Former delivery rider ranks 20th in 2025 Bar Exams after years of setbacks
- Ronald Vincent Gonzales placed 20th in the 2025 Bar Exam with a score of 89.31
- He was previously dismissed from the Philippine Military Academy and later worked as a delivery rider
- Gonzales studied law at the University of the East while following a strict personal routine
- He now plans to serve underprivileged clients through the Public Attorney’s Office
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Ronald Vincent Gonzales, 27, has emerged as one of the top performers in the 2025 Bar Examinations, ranking 20th among 5,594 passers after years marked by setbacks, hard work, and determination.
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Gonzales earned a score of 89.31, a result that capped a journey far removed from the traditional path to legal success.
Before entering law school, Gonzales faced a major turning point when he was dismissed from the Philippine Military Academy due to a rule violation.
The experience left him discouraged, but it also introduced him to discipline, a value that later shaped his approach to studying law.
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Without an academic honors background, he chose to persist rather than abandon his long-time dream of becoming a lawyer.
To support himself, Gonzales worked as a delivery rider, enduring long hours on the road and difficult conditions.
That experience, he said, strengthened his resolve and gave him a deeper understanding of the daily struggles faced by ordinary Filipinos.
While working, he pursued his law degree at the University of the East College of Law, following a strict routine that balanced intensive review sessions, short breaks, exercise, and time with family.
Gonzales credits consistency and personal discipline for helping him overcome self-doubt during law school and bar preparation.
His journey, shaped by both failure and perseverance, ultimately led to one of the highest rankings in the 2025 Bar Exam.
Now a newly minted lawyer, Gonzales plans to apply his experiences to public service. He hopes to work with the Public Attorney’s Office to assist clients who lack the means to afford legal representation.
“Talagang tiyaga lang po. Hindi naman lahat nadadaan natin sa talino. Minsan kailangan lang po talaga natin ang puso upang magpatuloy,” says Gonzales, reflecting on the persistence that carried him to success.
In other news, a routine delivery in Pangil, Laguna, turned into a financial disaster on January 7, 2026, after a courier’s motorcycle and its entire payload were stolen when the driver briefly left the engine running during a drop-off. Upon his arrest in Siniloan, the 39-year-old perpetrator claimed he had already offloaded the stolen goods—not for profit, but by distributing the customer parcels to local children as he fled. Because the theft was attributed to the rider's negligence, the worker is now contractually forced to reimburse his company ₱14,000 for the lost inventory, a sum that represents months of hard-earned savings. While the suspect tearfully cited extreme destitution and family abandonment as his motivation, police have proceeded with heavy charges of carnapping and grand theft due to his prior history of similar offenses.
Still in other news, following the surrender of the "body-in-a-box" suspect on January 7, 2026, the victim’s family revealed that Anelis Agocoy had contacted her mother in Camiguin just hours before her death to report specific threats on her life. State investigators released CCTV footage from the Turbina bus terminal showing the suspect—Agocoy's live-in partner—struggling to board a Bicol-bound bus while hauling a plastic storage box now known to have contained the victim's remains. Police successfully linked the suspect to the crime through a mall barcode found on the industrial tape used to seal the container, which matched a purchase made at a Laguna department store just before the murder. The suspect finally turned himself in after his own father collaborated with the Camarines Norte Police, though the accused continues to claim the woman's death was a "tragic accident" during a domestic dispute.
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