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The Director of the CLP Examination Mr. Muniandy Kannyappan: Once the examination is over there will be a meeting of the Paper setter, markers and the Director. Apart from distributing the answer scripts, the answer scheme prepared by the setter will be tabled and discussed. Discussion will also ensue on the breakdown of marks, if necessary depending on the importance of the legal issues concerning a particular question. The breakdown is as a rule fair and accords with the complexity of the issues involved.

At that meeting the markers are emphatically informed that the LPQB does not seek to fail any candidate and the scripts are to be marked purely on the candidate’s knowledge and merit is the only criteria. As long as the candidates are:

• able to identify the issues of legal practice involved in a question;

• able to apply the relevant law and/or procedure to the issues identified;

• able to explore the legal issues with legal reasoning and analysis;

then they ought to be given marks. In that respect the markers are reminded that the answer scheme is just a guide as it is not cast in stone and the markers are allowed to use their discretion when marking the scripts. The rationale for this procedure is that benefit must always be given to the candidate who is able to answer the question. In that regard it is also ensured that candidates who have answered illegibly are not penalized but attempts are genuinely made to ascertain what is written if not by the marker by another marker.

The setters and markers do not know the names of candidates as only the index number of the candidate appears on the answer scripts. They are also reminded that the examination is solely merit based. This in fact negates any form of notion that there is a quota system practiced by the LPQB. We reiterate that the system put in place do not allow for it at all.