Law drew just 51 candidates in CSS 2025, one of the smallest fields of any optional subject, and allocated a single one of them. The paper sits close to the field average at 43%, above the passing line, so the lone allocation reflects the tiny field and a thin written pass rather than a difficult exam. Only one candidate cleared the written stage, and that candidate was allocated.
The lone allocation went to a KPK candidate, with no other province securing a seat. One allocation provides no distribution to interpret beyond recording the single successful candidate's province.
The one allocated candidate was a man, making the female share zero in a sample of a single seat. No conclusion about gendered conversion can be drawn from one outcome.
Law's mean of 43% sits almost exactly on the CSS optional-subject average of 43.5%, marking it as a typical paper in scoring terms. The near-average mean is less informative than usual here, though, because the field was so small and produced only one allocation. For a prospective candidate, the tiny pool and single seat matter far more than a mean that lands on the field average.
Of the 51 who appeared, 1 passed the written stage and that candidate was allocated. With a mean of 43% above the 33% threshold, the paper is not the obstacle, but the field was small and only a single candidate reached a passing standard. The clean conversion of the one written passer into a seat is the only merit-stage outcome there was to record.
The mean of 43% clears the passing line by 10 points, and with the median slightly higher at 46% the distribution leans to the left within a small sample. A standard deviation of 26 points is very wide, placing a candidate one deviation below the mean at 17%, well short of passing, which reflects how scattered the handful of scores were. In a field of 51 the average is fragile, and the wide spread is the more honest indicator of an unpredictable paper. The single pass underlines how few reached a confident standard. The median sitting three points above the mean suggests a left skew, though in a field this small and this widely scattered the gap reflects the erratic spread more than any dependable pattern.
Law is a defensible choice only for candidates with a real legal grounding who can write to a high standard, and the 2025 figures, drawn from a field of just 51, offer little to generalise from. One candidate cleared the written stage and one was allocated. The small pool is not a clear opening so much as a sign of how few attempt the subject with genuine command.