildings is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Eating is however allowed in the following areas: a) gazebo area, b) pebble wash area, and c) Chess Plaza. As mandated by the De la Salle University Administration SMOKING is STRICTLY PROHIBITED anywhere within the premises even in open spaces.
9. You will be allowed to enter your room before the start of the examination upon submission of your Notice of Admission to the headwatcher, but you have to conduct yourself properly by avoiding loud discussions and conversations. Attend to your personal needs before the FIRST BELL.
10. At the sound of the FIRST BELL (7:45 A.M. and 1:45 P.M.), no examinee will be allowed to leave the room. All books and notes should then be placed in front of the room. An examinee will be considered cheating if caught with notes or “codigos” during the examination.
11. A name card will be given to you by the headwatcher which should be STRICTLY ACCOMPLISHED in the following manner and order:
1. PRINT your complete name as follows – family name, given name and middle name – on the first line;
2. Affix your CUSTOMARY SIGNATURE on the second line;
3. INDICATE THE SCHOOL where you finished your law course at the bottom of the card;
4. Affix your RIGHT THUMBMARK on the space provided therefor;
5. INSERT the name card into the envelope, which is attached to the examination notebook, after the headwatcher has signed at the back thereof ; and,
6. Ask the headwatcher to SEAL THE ENVELOPE.
12. Only fountain pens and sign pens in permanent blue, blue-black or black ink should be used during examinations. Variation in the color of ink and the style of your handwriting should be avoided.
13. Begin answering at the sound of the SECOND BELL (8:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.). Anyone caught answering before the Second Bell will be dealt with accordingly.
14. Per SC Resolution dated 3 February 2009 in Bar Matter No. 1161 (Re: Proposed Reforms in the Bar Examinations), each Bar subject is now divided into two (2) parts, namely: Part I and Part II. There will still be one (1) set of questionnaire and notebook per Bar subject but the same shall be divided into said Part I and Part II. Examinees may start writing their answers for each part beginning on the page of the notebook where the words “Begin Answering on this Page” appear. He/she has the discretion on which part to answer first.
15. In correcting a mistake in your answer, simply draw a line across the word or words you want to change. DO NOT ERASE OR TEAR OFF ANY PAGE OF THE NOTEBOOK. DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE NOTEBOOK OR MAKE ANY UNNECESSARY MARKING OR USE ANY IMPERTINENT EXPRESSION which may be construed as a means of identifying your notebook. Names of persons should be represented by letters of the alphabet such as A, B, C, etc., unless particular names are called for.
16. Write your answers on one side of the paper only – on the face and not on the back page. In case all the front pages have been consumed, you may use the back pages commencing on the first leaf and so on.
17. The THIRD BELL signifies that only five (5) minutes are left before the end of the examination.
18. When you finish answering or at the sound of the FOURTH BELL (12:00 NOON and 5:00 P.M.), as the case may be, submit your notebook together with the questionnaire.
19. After every examination and before leaving the room, ask for your Notice of Admission from the headwatcher who shall accomplish the certification at the back thereof.
20. Your Notice of Admission will be retained by the headwatcher at the end of the last examination. i.e., Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises.
21. ANY VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RULES WILL BE CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT CAUSE FOR THE NULLIFICATION OF YOUR EXAMINATION AND DISQUALIFICATION FROM FUTURE BAR EXAMINATIONS.

Source: http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/bar/announcement/bar_requirements.php