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Education GENED: English Part 1. We
encourage readers/ reviewees to use the b. gun salute – bravery
comment boxes after the article for discussion. c. appointments – dedication

d. money – sacrifice
1. Robert Frost wrote the poem Acquainted with
the Night from which the stanza is taken:
4. Every June, Manila has its festival of
“I have been one acquainted with the night. outstanding Filipino films. This was a project
I have walked out in rain-back in rain. initiated by

I have out walked the farthest city light” a. Arsenio Lacson

The poet in the stanza talks of? b. German Moreno

a. isolation and loneliness c. Antonio Villegas

b. joy getting out of the house d. Ramon Bagatsing

c. youthful delight playing in the rain

d. happiness in having been acquainted with the 5. Which among the sounds below is voiceless?
night a. /b/

b. /z/
2. Which is the BEST WAY to write the c. /g/
underlined portion of this sentence? Researchers
also speculate that some teachers might have d. /p/
given boys more computer time because parents
and teachers expected boys to need computers
for future careers.
6. “Only the heart can see rightly.” This
a. expected statement is lifted from what particular novel?

b. expecting a. The Prince and the Pauper

c. will expect b. The Little Prince

d. will have expected c. The Right One

d. The Pearl

3. The wounded soldiers were visited by the

president who honored them with ____ for their
7. He was the American President who said,
_____.
“Ask not what America will do for you, but

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what together we can do for the freedom of 11. “She is a vision of feminine pulchritude.”
man.” This stands for the following EXCEPT

a. Gerald Ford a. Loveliness

b. Franklin Roosevelt b. Comeliness

c. Henry Truman c. Homeliness

d. John F. Kennedy d. Physical beauty

8. History is the witness that ______ passing of 12. The Nibelungenlied is a

time.
a. Latin Myth
a. testifies
b. Chinese legend
b. will testify
c. Russian folk song
c. testifies for
d. Medieval German epic
d. testifies for the

13. An association wherein the name of

9. When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first something is substituted by something that
time I _____ her since Christmas. represents it.

a. saw a. Metonymy

b. had seen b. Comparison

c. have seen c. Euphemism

d. have been seen d. Personification

10. The commander ordered his men to hold on 14. Because the moon rotates on its axis at the
the fort. What was the message? same time as it ______ around the earth, we see
the same side
a. Surrender in arms
a. Revolve
b. Keep on with the fight
b. Revolves
c. Disregard the peace negotiation
c. Is revolving
d. Rescue the hostage victims fast and early
d. Has been revolving

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 d. Stays

15. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1

stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed
syllable is ______. 19. The manager told his workers, “We have to
reduce our workforce.” What did he mean?
a. Trochaic
Workers are free to leave
b. Iambic
Workers are warned of possible lay off
c. Dactylic
Workers have to double time on their jobs
d. Anapaestic
Workers should submit themselves to a reducing
gym

16. Senators were accused by activists of

washing their hands with the perfumes of
Arabia. This state is commonly known as 20. The parent remarked, “__________ I come
late, just lock the door.”
a. Guilt
a. In the absence
b. Triumph
b. In the process
c. Indecision
c. In the event
d. Aggression
d. In the case

17. It is a collection of religious poetry written

by Rabindranath Tagore. 21. The copyreader found the news story boring.
He found it full of _____.
a. Mahabharata
a. Adjectives
b. Gitanjali
b. Verbs
c. The Ramayana
c. Pronouns
d. Bhagavad Gita
d. Adverbs

18. I suggest that he _____ in the room for one

week. 22. There were three guests on the stage. They
were made up of a parent, the governor and the
a. Stay principal. Who should be acknowledged first by
the valedictorian?
b. Stayed
a. The classmates
c. Staying

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b. The principal a. losers often fail because they find reasons for
losing
c. The governor
b. a winner can also be a quitter
d. The parent
c. accountability of one’s action tells of bravery

d. excuses are needed to justify any failure

23. What is suggested in the opening line? June
13, 1986 - they came from all over America -
200,000 heroes strong, with their families.
26. A couple accepted a wedding invitation.
a. The writer holds great admiration for the They showed pleasure in these remarks
veterans
a. All guests congratulated the organizers and
b. The writer is opposed to the Vietnam War the couple

c. The writer was a veteran of the war b. Guests came in and out of the ceremonies

d. The writer is a flag-waving patriot c. The ceremonies were very impressive

d. The couple felt uneasy with the priest

24. A readability mismatch happens when the

reading levels of books exceed the reading levels
of the students. In this situation, the students 27. What correction should be made to this
experience frustration and they fall short of the sentence?
expected or desired output. A student who finds One of the theories is that the first child receives
himself/ herself in such a mismatch will likely more of the parents' attention than other children
do which of the following? so first-borns tend to be more intellectual.
a. Give an intelligent critique of the selection or a. Change is to are
story read
b. Insert a comma after children
b. Write a comprehensive reaction paper
regarding the selection or story read c. Change parents' to parent's

c. Present an argument that the selection or story d. Change theories to theory's

read was not properly written

d. Manifest an expected and commensurate

emotional reaction to the selection or story read 28. Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which
has for its first stanza:

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob

25. What does this mean: Excuses are for on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it,
losers… those who take responsibility for their O jazzmen.
actions are real winners in life. This tells of?
Which words illustrate alliteration?

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a. Batter and banjos Answers: 1A 2D 3A 4C 5D 6B 7D 8D 9C 10B
11C 12D 13A 14B 15A 16A 17B 18A 19B 20C
b. Sob and winding 21C 22C 23A 24C 25C 26C 27B 28A 29B 30D
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29. What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS already incorporated below the questions.
in this sentence?

We moved into the house last week, but I'm

afraid everything, is still at sixes and sevens. 1. He is more concerned with MUNDANE
matters like the movement of stock market. The
a. The things have not been shipped. capitalized word means:
b. In a state of confusion A. Simple
c. In an orderly manner B. Financial
d. The boxes are still intact C. Worldly

D. Investments
30. What is the mood of these lines?

“Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise 2. The DEPRAVITY of the criminal’s behavior
shocked us all. The capitalized word means:
I must think of a new life
A. Harshness
And I mustn't give in.
B. Gravity
When the dawn comes
C. Deprivations
tonight will be a memory, too
D. Viciousness
And a new day will begin.”

a. Afraid
3. INDULGENT parents spoil their children by
b. Sarcastic
giving in to their every demands and whims.
c. Depressed
A. Loving
d. Hopeful
B. Beneficial

C. Generous

D. Yielding

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 C. complex, blueprint

4. Open:Secretive::Forthright: __________ D. urgent, pattern

A. Spiteful

B. Mask 8. An A-rating represents the ULTIMATE honor

a film will ever have. Which of the following is
C. Outspoken the opposite of the capitalized word?
D. Honest A. Greatest

B. Pinnacle
5. Negligent; Requirement:: C. Least
Remiss :__________
D. Supreme
A. Task

B. Duty

C. Injury

D. Problem
9. The VINDICTIVE politician spread rumors
about his opponent. Which of the following is an
antonym of the capitalized word?
6. It is _________ to try to destroy pest
completely with pesticides, for as each new A. Revengeful
chemical pesticide is introduced, the pests
gradually become _________ to it. B. Forgiving

A. useless, drawn C. Spiteful

B. futile, resistant D. Malicious

C. worthwhile, immune

D. pointless, vulnerable 10. Vegetarians have a variety of reasons for

their beliefs. Some refuse to eat meat because
they believe that the killing of animals is
unnecessary or barbaric. They feel that processes
7. The famous Dr. C. Drew’s technique for
such as butchering are degrading to the people
preserving and storing blood plasma for
who practice them and cruel to the animals
emergency use proved so _________ that it
slaughtered. Others believe that meat is harmful
became the _______ for the present blood bank
to the human body and that a purely vegetable
system by the Red Cross.
diet is more nutritious. Still others choose
A. irrelevant, inspiration vegetarianism because they believe that raising
animals for meat is an inefficient use of land.
B. effective, model They say that farmland could be put to better use

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growing crops for human consumption. Which C. If you continue to work past your full
of the following statements is best supported by retirement age, your benefits will be reduced by
the above passage? one dollar for every two dollars you earn.

A. Some vegetarians choose not to eat meat D. There is no advantage to waiting past your
mainly for health reasons. full retirement age to begin receiving benefits.

B. A purely vegetable diet is more nutritious

than a diet that includes meat.
12. The volunteers from the fire department
C. Vegetarians are opposed to any use of ________ quickly and extinguished a fire on
animals for the benefit of humans. North Country Road.

D. Vegetarians favor laws to reduce the A. will respond

consumption of meat.
B. responded

C. will have responded

11. The amount of your retirement benefits from
Social Security depends, in part, on when you D. have responded
retire. The earliest that you can begin to receive
benefits is age 62. The longer you wait to begin
receiving benefits (up to age 70), the higher your 13. In Tuesday’s paper, the owner of the
benefits will be. If you were born between 1938 supermarket was recognized for helping a
and 1960, you cannot receive “full retirement” customer who ________ on the icy sidewalk.
benefits until age 66. If you were born in 1960
or later, your full retirement age will be 67. If A. falls
you wait to receive benefits past your full
B. had fallen
retirement age, the amount you receive will
continue to increase until you reach age 70. C. would fall
There is no advantage to waiting past age 70 to
begin receiving benefits. You can continue to D. has fallen
work while you receive retirement benefits. If
you do, the amount of your benefits will be
reduced by one dollar for every two dollars you 14. We arranged the flowers and placed
earn above a certain limit, until you reach your ________ in the center of the table.
full retirement age. Once you reach your full
retirement age, this limit no longer applies. The A. them
amount you earn will have no effect on your
B. it
benefits. According to this passage, which of the
following statements is true? C. this
A. You cannot receive retirement benefits from D. that
Social Security while you are still working.

B. If you were born in 1950, your full retirement

age is 66.

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15. The person ________ made this delicious proceedings or even both. The best title for the
cheesecake has my vote. above article is:

A. that A. Failed Mutiny

B. who B. Illegal Soldiers Uprising

C. which C. Coup d’etat

D. whose D. Articles of War and Punishment

16. Being too _______ will undoubtedly make 19. Determine which may be the best order in
other men hate you. which the sentences should be arranged to result
in a well- organized paragraph.
A. vane
A. Now we shall do everything we can to
B. vein enforce this law.
C. vain B. In the struggle against crime, government and
people should join hands
D. vanity
C. Republic Act 7659, the death penalty law is
government’s response in law against cruelty
17. Because they did not accept his basic and heartlessness.
_______ they were ______ by his argument.
D. The law’s main objective is not retribution
A. assumption, convinced but reform and rehabilitation of offenders and
would be offenders.
B. bias, impressed
E. All countries in the world are presently siege
C. supposition, justified by violent crime.
D. motivation, confused

A. CEBAD
18. The failed July 27, 2003 mutiny was B. EBCDA
believed by many as a plan by the Magdalo
group as an attempt to stage a takeover of C. CEDAB
government. It was viewed as a desperate
D. ACEBD
attempt by the mutineers who were supported by
influential and politically motivated men who
financed the mutiny, according to the Feliciano
Commission. The action was found to be 20. Determine which may be the best order in
unconstitutional as it violates both the Articles which the sentences should be arranged to result
of War and the Revised Penal Code. Such act in a well- organized paragraph.
can lead to either Court Martial or Civilian

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A. Tagaytay is the destination for us who love
nature.

B. It provides an ideal picnic ground for outdoor

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two-hour drive from Makati City.
1. Sinabi ni Carlos P. Romulo sa isa niyang
akda, “Ang Pilipino ay may dugong maharlika.”
Ano ang kahulugan nito?
A. CDAB
a. Ang Pilipino ay nanggaling sa malayang lahi
B. ADBC
b. Ang Pilipino ay sadyang mabuti ang budhi.
C. CBDA
c. Ang Pilipino ay galing sa mayamang lahi
D. CABD
d. Ang Pilipino ay madaling maipagbili

Answers: 1A 2D 3C 4A 5B 6C 7C 8C 9B 10A
11B 12B 13B 14A 15B 16C 17D 18B 19B 20B 2. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang pinakatamang
pangungusap?

a. Ang mga kabataan sa lansangan ay naglalaro

at nagtatakbuhan sa lansangan.

b. Ang kabataan ay naglalaro kung maliwanag

ang buwan at nagtatakbuhan sa lansangan.

c. Ang mga kabataan ay naglalaro at

nagtatakbuhan sa lansangan kung maliwanag
ang gabi.

d. Ang mga kabataan kung maliwanag ang

buwan ay nagtatakbuhan sa lansangan at
naglalaro.

3. Piliin ang gawi ng pagsasalita: Kasiyahan ko

nang makitang kayo’y nagmamahalan.

a. Pangarap

b. Pagkontrol ng kilos

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c. Pagkuha ng impormasyon

d. Pagbabahagi ng damdamin 7. Ano ang pokus ng pandiwa sa pahayag na

“Bumili ng bagong sasakyan si Angelo”?

a. Pokus sa direksyon
4. Ang kaugnayan ng pagkakapatay kina
Burgos, Gomez at Zamora sa panitikang Pilipino b. Pokus sa kagamitan
ay
c. Pokus sa sanhi
a. Nanatiling masigla ang diwang Pilipino
d. Pokus sa actor
b. Nakagising sa damdaming makabayan ng mga
Pilipino

c. Natutong lumabag sa batas at lumaban sa may 8. Kabaliwan at paglulustay ang inyong

kapangyarihan ang mga Pilipino ginagawa taon-taon. Higit na marami ang
maralitang nangangailangan ng salapi at dunong.
d. Naimpluwensyahan ang diwang alipin ng mga Ang nagsasalita ay
Pilipino
a. Kuripot

b. Matipid
5. Laging UMUUKILKIL sa isipan ng ama ang
nasirang pangako ng anak. c. Maramot

a. Sumasagi d. Praktikal

b. Gumugulo

c. Bumubuhay 9. Nasa anong kaganapan ng pandiwa ang

pangungusap?
d. Sumasapi
Naglaro ng basketball sa Rizal Stadium ang
koponan ng aming pamantasan.

6. Ang Kagawaran ng Ugnayang Panlabas ng a. Sanhi

Pilipinas ay gulong-gulo kapag may giyera sa
ibang bansa. Ano ang unang ginagampanan ng b. Tagaganap
ambassador ng bansa? c. Kagamitan
a. Bilangin ang mga nasugatan at nasawi d. Ganapan
b. Alamin ang mga tirahan ng mga Pilipino sa
bayang iyon.
10, Sa aling salita magkakaroon ng saglit na
c. Ipunin ang mga maykaya at ipalipad pauwi. paghinto kung pinagpipilitang si Rose ang
d. Bayaang magsipag-uwian sa sariling sikap nakabasag ng pinggan?
ang bawat isa Hindi si Rose ang nakabasag ng pinggan.

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a. Rose 14. Mag-aalas-singko na _____ umaga _____
magising siya.
b. Hindi
a. ng – ng
c. Nakabasag
b. nang – nang
d. Pinggan
c. ng – nang

d. nang – kapag
11. Anong tayutay ang tinutukoy sa pahayag.

Durog ang katawang bumagsak sa semento si

Miguel. 15. Ang butong tinangay ng aso, walang
pagsalang nalawayan ito. Ang kaisipang ito ay
a. Pagtutulad tumutukoy sa katotohanan ng ______.
b. Pagbibigay katauhan a. Pagnanakaw
c. Pagmamalabis b. Pagtatanan
d. Pagwawangis c. Pagpapakasal

d. Pakikipagkaibigan
12. Sino ang pinagkalooban ng karangalan
bilang “Unang Tunay na Makata” noong 1708?
16. Anong uri ng pagbigkas ang salitang
a. Jose dela Cruz “dambuhala”?
b. Felipe de Jesus a. Malumi
c. Francisco Balagtas b. Mabilis
d. Jose Corazon de Jesus c. Maragsa

d. Malumay
13. “Magtatrabaho ako at ikaw ay mag-aaral
upang makatapos ka ng pag-aaral.” Anong uri
ng pangungusap ito? 17. Ang katawagan sa pangngalan, pang-abay,
pang-uri at pandiwa ay?
a. Payak
a. Palabuuan
b. Tambalan
b. Pangkayarian
c. Hugnayan
c. Pangnilalaman
d. Langkapan
d. Palaugnayan

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 c. Ang datos tungkol sa mga bata sa bawat
bahay
18. Ang panukalang inihain niya ay lubhang
malalim at mahirap arukin. d. Ang datos tungkol sa mga naninirahan sa
bawat bahay
a. Abutin

b. Unawain
22. Kami ang kabataang siyang magiging pag-
c. Sukatin asa ng bayan. Paano ginamit ang salitang may
salungguhit?
d. Tanggalin
a. Pagtukoy

b. Pagpuri
19. Ang wikang Filipino ay hawig sa mga wika
sa Asya. Alin dito ang pinagmulan ng wikang c. Panghalip
Filipino?
d. Pagmamalaki
a. Bahasa

c. Nihonggo
23. Walang tubig kahapon. Ito ay pangungusap
d. Mandarin na:
d. Malayo-Polinesyo a. May paksa

b. Walang pandiwa
20. Ano ang katumbas ng “Dekalogo” ni c. May panaguri
Apolinario Mabini na nagsasaad ng aral sa
Filipino? d. Walang paksa

a. Mosaic Law

d. Code of Ethics ni Kalantiaw 24. Ipinagmamalaki mo siya, BAHAG naman

pala ang kanyang BUNTOT. Ang ibig sabihin
c. New Society ni Pres. Marcos ng salitang may malaking titik ay:
d. Code of Citizenship ni Pres. Quezon a. Kuripot

b. Traydor
21. Siya ay hinirang na taga-sensus ng bahay- c. Duwag
bahay. Ano ang kanyang nalikom?
d. Mahiyain
a. Ang bilang ng tao sa bahay

b. Ang kayamanan ng may-bahay

25. Sabihin ang gawi ng pananalitang ito:
“Bawal tumawid, may namatay na dito!”

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a. Pananakot d. Nalimbag sa Filipino ang diploma

b. Pagtukoy

c. Babala 29. Ang gintong panahon ng mga manunulat

noong panahon ng Amerikano ay batid sa uring
d. Paalala
a. Sanaysay

b. Nobela
26. Pinakamahalagang nobelang Pilipino sa
maraming taon na nalimbag noong 1906 at c. Panulaan
tumalakay nang masinsinan sa paksang puhunan
laban paggawa at sa sosyalismo ang _____. d. Maikling kwento

a. Luha ng Buwaya

b. Banaag at Sikat 30. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang may wastong

gamit ng tinig ng pandiwa?
c. Ibong Mandaragit
a. Ang hinog na papaya na kinuha sa puno ni
d. Pangginggera Marie.

b. Kinuha ni Marie ang hinog na papaya sa

puno.
27. Ayon kay Balagtas, “ang laki sa layaw,
karaniwa’y hubad” kaya ang mga bata ay c. Kinuha sa puno ang hinog na papaya ni Marie.

a. jeproks d. Papayang hinog ang kinuha sa puno ni Marie.

b. nag-aartista

c. nakapagtatapos sa pag-aaral Answers: 1A 2C 3D 4B 5B 6B 7D 8D 9D 10B

11C 12B 13D 14C 15B 16A 17C 18B 19D 20A
d. hindi sumusunod sa magulang 21D 22A 23D 24C 25C 26B 27D 28D 29D 30B

28. Noong taong 1962, ano ang pagbabago sa Below is the LET Reviewer for General
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a. Pinahihintutan ang pribadong paaralan na
article for discussion. Meanwhile, answers are
maglimbag sa wikang Ingles
already incorporated below the questions.
b. Nilimbag sa Tagalog ang diploma sa di-
1. Hindi totoo ang katapangan na ipinapakita ni
Tagalog na bayan
Vincent sa harap ni Lalie sapagkat BAHAG
c. Nilimbag sa Filipino ang diploma ngunit may ANG BUNTOT niya sa harap ng paghihirap.
Ingles
A. Matapang

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B. Matiyaga A. Kaingayan

C. Duwag B. Kapayapaan

D. Malakas ang loob C. Lakas ng hangin

D. Katahimikan

2. NAG-ALSA BALUTAN si Claudia dahil sa

malimit umanong pananakit ni Reymar.
6. Ang sentro ng pagdiriwang ng
A. Lumayas SENTENARYO ay sa Kawit, Cavite. Ang
kasing-kahulugan ng salitang nasa malalaking
B. Nagtampo letra ay:
C. Nagtago A. Ika-50 taon
D. Nagmaktol B. Panghabang panahon

C. Ikasandaang taon
3. Ang ________________ ng mga Nars ay D. Ika- 25 taon
dininig ng komite kahapon.

A. Pakiusapan
7. “Ang sinuman ay makabubuo ng matibay na
B. Pakikipag-usap lubid kung pagsasama-samahin ang sinulid.”
Ang ibig sabihin nito ay?
C. Ipakiusap
A. Ang lakas ng tao ay nasa pagkakaisa nila.
D. Pakiusap
B. Kailangan magkaisa tayong lahat.

C. Magkakaiba ang mga tao kaya hirap

4. Lumapit si Prink kay Eadji at sinabing, “
magkaisa.
__________ mo si Landon ng pagkain sa
kusina.” D. Nagkakaisa ang mga tao.
A. Utusan

B. Kunin 8. MALIIT ANG SISIDLAN ni Dian kaya

iniiwasan siyang tuksuhin ng mga kasama. Ano
C. Kunan
ang ibig sabihin nito?
D. Hanapan
A. Walang pasensya

B. Walang pagtitimpi
5. Nakatulog si Jana sa kanilang opisina dahil sa
C. Walang galang
HIMINGTING ng kapaligiran. Ano ang
kahulugan ng salita na nasa malalaking letra? D. Walang lakas ng loob

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 B. Apostoles

9. Siya’y isang bulag ngunit kaya niyang C. Dukha

gumuhit ng larawan. Siya’y isang
___________________ D. Katauhan

A. Imbentor

B. Manunulat

C. Dalubhasa

D. Pintor 13. Ano ang pangungusap na dapat mauna?

I. Ngunit ang pagtatalo ay hindi dapat nauuwi sa

pagkakagalit.
10. Anong hukuman ang siyang _____________
ng mga kaso ng korupsyon. II. Natural lamang ang pagkakaroon ng
magkakaibang pala-palagay ang mga tao.
A. Court of Appeals-manglilitis
III. Sa mga mag-asawa man ay hindi maiiwasan
B. Sandigan Bayan-naglilitis ang pagkakaiba ng opinyon.

C. Korte Suprema-maglilitis IV. Kahit sa magkakapatid, karaniwan na ang

hindi pagkakasundo.
D. Ombudsman-tagapaglitis
V. Upang maiwasan ito, nararapat lamang na
maging bukas ang ating isipan sa paniniwala ng
iba.
11. _________________ mo naman sa kanila na
magdala ng mapagsasaluhan.

A. Usap-usapan A. I.
B. Usapin B. II
C. Ipakiusap C. III
D. Pakiusap D. IV

12. “Gamitin ninyo sa pakikipagkaibigan ang 14. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang hindi nabibilang
kayamanan ng sanlibutang ito. Maubos man ito na kasingkahulugan ng salitang pala-palagay?
ay may tatanggap naman sa inyo sa tahanang
walang hanggan.” (Luk 16:9) A. Opinyon.

Ano ang kahulugan ng sanlibutan? B. Kuru-kuro

A. Mga israelita lamang C. Paniniwala

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D. Akala B. noong

C. ng

15. May pera sa basura. Huwag mong pagtakhan D. nang

iyan. Isa-isahin mo ang laman ng iyong
basurahan. Tiyak na may papel na walang sulat
sa likod at maaari mo pa itong sulatan. Kung 18. Upang lalong maging ______________ ang
minsan, may mga papel at notebook na may patakaran ng Pangulo na mabago ang
sulat pero pwede mo namang ipagbili. May mga pamamalakad sa bansa, ipinasya niyang
bukas na lata na maaari mo rin namang tamnan o magkaroon ng pagbabagong tatag sa lahat ng
kaya’y pwedeng balutin ng wrapping paper sangay ng pamahalaan.
upang paglagyan ng lapis, bolpen, krayola,
aspile o kaya’y pako. Ang pinagbalatan ng A. marangal
sibuyas, patatas at saging, sanga ng kangkong,
tira-tirang pagkain ay maaaring maging pagkain B. mabisa
ng baboy at maaari rin itong maging pataba sa
C. tanyag
lupa. Tunay na may pera sa basura kung
magtitiyaga lamang at magiging malikhan upang D. malinaw
ang patapong mga bagay ay maging kapaki-
pakinabang. Anong uri ng texto ang seleksyong
binasa?
19. Nakalulungkot isipin na ang karamihan sa
A. Informativ mga kabataan ngayon ay ______________ sa
masamang bisyo.
B. Argumentativ
A. nababalisa
C. Prosijural
B. nalalayo
D. Narativ
C. nabubuyo

D. nababalot
16. ____________ magtrabaho sina Fred at Jose.

A. Magkasinbilis
20. ________ ng mga pulis ang kadena sa
B. Magkasingbilis kanyang mga kamay.

C. Napabilis A. Nalagyan

D. Magkasimbilis B. Nilagyan

C. Inilagay

17. Samahan mo si Lola sa palengke _____ D. Naglagay

hindi maligaw.

A. kung saan

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Answers: 1C 2A 3D 4C 5D 6C 7A 8A 9D 10B
11C 12D 13B 14C 15A 16B 17D 18B 19C 20C
4. What value of x will satisfy the equation:
0.4(5x - 1470) = x?

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1. Two buses leave the same station at 8:00 pm. 5. Which of the following has the greatest value:
One bus travels north at the rate of 30 kph and
the other travels east at 40 kph. How many a. 3 + 32 + (3 + 3)2
kilometers apart are the buses at 10 pm?
b. 33
a. 140 km
c. [(3 + 3)2]2
b. 100 km
d. (3 + 3 + 3)2
c. 70 km

d. 50 km
6. The average of 5 different counting numbers
is 20. What is the highest possible value that one
of the numbers can have?
2. Calculate the mean absolute deviation of the
following numbers: 60, 80, 100, 75 and 95 a. 20

a. 12.4 b. 40

b. 14.2 c. 30

c. 16.1 d. 90

d. 18.9

7. Three brothers inherited a cash amount of

P62,000 and they divided it among themselves
3. Which of the following is the factorization of in the ratio of 5:4:1. How much more is the
the binomial x2 - 42? largest share than the smallest share?
a. (x + 4)(x + 2) a. P75,000
b. (x – 4)2 b. P30,000
c. x(x + 2x + 2) c. P24,800
d. (x – 4)(x + 4)

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8. What is the missing terms in the series 5, 20,
80, ___,1280, ___, 20, 480?
12. The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is
a. 50;210 20°. What is the measure of one of the base
angles?
b. 40;160
a. 150°
c. 35;135
b. 60°
d. 320;5120
c. 75°

d. 80°
9. At what rate per annum should P2400 be
invested so that it will earn an interest of P800 in
8 years?
13. Ana and Beth do a job together in three
a. 6 ½ % hours. Working alone, Ana does the job in 5
hours. How long will it take Beth to do the job
b. 5 ½ % alone?
c. 4.17 % a. 3 and 1/3 hours
d. 6 % b. 2 and 1/3 hours

c. 3 hours
10. The area of a rectangle is (x2 + 2x - 8). If its d. 7 and 1/2 hours
length is x + 4, what is its width?

a. x + 2
14. How much greater is the sum of the first 50
b. x - 2 counting numbers greater than the sum of the
first 100 counting numbers?
c. x + 1
a. 110
d. x + 6
b. 3,775

c. 3,155
11. What is the value of 12⅙ - 3 ⅜ - 5 ⅔ + 20
¾? d. 1200
a. 21 1/8

b. 22 15. Which of the following has the largest

value?
c. 23 7/8
a. 85
d. 21
b. 39

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c. 65 should aim for in the 7th subject if he has to
have an average of 88?
d. 94
a. 92

b. 74
16. A water tank contains 18 liters when it is
20% full. How many liters does it contain when c. 88
50% full?
d. 85
a. 60

b. 30
20. On a certain day, three computer technicians
c. 58 took turns in manning a 24-hour internet shop.
The number of hours Cesar, Bert, and Danny
d. 45 were on duty was in the ratio 3:4:5, respectively.
The shop owner pays them P50 per hour. How
much would Danny receive for that day?
17. The edges of a rectangular solid have these
a. P 230
measures: 1.5 feet by 1½ feet by 3 inches. What
is its volume in cubic inches? b. P500
a. 324 c. P160
b. 225 d. P480
c. 972

d. 27 21. A retailer buys candies for P90.25. The pack

has 35 pieces of candies. If she sells each candy
for P2.25, how much profit does she make?
18. In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls
a. P11.50
is 5 is to 7. If there are 180 boys and girls in the
school, how many boys are there? b. P56.25
a. 105 c. P37.50
b. 90 d. P18.75
c. 45

d. 75 22. An online shop sells a certain calculator for

P950 and charges P150 for shipping within
Manila, regardless of the number of calculators
19. Ruben’s grades in 6 subjects are 88, 90, 97, ordered. Which of the following equations
90, 91 and 86? What is the least grade that he shows the total cost (y) of an order as a function
of the number of calculators ordered (x)?

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a. y = (950 + 150)x

b. y = 150x +950 26. Which of these has the longest perimeter?

c. x = 950y + 150 a. A square 21 cm on a side

d. y = 950x + 150 b. A rectangle 19 cm long and 24 cm wide

c. An equilateral triangle whose side is 28 cm

23. One side of a 45° - 45° - 90° triangle d. A right triangle whose two legs are 24 and 32
measures x cm. What is the length of its cm
hypotenuse?

a. X √3 cm
27. How many square inches are in 2 square
b. X cm yard?

c. (X √3)/2 cm a. 900

d. X √2 cm b. 144

c. 1296

24. The legs of one right triangle are 9 and 12, d. 2,592
while those of another right triangle are 12 and
16. How much longer is the perimeter of the
larger triangle than the perimeter of the smaller 28. In a playground for Kindergarten kids, 18
triangle? children are riding tricycles or bicycles. If there
a. 84 are 43 wheels in all, how many tricycles are
there?
b. 7
a. 8
c. 12
b. 9
d. 14
c. 7

d. 11
25. Determine the midpoint of the line segment
joining the points (7, -3) and (-1, 6).

a. (2, 3/2) 29. Nelia takes ¾ hour to dress and get ready for
school. It takes 4/5 hour to reach the school. If
b. (2, -3/2) her class starts promptly at 8:00 am; what is the
latest time she can jump out of bed in order not
c. (3, 3/2) to be late for school?
d. (1, 5/2) a. 6:42 am

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b. 6:27 am B. 27

c. 6:57 am C. 15

d. 7:02 am D. 18

30. Which common fraction is equivalent to 3. What is the ratio of 1/5 to 5/15
0.215?
A. 3:5
a. 43/200
B. 1:5
b. 27/125
C. 5:15
c. 21/50
D. 15:75
d. 108/375

4. What is the value of y is 2x + 2xy + 3y = 25,

Answers: 1B 2A 3D 4D 5C 6D 7C 8D 9C 10B and x = 2?
11C 12D 13D 14 15A 16D 17C 18D 19B 20B
21 22D 23D 24C 25C 26D 27D 28C 29B 30A A. 3

B. 25

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readers/ reviewees to use the comment box after
the article for discussion. Meanwhile, answers
are already incorporated below the questions. 5. Ten nurses earn a total average monthly salary
of P120, 000. The total average income of 6 of
them amounts to P80, 000. What is the average
total income of each of the remaining workers?
1. 120 is 4/5 of what number?
A. P10, 000
A. 150
B. P40, 000
B. 96
C. P400
C. 30
D. P1, 000
D. 24

6. 2 tablespoons is equivalent to 1 liquid ounce

2. 45 is 60% of what number? while 10 tablespoons is equivalent to ½ cup.
A. 75 How many liquid ounces are there in two cups?

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A. 20 ounces 10. One store sold twice more apples in the
afternoon that in the morning. The store sold
B. 10 ounces 450 pieces of apples. How many apples are sold
in the morning?
C. 16 ounces
A. 150
D. 8 ounces
B. 300

C. 200
7. A taxi charges P50 for the first kilometer and
charges P3 for each additional mile. How far D. 350
could P200 go?

A. 50 kilometers
11. Joey gathered twice more marbles than Vic
B. 51 kilometers and Tito gathered 2 more marbles than Vic.
They gathered 26 marbles. How many marbles
C. 66. 67 kilometers
did Vic gather?
D. 4 kilometers
A. 6

B. 12
8. 20, 10, 40, 10, 60, 20, 80, 60, 100, 240, 120,
C. 8
____, ____
D. 14
A. 1200, 140

B. 480, 140
12. A child has read 2/3 of a book. The read part
C. 140, 480
of the book has 100 pages more than the unread.
D. 1200, 240 How many pages is the book?

A. 300

9. What is the value of n in the statement 2mn = B. 200

50, if m = 1?
C. 500
A. 25
D. 150
B. 2

C. 50
13. A number is divided by 5. The result was
D. 1 subtracted by 154 and the difference is 6. What
is the number?

A. 800

B. 160
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C. 200 in its third year than in its second year. How
many TV sets were produced in three years?
D. 400
A. 11,800

B. 12, 800
14. A container contains 23bottles and each
bottle contains 20 marbles. How many marbles C. 10, 800
are there in 10 bottles?
D. 13, 800
A. 460

B. 400
18. Tom and Bob have a total of 49 toys. If Bob
C. 100 has 5 more toys than Tom, how many toys does
Tom has?
D. 200
A. 22

B. 27
15. It takes John 25 minutes to walk to the car
park and 45 to drive to work. At what time C. 23
should he get out of the house in order to get to
work at 9:00 a.m.? D. 26

A. 7:50 am

B. 8:00 am 19. John can eat a quarter of a pizza in one

minute. How long does it take John to eat one
C. 8:10 am pizza and a half?

D. 8:20 am A. 6 minutes

B. 12 minutes

16. Kim can walk 4 kilometers in one hour. How C. 9 minutes

long does it take Kim to walk 18 kilometers?
D. 3 minutes
A. 4 ½ hours

B. 4 hours
20. What is 150% of 298?
C. 5 hours
A. 447
D. 8 hours
B. 44.7

C. 4.47
17. A factory produced 2300 TV sets in its first
year of production. 4500 sets were produced in D. 4470
its second year and 500 more sets were produced

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 3. What will be formed when radium isotope,
with 88 protons and 138 neutrons undergoes
Answers: 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A 6A 7B 8A 9A 10A alpha decay?
11A 12A 13A 14D 15A 16A 17A 18A 19A 20A
a. Radon Atom (Rn222) with 86 Protons

b. Francium Atom (Fr222) with 87 Protons

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1. Which of the following statements best 4. Which of the following examples best
describes a hypothetical element with an illustrates application of Boyle’s Law?
electron configuration of 1s22s22p63s23p5? a. A tire becomes harder as more air is pumped
a. The hypothetical element has an atomic into it.
number of 11. b. A sealed aerosol can explodes when thrown
b. The hypothetical element is a member of into a fire.
Group V, otherwise called the Nitrogen Group. c. A balloon expands and bursts when exposed
c. The hypothetical element is in the fifth to direct sunlight.
position in the p-block, along the third period of d. A scuba divers stops at certain depths as he
the periodic table. ascends to the ocean’s surface.
d. The hypothetical element is located at the
third position of the p-block, along the fifth
period of the periodic table. 5. Three liquids A, B, C were studied in a
laboratory. Liquid A was found to float over B
and C. It was also found that liquid A flows
2. Despite the observed diversity among fastest among the three. What can be said about
organisms, they are all made from the same set liquid A?
of biomolecules composed of monomeric units a. Densest and most viscous
except:
b. Densest and least viscous
a. Proteins
c. Least dense and most viscous
b. Carbohydrates
d. Least dense and least viscous
c. Nucleic Acids

d. Lipids and Fats

6. Which of the following statements represents
a physical change?

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a. An antacid tablet forms bubbles when
dissolved in water.
9. Why is it difficult to integrate nitrogen gas
b. A flashlight beam slowly gets dimmer and from the atmosphere into the nitrogen cycle of
finally dies out over time. the biosphere?

c. The lawn grows thicker every day because a. Nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere
fertilizers were added into the soil.
b. Living organisms quickly absorb nitrogen gas
d. Frozen mango juice melted when left standing
at room temperature for 30 minutes. c. Oceans quickly absorb nitrogen gas

d. Few organisms can directly utilize

atmospheric nitrogen
7. Which of the following best explains why
farmers burn rice straw and hull during seasons
of harvest? 10. Which of the following sentences about
a. Burning rice hulls and straws produce greenhouse effect is INCORRECT?
compounds that act as repellant for pests which a. Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere
may damage plantation. which are returned to the earth’s surface.
b. The smoke produced by burning rice hulls b. Greenhouse effect is important in maintaining
and straws stimulate growth and fruit bearing of the temperature of the earth.
trees.
c. Greenhouse effect is due to gases that absorb
c. Rice hulls and straws are burned so that more the green region of light from the sun.
spaces will be available for planting next set of
crops. d. Greenhouse effect increases the overall
surface temperature of the earth.
d. Ash from burnt rice hulls and straws are rich
in compounds that could neutralize acidic soil so
that more crops will grow
11. When a gardener propagates a plant by
taking cuttings, he plants his cutting in a well-
watered soil in a plant pot. What is the most
8. Acid rain occurs when _________. likely reason why he may then cover the plant
a. carbon dioxide combines with water in the and pot with a lightly perforated polythene bag?
atmosphere. a. To reduce the water demand of the cutting.
b. phosphorus-rich water in lakes evaporates to b. To decrease the rate of gaseous exchange by
form phosphoric acid. the plant.
c. sulfur released in burning fossil fuels c. To reduce the chance of attack by pests.
combines with water in the atmosphere.
d. To protect the plant from cold weather.
d. excess hydrogen is released into the
atmosphere to produce acids.

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12. It is a common observation that mushrooms 15. Which of the following shows mechanical
thrive few days after lightning strikes. Which weathering of rocks?
among the following biogeochemical cycles is
involved in this process? a. formation of caverns

a. Nitrogen cycle b. acids dissolves rocks

b. Carbon-Oxygen cycle c. freezing water between rock particles

c. Phosphorus cycle d. iron in rocks combine with oxygen

d. Sulfur cycle
16. PAGASA announces the approach of the
seasonal winds. The familiar names used are
13. Which of the following factors contribute to Amihan and Habagat, internationally known as
an increase in human population? ________ and ________ respectively.

I. Immigration II. Emigration a. Northeast and southwest

III. Natality IV. Mortality b. Trade wind and easterlies

a. III and IV c. Southwest and northeast

b. II and III d. Westerlies and easterlies

c. I only

d. I and III 17. Fog is a cloud with its base at or very near
the ground. The formation of fog generally
occurs after the ground has lost heat by:
14. Shown below is a simple food web in a a. Evaporation
grassy community. The arrow symbol means
eaten by. What would happen if all snakes are b. Convection
killed?
c. Conduction
Grass>Grasshopper>Frog>Snake
d. Radiation
Bird>Snake

a. Grass population would increase.

18. Why do we see the sun rise in the east?
b. Grasshopper population would increase.
a. The earth revolves eastward.
c. Bird and frog populations would increase.
b. The earth rotates from west to east.
d. Grasshopper and bird populations would
increase. c. We are located in the 20th meridian.

d. On the globe, we are located in the east.

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 22. Which has a greater density, a lake full of
water or a cupful of water?
19. If a voltage of 100 volts produces a current
of 5 amperes in an electrical device, what is the a. The cup full of water
resistance?
b. The lake full of water
a. 95 Ohms
c. Not enough information
b. 20 Ohms
d. They have the same density
c. 105 Ohms

d. 500 Ohms
23. A stainless steel spoon feels colder than a
plastic spoon because stainless steel

20. Which of the following best differentiates an a. absorbs less heat from the hand than plastic
earthquake's intensity from its magnitude? does

a. Intensity describes 'the depth from which the b. is really colder than plastic
earthquake originated’ while magnitude refers to
‘the energy of the earthquake’. c. has a lower temperature than plastic

b. Intensity cannot be measured while d. conducts heat away from the hand faster than
magnitude can be measured using a plastic does
seismograph.

c. Intensity refers to the strength of the quake 24. Why is it NOT advisable to repeatedly open
while magnitude refers to the degree of the door of a refrigerator?
destruction it caused at the epicenter.
a. It will loosen the hinges of the refrigerator's
d. Intensity is a measure of how much damage door
an earthquake cause at the surface while
magnitude is the strength of the quake. b. Leads to wastage in electrical energy.

c. Repeated opening introduces bacteria in to the

refrigerator.
21. Comparing the speed of sound in liquids,
gases, and solids, the speed of sound is usually d. The warm air outside lowers the temperature
lowest in ____ and highest in ____. inside thus making the refrigeration less-
efficient.
a. solids, gases

b. gases, liquids
25. What kind of mirror is used in cars to give
c. liquids, solids the driver a wider area and smaller image of the
d. gases, solids traffic behind him/her?

a. Double concave

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b. Convex a. direct sunlight will destroy their cells

c. Plane b. they lack adequate root system

d. Concave c. they cannot produce their own food

d. they cannot obtain carbon dioxide

26. Why do we hear thunder some seconds after

seeing lightning?
30. Mimosa pudica, locally known as Makahiya
a. Light appears brighter in the sky. is called as such because its leaflets tend to close
when touched. This organismal response to a
b. Light travels faster than sound. given stimuli is called:
c. Sound travels 1.331 m/s a. Hydrotropism
d. Sound is released later actually b. Thigmotropism

c. Geotropism
27. Water has a higher specific heat than iron. d. Phototropism
What does this mean?

a. Water is hotter than iron

Answers: 1C 2D 3A 4D 5D 6D 7D 8C 9D 10C
b. Water heats more rapidly than iron 11A 12A 13D 14C 15C 16A 17D 18B 19B 20D
21D 22D 23D 24B 25B 26B 27D 28A 29C 30B
c. Water is more dense than iron

d. Water heats more slowly than iron

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28. If a colorblind man marries a woman who encourage readers/ reviewees to use the
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it is most probable that all of their :

a. daughters will be carriers

1. What factor was a major cause of both World
b. daughters will be colorblind War I and World War II?

c. sons will be carriers a. The spread of Marxian ideas into Europe

d. sons will be colorblind b. The dropping of atomic bombs

c. Nationalism and national borders

29. Albino corn seedlings may grow several d. The rise of totalitarian fascist states
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2. In which organization is the Philippines a a. Northwest
member to fight communist aggression?
b. Southeast
a. APEC
c. Southwest
b. ASA
d. Northeast
c. UN

d. SEATO
6. The important factors which have contributed
to the weakness in the internalization of
desirable values is the?
3. The theory that population increases by
geometrical ratio while the means of subsistence a. Lack of models among the very people
increases by arithmetical ratio is attributed to? expected to exemplify these values

a. Karl Marx b. Use of approaches which are mainly cognitive

rather than effective
b. Robert Malthus
c. Lack of follow up systems from one grade
c. Emile Durkheim level to another
d. Aristotle d. Minimum recognition and appreciation given
to teachers

4. In what instance is the Filipino double-

standard morality shown?

a. A couple brings their sick child to the doctor

then later to the espiritista
7. To govern is to rule and the government rules
b. Young parents bring up their children in a by laws. Whose main duty is the enforcement of
manner different from how they were brought up laws?
c. Illiterate parents are eager to send their a. Police department
children to school even if they themselves did
not go to school b. Judiciary department

d. A married man who flirts with someone else c. Legislative department

other than his wife seems acceptable but a
married woman who flirts with another man is d. Executive department
condemned.

8. The term that refers to the class of Filipinos

5. Which part of Asia does the Arabian who were free and independent
peninsula occupy? a. Timawa

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b. Maharlika a. Globalism

c. Aliping namamahay b. Mixed economies

d. Aliping saguiguilid c. Capitalism

d. Communism

9. The Spanish expedition responsible for

naming the archipelago Filipinas
13. How is the so-called colonial mentality
a. Magellan’s expedition manifested?

b. Loarca expedition a. Cultural relativism

c. Legaspi expedition b. Cultural diversity

d. Villalobos expedition c. Xenocentrism

d. Ethnocentrism

10. The third and last military governor of the

Philippines was
14. Which is a safeguard against unfair trade
a. Gen. Wesley Merritt practices like short-weighing?

b. Gen. Elwell Otis a. Total Quality Movement

c. Gen. Arthur MacArthur b. Consumerism

d. Gen. Douglas MacArthur c. Consumer vigilance

d. Substandardization

11. Which Katipunan member commuted from

Cavite to Manila to buy materials used to make
ammunitions? 15. If the seven continents were arranged from
largest to smallest, in which order does Australia
a. Teresa Magbanua fall?

b. Agueda Esteban a. 4th

c. Teodora Alonso b. 5th

d. Trinidad Tecson c. 6th

8. 7th

12.Which economic system is based on free

enterprise?

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16. In which continent can we find stormy Cape d. Maurya
Horn which is known as the graveyard of ships
and sailors?

a. Africa 20. With the opposition of the parity rights in

mind, who does NOT belong to the group?
b. Australia
a. Claro M. Recto
c. South America
b. Jose Laurel
d. Asia
c. Manuel Roxas

d. Pedro Taruc
17. Which led to the creation of Pakistan as a
nation in 1947? Religious differences between

a. Hindus and Christians 21. When the Filipino reformists asked for the
assimilation of the Philippines by Spain, what
b. Christians and Muslims did they ask for? For the Philippines to ____

c. Hindus and Buddhists a. Become independent from Spain

d. Hindus and Muslims b. Become a province of Spain

c. Be independent from Spain with certain

conditions
18. Which is common to Sun Yat Sen and
Mahatma Gandhi? d. Be represented in the Spanish Cortes

a. Promoted a society ruled by religious leaders

b. Rejected violence as a way to political power 22. Who among the Presidents changed the date
of our celebration of Independence day from
c. Led a successful nationalistic movement in July 4 to June 12?
their respective countries
a. Ramon Magsaysay
d. Supported Marxist philosophy to change
existing governments b. Diosdado Macapagal

c. Carlos Garcia

19. Nebuchadnezzar was to the Babylonian d. Ferdinand Marcos

Empire as Asoka was to the ______ Empire.

a. Roman
23. In which country did the Philippines
b. Gupta participate in the world’s peacekeeping
operations by sending doctors, nurses, soldiers
c. Greek and police?

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a. Israel 27. Which part/s of the Visayas has/have
comparatively more excessively moist climate
b. East Timor and limited arable lands?
c. Iraq a. Western
d. Iran b. Eastern

c. Eastern and Central

24. In which poem did Rizal write about d. Central and Western
offering one’s life for one’s country?

a. A La Juventud Filipina
28. Which follows Pres. Garcia’s “Filipino First
b. Song of Maria Clara Policy”? Filipinos
c. Sa Aking mga Kabata a. Should buy and consume Filipino products
only
d. Mi Ultimo Adios
b. Should not contribute to the brain drain
problem
25. As an effect of our geography, in which of
c. Should be selective in the entry in the entry of
the following island/s do people travel mostly by
foreign professionals in the country
water?
d. Were to be given first preference in all
a. Luzon
matters related to the economic development of
b. Mindanao the country

c. Visayas

d. Visayas and Mindanao 29. Aside from the Philippines, which countries
claim part of the Spratly islands in the South
China Sea?
26. As an insular country, to which principle a. China, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia
does the Philippines adhere when it comes to
territorial boundary? b. China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia

a. Two hundred nautical miles of the country’s c. Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Malaysia
coast
d. China, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia
b. Three hundred fifty nautical miles from shore

c. Three-mile territorial limit

30. The following are our constitutional rights
d. Archipelagic doctrine EXCEPT to

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a. Free access to legal assistance which shall not c. Mr. Jimmy utilizes computer assisted
be denied due to poverty instruction programs so that students will learn
at their own pace.
b. Have access to all records of the government
d. Teacher Sarah assigns projects to her class
c. Be presumed innocent until proven guilty where self-expression and creativity is
acknowledged.
d. Form association and labor unions

3. He is considered as the “Father of Modern

Answers: 1D 2D 3B 4D 5C 6A 7D 8A 9D 10C
Media in Education”.
11B 12C 13C 14C 15D 16C 17D 18B 19D 20C
21B 22B 23C 24D 25C 26D 27B 28D 29B 30B a. Jean Piaget

b. Robert Gagne

c. B.F. Skinner
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technologies associated with processing
information and with sending and receiving
messages.
1. Which of the following is not a benefit of
technology in education? a. Educational Technology

a. Improves critical-thinking abilities. b. Information and Communication Technology

b. Unlimited access to games and other internet c. Media Technology

sites.
d. Instructional Systems Design
c. Allows cooperative learning.

d. Increases self-expression.
5. A methodology widely used for developing
new training programs.

2. Which situation shows that technology can be a. Microsoft

used to motivate students to learn?
b. World Wide Web
a. Teacher Eric employs educational games
related to the lesson they are taking. c. Instructional Systems Design

b. Miss Cleo designs lessons which use d. Computer Technology

cooperative learning with technology
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6. This is considered to be the first manual data c. unnecessary because all resources from the
processing device developed in China in the internet are dependable.
12th century A.D.
d. just a waste of time.
a. Hieroglyphics

b. Papyrus
10. When a teacher asks the consistency of a
c. Printing Press material taken from the internet with other
available materials, he/she is concerned with its?
d. Abacus
a. relevance

b. accuracy
7. He is considered to be the “Father of
Computing” because of his contributions to the c. coverage
basic design of computer.
d. currency
a. John Napier

b. William Oughtred
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c. Blaise Pascal

d. Charles Babbage
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a. Trackpad

b. Lightpen 1. The Department of Education gives greater

emphasis on the development of basic skills.
c. Mouse
What is the philosophical basis for this?
d. Keyboard
a. Essentialism

b. Existentialism
9. Mr. Rico carefully studies the materials he
c. Perennialism
acquired from the internet. He always examines
if the author is qualified to present the material. d. Pragmatism
This practice is?

a. necessary to ensure that the materials are

reliable. 2. Teacher M views his students as unique, free-
choosing and responsible individuals. All
b. unethical because he does not trust the author.
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classroom activities revolve around the said b. Greeks
premise. What theory underlies this?
c. Orientals
a. Essentialism
d. Romans
b. Existentialism

c. Progressivism
6. Which philosophy has the educational
d. Realism objective to indoctrinate Filipinos to accept the
teachings of the Catholic church which is foster
faith in God?
3. Religious rituals in the classroom and in the a. Realism
school programs prove the deep natural
religiosity of the Filipinos. Which philosophy b. Pragmatism
has greatly contributed to the tradition?
c. Idealism
a. Buddhism
d. Existentialism
b. Confucianism

c. Hinduism
7. Virtue as one component in the teaching of
d. Islam Rizal as a course focuses on the teaching of
good and beauty consistent with the good and
beauty in God. What philosophy supports this?
4. In order to make Roman education truly a. Existentialism
utilitarian, how should the day-to-day lessons be
taught? b. Idealism

a. Taught in the students' native dialect c. Progressivism

b. Taught interestingly through the play way d. Social Reconstructionism

method

c. Related and linked to the events happening in

everyday life

d. Practiced at home under the guidance of their

respective parents. 8. Giving education the highest budgetary
allocation, the Philippine government recognizes
the possible contribution of its future citizens to
5. Which influenced the military training the national development goals of the Philippine
requirements among students in the secondary society. Which stressed this goal of education
and tertiary levels? for social transformation?

a. Chinese a. Athenian education

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b. Followers of Christ

c. Greek education 12. Teacher V demonstrated the technique on

how to group students according to their needs
d. Roman education and interests and how to use self-paced
instructional materials. Which philosophy is
manifested in this activity?
9. The progressivists emphasized the
a. Essentialism
individuality of the child. What is the concern of
the reconstructionists? b. Progressivism
a. Experiential learning c. Realism
b. Socialization d. Social Reconstructionism
c. Social problem

13. Teacher G, a Christian Living teacher, puts

so much significance on values development and
10. One of the following quotations does not
discipline. What could be her educational
conform to the Christian doctrine of Education
philosophy?
for Humanitarianism. Which one is it?
a. Idealism
a. Do unto others as you would like others do
unto you b. Pragmatism
b. Love they neighbor as thyself c. Progressivism
c. Not on bread alone is man to live but on every d. Realism
utterance that comes from mouth of God

d. Whatever good things we do to our poor,

helpless brothers, we do it for God. 14. Which one does not illustrate the principle
that rights and duties are correlative?

a. The right of an unmarried pregnant teacher to

11. Scouting and Citizen's Army Training abort her baby in relation to her duty to protect
(CAT) give training in character-building, her name and her job as a teacher
citizenship training, etc. Which leads to the
creation of a new social order and a new society b. The right of a state to compel students to
eventually. What philosophy supports this? military service is reciprocated by the duty of
the state to protect them.
a. Existentialism
c. The right to a living wage involves the duty of
b. Perennialism the school administrators to give the salary
agreed upon and the duty of the teachers to give
c. Progressivism
a fair amount of work.
d. Social reconstructionism

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d. The right to life of children and to be given d. Socialization
respect of such right.

18. Which program in the educational system

15. Why should a teacher take the obligation seems to be aligned to the Christian
upon himself to study and understand the humanitarian principle respect for the human
custom and traditions of the community where personality?
he works?
a. The alternative learning system delivery
a. To change the culture of the community.
b. The functional literacy program for the out-
b. To have a sympathetic attitude for the people of-school youth and adults
of the community.
c. The promotion of the basic human rights of
c. To identify the weaknesses of the culture of the Filipino
the community.
d. The study of the Philippine Constitution
d. To please the people of the community.

19. With a death threat over his head, Teacher

16. A teacher who is a recognized expert in Liza is directed to pass an undeserving student,
carpentry works, taught his students how to if she is a hedonist, which of the following will
prepare and construct good and aesthetic she do?
furniture from local resources. What cultural
transmission process is this? a. Don't pass him, live her principle of justice.
She will get reward, if not in this life, in the
a. Acculturation next.

b. Enculturation b. Don't pass him. She surely will not like

someone to give you a death threat in order to
c. Indoctrination pass.
d.Observation c. Pass the student. That will be of use to her, the
student and his parents.

d. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?

17. Every first day of the school year, Miss
Reyes prepared activities which will make her
Grade 2 children, sing, plan, learn and introduce
themselves to the class. What process did the 20. Which philosophy approves a teacher who
teacher emphasize? lectures most of the time and requires his
students to memorize the rules of grammar?
a. Acculturation
a. Existentialism
b. Enculturation
b. Idealism
c. Indoctrination
c. Pragmatism

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d. Realism 24.Which of the following is the focus of the
Japanese education in the Philippines?

a. Democratic ideals and nationalism

21. In a student conducted, the pupils were
asked which nationality they would prefer if b. Love and service to one's country
given a choice. Majority of the pupils wanted to
be Americans. In this case, in which obligation c. Religion and love for Asian brothers
relative to the state are schools seemed to be d. Vocational and health education
failing?

a. Instill allegiance to the constitutional

authorities 25. According to reconstructionism, the goal of
education is to bring about a new social order.
b. Promote national pride Which practice best manifests this view?
c. Promote obedience to the laws of the state a. The class conducts scientific experiments to
d. Respect for all duly constituted authorities. discover or verify concepts.

b. The class discusses role models and their

impact on society.
22. Which subject in the elementary and
likewise in the secondary schools are similar to c. The class allowed to engage in divergent
the goal of Rome to train the students for thinking.
citizenship? d. The class undertakes well-planned projects in
a. Communication ARts the community.

b. MAPEH/PEHMS

c. Science Answers: 1A 2B 3B 4C 5D 6C 7B 8D 9C 10C

11D 12B 13A 14A 15B 16B 17D 18C 19D 20B
d. THE/TLE 21B 22D 23C 24D 25D

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d. Promoting project WOW 1. Teacher A, a Values Education teacher

emphasizes ethics in almost all her lessons.
Which of the following emphasizes the same?

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a. Liberal Education

b. Moral Education 5. Which of the following situations presents a

value conflict?
c. Religious Training
a. The teacher and his students have class
d. Social Education standing as their priorities.

b. The teacher and the administrator follow a set

of criteria in giving grades.
2. Which reform in the Philippine Educational
System advocates the use of English and c. The teacher has students whose parents want
Filipino as media of instruction in specific their children to obtain higher grades than what
learning areas? they are capable of getting.
a. Alternative Learning d. The teacher sets high expectations for
intelligent students such as getting higher
b. Bilingual Education
grades.
c. K-12 Program

d. Multilingual Education
6. Which situation shows that a sense of
nationhood is exemplified?

3. Activities planned by school clubs/ a. The class conducted a debate using Filipino as
organizations show school-community medium
connection geared towards society's needs. What
b. The class is required to watch the TV sitcom
philosophy is related to this?
of Oprah to improve their English
a. Existentialism communication skills.

b. Progressivism c. The class opted to make a choral rendition of

the theme song of a foreign movie.
c. Realism
d. When Teacher Chris asked her Grade 2
d. Social reconstructionism students in what country they wish to live, most
of them chose United States.

4. What philosophy is related to the practice of

schools acting as laboratory for teaching reforms 7. A teacher who believes in the progressivist
and experimentation? theory of education would embrace certain
reforms on methodology. Which reform would
a. Essentialism
be consistent with this theory?
b. Existentialism
a. Active participation of teachers
c. Progressivism
b. Formal instructional pattern
d. Social Reconstructionism

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c. Strict external discipline a. Conformity and militarism

d. Teacher domination of class activities b. Perpetuation of culture

c. Propagation of the Catholic religion

8. What philosophy of education advocates that d. Utilitarianism and conformity

the curriculum should only include universal and
unchanging truths?

a. Essentialism 12. Which of the following is the aim of our

education during the Commonwealth period?
b. Idealism
a. Designed after Japanese education
c. Perennialism
b. Patterned after the American curriculum
d. Pragmatism
c. Predominantly religious

d. Purely nationalistic and democratic

9. Which of the following is not a function of
the school?

a. Changing cultural practices 13. Which of the following is not a reason why
the basic education curriculum has been
b. Development of attitudes and skills restructured?

c. Reproduction of species a. To become globally competitive during this

industrial age
d. Socialization among children
b. To be relevant and responsive to a rapidly
changing world
10. Which move liberalized access to education c. To empower the Filipino learners for self-
during Spanish period? development throughout their life.
a. The education of illiterate parents d. To help raise the achievement level of
students
b. The establishment of at least one primary
school for boys and girls in each municipality

c. The hiring of tribal tutors to teach children 14. Which philosophy of education influence the
singing of the National Anthem in schools?
d. The provision of vocational training for
school age children a. Nationalism

b. Naturalism
11. Which of the following is the chief aim of c. Pragmatism
Spanish education?
d. Socialism

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 a. Integration of creative thinking in all subject

15. Who among the following believes that b. Introduction of Values education as a separate
learning requires disciplined attention, regular subject area
homework, and respect for legitimate authority?
c. Reducing the number of subject areas into
a. Essentialist skill subject

b. Progressivist d. Re-introducing science as a subject in Grade 1

c. Realist

d. Reconstructionist 19. The greatest happiness lies in the

contemplative use of mind, said Plato. Which of
the following activities adheres to this?
16. Which of the following is the main function a. Cooperative learning
of the philosophy of education?
b. Instrospection
a. Reconsider existing educational goals in the
light of society's needs c. Role Playing

b. Provide the academic background prerequisite d. Social Interaction

to learning

c. Define the goals and set the direction for

which education is to strive 20. Your teacher is of the opinion that the word
and everything in it are ever changing and so
d. Aid the learner to build his own personal teaches you the skill to cope with the changes.
philosophy Which in his governing philosophy?

a. Experimentalism

17. Homeroom advisers always emphasize the b. Existentialism

importance of cleanliness of the body. Children
are taught how to wash their hands before and c. Idealism
after eating. What is this practice called? d. Realism
a. Folkway

b. Laws 21. Teacher Myra says: "If it is billiard that

c. Mores brings students out of the classroom, let us bring
it into the classroom. Perhaps, I can use it to
d. Social norm teach Math". To which philosophy does teacher
Myra adheres to?

a. Essentialism
18. Which curricular move served to strengthen
spiritual and ethical values? b. Idealism

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d. Reconstructionism

25. Which of the following situation manifests a

balance between teachers responsibility and
22. Which of the following should be done to accountability?
build a sense of pride among Filipino youth?
a. She entertains her students with personal
a. Replace the study of folklores and myths with stories until the end of the period.
technical subjects
b. She spends most of the time on the latest
b. Re-study our history and stress on our gossips in showbiz.
achievements as people
c. She teaches as much as she could for duration
c. Re-study our history from the perspective of of the period.
our colonizers
d. She teaches as well as entertains the students
d. Set aside the study of local history with per personal stories.

23. A teacher who subscribes to the pragmatic Answers: 1B 2B 3D 4C 5C 6A 7A 8C 9C 10B

philosophy of education believes that experience 11C 12D 13D 14A 15A 16C 17D 18B 19B 20A
study should follow learning in her teaching. 21C 22B 23C 24D 25C
Which of the following does she do to support
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1. Dr. Escoto, the school physician conducted a
physical examination in Ms. Manuel's class.
24. Which philosophy influenced the cultivation What concept best describes the quantitative
of reflective and meditative skills in teaching? increase observed by Dr. Escoto among learners
in terms of height and weight?
a. Confucianism
a. Development
b. Existentialism
b. Growth
c. Taoism
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d. Maturation

5. Teacher Jesus in now 69 years old has been

observing changes in himself such as the aging
2. Which situation best illustrates the concept of process. Which term refers to the development
growth? change in the individual?
a. A kinder pupil gains 2 pounds within two a. Development
months.
b. Growth
b. A high school student gets a score of 85 in
mental ability test. c. Learning

c. An education student has gained knowledge d. Maturation

on approaches and strategies in teaching
different subjects

d. An elementary grader has learned to play 6. Manuel, a five-year old boy can hold his pen
piano. and write his name with his right hand. Which
term describes Manuel's action/ behavior?

a. Development
3. Which statements below best describes
development? b. Growth

a. A high school student's height increased by c. Learning

5'2" to 5'4" d. Maturation
b. A high school student's change in weight from
110 lbs. to 125 lbs.
7. Which of the following theory can help Miss
c. A student had learned to operate the computer Samson determine the readiness of her learners
d. A student's enlargement of hips by administering a readiness test?

a. Conditioning Theories

4. What concept can best describes Francisco's b. Cognitive Development Theory

ability to walk without a support at age of 12 c. Maturation Theory
months because of the "internal ripening" that
occured in his muscles, bones and nervous d. Ethological Theory
system development?

a. Development
8. Mr. Francisco was very much worried about
b. Growth the thumb sucking of his son. A friend of him
says that certain behavior among infants. Who
c. Learning presented that notion that certain behavior like
d. Maturation thumb-sucking is normal behavior?

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A. Sigmund Freud b. Anal

b. Erick Ericson c. Phallic

c. John Bowlly d. Latency

d. Urie Bronfrenbenner

12. Angela focuses her attention on the school

work and vigorous play that consume most of
9. A newborn infant move his whole body at one her physical energy. Which stage of
time, instead of moving a part of it. Which of the psychosexual theory illustrates her behavior?
following principles is illustrated by his
behavior? a. Oral

a. Development proceeds from specific to b. Anal

general.
c. Phallic
b. Development proceeds from general to
specific. d. Latency

c. Development follows an orderly pattern.

d. Development follows a general pattern. 13. Which of the following is likely to be

developed if infants are shown genuine
affection?

10. Train up a child in the way he should be; a. Trust

when he grows up, he will not depart from it.
Which principle supports this? b. Autonomy

a. Development is determined by his heredity c. Initiative

b. Development is determined by the d. Industry

environment

c. Early development is more critical than the 14. Christian develops an integral and coherent
late development sense of self. He seeks answers to the question.
d. Early development is less critical than late "Who am I"? Which of the following is
development. Christian likely to develop?

a. Initiative

11. Which state of the psycho-sexual theory b. Identity and Role Confusion
does young boys experience rivalry with their c. Intimacy
father for their mother's attention and affection?
d. Autonomy
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15. Ms. Reyes uses images and language to 18. Tessa gets jealous whenever she sees her
represent and understand her various lessons to father showing love and affection to her mother.
preschool learners. What stage in the cognitive Which of the following is she showing
theory of development explains this? according to Freud?

a. Sensorimotor a. Complex

b. Preoperational b. Phallic

c. Concrete operation c. Electra Complex

d. Formal operation d. Oedipus Complex

16. Connie develops concepts necessary for 19. In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive
everyday living, builds healthy attitudes towards Development, which of the following statements
oneself, and achieve personal independence. would illustrate Edward who is 11 years old?
These are among the attributes of an individual
in what particular stage? a. Able to see relationships and to reason in the
abstract.
a. Infancy and early childhood
b. Unable to breakdown a whole into separate
b. Middle childhood parts.

c. Adolescence c. Differentiates goals and goal-directed

activities.
d. Early adulthood
d. Experiments with methods to reach goals.

17. Some children are more active than others,

as everyone knows-extremely highlevels of 20. Trisha goes with her mother in school. She
activity or hyperactivity are considered enjoys the workplace of her mother. Which of
problematic. How may a teacher help a child the following ecological theories is illustrated by
who is hyperactive? the situation?

a. Make him the leader of the class a. Microsystem

b. Transfer him to another class b. Mesosystem

c. Give him challenging activities that are c. Exosystem

appropriate to his ability level and interests.
d. Macrosystem
d. Allow him to spend longer at the playground
until he gets tired.
21. Lito, a student in secondary level tends to
spend more time with his friends and his family,
thus, his behavior is greatly affected by them. In

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which stage in the Psychosocial Stages of c. The first five years of life are the formative
Development does Lito belong? years of the child.

a. Autonomous vs Shame and Doubt d. Early childhood experiences can be

interesting and challenging.
b. Identity vs. Role Confusion

c. Intimacy vs. Isolation

25. Which of the following learner's
d. Initiative vs. Guilt characteristics will affect most of the learners
learning in the academic class?

a. His affective characteristics

22. Anna believes that authority is respected.
She is now in what particular level in moral b. His cognitive characteristics
development theory of Lawrence Kholberg?
c. His psychomotor characteristics
a. Social contract
d. His socio-emotional characteristics
b. Law and order orientation

c. Interpersonal concordance
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d. Universal ethics orientation 11C 12D 13A 14B 15B 16B 17C 18C 19A 20C
21D 22A 23C 24B 25B

23. What level has a four year old learner like

Maryann reached when she acquired new skills
such as putting the same shapes and the same
colors together?

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24. Which of the following principles can be the

basis of the growing realization of the 1. Which of the following is true about human
significance of the early childhood education? development?

a. The young children are capable of doing many a. Human development considers both
things at an early stage. maturation and learning.

b. The child should be seen and should learn.

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b. Development refers to the progressive series b. Anal stage, oral stage, phallic stage, latency
of changes of an orderly coherent type toward stage, genital stage
the goal of maturity.
c. Oral stage, anal stage, genital stage, latency
c. Development is the gradual and orderly stage, phallic stage
unfolding of the characteristics of the
individuals as they go through the successive d. Anal stage, oral stage, genital stage, latency
stages of growth. stage, phallic stage

d. All of the above

5. What is the best description of Erickson's
psychosocial theory of human development?
2. What do you call the quantitative increase in
terms of height and weight as observed by the a. Eight crises all people are thought to lace
school physician during the physical b. Four psychosocial stages in latency period
examination of the students?
c. The same number of stages as Freud's, but
a. Development with different names
b. Growth d. A stage theory that is not psychoanalytic
c. Learning

d. Maturation 6. In Erickson's theory, what is the unresolved

crisis of an adult who has difficulty establishing
a secure, mutual relationship with a life partner?
3. Mrs. Gomez conducts research on the
psychosocial domain of development. In what a. Initiative vs. Guilt
particular area of the child's development is Mrs. b. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Gomez most likely to be interested with?
c. Intimacy vs. Isolation
a. Perceptual abilities
d. Trust vs. Mistrust
b. Brain-wave patterns

c. Emotions
7. Alyssa is eight years old, and although she
d. Use of language understands some logical principles, she still has
troubles in understanding hypothetical concepts.
According to Piaget, Alyssa belongs to what
4. Which of the following is the correct order of particular stage of cognitive development?
psychosexual stages proposed by Sigmund
Freud? a. Sensorimotor

a. Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency b. Preoperational

stage, genital stage c. Concrete operational

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d. Formal operational

11. Which of the following will be Freud's

description of the child's behavior if he he has
8. Which of the following provides the best biting, sarcastic manner?
broad description of the relationship between
heredity and environment in determining height? a. Anally expulsive

a. Heredity is the primary influence, with b. Anally retentive

environment affecting development only in
severe situations. c. Fixated in the oral stage

b. Heredity and environment contribute equally d. Experiencing the crisis of trust vs. mistrust
to development

c. Environment is the major influence on 12. What is Freud's idea about a young boy's
physical characteristics. guilt feelings brought about by jealousy of his
d. Heredity directs the individual's potential and father's relationship with his mother?
environment determines whether and to what a. Electra complex
degree the individual reaches the potential.
b. Oedipus complex

c. Phallic complex
9. What is the correct sequence of prenatal
stages of development? d. Penis envy complex

a. Embryo, germinal, fetus

b. Germinal, fetus, embryo 13. When a little girl who says she wants her
mother to go on vacation so that she can marry
c. Germinal, embryo, fetus her father, Freud believes that he is voicing a
d. Embryo, fetus, germinal fantasy consistent with?

a. Oedipus complex

10. When a baby realized that a rubber duck b. Electra complex

which has fallen out of the tub must be c. Theory of mind
somewhere on the floor, he is likely to achieved
what aspect of cognitive development? d. Crisis of initiative vs. Guilt

a. Object permanence

b. Deferred imitation 14. Which of the following can best describe the
preschooler's readiness to learn new task and
c. Mental combinations play activities?
d. Goal-directed behavior a. Emerging competency and self-awareness

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b. Theory of the Mind d. Can understand that moral principles may
supersede the standards of society.
c. Relationship with parents

d. Growing identification with others

18. Elisa who is in between 9 and 11 years of
age are most likely to demonstrate moral
reasoning at which Kohlberg's stage?
15. James noted that when the preschoolers
eagerly begin many new activities but are a. Pre-conventional
vulnerable to criticism and feelings of failure,
they are experiencing what particular crisis? b. Conventional

a. Identity vs. Role Confusion c. Post-conventional

b. Initiative vs. Guilt d. None of the above

c. Basic trust vs. mistrust

d. Efficacy vs. Helplessness 19. According to Kohlberg, a dutiful citizen who

obeys the laws set down by society is at which
level of moral reasoning?
16. What stage of Piaget's Cognitive a. Pre-conventional Stage One
Development does a person belong to when he
can understand specific logical ideas and apply b. Pre-conventional Stage Two
them to concrete problems?
c. Conventional
a. Preoperational thought
d. Post-conventional
b. Operational thought

c. Create operational thought

20. Ana, who is low-achieving, shy and
d. Formal operational thought withdrawn, is rejected by most of her peers. her
teacher wants to help Ana increase her self-
esteem and social acceptance. What can Joy's
teacher suggest to her parents?
17. What is the best explanation of Piaget's
concrete operational thought to describe the a. Transfer her to a different school
school-age child's mental ability?
b. Help their daughter improve her motor skills
a. A child can reason logically about things and
events he or she perceives. c. Help their daughter learn to accept more
responsibility for her academic failures
b. A child's ability to think about how he thinks
d. Help their daughter improve her skills in
c. Can understand that certain characteristics of relating to peers
an object remain the same when other
characteristics are changed

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puberty stage? task of adolescent?

a. Rapid physical growth that occurs during a. To establish trust

adolescence
b. To search for his identity
b. Stage when sexual maturation is attained.
c. To be more intimate with others
c. Rapid physical growth and sexual maturation
that ends childhood d. To establish integrity

d. Stage when adolescents establish identifies

separate from their parents. 25. What is the main source of emotional
support for most young people who are
establishing independence from their parents?
22. Fifteen year old Marie is preoccupied with
her "disgusting appearance" and seems a. Older adolescents of the opposite sex
depressed most of the time. What is the best b. Older sibling
thing her parents can do to help her get through
this difficult time? c. Teachers

a. Ignore her self-preoccupation because their d. Peer groups

attention would only reinforce it.

b. Encourage to "shape up" and not give in the

self-pity Answers: 1D 2B 3C 4A 5A 6C 7C 8A 9C 10A
11C 12B 13B 14A 15B 16C 17C 18B 19C 20D
c. Kid her about her appearance in the hope that 21C 22D 23D 24B 25D
she will see how silly she is acting.

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a. She is more likely critical about herself

b. She tends to be more egocentric. 1. Which theory operates on the "stimulus-

c. She had less confidence in her abilities. response principle", which means all behaviors
are caused by external stimuli?
d. She is more capable of reasoning
hypothetically. a. Contextual theory

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c. Cognitive theory d. Social Learning

d. Constructivist theory

5. Patrice is always fearful of freely roaming

dogs but does not mind dogs in a pen or on a
2. Ms. Erika in her Biology class accompanies leash. What feature of classical conditioning is
her discussion with interesting visual aids. She exhibited?
strongly believes that students learn better when
lessons are presented with images, real or a. Discrimination
imagined aside from mere lecture method.
Which learning theory does she upholds? b. Extinction

a. Dual-Coding Theory c. Generalization

b. Information Processing Theory d. Practice

c. Meaningful Reception Learning Theory

d. Social Cognitive Theory 6. A music teacher is careful in planning

activities for each lesson. He praises liberally
and rewards correct answers. What view of
learning is exhibited?
3. Miss Rita is an excellent Physical Education
teacher. She started teaching volleyball to her a. Classical conditioning
Grade 2 class. Despite all her efforts, her class
does not seem to learn how to play the game. b. Meaningful learning
What law of learning was disregarded? c. Operant conditioning
a. Law of Disuse d. Social learning
b. Law of Effect

c. Law of Exercise 7. Which of the theories of learning presents or

d. Law of Readiness states that learning skills are hierarchically
arranged?

a. Cumulative Learning
4. Teacher jay, a physical education teacher,
demonstrates the new skill to be learned so that b. Meaningful Learning
his students can watch him and later reproduce c. Social Cognitive Learning
the skill. What learning theory is associated with
the situation? d. Theory of Instruction

a. Dual-Coding Learning Theory

b. Information Processing 8. Which of the following best describes what

meaningful learning is?
c. Schema Learning Theory

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a. When what is to be learned is new and easy c. Provide clear and prompt feedback on
for the students assignments

b. Materials presented are difficult and d. Begin lessons with challenging questions and
challenging to the students conflicting events

c. When the materials to be learned is related to

what students already know
12. The first people power was held in February
d. Students find the lessons easy and relevant to 25, 1986. What kind of knowledge is presented?
what was assigned to them
a. Conditional Knowledge

b. Cognitive Knowledge
9. Rita easily remember dates and events in
history. What component of LTM does Rita c. Domain-Specific Knowledge
have? d. Procedural Knowledge
a. Creative thinking

b. Critical thinking 13. The students of Mrs. Reyes were not able to
c. Reflective thinking learn the concepts that she presented yesterday
so she taught the same concepts again but this
d. Logical thinking time using a different teaching method. What
principle of learning was applied?

a. Concepts should be presented in varied and

10. An Earth Science has just completed a unit different ways
on the sun. As she recognizes her next unit on
other stars, she uses the sun as a frame of b. Effort was put forth when tasks are
reference. What view of learning was used? challenging

a. Discovery learning c. Learning by doing is more effective than just

by sitting and listening
b. Informative learning
d. Learning is aided by formulating and asking
c. Meaningful learning questions
d. Transfer learning

14. Alvin is a transferee and feels uneasy with

his new school. His teacher is very
11. Which is an application of cognitive
accommodating, warm and caring. Alvin felt
approach to motivation?
comfortable with the teacher display of genuine
a. Explain the reasons for studying the topic warmth. The teacher is consistent in his manner
and Alvin began to associate school with the
b. Create a supportive classroom climate for teacher's warmth. Which theory is being
students illustrated?

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a. Meaningful learning d. Allow him/her to work with the slow learner
group to cope with the academic needs of the
b. Operant conditioning lesson.
c. Classical conditioning

d. Observational learning 18. Mrs. Corpuz always makes sure that her pre-
school classroom is well organized and clean.
She puts up interesting and colorful visuals on
15. After just being introduced to another guest the bulletin boards. What principle of motivation
in the party, Tom cannot remember the name of was applied?
the guest he was introduced to. In what memory
a. Incentives motivate learning
stage was the information stored in?
b. Internal motivation is longer lasting and more
a. Episodic memory
self-directive than is external motivation
b. Semantic memory
c. Motivation is enhanced by the way in which
c. Sensory memory instructional material is organized.

d. Working memory d. The environment can be used to focus the

student's attention on what needs to be learned.

16. Vygotsky claimed that social interaction is

important for learning. What does this imply? 19. For every correct answer, the teacher would
give a star to her students. What schedule of
a. Children are independent problem solvers reinforcement was used?
b. Children learn from adults and other children a. Fixed interval
c. Children learn by passive presentation of b. Fixed ratio
information
c. Variable interval
d. Children in the crib has no learning yet, since
they are not capable of interaction d. Variable ratio

17. How would you help a student who is 20. Marga, a six year old, always asked her
intelligent but is underachieving in class? playmates to sit in front of her small black board
and she plays teacher. Her mother is a teacher.
a. Provide challenging activities which he/she What theory explains Marga's behavior?
can accomplish
a. Classical Conditioning
b. Recognize his talents by asking him/her to
help other students with their work b. Operant Conditioning

c. Identify the immediate causes of difficulties c. Social Learning

that cause his/her being an underachiever
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d. Information Processing b. Consider the age level of students in assigning
tasks

c. Follow the interest of students in assigning

21. What should the teacher do to help students tasks
learn psychomotor skills?
d. Give the same task to all students in a
a. Teacher uses verbal explanation and particular grade level
description of the movements in addition to live
demonstration of the movements

b. Teacher provides feedback to the learner 24. Luz easily learns a lesson when she is
about his/her progress working with laboratory equipment but hardly
remembers a lesson the teacher lectured on.
c. Teacher encourages the learner to practice, in What type of learner is Luz?
order to maintain his/her sharpness of the
movements a. Auditory Learner

d. All of the above b. Kinesthetic Learner

c. Tactile Learner

22. The teacher presented a new lesson where in d. Visual Learner

the students were asked to work on a new
project which was somewhat complicated. The
students showed interest while working on the 25. Which of the following statements about
project. What principle applies to the situation? motivation is false?
a. Effort was put forth when tasks are a. External motivation is longer lasting and more
challenging self-directive than internal motivation
b. Lessons should be presented in varied and b. Internal motivation is fueled by one's goals or
different ways ambitions
c. Meaningful materials are readily learned than c. Motivation is enhanced by the way in which
nonsense materials the instructional material is organized
d. Teachers should provide opportunities for d. Motivation to perform is affected by
meaningful and appropriate practice expectancy and value

23. Maturation should precede certain types of Answers: 1B 2A 3D 4D 5A 6C 7A 8C 9C 10C

learning. How is this applied in the classroom? 11A 12B 13A 14B 15C 16B 17C 18D 19B 20C
a. Concepts should be taught from simple to 21D 22A 23A 24D 25A
complex

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already incorporated below the questions.
a. Law of disuse

b. Law of effect
1. Based on Bandura's theory, which conditions
must be present for a student to learn from a c. Law of exercise
model?
d. Law of readiness
I. Attention II. Retention III. Motor
Reproduction IV. Motivation

a. I and II 5. A burglary occurred in Jason's neighborhood.

Since then, Jason is very careful of locking their
b. I, II and III doors and closing windows. What theory best
explains Jason's behavior?
c. I, II, III and IV
a. Observational learning
d. III and IV
b. Imitation learning

c. Self-regulated learning
2. Which of the following principles of learning
applies to considering student's age in presenting d. Vicarious learning
certain content and cognitive processes?

a. Principle of readiness
6. In observation and imitation learning, what
b. Principle of learning by doing should be the learner's response when the
teacher initially models the behavior?
c. Principle of presenting challenging tasks
a. Reproduce and match
d. Principle of learning aided by formulating and
asking questions b. Pay Attention

c. Imitate and practice

3. In classical conditioning, which are paired d. Shows satisfaction

together in order to elicit the desired response?

a. UCS and NS
7. What is the correct sequence of information
b. CS and NS processing?

c. UCS and CS a. Sensory register-STM-LTM

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b. STM-sensory register-LTM a. Lateral Transfer

c. Sensory register-LTM-STM b. General Transfer

d. LTM-sensory register- STM c. Specific Transfer

d. Vertical Transfer

8. What should be the hierarchy of the types of

learning according to the cumulative learning
theory? 11. Cristina is almost asleep when she felt the
need to go to the bathroom. She tried to sleep it
1. Problem solving learning off but after a while, she was forced to stand up
and go to the bathroom. What theory of
2. Rule learning motivation explains Cristina's behavior?
3. Discrimination learning a. Attribution Theory
4. Concept learning b. Drive Theory
a. 2-1-3-4 c. Expentancies and Values Theory
b. 2-1-4-3 d. Solomon's Opponent Theory
c. 2-3-4-1

d. 2-4-3-1 12. Marko excels in adding numbers. He learned

this skill in his Math class. He is now able to
apply this skill in his Music class. What type of
9. Which is essential in meaningful reception transfer was used?
learning?
a. Lateral transfer
a. Concepts are presented to learner and received
b. General transfer
by them.
c. Specific transfer
b. Concepts are discovered by the learner
d. Vertical transfer
c. Concepts are related to one another

d. Concepts are solicited from the learners

13. Mr. Lorenzo would always give the chapter
test on a Friday. What schedule of reinforcement
10. Grace is bilingual. She speaks both English is used by Mr. Lorenzo?
and Filipino fluently. She begins to study
a. Fixed interval
Spanish and immediately recognizes many
similarities between the Spanish and Filipino b. Fixed ratio
languages and uses this information to acquire
the new language faster. What kind of transfer c. Variable interval
was Grace able to use?
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d. Variable ratio a. Chronosystem

b. Exosystem

14. To remember the six digits, 8, 4, 3, 9, 4, 5, c. Mesosystem

the Math teacher grouped the numbers in two's
84, 39, 45 or in threes 843, 945. What control d. Microsystem
process of retaining information is referred to?

a. Chunking 18. Some learners like to find specific and

b. Interfering concrete answers. What kind of learners are
they?
c. Rehearsing
a. Accomodators
d. Remembering
b. Assimilators

c. Convergers
15. Rob regularly practice playing the guitar so
he can finish Book I. His mother promised to d. Divergers
buy him a Nintendo when he finishes Book I.
How is Rob motivated?
19. Mrs. Mercado, the Home Economics
a. Extrinsically teacher, constantly gives verbal guidance to her
b. Intrinsically pupils while practicing a sewing skill. What is
the value of giving verbal guidance in improving
c. with Self-Determination pupils learning behavior?

d. with Self-Efficacy a. It promotes the growth of interest in the new

learning tasks

b. It serves as informational feedback

16. Lara excels in dancing and in certain sports.
According to Gardner what intelligence is c. It facilitates perfection of skills
dominant in Lara?
d. It directs pupils' attention to more adequate
a. Bodily kinesthetic and better techniques

b. Intrapersonal

c. Musical 20. Why should learning be aided by

formulating and asking questions?
d. Spatial
a. Students will have a grade in recitation

b. Students will develop their self-confidence

17. According to Bronfenbrenner, what system
contains structures that has direct contact with c. The teacher will know who among the
the child? students can communicate very well
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d. The teacher will not always do the talking but d. Procedural Knowledge
the students will be given a chance to do the
same thing.
24. Why should teachers provide positive
feedback and realistic praise?
21. Ms. Baquiran, the VE teacher, and her
pupils, while working on the concept of honesty, a. To motivate the students to study
agreed that no cabinets and book cases would be b. So the students will know what to do
locked throughout the day. Which principle in
affective learning is being implemented? c. To be liked and loved by the students

a. Provide exemplary models d. So the students will praise him/her

b. Provide appropriate practice

c. Provide for pleasant emotional experience 25. Which statement does not refer to cognitive
theories?
d. Provide for independent attitude cultivation
a. Prefer to concentrate on analyzing cognitive
process
22. Instead of asking her students to write about b. Conclusions are based on observation of
their reaction to a story, the teacher asked her external manifestations on learning
students to interpret the story in dance form.
What principle of learning is considered? c. Study of the structures and components of
information processing
a. Concepts should be presented in varied and
different ways d. Believe in non-observable behavior

b. Effort if put forth when tasks are challenging

c. Learning by doing is more effective than just Answers: 1C 2A 3A 4B 5D 6B 7A 8D 9C 10C

sitting and listening 11C 12B 13A 14A 15C 16A 17D 18C 19B 20B
21B 22B 23D 24B 25B
d. Learning is aided by formulating and asking
questions

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b. Declarative Knowledge Teacher A listed down the steps she will
undertake together with those of her students.
c. Domain-Specific Knowledge This practice relates to?

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a. Teaching style d. Developmental activities

b. Teaching method

c. Teaching strategy 5. In Bloom's taxonomy of educational

objectives, the domains are stated from lowest to
d. Teaching technique highest level. Which of the following objectives
belongs to the lowest level?

a. To identify the characters of the story.

2. The class of Grade 6 - Einstein is scheduled to
perform an experiment on that day. However, b. To differentiate active from passive voice.
the chemicals are insufficient. What method may
then be used? c. To give the available resources that could be
recycled to useful things.
a. Project
d. To explain the procedure in changing
b. Laboratory improper fraction to mixed number
c. Lecture

d. Demonstration 6. The class of IV - Kalikasan is tasked to

analyze the present population of the different
cities and municipalities of the National Capital
3. Teacher C gives the class specific topic as Region for the last five years. How can they best
assignment which they have to research and pass present their analysis?
the following day. However, the students could
a. By means of a table
not find any information about it. What method
should Teacher C use to teach the assignment? b. By looking for a pattern
a. Project method c. By means of a graph
b. Discovery approach d. By guessing and checking
c. Lecture method

d. Demonstration method 7. There are several reasons why problem-

solving is taught in Math. Which is the LEAST
important?
4. Pictures, models and the like arouse students
a. It is the main goal for the study of Math
interest on the day's topic, in what part of the
lesson should the given materials be presented? b. It provides the content in which concepts and
skills are learned and applied
a. Initiating activities
c. It provides an opportunity to develop critical
b. Culminating activities
and analytical thinking
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d. It provides pupils an opportunity to relate c. Application
Math in the real world
d. Comparison and Abstraction

8. Teacher D teaches in a remote high school

where newspapers are delivered irregularly. 11. Which part of the lesson is involved in the
Knowing the importance of keeping the students giving of situation or activities based on the
aware of current affairs, what is probably the concepts learned?
best way to keep the students updated? a. Preparation
a. Gather back issues of newspapers and let b. Generalization
pupils compile them.
c. Application
b. Urge the pupils to listen to stories circulating
in the community. d. Comparison and Abstraction

c. Encourage the pupils to listen to daily

broadcast from a transistor radio.
12. Teacher F wants the class to find out the
d. The teacher should try all available means to effect of heat on matter. Which method will help
get the newspaper delivered to the school him accomplish his objective?

a. Project Method

9. Devices can make a lecture more b. Laboratory Method

understandable and meaningful. What is the
most important thing a teacher should consider c. Problem Method
in the selection and utilization of instructional
d. Expository Method
materials?

a. Objectives of the lesson

13. In Math, Teacher G presents various
b. Availability of instructional materials
examples of plane figures to her class.
c. Attractiveness of instructional materials Afterwards, she asks the students to give
definition of each. What method did she use?
d. Degree of interest on the part of the students
a. Inductive

b. Laboratory
10. Teacher E asks student A to identify and
analyze events, ideas or objects in order to state c. Deductive
their similarities and differences. In which part
d. Expository
of the lesson does said activity take place?

a. Preparation
14. Teaching Tinikling to I-Maliksi becomes
b. Generalization
possible through the use of?

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a. Inductive Method 18. Learners must be developed not only in the
cognitive, psychomotor but also in the affective
b. Expository Method aspect. Why is development of the latter also
important?
c. Demonstration Method
a. It helps them develop a sound value system.
d. Laboratory Method
b. Their actions are dominated by their feelings.

c. It helps them develop an adequate knowledge

15. What is the implication of using a method
of good actions.
that focuses on the why rather than the how?
d. Awareness of the consequences of their action
a. There is best method
is sharpened.
b. Typical one will be good for any subject

c. These methods should be standardized for

19. Which of the following attributes
different subjects.
characterizes a learner who is yet to develop the
d. Teaching methods should favor inquiry and concept?
problem solving.
a. The learner can identify the attributes of the
concept.

16. When using problem solving method, the b. The learner can summarize the ideas shared
teacher can about the concept.

a. Set up the problem c. The learner can distinguish examples from

non-examples.
b. Test the conclusion
d. The learner gets a failing grade in the tests
c. Propose ways of obtaining the needed data given after the concept has been discussed.
d. Help the learners define what is it to be solved

20. The strategy which makes use of the old

concept of "each-one-teach-one" of the sixty's is
17. Which of the following characterizes a well-
similar to?
motivated lesson?
a. Peer learning
a. The class is quiet.
b. Independent learning
b. The children have something to do.
c. Partner learning
c. The teacher can leave the pupils
d. Cooperative learning
d. There are varied procedures and activities
undertaken by the pupils.

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21. Which part of the lesson does the learner 24. In Music, Teacher 1 wants to teach the class
give a synthesis of the things learned? how to play the piano in the Key of C. Which of
the following should be his objective?
a. Motivation
a. To play the piano in the key of C chords
b. Application
b. To improve playing the piano in the key of C
c. Evaluation
c. To interpret property of chords of Key of C in
d. Generalization the piano

d. To exhibit excellent playing of piano in the

key of C
22. Educational objectives are arranged from
simple to complex. Why is this?

a. Each level is built upon and assumes 25. When using instructional material, what
acquisition of skills from the previous level. should the teacher primarily consider?
b. Objectives are broad and value-laden a. The material must be new and skillfully made.
statements that lead to the philosophy of
education. b. It must be suited to the lesson objective.

c. Be idealistic and ambitious to begin with c. The material must stimulate and maintain
grandiose scheme for using taxonomy in all students' interest
levels.
d. It must be updated and relevant to Filipino
d. These are guidelines to be taught and learned setting.
where teachers and students evaluate learning.

Answers: 1B 2D 3C 4A 5A 6C 7A 8C 9A 10D
23. Which of the following is NOT true? 11C 12B 13A 14C 15D 16D 17D 18A 19A 20D
21C 22A 23C 24A 25B
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1. Of goals of education, which relates to the B. Remove tension level before proceeding with
strengthening of our society’s sense of lesson
belonging and identity?
C. Modify lesson
A. Autonomy
D. Skip whole lesson unit altogether
B. Enculturation

C. Moral character
5. Teacher Jose talks to students about their
D. Citizenship interests, what they did over the weekend, their
progress in school work, etc. What positive
approach to classroom management did Teacher
Jose apply?
2. Of the following interventions, which is
directly aimed at responding to the transitional A. Trusting students
gap between academic achievement and
employment? B. Being fair and consistent

A. Deregulation of tuition fees C. Expressing interest for students

B. Voluntary accreditation of schools D. Being positive

C. School networking with business and

industry
6. Of the following, which is a non-threatening
D. Identification of centers of excellence style of disciplining unruly students?

A. Stand under heat of the sun

3. Teacher Ernie makes sure that he covers the B. Do push-ups

essential subject content, while treating them
sufficiency or in-depth. What guiding principle C. Send to guidance office
is he following for lesson preparation? D. Squat before the class
A. Balance

B. Feasibility 7. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance

C. Significance Approach to discipline, what happens when
students seek to hurt others to make up being for
D. Self-sufficiency being hurt or rejected?

A. Revenge seeking

4. As preventive measure for classroom B. Power seeking

discipline, the teacher may restructure the
program. How is this not done? C. Withdrawal

A. Reteach lessons difficult to understand D. Attention getting

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 11. Facilities such as classrooms, fixtures, and
equipment can often damage the morale of new
8. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance teachers and become an obstacle for adapting
Approach to discipline, what happens when well to the school environment. What should be
students are not getting the recognition they the policy for assigning said physical facilities?
desire, continually seek help, and refuse to work
unless the teacher hovers over them? A. Needs of student’s basis

A. Attention getting B. Position ranking basis

B. Withdrawal C. First-come, first-served basis

C. Revenge seeking D. Service seniority basis

D. Power seeking

12. According to the guidelines on punishment,

what does it mean if the teacher should give the
9. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance student the benefit of the doubt?
Approach to discipline, what happens when
students feel helpless and rejected so that they A. Make sure facts are right before punishing
remove themselves rather than confront the
situation? B. Doubt the incident really happened

A. Withdrawal C. Don’t punish and doubt effectiveness of

punishment
B. Power seeking
D. Get the side of the students when punishing
C. Revenge seeking

D. Attention getting
13. Of subcategories of movement behavior,
what is happening when the teacher ends an
activity abruptly?
10. To manage behavior, the teacher needs to be
able to identify the mistaken goals of students. A. Thrust
What is the hidden goal of students who become
violent? B. Truncation

A. Goal is to seek power C. Stimulus-bounded

B. Goal is to get attention D. Flip-flop

C. Goal is to isolate self

D. Goal is to get revenge 14. Which of the following is true of a

democratic classroom?

A. Teacher acts as firm decision maker

B. Students decide what and how to learn

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C. Consultation and dialogue 18. What best describes “puwede na” mentality
vs. excellence in service/work?
D. Suggestions are sent to higher officials for
decisions A. Arduous preparation

B. Resignation to mediocrity

15. Which of the following steps should be C. Committed work

completed first in planning an achievement test?
D. Striving to be the best
A. Set up a table of specifications

B. Define the instructional objective

19. If the children are cooperatively engaged
C. Select the types of test items to use with the teacher in a group project the children
will discipline themselves as each member of
D. Decide on the length of the test the group exercises

A. Obedience to the teacher

16. Teacher Francis organized a structured class B. Special interest
discussion with two opposing sides and assigned
speakers on the issue of contraceptives. What C. Peer influence
was this kind of class?
D. Moral compulsion
A. Brainstorming

B. Debate
20. Which of these “combination of classes” is
C. panel discussion organized in places where the required number
of pupils of the same grade levels has not met
D. symposium the required number to make up a separate class
thus the teacher apportions class time for
instruction to every grade level within the class?
17. Problems of discipline (misdeeds, lapses,
A. Mutli-grade
minor offenses) can be reduced through
enthusiasm which can be matched by the B. Heterogeneous
enthusiasm of learners. What can draw a laugh
and reduce tension from all? C. Extension

A. Verbal reinforces D. Homogeneous

B. Nonverbal gestures

C. Dialogues Answers: 1D 2C 3A 4D 5C 6C 7A 8A 9A 10D

11A 12D 13B 14C 15B 16B 17D 18B 19C 20A
D. Sense of humor

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involves cooperative control.

d. No, because it is the experience centered and

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1. Which is NOT a provision for the studied, different literary pieces during the
development of each learner in a good historical period is being studied as well. What
curriculum? curriculum design is shown here?
a. Extensive arrangements are made for the a. Separate subject design
educational diagnosis of individual learners.
b. Correlation design
b. Self-directed, independent study is
encouraged wherever possible and advisable. c. Discipline design

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stimulated and emphasized throughout the
learning opportunities of the school.

d. The program provides a wide range of 4. This phase of curriculum development

opportunities for individuals with same abilities, involves decisions, among other things, on grade
needs and interests. placement and sequencing of content. Which
phase is this?

a. Curriculum planning
2. Teacher Lily would like to take part in
developing a subject-centered curriculum b. Curriculum evaluation
because she believes that all subjects in this type c. Curriculum organization
of curriculum are geared towards the hollistic
development of the learner. Is her belief about d. Curriculum implementation
the subject-centered curriculum true?

a. Yes, because the subject-centered curriculum

focuses on the learners needs, interests and 5. One example of this design of subject-
abilities. centered curriculum is that which shows social
studies being combined with geography, civics,
b. No, because it is the experience-centered culture and history to comprises subject area.
curriculum that emphasizes the teaching of facts Which design is this?
and knowledge for future use.
a. Correlated

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b. Broadfields 9. Ms. Mateo, a History teacher considers the
element of time in arranging content of her
c. Separate Subject lessons in World History. What way of
establishing sequence is given emphasis by Ms.
d. Core
Mateo?

a. Simple to complex
6. Ms. Ortiz, as Science teacher tries to enrich
b. Part to whole
the content of her lesson by identifying related
concepts in Math. What pattern of organizing c. Concrete to abstract
subjects did Ms. Ortiz consider?
d. Chronological
a. Broadfield

b. Correlated
10. Mr. Rivera, a new teacher believes that
c. Core education is a process of development and is life
itself; therefore, experience related to the child's
d. Separate Subject
need and interest should be given primary
consideration. What educational philosophy is
being exhibited by Mr. Rivera?
7. Which design is easy to deliver because
complementary books and materials are a. Idealism
commercially available?
b. Reconstructionism
a. Experience centered design
c. Progressivism
b. Problem design
d. Realism
c. Process design

d. Subject centered design

11. A stakeholder in curriculum development,
Mr. Cruz, a district supervisor and a member of
the school board has one of the following
8. What refers to the matching between primary roles.
curriculum and test to be used to assess the
learners? a. Support and participate in parent-school
organization activities.
a. Alignment
b. Authorize school expenditures for curriculum
b. Auditing development, implementation and evaluation
c. Articulation c. Enact legislation to effect curriculum
improvement.
d. Delivery
d. Recommend changes in curriculum.

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12. The schools in the first District plan to adopt 15. Teacher Dominguito believes that a new
the reading program used in the third district. respect for the child is fundamental in
What level of curriculum improvement is used? curriculum. Thus, all activities in the classroom
are geared towards the development of the child
a. Variation - the center of the educative process. To which
approach in curriculum does Teacher
b. Value orientation
Dominguito adhere?
c. Substitution
a. Learner-centered
d. Restructuring
b. Subject-centered

c. Problem-centered
13. Mr. Bernardo, a curriculum consultant on
d. Pragmatic
Economics insists that in selecting the
curriculum content, it is better that throughout
the high school years, economic geography
concepts be used to recur and be repeated with 16. Mrs. Manuel, the Principal of Bagong Barrio
depth for effective learning. What criterion in Elementary School invited the Brgy. Captain in
content selection is shown here? the school to solicit inputs for a new curriculum
in Social Science which highlights indigenous
a. Validity knowledge in the community. What is shown in
this situation?
b. Continuity
a. Community members as supporters of
c. Significance
curriculum
d. Learnability
b. Community members as curriculum resources

c. Community members as managers of

14. The Filipino learners envisioned by the curriculum
Department of Education (DepEd) in the light of
d. Community members as beneficiaries of
K-12 Curriculum is
curriculum
a. Technologically literate or logistically
developed Filipino
17. Teacher Bert puts emphasis on the
b. Functionally literate or logistically developed
immediate felt interests and needs of his
Filipino
students and not on the anticipated needs and
c. Scientifically Advanced and Values Oriented interests. What type of curriculum does teacher
Filipino Bert adheres?

d. National Oriented and Internationally a. Subject-centered

Competitive Filipinos
b. Learner-centered

c. Experience-centered

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d. Culture-based implementation and evaluation. Which concept
is this?

a. Curriculum development
18. What type of curriculum divides the school
day into different periods such as language arts, b. Curriculum assessment
social studies, science and health, arithmetic,
etc.? c. Curriculum management

a. Correlated d. Curriculum and instruction

b. Broad fields

c. Integrated 22. If curriculum is the "means", what is the

"end"?
d. Separate Subject
a. Strategies

b. Instruction
19. Which curriculum design element is taking
place when Eduardo, a 4th year student can c. Technique
connect the lessons he learned in a subject area d. Approaches
to a related content in another subject area?

a. Articulation
23. The curriculum used during the period in
b. Balance Philippine history terminated the use of English
c. Continuity as a medium of instruction, What period is this?

d. Integration a. American

b. Spanish

20. The following curricular changes took place c. Commonwealth

in what particular period? Restore Grade VII, d. Japanese
double-single session was abolished and more
textbooks were written by Filipino authors.

a. American Period 24. Which of the following statements about the

concept of curriculum is NOT quite acceptable?
b. Philippine Republic
a. It refers to all experiences that both the school
c. Japanese Occupation and the teacher provide the students with.
d. New Society b. It is the set of acquired knowledge, habits and
skills

21. This concept includes the sub-processes of c. It consists of everything that goes within the
curriculum planning, organization, school.

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d. It is a planned action for instruction 2. What refers to the authenticity of the content
selected by the curriculum developer?

a. Feasibility
25. What process is being undertaken by
curriculum developers when they enrich or b. Learnability
modify certain aspects of a particular program
without changing its fundamental conceptions? c. Significance

a. Curriculum improvement d. Validity

b. Curriculum change

c. Curriculum design 3. What do we call the allocation of content to a

definite grade capable of learning?
d. Curriculum implementation
a. Time allotment

b. Grade placement
Answers: 1D 2D 3C 4C 5B 6B 7D 8A 9D 10C
11D 12C 13B 14B 15A 16B 17C 18D 19D 20B c. Grade level
21A 22B 23D 24C 25A d. Maturity level

4. Which pattern of experience-centered

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discussion. Meanwhile, answers are already
incorporated below the questions. b. Activity

c. Social function

1. What design element establishes the vertical d. Specific competencies

linkage from level to level to avoid glaring gaps
and wasteful overlaps?

a. Articulation 5. Which curriculum development phase focuses

on the change which will take place in certain
b. Balance aspects of the curriculum without changing the
fundamental conceptions?
c. Scope
a. Curriculum planning
d. Sequence
b. Curriculum design

c. Curriculum improvement

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d. Curriculum evaluation b. Realistic and meaningful experiences are
provided

c. Some degree of flexibility is provided

6. Which is not a component of curriculum
designing? d. Social skills are emphasized

a. Objective

b. learning content 10. To ensure success in curriculum

development, which of the following specific
c. learning experiences actions should a curriculum leader avoid?
d. Diagnosis of needs a. Work with people over them.

b. Use your status frequently to establish

discipline
7. Which type of curriculum design serves as a
response to society's demand for integration of c. Keep channels of communication open
knowledge and enables the learner to see
relationship among various aspects? d. Show that you too desire to improve

a. Broadfield

b. Correlated 11. Which of the following is a reason for the

continuous appraisal of the existing curriculum
c. Core in all levels?
d. Separate subjects a. New national policies in government

b. Changing needs and condition of society

8. Who controls the subject centered- c. Economic status of the people
curriculum?
d. Political trust of the country
a. Learner

b. Teacher
12. Which of the following best defines
c. Parent curriculum development?
d. Teacher and parent a. The total mental phenomena directly received
at any given time

b. The planning of learning opportunities

9. To provide individual differences in the
intended to bring about certain desired changes
classroom, how is curriculum designed?
in pupils and the assessment of the extent to
a. Minimum learning competencies are included which these changes have taken place.

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c. A continuous cycle of activities in which all
elements of curriculum are considered.
16. Schools divide the school hours to different
d. Education is aiding each child to be socially subjects such as reading, grammar, literature,
creative individuals. math, science, history and geography. What
curriculum design is referred here?

a. Problem-centered
13. To build a sense of pride among Filipino
youth, which should be done in the curriculum? b. Learner-centered

a. Re-study our history and stress on our c. Subject-centered

achievements as a people.
d. Culture-based
b. Re-study our history from the perspective of
our colonizer.

c. Replace the study of folklore and myths with 17. Which is NOT a description of the learner-
technical subjects. centered curriculum?

d. Set aside the study of local history. a. Emphasis is on the total growth and
development of the learners

b. Controlled and cooperatively directed by

14. What do you call the curriculum when the learners, teachers and parents
teacher puts into action all the different planned
activities in the classroom? c. Education is a means to develop social
creative individual
a. Recommended Curriculum
d. Emphasis upon facts and knowledge for
b. Written Curriculum future use

c. Taught Curriculum

d. Supported Curriculum 18. The K-12 curriculum is otherwise called as

a. 2002 Basic Education Curriculum

15. Which statement about the subject-centered b. Revitalized Basic Education Curriculum
curriculum is NOT true?
c. Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum
a. There is a high level of cooperative interaction
d. Extended Basic Education Curriculum
b. It covers much content in a short period of
time

c. The teacher has full control of the classroom 19. What refers to an individual or group of
activities individuals who have a direct and indirect
influence in curriculum development?
d. The main task is mastery of learning
a. Stockholders
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b. Stakeholders c. Classroom practices give attention to the
maturity and learning problems of each pupil.
c. Promoters
d. Cooperative planning and teaching provide
d. Incorporators for exchange of information about pupil's
learning experiences.

20. What refers to the appropriateness of the

content in the light of the particular students 23. Objectives must be evaluated in the light of
who are to experience the curriculum? practical considerations, including teacher
competence, availability of instructional
a. Significance
materials, time allotment, etc. What
b. Validity characteristic of educational objective is defined
by the aforementioned statement?
c. Interest

d. Learnability a. Comprehension

b. Attainability
21. Which of the following statements is NOT c. Consistency
acceptable?
d. Feasibility
a. Instruction is the actual engagement of
learners in the planned learning activities.

b. Curriculum determines what assessment 24. "Knowledge is true if it is workable". What

should be done, and how to do it. philosophical foundation supports this
statement?
c. Instruction requires teachers to use a variety
of action to accomplish a variety of functions. a. Idealism

d. Assessment establishes what is to be b. Realism

accomplished in teaching and learning.
c. Pragmatism

d. Essentialism
22. Which characteristic of a good curriculum
highlights the psychological nature of the
learner?
25. As a member of the curriculum committee,
a. Provisions are made for the smooth transition your chief concern is to give the child freedom
and continuing achievement of pupils. to choose what to learn and believe, as you
allow them to set their own identities and
b. Curriculum plans in areas which extend over standards. What philosophy will you consider?
several years are developed vertically.
a. Existentialism

b. Realism
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c. Idealism c. Evaluation is synonymous with
implementation.
d. Pragmatism
d. Utilization is the action phase.

Answers: 1A 2D 3B 4A 5C 6D 7A 8B 9C 10B
11B 12B 13A 14C 15A 16C 17D 18C 19B 20D 3. Ms. Gomez is planning to integrate
21D 22C 23D 24C 25A technology in her Mathematics class. Which of
the following would be the logical steps in doing
this?
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a. I, II, III, IV
1. Which of the following statements has a very b. II, I, III, IV
limited definition of educational technology?
c. I, II, IV, III
a. It is a profession composed of various job
categories. d. II, I, IV, III

b. It refers to the computers used for teaching

and learning.
4. Which of the following is a limitation of
c. It includes audiovisual materials, interactive models and real objects in teaching and
multimedia and self-instructional materials. learning?

d. It is the development, application and a. They pose problems on storage

evaluation of system, techniques and aids to
improve human learning b. They make learning more concrete.

c. They provide hands-on learning experiences.

2. Which of the following statements is correct d. They are readily available in the environment,
about the domains of educational technology? around school and in the home.

a. Design is the production stage while

development is the planning stage.
5. Which group of technologies has the highest
b. Both the design and development are the degree of concreteness?
planning stage.
a. Realia and computer

b. Video, picture and television

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c. Digital video, film, versatile compact disc 9. Which of the following should Mr. Rivera
primarily consider in determining the teaching-
d. Book, imaginative literature, programmed learning objectives and use of instructional
instruction media?

a. The assessment tool to be used

6. Mrs. Del Prado placed text together with the b. The learning activities
relevant graphics on the same page in her
multimedia presentation. Which principle did c. The learner
she apply?
d. The teacher
a. Split attention

b. Spatial contiguity
10. Which of the following technologies provide
c. Cost effectiveness iconic experiences to students/ children?

d. Communication effectiveness a. Video and books

b. Pictures and videos

7. Mrs. Olivarez presented real samples of rocks c. Radio and recording

in her General Science class. What principle did
she apply? d. Modules and periodicals

a. Appropriateness

b. Authenticity 11. Which of these technologies used in the

classroom are arranged from the most symbolic
c. Responsiveness to multisensory?

d. Simplicity a. Real objects, print, audio-visual materials and

visual materials

b. Visual materials, audio visual materials, print

8. Which is the best reason why teachers state and computers
the objectives before using instructional media?
c. Visual materials, print, audio-visual materials
a. To secure materials and realia
b. To prepare the materials beforehand. d. Print, audio-visual materials, computers and
realia
c. To determine which media to use best.

d. To be able to practice how to operate the

equipment 12. Which of the following is inappropriate in
using printed visuals such as charts, graphs and
drawings?

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a. Provide written or verbal cues to highlight
important aspect of visuals
15. Mr. Tarnate, an ICT teacher takes into
b. Present the instructional materials account technology standards to address the
simultaneously needs of the students and help them adapt with
the changing society and technology Which of
c. Use materials that everyone can see the following standards is an exception?
d. Make the presentation suspenseful a. Creativity and innovation

b. Research and information literacy

13. Susan wants to learn more English. c. Model digital-age work and learning
Specifically, she wants to improve her listening
skills. She has a CD player, a tape recorder and d. Technology operations and concepts
has internet access. As an English teacher, what
do you suggest?

I. CDs with English listening drills 16. Ms. Vinluan, a computer teacher
demonstrates understanding of local and global
II. Tapes with English listening drills issues and exhibits ethical and legal use of
information and communications technology
III. Internet website such as Go4English, tools. Which is true about her?
English Language Listening Lab or Randall's
listening Lab a. She models digital-age work and learning

a. I and II b. She facilitates and inspires student learning

and creativity.
b. II and III
c. She promotes and models digital citizenship
c. I or III and responsibility.
d. I, II and III d. She designs and develops digital-age learning
experiences and assessments

14. Which of the following statements is

incorrect about the contributions of technology 17. With the fast-paced evolution of
to student learning? technologies nowadays, why are teachers
encouraged to shift gradually from a teacher-
a. The quality of learning can be improved.
centered instruction to a learner-centered
b. The delivery of instruction can be more instruction?
interesting.
I. A learner-centered instruction focuses on
c. The method of teaching and learning becomes transformation of facts.
more interactive.
a. II and IV only
d. The role of the teacher can be changed into
b. I, II and IV only
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c. I, III and IV only c. have the pupils forward a downloaded
friendly letter to others via email.
d. II, III and IV only
d. Let the pupils write a friendly letter using
word processing and have it critiqued by their
peers.
18. Ms. Hernandez employs student-centered
instruction as the learners create their digital
portfolios in her computer class. What could be
developed among them through this approach? 21. Which of the following computer-based
instructional materials can be used to learn new
a. Repetition and active learning concepts?
b. Mastery of skills and information delivery a. Games
c. Information processing and passive learning b. Tutorial
d. Construction of knowledge and information c. Simulation
exchange
d. Drill and practice

19. Mr. Torres will have a multimedia

presentation in his Science class. Which of the 22. Professor dela Cruz would like to create a
following should he avoid? presentation material for her lesson on the types
of computer-assisted instruction. To make her
a. Consider technical quality. presentation effective, which?
b. Apply different computer effects per slid. a. Situating tool
c. Present information through graphic b. Informative tool
organizers
c. Productivity tool
d. Use contrasting colors for text and
background. d. Communicative tool

20. Mrs. Sison would like to integrate 23. Professor Reyes is thinking of an online
technology in writing a friendly letter. Which of learning approach by which content provides
the following is the most effective way of doing links to information at other locations and serves
it? as a focal point for a distance education
experience. Which of the following should she
a. Let the pupils surf a friendly letter from the use?
internet
a. Teleconferencing
b. Have the pupils write a friendly letter and
send it through an email. b. Self-paced program

c. Web-based instruction

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d. Computer-aided instruction 1. Ms. Delos Santos is a fresh graduate teacher
who was hired to teach in an elementary school
where there are enough resources for instruction.
She wanted to start preparing her instructional
24. Which is NOT a basic consideration in
materials. Which is the most systematic process
selecting and evaluating the content of an
in doing this?
educational technology tool?

a. Does it match the content?

a. Design, utilization, evaluation, development
b. Can it be easily dismantled?
b. Design, development, utilization, evaluation
c. Will it motivate and maintain interest?
c. Development, design, utilization, evaluation
d. Is there evidence of its effectiveness?
d. Development, utilization, evaluation, design

25. Your father wanted to finish his long

dreamed course but he wanted to do it at home 2. Which is the most important reason why
during his free time. Would you recommend an teachers need to preview their instructional
online learning? materials that will be used in the class?

a. Yes, because online learning is the "in" thing a. To gain confidence in using them

b. No, because online learning inhibits student- b. To encourage viewers to be more focused
teacher interaction.
c. To avoid potential problems that might occur
c. No, because hiring a helper would enable him while materials are in use
to attend regularly in his class.
d. To ensure appropriateness of the materials
d. Yes, because he could learn at his own pace with the objectives and target audience
using a wide spectrum of technologies.

3. After Ms. Rivas planned her lesson in

Answers: 1B 2D 3B 4A 5A 6A 7B 8C 9B 10B English, she found out that the materials at hand
11D 12B 13D 14D 15C 16C 17C 18D 19B 20D do not match her objectives. Which is the best
21B 22C 23C 24B 25D thing that she can do?

a. Modify the available materials

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4. Prof. Balagtas used worksheets, a. Graphic organizer
manipulatives, and models in teaching math to
help her students understand the lessons and b. Print materials
love the subject. What did she bear in mind c. Model
when she used these materials?
d. Realia
a. Appropriateness

b. Balance
8. There are several reasons why teachers are
c. Breadth reluctant in using electronic media in the
d. Variety teaching-learning process. Which is the most
common reason?

a. The limited exposure of teachers to new

5. With increasing use of educational technology equipment
inside the classroom, what role is expected of
the teacher? b. Their incompatibility to diverse needs of the
learners
a. Facilitator
c. The difficulty in integrating technology in the
b. Researcher curriculum

c. Knowledge giver d. The excessive availability of local technology

in the community
d. Source of information

9. Prof. Mandanas would like to use an audio

6. It is impractical to bring real objects to the compact disc in teaching a lesson in Filipino. In
classroom so Aaron constructed a three- which activity in the teaching-learning process is
dimensional visual instead. Which of the it very effective?
following did he construct?
a. In developing listening skills
a. Chart
b. In teaching creating thinking
b. Cartoon
c. In composing poems
c. Model
d. In building concepts
d. Graphic organizer

10. Plants, pebbles, and blocks are just some of

7. You asked your students to show a two- the effective instructional materials readily
dimensional illustration of what they have found in the environment if they are utilized
understood from what they have read. Which of properly. Which of the following is
the following non-projected visuals are you INCORRECT about their classroom use?
referring to?

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a. Pass a single object around the class. of the following should be your last
consideration in using the technology?
b. Familiarize yourself with the object or model
before its actual utilization. a. Computers can be used for entertainment.

c. Use the objects as springboard in encouraging b. Computers can be used for research activity.
students' active participation.
c. Computers can be used for interactive
d. Make sure that the realia and model are large presentation.
enough to be seen by the whole class.
d. Computers can be used to reinforce discussion
of difficult concepts in class.

11. Prof. Ruiz uses projected visuals such as

Digital Liquid Projector (DLP) in presenting her
lesson. What could be her main reason for using 14. Computers can be classified according to the
it? roles they play namely communicative tool,
informative tool, and constructive tool. What is
a. The projected materials are readily available. the other role of computers not mentioned in this
item?
b. They are more abstract than any other visuals.
a. Instructional tool
c. Most projected visuals can be obtained at no
cost. b. Situating tool

d. She can easily prepare for own transparencies c. Utility tool

in advance.
d. Application tool

12. Ms. Samonte used a film clip in teaching

Social Studies concepts to her First Year High 15. Which of the following categories of CAI
School class. However, she found out that it was will you use in your class if your objective is to
ineffectively used in the classroom. When is increase proficiency in a newly learned skill or
technology considered INEFFECTIVE? refresh an existing one?

a. When it promotes mastery of the lesson a. Tutorial

b. When it makes viewing more interesting b. Simulation

c. When it helps attain the objectives of the c. Drill and practice

lesson d. Instructional game
d. When it induces alienation on the part of the
learners
16. Which of the following is an ineffective use
of Presentation software?
13. Your principal purchased new computer a. Darken the room.
units for your Learning Resource Center. Which

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b. Use appropriate pacing. 20. Which technology tool can Prof. Soriano use
to communicate asynchronously with her
c. Read directly from the slides. students?
d. Allow interaction with the learner. a. Chat and blog

b. Chat and instant messaging

17. Which of the following is NOT an example c. Blog and video conferencing
of a communicative tool?
d. Electronic bulletin board and email
a. Chat

b. Electronic mail
21. In your computer subject, you allow your
c. Teleconferencing class to chat as part of your motivation before
discussing to them the roles of computer as a
d. Multimedia encyclopedia
tool. How is chat used in t his context?

a. Information tool
18. Why is one-way delivery of information a
b. Application tool
misuse of communication tools?
c. Communicative tool
a. Because the teacher expects the student to
study more d. Situating tool
b. Because it requires activities that focus on
thinking than responding
22. Which statement is INCORRECT about
c. Because it enables the users to focus more on computer conferencing?
higher level cognitive activities
a. It refers to live student interaction with an
d. Because this kind of practice lessens expert.
interaction capabilities of communication tools
b. It is also known as discussion forum or
bulletin board.
19. Internet consists of thousands of connected c. It also refers to online class discussions,
computer networks around the world. Which forums or debates.
term does not refer to internet?
d. It permits two or more individuals
a. NET

b. On-line
23. Which instructional application will you
c. Cyberspace introduce to your class if your objective is to
help them find and use information resources
d. Information Superhighway
available in the internet?

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computer application is used to organize
instructions and track students records and
progress? 1. Who among the teachers described below is
doing assessment?
a. Computer-based Multimedia
a. Mrs. Bautista who is administering a test to
b. Computer-assisted Instruction
her students.
c. Computer-mediated Education
b. Mr. Ferrer who is counting the scores
d. Computer-managed Instruction obtained by the students in his test.

c. Ms. Leyva who is computing the final grade

of the students after completing all their
25. When is distance education as effective as requirements.
the traditional instruction?
d. Prof. Cuevas who is planning for a remedial
a. When the method, technologist and instruction after knowing that students perform
assessment used are appropriate to the required poorly in her test
competencies.

b. When the course requires more face-to-face

communication between the students and 2. Mr. Fernandez is judging the accuracy of
teachers. these statements. Which statements will he
consider as correct?
c. When students depend more on their online
mentor. I. Test is a tool to measure a trait.

d. When there is student to student interaction. II. Measurement is the process of qualifying a
given trait.

III. Assessment is the gathering of quantitative

Answers: 1B 2D 3A 4D 5A 6C 7A 8A 9A 10A and qualitative data.
11A 12D 13A 14B 15C 16C 17D 18D 19B 20D
21B 22A 23C 24B 25A IV. Evaluation is the analysis of quantitative and
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b. III and IV only c. Ms. Ventura who gave 10-item test to find out
the specific lessons which the students failed to
c. I, II, and III understand.
d. I, III and IV d. Mrs. Lopez who administered a readiness test
to the incoming grade one pupils.

3. If I have to use the most authentic method of

assessment, which of these procedures should I 6. You are assessing for learning. Which of
consider? these will you likely do?
a. Traditional Test a. Giving grades to students
b. Performance-based Assessment b. Reporting to parents the performance of their
child.
c. Written Test
c. Recommending new policies in grading
d. Objective Assessment
students.

d. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of

4. After doing the exercise on verbs, Ms. Borillo students.
gave a short quiz to find out how well students
have understood the lesson. What type of
assessment was done? 7. Ms. Saplan is planning to do an assessment of
learning. Which of these should she include in
a. Summative Assessment
her plan considering her purpose for
b. Formative Assessment assessment?

c. Diagnostic Assessment a. How to give immediate feedback to student's

strengths and weaknesses
d. Placement Assessment
b. How to determine the area of interest of
learners
5. Who among the teachers below performed a c. How to certify student's achievement
diagnostic assessment?
d. How to design one's instruction
a. Ms. Santos who asked questions when the
discussion was going on to know who among h
er students understood what she was trying to
8. You targeted that after instruction, your
emphasize.
students should be able to show their ability to
b. Mr. Colubong who gave a short quiz after solve problems with speed and accuracy. You
discussing thoroughly the lesson to determine then designed a tool to measure this ability.
the programs of learning. What principle of assessment did you consider
in this situation?

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a. Assessment should be based on clear and a. No, the giving of an objective test is more
appropriate learning targets or objectives. appropriate than the use of essay.

b. Assessment should have a positive b. No, such method of assessment is

consequence on student's learning inappropriate because essay is difficult.

c. Assessment should be reliable. c. Yes, essay test could measure more than what
other tests could measure.
d. Assessment should be fair.
d. Yes, essay test is the best in measuring any
type of knowledge.
9. Ms. Ortega tasked her students to show how
to play basketball. What learning target is she
assessing? 12. What type of validity does the Pre-board
examination possess if its results can explain
a. Knowledge how the students will likely perform in their
licensure examination?
b. Reasoning
a. Concurrent
c. Skills
b. Predictive
d. Products
c. Construct

d. Content
10. Mr. Ravelas made an essay test for the
objective "Identify the planets in the solar
system". Was the assessment method used the
most appropriate for the given objective? Why? 13. Ms. Aviz wants to determine if the students'
scores in their Final Test is reliable. However,
a. Yes, because essay test is easier to construct she has only one set of test and her students are
than objective test. already on vacation. What test of reliability can
she employ?
b. Yes, because essay test can measure any type
of objective. a. Test-Retest
c. No, he should have conducted oral b. Kuder Richardson Method
questioning.
c. Equivalent Forms
d. No, he should have prepared an objective test.
d. Test-Retest with Equivalent Forms

11. Mr. Cidro wants to test students' knowledge

of the different places in the Philippines, their Refer to this case in answering items 14-15
capital and their products and so he gave his
students an essay test. If you were the teacher, Two teachers of the same grade level have set
will you do the same? the following objectives for the day's lesson. At

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the end of the period, the students should be able 16. In the context of the Theory of Multiple
to: Intelligence, which is a weakness of the paper-
pencil test?
a. Construct bar graph, and
a. It puts non-linguistically intelligent at a
b. Interpret bar graphs disadvantage.

b. It is not easy to administer.

To assess the attainment of the objectives, c. It utilizes so much time.
Teacher A required the students to construct a
bar graph for the given set of data then she asked d. It lacks reliability.
them to interpret this using a set of questions as
guide. Teacher B presented a bar graph then
asked them to interpret this using also a set of 17. Mr. Umayam is doing a performance-based
guide questions. assessment for the day's lesson. Which of the
following will most likely happen?

14. Whose practice is acceptable based on the a. Students are evaluated in one sitting.
principles of assessment? b. Students do an actual demonstration of their
a. Teacher A skill.

b. Teacher B c. Students are evaluated in the most objective

manner.
c. Both Teacher A and B
d. Students are evaluated based on varied
d. Neither Teacher A nor Teacher B evidences of learning

15. Which is true about the given case? 18. Ms. del Rosario rated her students in terms
of appropriate and effective use of some
a. Objective A matched with performance-based laboratory equipment and measurement tools
assessment while B can be assessed using the and the students ability to follow the specified
traditional pen-and-paper objective test. procedures. What mode of assessment should
Miss del Rosario use?
b. Objective A matched with traditional
assessment while B can be assessed using a a. Portfolio Assessment
performance-based method.
b. Journal Assessment
c. Both objective A and B matched with
performance-based assessment. c. Traditional Assessment

d. Both objective A and B matched with d. Performance-based Assessment

traditional assessment.

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19. Mrs. Hilario presented the lesson on baking a. Diary
through a group activity so that the students will
not just learn how to bake but also develop their b. Portfolio
interpersonal skills. How should this lesson be c. Anecdotal record
assessed?
d. Observation report
I. She should give the students an essay test
explaining how they baked the cake.

II. The students should be graded on the quality 22. Mrs. Catalan allowed the students to develop
of their baked cake using a rubric. their own portfolio in their own style as long as
they show all the non-negotiable evidences of
III. The students in a group should rate the learning. What principle in portfolio assessment
members based on their ability to cooperate in explains this practice?
their group activity.
a. Content Principle
IV. She should observe how the pupils perform
their tasks. b. Learning Principle

c. Equity Principle

a. I, II, and III only d. Product Principle

b. I, III, and IV only

c. I, II and IV only 23. How should the following steps in portfolio

assessment be arranged logically?
d. I, II, III, and IV
I. Set targets

II. Select evidences

20. If a teacher has set objectives in all domains
or learning targets and which could be assessed III. Collect evidences
using a single performance task, what criterion
in selecting a task should she consider? IV. Rate Collection

a. Generalizability V. Reflect on Evidences

b. Fairness a. I, II, III, IV, V

c. Multiple Foci b. I, III, II, V, IV

d. Teachability c. I, II, III, V, IV

d. I, III, V, II, IV

21. Which term refers to the collection of

students' products and accomplishments in a
24. Which could be seen in a rubric?
given period for evaluation purposes?

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I. Objective in a high level of cognitive behavior

II. Multiple criteria in assessing learning 1. Mrs. Pua is judging the worth of the project of
the students in her Science class based on a set
III. Quantitative descriptions of the quality of of criteria. What process describes what she is
work doing?
IV. Qualitative descriptions of the quality of a. Testing
work
b. Measuring
a. I and II only
c. Evaluating
b. II, III and IV only
d. Assessing
c. I, II and III

d. I, II, III and IV

2. Mrs. Acebuche is comparing measurement
from evaluation. Which statement explains the
difference?
25. The pupils are to be judged individually on
their mastery of the singing of the national a. Measurement is assigning a numerical value
anthem so their teacher let them sing to a given trait while evaluation is giving
individually. What should the teacher use in meaning to the numerical value of the trait.
rating the performance of the pupils considering
the fact that the teacher has only one period to b. Measurement is the process of gathering
spend in evaluating her 20 pupils? while evaluation is the process of quantifying
the data gathered.
a. Analytic
c. Measurement is the process of quantifying
b. Holistic data while evaluation is the process of
organizing data.
c. Either holistic or analytic
d. Measurement is a pre-requisite of assessment
d. Both holistic and analytic
while evaluation is the pre-requisite of testing.

Answers: 1C 2D 3B 4B 5C 6D 7C 8A 9C 10D
3. Ms. Ricafort uses alternative methods of
11A 12B 13B 14A 15A 16A 17B 18D 19C 20C
assessment. Which of the following will she not
21B 22C 23B 24B 25B
likely use?

a. Multiple Choice Test

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4. Ms. Camba aims to measure a product of 7. At the beginning of the school year, the 6-year
learning. Which of these objectives will she old pupils were tested to find out who among
most likely set for her instruction? them can already read. The result was used to
determine their sections. What kind of test was
a. Show positive attitude towards learning given to them?
common nouns
a. Diagnostic
b. Identify common nouns in a reading selection
b. Formative
c. Construct a paragraph using common nouns
c. Placement
d. User a common noun in a sentence
d. Summative

5. The students of Mrs. Valino are very noisy.

To keep them busy, they were given any test 8. The grade six pupils were given a diagnostic
available in the classroom and then the results test in addition and subtraction of whole
were graded as a way to punish them. Which numbers to find out if they can proceed to the
statement best explains if the practice is next unit. However, the results of the test were
acceptable or not? very low. What should the teacher do?

a. The practice is acceptable because the a. Proceed to the next lesson to be able to finish
students behaved well when they were given a all the topics in the course.
test.
b. Construct another test parallel to the given
b. The practice is not acceptable because it test to determine the consistency of the scores.
violates the principle of reliability.
c. Count the frequency of errors to find out the
c. The practice is not acceptable because it lessons that the majority of students need to
violates the principle of validity. relearn.

d. The practice is acceptable since the test results d. Record the scores then inform the parents
are graded. about the very poor performance of their child in
mathematics.

6. Ms. Delos Angeles advocates assessment for

learning. Which will she NOT likely do? 9. Mrs. Nogueras is doing an assessment of
learning. At what stage of instruction should she
a. Formative Assessment do it?
b. Diagnostic Assessment a. Before instruction
c. Placement Assessment b. After instruction
d. Summative Assessment c. Prior to instruction

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d. During the instructional process b. Construct a friendly letter using the MS
Word, and

c. Show interest towards the day's lesson

10. Mr. Cartilla developed an Achievement Test
in Math for her grade three pupils. Before she To assess the attainment of the objectives, Ms.
finalized the test she examined carefully if the Cidro required the students to construct friendly
test items were constructed based on the letter and have it encoded at their Computer
competencies that have to be tested. What test of Laboratory using the MS Word. The letter
validity was she trying to establish? should inform one's friend about what one has
learned in the day's lesson and how one felt
a. Content-validity about it.
b. Concurrent validity

c. Predictive validity 12. Which is NOT true about the given case?
d. Construct validity a. Ms. Cidro practices a balanced assessment.

b. Ms. Cidro's assessment method is

performance-based.
11. Mrs. Robles wants to establish the reliability
of her achievement test in English. Which of the c. Ms. Cidro needs a rubric in scoring the work
following activities will help achieve her of the students.
purpose?
d. Ms. Cidro's assessment targets are all in the
a. Administer two parallel tests to different cognitive domain.
groups of students.

b. Administer two equivalent tests to the same

group of students 13. If Mr. Paraiso will have to make a scoring
rubric for the student's output, what format is
c. Administer a single test but two different better to construct considering that the teacher
groups of students. has limited time to evaluate their work?
d. Administer two different tests but to the same a. Analytic Rubric
group of students.
b. Holistic Rubric

c. Either A or B
Refer to the situation below in answer items 12
and 13 d. Neither A nor B

A teacher set the following objectives for the

day's lesson:
14. The school principal has 3 teacher applicants
At the end of the period, the students should be all of whom graduated from the same institution
able to: and are licensed teachers. She only needs to hire

a. Identify the parts of friendly letter

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one. What should she do to choose the best d. Limit the task to one meeting only.
teacher from the three?

I. Give them a placement test.

17. Who among the teachers below gave the
II. Interview them on why they want to apply in most authentic assessment task for the objective
the school. "Solve word problems involving the four basic
operations"
III. Let them demonstrate how to teach a
particular lesson. a. Mrs. Juliano who presented a word problem
involving a four fundamental operations and
IV. Study their portfolios to examine the then asked the pupils to solve it.
qualities of the students' outputs when they were
in College. b. Mrs. Mandia who asked her pupils to
construct a word problem for a given number
a. I and II. sentence that involves four fundamental
operations and then asked them to solve the
b. II and III.
word problem they constructed.
c. I and III, IV
c. Mrs. Malang who asked her pupils to
d. II, III and IV construct any word problem that involves the
four fundamental operations and then asked
them to show how to solve it.
15. What should be done first when planning for d. Mrs. Pontipedra who asked her pupils to
a performance-based assessment? construct any word problem that involves the
four fundamental operations then formed them
a. Determine the "table of specifications" of the
by twos so that each pair exchanged problems
tasks
and help solve each other's problem.
b. Set the competency to be assessed.

c. Set the criteria in scoring the task.

18. Which is wrong to assume about traditional
d. Prepare a scoring rubric. assessment?

a. It can assess individuals objectively.

16. To maximize the amount of time spent for b. It can assess individuals at the same time.
performance-based assessment, which one
c. It is easier to administer than performance
should be done?
test.
a. Plan a task that can be used for instruction and
d. It can assess fairly all the domains of
assessment at the same time.
intelligence of an individual
b. Assess one objective for one performance
task.
19. Which statement about performance-based
c. Set objectives only for cognitive domains.
assessment is FALSE?

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a. It emphasizes merely process. d. Reflect on one's collection and identify
strengths and weaknesses
b. It also stresses doing, not only knowing.

c. It accentuates on process as well as product.

23. Which kind of rubric is best to use in rating
d. Essay tests are an example of performance- students' projects done for several days?
based assessments.
a. Analytic

b. Holistic
20. Under which assumption is portfolio
assessment based? c. Either holistic or analytic

a. Portfolio assessment is a dynamic assessment. d. Both holistic and analytic

b. Assessment should stress the reproduction of

knowledge.
24. Which is not true of an analytic rubric?
c. An individual learner is adequately
characterized by a test score. a. It is time consuming

d. An individual learner is inadequately b. It is easier to construct than the holistic rubric

characterized by a test score. c. It gives one's level of performance per
criterion

21. Which is a good portfolio evidence of a d. It allows one to pinpoint the strengths and
student's acquired knowledge and writing skills? weaknesses of one's work.

a. Project

b. Test Results 25. Mrs. Bacani prepared a rubric with 5 levels

of performance described in 5-excellent, 4-very
c. Reflective Journal satisfactory, 3-satisfactory, 2 needs
improvement, 1-poor. After using this rubric
d. Critiqued Outputs with these descriptions, she found out that most
of her students had a rating of 3. Even those who
are evidently poor in their performance had a
22. When planning for portfolio assessment, rating of satisfactory. Cold there be a possible
which should you do first? error in the use of the rubric?

a. Set the targets for portfolio assessment. a. Yes, the teacher could have committed the
generosity error.
b. Exhibit one's work and be proud of one's
collection b. Yes, the teacher could have committed the
central tendency source of error.
c. Select evidences that could be captured in
one's portfolio c. No, it is just common to see more of the
students having grade of 3 in a 5-point scale.

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d. No, such result is acceptable as long as it has 3. What is the performance of a student in the
a positive consequence to the students. National Achievement Test (NAT) if he
obtained/got a stanine score of 5?

a. Between average and above average

Answers: 1C 2A 3A 4C 5C 6A 7C 8C 9D 10A
11B 12D 13B 14D 15B 16A 17D 18D 19A 20D b. Between average and below average
21C 22A 23A 24B 25B
c. Below average

d. Average
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already incorporated below the questions. a. Mean=55, median=48, mode=34

b. Mean=46, median=40, mode=37

1. In a positively skewed distribution, the c. Mean=63, median=63, mode=63

following statement are true except
d. The distribution is mesokrutic
a. Median is higher than the mode.

b. Mean is higher than the Media.

c. Mean is lower than the Mode.

d. Mean is not lower than the Mode.

5. If quartile deviation is to median, what is to

2. Which of the following questions indicate a
mean?
norm - referred interpretation?
a. Standard deviation
a. How does the pupils test performance in our
school compare with that of other schools?: b. Mode

b. How does a pupil's test performance in c. Range

reading and mathematics compare?
d. Variance
c. What type of remedial work will be most
helpful for a slow- learning pupil?

d. Which pupils have achieved master of 6. In a normal distribution, which of the

computational skills? following is true?

a. median=mode=mean

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b. median≠mode=mean 10. Miss Cortez administered a test to her class
and the result is positively skewed. What kind of
c. median≠mode≠mean test do you think Miss Cortez gave to her
pupils?
d. Mean=median=mode
a. Post test

b. Pretest
7. Which of the following situations may lower
the validity of test? c. Mastery test
a. Mrs. Josea increases the number of items d. Criterion-referenced test
measuring each specific skill from three to five.

b. Mr. Santosa simplifies the language in the

directions for the test. 11. The result of the test given by teacher A
showed a negatively skewed distribution. What
c. Miss. Lopeza removes the items in the kind of test did Teacher A give?
achievement test that everyone would be able to
answer correctly. a. The test is difficult

d. None of the above. b. It is not too easy nor too difficult

c. It is moderately difficult

8. In a negatively skewed distribution, which of d. It is easy

the following statements is true?

a. Mode is lower than the mean.

12. When the distribution is skewed to the right,
b. Mean is lower than the mode. what kind of test was administered?

c. Median is higher than the mode. a. Difficult

d. Mode is lower than the median. b. Easy

c. Average/moderately difficult

9. In a negatively skewed distribution, the d. Partly easy- partly difficult

following statements are true EXCEPT?

a. Mean is not higher than the median

13. In a negatively skewed distribution, what
b. Median is lower than the mode. kind of students does Teacher B have?

c. Mean is lower than the mode. a. Very good

d. Mode is less than the median. b. Very poor

c. Average

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d. Heterogeneous 17. Bernard obtained a 97 percentile rank in an
aptitude test. This means

a. He answered 97% of the items correctly.

14. In a positively skewed distribution, the
students are? b. He belongs to the 97% of the group who took
the test.
a. Very good
c. 79% of the examinees did better than her on
b. Very poor the test.
c. Average d. He surpassed 97% of those who took the test.
d. Normally distributed

18. Which set of scores has the least variability?

15. In a positively skewed distribution, which of Set 1 0,5,10,15,20
the following statements is true?
Set 2 25,35,45,55
a. Mode = 67 while Media = 54
Set 3 0,2,8,15,20
b. Median = 53 while Mean = 41
Set 4 505,501,503
c. Mean = 73 while Mode = 49
a. Set 1
d. Median = 34 while Mode = 42
b. Set 2

c. Set 3
16. Which statements represent criterion-
referenced interpretation? d. Set 4

a. Lucresia did better in solving the linear

equation than 80% of representative Algebra
students. 19. Standard deviation is to variability as mode
to?
b. Lucresia's score indicates that she is able to
solve about two thirds of all one-variable linear a. Correlation
equations of such complexity. b. Discrimination
c. Students who have reached Lucresia's level on c. Central tendency
linear equations usually succeed in the
subsequent unit on simultaneous equations with d. Level of difficulty
special help or extra time; i.e., Lucresia is ready
to move ahead.

d. All of the above 20. Goring performed better than 65% of the
total number of examinees in the district
achievement test. What is his percentile rank?

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a. P35

b. P65 24. The proportion passing the upper and lower

group is .80 and .95, respectively. What is the
c. P66 index of difficulty?
d. P75 a. .38

b. .40
21. Which is a guidance function of a test? c. .58
a. Identifying pupils who need corrective d. 1.02
teaching

b. Predicting success in future academic and

vocational education 25. Mr. Gringo tried to correlate the scores of
his pupils in the Social studies test with their
c. Assigning marks for courses taken grades in the same subject last 3rd quarter. What
test validity is he trying to establish?
d. Grouping pupils for instruction within a class
a. Content validity

b. Construct validity
22. Mr. Reyes, an elementary school teacher in
Science found out that many of his pupils got c. Concurrent validity
very high scores in the test. What measure of
central tendency should he use to describe their d. Criterion related validity
average performance in the subject?

a. Mean
Answers: 1C 2A 3D 4C 5A 6D 7D 8B 9D 10B
b. Median 11D 12A 13A 14B 15C 16B 17D 18D 19C 20B
21B 22B 23D 24C 25C
c. Mode

d. Range
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1. If a test item has a difficulty index of 0.06,
c. Measures of correlation how would you describe the test item?

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b. It is moderately difficulty. 5. Q1 is 25th percentile as media is to what
percentile?
c. It is very difficult
a. 40th percentile
d. It is difficult
b. 60th percentile

c. 50th percentile
2. Two sections have the same mean but the
standard deviation of section 2 is higher than d. 75th percentile
section 1. Which of the two sections is more
homogeneous?

a. Section 1 6. Which is implied by a positively skewed

scores distribution?
b. Section 2
a. The mean, the median, and the mode are
c. Both A and B equal.

d. None of the above b. Most of the scores are high

c. Most of the scores are low.

3. Miss Corteza administered a test to her class d. The mode is high

and the result is positively skewed. What kind of
test do you think Miss Corteza gave to her
pupils? 7. In a normal distribution curve, what does a T-
a. Posttest score of 60 mean?

b. Pretest a. Two SDs below the mean

c. Mastery test b. Two SDs below the mean

d. Criterion-referenced test c. One SD below the mean

d. One SD above the mean

4. In his second item analysis, Mr. Gonzales

found out that more from the lower group got For items 8 to 13, what does each
the test item 15 correctly. What does this mean? figure/distribution on the right indicate?
a. The item has become more valid 8. a. mean > median > mode
b. The item has become more reliable b. mean < mode > median
c. The item has a positive discriminating power c. mean > mode < median
d. The item has a negative discriminating power d. mean < median < mode

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9. a. mode < mean < median 12. a. unequal variability, equal means, different
shapes
b. mode > mean > median
b. unequal means, equal variability, different
c. median < mode > mean shapes
d. none of the above c. equal variability, equal means, different
shapes

d. unequal variability, unequal means, different

shapes

10. a. equal means, unequal standard deviations

b. equal means, equal standard deviations

c. unequal means, equal standard deviations

13. a. unequal means, equal standard deviations
d. unequal means unequal standard deviations
b. equal means, unequal standard deviations

c. equal means, equal standard deviations

d. unequal means, unequal standard deviations

11. a unequal means, equal standard deviations

b. unequal means, equal standard deviations

c. equal means, equal standard deviations

14. In conducting a parent- teacher conference,
d. equal means, unequal standard deviations which of the following is NOT true?

a. Be friendly and informal

b. Be a know-it-all person

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c. Be willing to accept suggestions a. 70

d. Be careful in giving advice b. 71

c. 72

15. In a frequency distribution, what is the d. 73

midpoint of the class interval whose lower and
upper limits are 99.5 and 109.5?

a. 107.0 19. What principle of test construction is

violated when one places very difficult items at
b. 105.0 the beginning; thus creating frustration among
students particularly those of average ability and
c. 104.5 below average?
d. 102.5 a. All the items of particular type should be
placed together in the test.

b. The items should be phrased so that the

16. In a frequency distribution, what is the
content rather than the form of the statements
interval size of the class whose lower and upper
will determine the answer.
limits are 9.5 and 19.5?
c. All items should be approximately 50 percent
a. 11.0
difficulty.
b. 10.0
d. The items of any particular type should be
c. 9.0 arranged in an ascending order of difficulty.

d. 5.0

20. Mrs. Reyes would like to find out how well

her students know each other. What assessment
17. Given a mean of 55 and a standard deviation instrument would best suit her objective?
of 8, what two scores include one standard
deviation below and above the mean? a. Self-report instrument

a. 46 and 63 b. Sociometric technique

b. 47 and 64 c. Guess-who technique

c. 47 and 63 d. All of the above

d. 46 and 64

21. Mr. Reyes asked his pupils to indicate on the

piece of paper the names of their classmates
18. Given the same mean of 55 and standard whom they would like to be with for some group
deviation of 8, what score corresponds to two activity, what assessment technique did Mr.
standard deviation above the mean? Reyes use?

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a. Self-report technique d. None of the above

b. Guess-who technique

c. Sociometric technique 25. Mr. Mirasol who is a high school teacher in

English conducted an item analysis of her test.
d. Anecdotal technique She found out that four of the items of the test
obtained the following difficulty and
discrimination indices and as follows:
22. Which of the following assessment
Item Number Difficulty IndexDiscrimination
procedures/tools is useful in assessing social
Index
relation skills?
1 .58 .49
a. Anecdotal record
2 .92 .72
b. Attitude scale
3 .09 .32
c. Peer appraisal
4 .93 .15
d. any of the above
Which of the above items should be discard in
her item pool?
23. If the proportion passing for the upper and
a. Item 1
lower group is .90 and .30 respectively, what is
the discrimination index? b. Item 2
a. .40 c. Item 3
b. .50 d. Item 4
c. .60

d. .70 Answers: 1C 2A 3B 4D 5C 6C 7D 8D 9D 10A

11A 12C 13D 14B 15C 16B 17C 18B 19D 20C
21C 22C 23C 24B 25D
24. Which is an example of affective learning
outcome?

a. Interpret stimuli from various modalities to

provide data needed in making adjustments to
the environment

b. Judge problem and issues in terms of

situations involved than in terms of fixed
dogmatic thinking

c. Appreciate the quality and worth of the story

read
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of citizens to quality education?

a. The basic education level 5. Which of the following is NOT recognized by

the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers?
b. Tertiary level
a. Quality education depends primarily on the
c. The graduate level quality of socio-economic status of teachers.
d. All levels b. Advancement in education depends on the
teachers' qualifications and ability.

2. Which educational level/s provide/s for free c. Education is an essential factor in the
and compulsory education as stipulated in economic growth of the nation.
Article IV, Section 2 of the Philippine d. Education is development and vice-versa.
Constitution?

a. Elementary level
6. What appointment can be given to Teacher A
b. Secondary level who possesses the minimum qualifications but
c. Elementary and secondary levels lacks the appropriate but lacks the appropriate
civil service eligibility?
d. Tertiary level
a. Contractual basis

b. Permanent
3. Who among the following is in the category
of non-academic personnel as provided for c. Provisional
under Education Act of 1982? d. Substitute
a. Guidance counselors

b. School principal 7. Which of the following rights is intended for

c. School nurse parents under Education Act of 1982?

d. School librarian a. The right to academic freedom

b. The right to privacy of communication

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c. The right to seek redress of grievance 11. Who among the following characterizes a
professional teacher?
d. The right to full access to the evidence of the
case a. An education graduate who received honors

b. A teacher who has taught for at least six years

8. What can help achieve relevant quality c. A teacher who has attended national seminars
education? on teaching

a. Strong curriculum d. A teacher who qualifies for a permanent

position under RA 4670
b. Competent instruction

c. School-community relations
12. Who are covered by RA 4670?
d. Competent administrator
a. Teachers in all levels

b. Teachers in all public elementary schools

9. Which of the following provisions under the
Magna Carta for Public School Teachers will c. Teachers in both public and private schools
most likely promote teachers' welfare and
defend their interests? d. Teachers in public elementary and secondary
schools
a. Be promoted in rank and salary

b. Regulate their social involvement

13. Teacher B has been in active service for 10
c. Undergo and participate in professional years when he decided to pursue higher studies.
development Under RA 4670, what kind of leave of absence
can s/he avail of?
d. Establish, join and maintain professional and
self-regulation organizations a. Indefinite leave

b. Scholarship leave

10. What does "teachers are persons in c. Study leave

authority" imply?
d. Vacation leave
a. Teachers cannot be charged.

b. No person can assault a teacher.

14. When can teachers be required to work on
c. Teachers have immunity from arrest. assignment not related to their duties?

d. Decisions made by teachers are deemed right. a. When on probation

b. When found inefficient

c. When lacking in educational qualifications

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d. When compensated under existing laws 18. Teacher D is assigned in a rural area;
Teacher E in a depressed community; Teacher F
in a hazardous area; and Teacher G in a place
where standard of living is high. Who is entitled
15. Teacher C has been teaching 7 straight years
to a hardship allowance?
and therefore qualities for a study leave with pay
for one year. Should she pursue it, how much a. Teacher D
pay is she entitled to receive?
b. Teacher E
a. 50% of monthly salary
c. Teacher F
b. 60% of monthly salary
d. Teacher G
c. 70% of monthly salary

d. 100% monthly salary

19. Teacher H contracted an illness that required
rest for more than one year. Which leave should
she apply for?
16. Which of the following laws strengthens
teacher education in the Philippines through the a. Sick leave
establishment of centers of excellence?
b. Personal leave
a. RA 7722
c. Vacation leave
b. RA 7784
d. Indefinite leave
c. RA 7796

d. RA 7834
20. A school personnel can avail of free legal
service under certain circumstances. Principal I
was accused of maligning her neighbor. Is
17. What does free public secondary educational
Principal I entitled to the said service?
under the law mean?
a. Yes, she should defend herself.
a. Right of every student to enter public
secondary schools b. No, if funds are not available.
b. Free from being screened to enter pubic c. No, it might bring some disagreements in
secondary schools school
c. Free from payment of school fees identifies d. No, the case is not related to her professional
and authorized by law duties.
d. Free from payment of tuition and other fees
for students enrolled in public secondary schools
21. Teacher J discusses conflicts between
warring groups in Mindanao. Which pillar
should he stress more?

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a. Learning to be valid certificate and a valid license from the
Commission.
b. Learning to live together
d. No, professional license is required of all
c. Learning to do teachers regardless of age and teaching
performance.
d. Learning to know

24. Which of the following statements is NOT

22. Teacher K teaches in a public school in her
true about the Code of Ethics for Professional
locality. Due to teacher shortage, her classroom
Teachers?
teaching starts from 6 am and ends at 3 pm. Is
the assignment given her just? a. The teacher must select which information to
keep confidential
a. Yes, the situation demands that she render
longer teaching hours. b. The teacher must demonstrate full
commitment and devotion to duty
b. Yes, as long as she signs a conforme letter to
that effect. c. The teacher must manifest pride in the
nobility of the teaching profession
c. No, rendering longer teaching hours would
make the teacher tired and exhausted. d. The teacher must make no prejudice or
discrimination against any learner
d. No, Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
states that in the exigencies of service, any
teacher may be required to render more than six
hours and n ot more than eight hours of actual 25. Which of the following could be the reason
classroom teaching a day. for the teacher's suspension from the practice of
the teaching profession?

a. Immoral, unprofessional or dishonorable

23. Teacher L, a graduate of BSEd with conduct
majorship in Mathematics teaches in a national
high school in her province. Since she has been b. Observing proper procedures in obtaining a
rated outstanding in her performance, can she certificate of registration
be exempted from taking the LET?
c. Faithfulness to the code of ethical and
a. Yes, that is a privilege that must be given to professional standards for professional teachers
teachers whose performance is outstanding.
d. Willingness to attend seminars, workshops,
b. Yes, if approved by PRC. conferences and the like or the continuing
education program prescribed by the Board and
c. No, RA 7836 states that no person shall the Commission.
practice or offer to practice the teaching
profession in the Philippines or be appointed as
teacher to any position calling for a teaching
position without having previously obtained a

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Answers: 1D 2C 3C 4C 5D 6C 7C 8B 9D 10B c. No, other teachers should have the chance.
11D 12D 13C 14D 15B 16B 17D 18C 19D 20D
21B 22D 23C 24A 25A d. No, study leave should not exceed one year.

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below the questions. b. Yes, provided she does not require a fee from
the parent.

c. No, that is unfair to other students.

1. Ms. Sanchez, a BSE graduate, has not passed
the LET yet. On what capacity can she be hired? d. No, she should be free after her official time.

a. Permanent status

b. Emergency status 5. Teacher P, the English coordinator, was

assisted by Teacher Q throughout the celebration
c. Provisional for not less six months of English Week. What could Teacher P do to
d. Provisional for not less than one year acknowledge Teacher Q's assistance?

a. Buy her a gift

2. Teacher M suffers from hypertension and b. Keep quiet about the assistance received.
experiences difficulty in speech. Which would c. Mention formally to the principal the
be affected if he continues teaching? assistance received.
a. Personality d. Make an announcement giving due
b. Punctuality recognition of the assistance received.

c. Effectiveness

d. Devotion to duty 6. Is holding a rally to protest the delay of

benefits due a person ethically acceptable?

a. Yes, when hold while on official time.

3. Teacher N wants to continue with her study
leave for another six months after completing a b. Yes, when hold outside the official time.
school year. Could she be allowed? c. Yes, when hold with approval of the principal.
a. Yes, if her grades are excellent. d. Yes, when hold together with parents and
b. Yes, but without compensation. students.

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7. What should a teacher do when he/she falls in 10. Which of the following shows
love with his/her student? responsiveness of public officials and
employees?
a. Court the student at home.
a. Avoiding wastage in public funds
b. Propose and marry the student.
b. Formulating rules and policies regarding work
c. Wait till the student is no longer under his/her
tutelage. c. Providing public information of their policies
and procedures
d. Act normally as if nothing happens and the
student does not exist. d. Encouraging appreciation of government
services
8. When a Principal starts to exercise his/her
powers over making and promoting students, is
his/her action acceptable?
11. Teacher S, a Science teacher has been
a. Yes, when the teacher cannot make decision accused of sexual harassment by one of her
on time. students. What should the school principal do?

b. Yes, when there is abuse of judgment on the a. Ask the teacher to surrender to the police.
part of the teacher.
b. Tell the teacher to stop reporting to school.
c. No, teachers are more knowledgeable of their
student's performance. c. Advice the teacher to transfer to other school.

d. No, grading and promoting students are d. Create a committee to investigate the
exclusive functions of teachers. accusation.

9. Teacher R was asked by her principal to teach 12. Teacher T receives a love letter from one of
pre-school class in addition to her regular grade her third year high school students in Eenglish.
one class. What will be the basis for her What should Mr. Martin do?
additional compensation? a. Read her letter to the class.
a. Her basic salary b. Let the student express her feelings through
b. Performance rating letters.

c. Providing public information of their policies c. Return the letter to the student and tell her not
and procedures to do it again.

d. Encouraging appreciation of government d. Surrender the letter to the parent of the

agencies student.

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13. Mr. Nico, a Social Science teacher is 16. Dr. Velasco, a schools' division
advocating reforms which the principal failed to superintendent acted on the complaint filed by a
recognize. What should the principal do? group of parents against the alleged misconduct
of a particular teacher. She issued a
a. Subject Mr. Nico to a disciplinary measure. memorandum requiring her to take a leave of
absence for a week while the complaint is being
b. Just keep quiet about the behavior of Mr.
heard yet. Was the action of the superintendent
Nico
legal?
c. Call Mr. Nico to the office and clarify things
a. Yes, because she is the superintendent.
out with him.
b. No, because the complaint has not been heard
d. Send Mr. Nico a memo requiring him to
yet.
explain his behavior.
c. Yes, the superintendent has disciplinary
authority over teachers.
14. Which of the following manifests
d. No, the superintendent has no disciplinary
"Commitment to democracy" as explained in
authority over teachers.
RA 6713?

a. Maintaining the principle of accountability.

17. A school's academic coordinator has been
b. Committing to democratic values and ways of
found to have engaged in gambling which has
life.
caused him to be absent most of the time. Can
c. Manifesting by deeds the supremacy of his certificate of registration as a teacher be
civilian authority over the military. revoked?

d. All of the above a. No, unless he's proven guilty.

b. No, because he's protected by his rights as a

teacher.
15. Teacher U was ordered by her principal to
come to school on four consecutive Saturdays c. Yes, because he's incompetent.
for the training of students' editorial staff of their
d. Yes, because habitual gambling is a
school paper. Is this allowed under RA 4670?
dishonorable conduct and is against the practice
a. Yes, provided the teacher is compensated. of teaching.

b. No, because it's not within the regular

functions of the classroom teacher.
18. Mr. Santos is a holder of a valid certificate
c. Yes, because it's part of the teacher's other of eligibility as a teacher issued by the Civil
duties Service Commissioner and the then DECS,
while Mr. Cruz is a registered professional. Who
d. No, because it's not clearly indicated in the is allowed to practice the teaching profession in
law the Philippines?

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a. Mr. Santos, because of his CSC eligibility b. Nationalism and Patriotism
certificate.
c. Responsiveness to the public
b. Mr. Cruz, because their credentials are both
recognized by law. d. Honesty

c. Both of them, because their credentials are

both recognized by law. 22. Mr. Salazar, a school superintendent, filed
d. Neither of the two because they did not take his statement of assets and liabilities upon
and pass the LET. assuming to office. Under what ethical standard
does this practice fall?

a. Divestment
19. What is RA 6713 also called?
b. Prohibited Acts and Transactions
a. Ethical Standards for public Employees
c. Statement of Assets and Liabilities
b. Code of Ethical Standards for Government
Officials and Employees d. System of Incentives

c. Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for

Public Officials and Employees 23. Principal B acted on the letter of complaint
d. Code of Ethical Standards and Conduct of received by his office 30 days after saying he
Government Officials and Employees was preoccupied by more important things the
past days. Is his reason acceptable?

a. Yes, because he has to prioritize things.

20. Teacher V, a BEED graduate is preparing for
the LET. Which of the following should she b. No, RA 6713 states that public officials and
focus her attention more? employees must act promptly on letters and
requests within 15 working days from receipt
a. General Education thereof.

b. Specialization c. Yes, because the letter of complaint can wait

and is of no urgency.
c. Professional Education
d. No, the reason is simple unacceptable.
d. General Education and Professional
Education

24. Which of the following is NOT in the norms

of conduct under RA 6713?
21. What norm of conduct is manifested by
being loyal to the republic and to the Filipino a. Professionalism
people?
b. Justness and sincerity
a. Professionalism
c. Commitment to public interest

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d. Responsiveness to the private d. The incorporation of local and national
economies into a worldwide global economy.

25. Which of the following is true about the

teacher as a person under the Code of Ethics for 2. According to the Delors report, there are a
Professional Teachers? number of main tensions central to the problems
of the twenty first century that we need to
a. Live with dignity at all times wherever he/she overcome. One of them is the challenge to an
is individual how he or she can adapt to the
changing world without forgetting or turning
b. Serve as a model worthy of emulation
his/her back from the past. What kind of tension
c. Place premium upon self-respect and self- or conflict is manifested in this situation?
discipline
a. Tension between tradition and modernity
d. All of the above.
b. Tension between the global and the local

c. Tension between the universal and the

Answers: 1D 2C 3B 4B 5D 6B 7C 8B 9D 10C individual
11D 12C 13C 14D 15C 16C 17D 18C 19C 20D
d. Tension between long term and short term
21B 22C 23B 24D 25D
considerations

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below the questions.
c. Rigid subject matter boundaries

d. Knowledge as the only learning outcome

1. Which of the following conditions manifests
trend of globalization?

a. Establishment of stronger boundaries between 4. What is the measure of relevance in

and among nations. education?

b. Increased awareness on the importance of a. Democratization of access

national cultures and traditions. b. Functionality and meaningfulness
c. Less and less impact of human activity on the c. Ability to sustain education through the future
planet earth.
d. Excellence and effectiveness

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 b. Rapid integration of the planet through media
and technology where events in one part of the
5. What is the concern of Multicultural world could be experienced from other parts in
Education? real-time, similar to what human experience was
like when we lived in small villages.
a. Anticipating the future and imagining possible
and probable futures. c. Global Village is the kind of global world we
are experiencing, characterized by
b. Gender equality and harnessing of the role of
fundamentalism, apathy and conflict brought
women in development.
about by clashes of cultures.
c. Promoting care for the environment and
d. People's cultural and religious identities will
building a global culture of ecological
be the primary source of conflict in the post-
responsibility.
Cold War world as evidenced by the conflict
d. The exploration of concepts of cultural between fundamentalist Muslims and the
diversity, similarities and prejudices to promote western world.
cultural understanding.
8. When planning her lessons and units, Mrs.
Jones is careful to include books and resources
from a variety of cultures and ethnic groups.
6. Which of the following may be considered an What kind of education is this?
economic impact of globalization on education?
a. Multilingual education
a. Increasing commercialization of education
and the corporate takeover of education b. Transformative education

b. Weakening of the notion of the "citizen" as a c. Multicultural education

unified and unifying concept.
d. Gender free education
c. New technologies of information and
communication creates new approaches to
learning 9. Which of the following is NOT a
characteristic of globalization?
d. Reduction of state and government support
and subsidy for education a. Stretching a social, political and economic
activities across political frontiers, regions and
continents.
7. Which of the following aptly describes
b. The growing magnitude of interconnectedness
Marshall Mcluhans' concept of global village?
and flows of trade, investment and migration.
a. The idea that because of rapid globalization
c. A speeding up of global interactions and
and development in technology, the world has
processes through worldwide systems of
become one global village where increased
transportation and communication.
diversity and difference among people has
become more pronounced than ever. d. The expansion of economic protectionism and
isolation of poor countries.

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 children are adaptable beings no matter what
culture they come from.
10. Which of the following illustrates the major
paradigm shift in education in the 21st century? c. The child's cultural background influences the
children's way of interpreting and viewing the
a. Shift from rigid subject matter to a more world; hence, teachers must consider the
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary children's world view when teaching.
pedagogical approach.
d. The teacher should be wary of differing
b. Shift from values education and emotional cultural points of view and must make sure that
learning to knowledge dominated curriculum students will see things the same way.
c. From contextualized themes generated from
global and local realities to pre-organized
subject matter 13. Which among the following is the focus of
Civic Education?
d. From more flexible learning styles to a
prescribed pedagogy a. Promote understanding of human rights,
concepts and values to enable learners to
comprehend and transform conditions which
give rise to human rights violations.
11. What educational approach/perspective
recognizes the knowledge and experience of b. Learning for effective participation in
women, racial groups and ethnic groups as being democratic and development processes at both
just, as valid and relevant as the knowledge of local and national levels.
dominant groups in mainstream academic
discourse? c. Foster a vision of education for sustainable
development and care for the environment.
a. Transformative education
d. Empower people with the skills, attitudes and
b. Multicultural education knowledge to build a peaceful world based on
justice and human rights.
c. Inclusive education

d. Global education
14. Which of the following initiatives would
NOT help a school address diversity?
12. How does the notion of cultural relativity
a. Using ability grouping
and variability affect the teaching-learning
processes in school? b. Using cooperative learning
a. The students' varied cultural background will c. Working with neighborhood groups
in now way affect the way they will learn the
lessons in school. d. Using culturally-relevant teaching methods

b. The students can readily adjust to the way the

teacher initiates learning in school because

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15. If the teacher is emphasizing the d. Assign bright students to monitor and control
development of the learner's competency to behavior of poor students.
transform knowledge into innovations and job-
creation, what pillar of education does s/he is
actually promoting? 18. Which of the following qualities should be
a. Learning to Know developed by the pillar, Learning to Live
Together?
b. Learning to Do
a. Strong appreciation of the diversity of the
c. Learning to Live Together human race

d. Learning to Be b. Readiness to take risks and resolve or manage

conflicts

c. Scientific spirit and an inquiring mind

16.What pillar of education which emphasizes
learning to be human, through acquisition of d. Complete fulfillment of humans, in all the
knowledge, skills and values conducive to richness of his/her personality
personality development?

a. Learning to Know
19. Which of the following statements about
b. Learning to Do Gender is correct?

c. Learning to Live Together a. Gender is biologically determined.

d. Learning to Be b. Gender is socially and culturally-constructed.

c. Gender roles are the same in all societies.

17. A class is composed of students coming d. Gender is an ascribed status in society.

from several ethnic communities including
Muslims and lumads. They seem to have
difficulty understanding each others' behavior 20. UNICEF and UNESCO are two key UN
and points of view. What should the teacher do? agencies which are particularly active advocates
a. Introduce multicuturalism in the class and of education for peace. Which of the following
provide activities for practice. is not supported by UNESCO in promoting
peace in the schools?
b. Threaten the students that if there are students
who do not behave and tolerant of their a. Uphold children's basic rights as outlined in
classmates, s/he will be dropped from class. the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC)
c. Inform students that they will all be learning
new ways of thinking and behaving in this class, b. Develop a climate that models peaceful and
so they might as well leave their cultural respectful behavior among all members of the
idiosyncrasies at home. learning community

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c. Demonstrate the principles of equality and a. Employ education to regain parts of a lost
non-discrimination in administrative policies children and to facilitate the experiences that
support healthy social, emotional and
d. Enable the teachers to stress peace-making in intellectual growth and development
social studies classroom only when necessary
b. Provide employment opportunity for them as
well as their parents to attain financial
independence
21. One way to advance peace education is
through partnerships of various non- c. Offer them to migrate in neighboring country
governmental organizations, education as foreign refugees
institutions, United Nations specialized bodies
which link ideals of peace with research and d. Secure their safety by imposing strict curfew
practice. One such significant examples is the hours
Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st
Century. What is the aim of the Agenda's Global
Campaign for Peace Education? 23. The United Nations is committed to address
a. Helps coordinate local initiatives and unite climate through mitigation and adaptation.
educators in the common practice of educating Which of the following is the best way of
for a culture of peace. addressing the issue?

b. Supports the UN Decade for a Culture of a. Deepen strategic and operational collaboration
Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the with international and regional organizations,
World and to introduce peace and human rights including international financial institutions and
education into all educational institutions. regional development banks, and other
stakeholders.
c. Brings together multiple traditions of
pedagogy, theories of education, and b. Developing a policy framework that identifies
international initiatives for the advancement of basic elements needed to prevent human rights
total human development and care for the violations.
environment through learning. c. Facilitate and execute agreements on reducing
d. Serves to enhance learning across subjects emissions from deforestation and forest
like conflict resolution initiatives. degradation to protect forests and sustain the
livelihoods of the people who depend on them.

d. Enhancing collaboration among humanitarian

22. The impact of conflict on children whether organizations, particularly from the global
as victims of war or child soldiers has been South, at the local, national and regional levels,
brought to world attention through media, to strengthen community resilience and
international organizations and eye witness emergency response, and establishing a
accounts. What is the best thing to do to help monitoring system to assess progress on the
children affected by conflict? implementation of preparedness measures.

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24. Why are educational environments very
crucial to peace education?
1. What kind of tension is referred to when
a. The social, cultural, economic and political people prefer to have quick answers and ready
contexts in which educators work shape the solution to many problems even if its calls for a
specific content and methods they choose for patient, concerted, negotiated strategy of
peace education. reform?

b. The variety of different educational settings a. Tension between modernity and tradition
from rural to urban, school-based to community
and within the formal curricula or non-formal b. Tension between long term and short term
popular education projects are relevant to peace considerations
education. c. Tension between spiritual and material
c. Many teachers infuse peace education into d. Tension between individual and universal
traditional academic subjects such as literature,
math, science, history, language, civics and the
arts.
2. In what strands of the four pillars of education
d. All of the above implies a shift from skill to competence, or a
mix of higher-order skills specific to each
individual?
25. What is celebrated every December 10? a. Learning to Know
a. Mother Language day b. Learning to Do
b. Human Rights Day c. Learning to Live Together
c. Earth's Day c. Learning to Be
d. International Day of Tolerance

3. Which of the following is NOT true about the

Answers: 1D 2B 3B 4B 5D 6A 7A 8C 9D 10A Four Pilalrs of Learning?
11C 12D 13B 14A 15B 16D 17A 18A 19B 20D a. The pillars of learning stress the goal of
21B 22A 23C 24D 25B contributing to social cohesion, intercultural and
international understanding, peaceful
interchange, and harmony.
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d. The Pillars of Learning adheres to the d. Branding, globalization and learning to be
instrumental and purely academic view of consumers
education that focuses on the achievement of
specific aims of education such as economic
productivity. 7. What United Nation Decade are we
celebrating for 2005-2014?

4. What pillar of education of J. Delors a. Educating for Culture of Peace

(UNESCO) focuses on voc-tech relevant to b. Educating for International Understanding
people-centered human development?
c. Educating for Sustainable Development
a. Learning to Know
d. Promoting the Rights of the Elderly
b. Learning to Do

c. Learning to Live Together

8. With the growing competition brought about
d. Learning to Be by globalization, what is preferred by most
employers in hiring their employees?

5. The rapid traversing of ideas, attitudes and a. Flexible

values across national borders that generally b. Selective
leads to an interconnectedness and interaction
between peoples of diverse cultures and ways of c. Quick
life. What is being referred to?
d. None of the above
a. Cultural Globalization

b. Fundamentalism
9. Which of the following characteristics does
c. Multiculturalism NOT describe contextualized learning as a major
paradigm shift in education?
d. Clash of civilization
a. From limited access to time-bound and space
limited education, to borderless education,
6. Which is considered a political impact of lifelong learning for all in a learning society.
globalization? b. From traditional pedagogies to more modern
a. Changing role of education in terms of strategies of teaching and learning.
preparing students for the world of work c. From knowledge limited to the local scene to
b. The threat to the autonomy of national the globalized knowledge, values, attitudes, and
educational systems by globalization. skills interfaced with local wisdom.

c. Reforms in education as lifelong education d. Pre-organized subject matter to localized

themes generated from the global realities and

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the cultural relevant, meaningful and useful to d. Human Rights Standards vary from society to
learner. society and HRE therefore should also vary in
terms of approaches and methods

10. What current current trend in education

focuses on the study of the basic concepts, 13. What is the implication and globalization to
beliefs and values underlying our democratic the practice and experience of education?
political community and constitutional order?
a. Increase of state and government support and
a. Civic education subsidy for education

b. Development education b. Commodification and the corporate takeover

of education
c. Peace education
c. Greater autonomy of national educational
c. Multicultural education systems

d. Delocalization of technologies and

orientations in education
11. Which of the following is the first target of
the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's)
formulated by member states of the UN in
September 2000? 14. Which of the following skills corresponds to
the Fourth Pillar of Learning, "Learning to live
a. Reduce child mortality together"?
b. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger a. Empathy and cooperative social behavior
c. Reduce death due to HIV/AIDS and malaria b. Personal commitment and sense of
responsibility
d. Achieve universal access to primary education
c. Adaptability to change in the world of work

d. Reasoning and problem solving skills

12. Which among the following statements
about Human Rights Education (HRE) is
correct?
15. Which of the following is NOT a
a. HRE is more of the responsibilities of the characteristic of Multicultural education?
state to implement human rights law rather than
the protection of the rights holders a. Personality empowering

b. HRE should focus more on rights based on b. Socially transformative

"law in books", rather than "law in real-life".
c. Pedagogically humanistic
c. HRE needs to focus on the values, principles,
and standards and human rights and how they d. Culturally discriminating
can be translated into day-to-day actions

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16. What is the character of education that cultures of its members and fosters
manifests democratization of access and development.
inclusivity?

a. Relevance
19. Which of the following is NOT one of the
b. Sustainability benefits of social media?

c. Quality a. Mass media decreases prejudice and

discrimination.
d. Equity
b. Mass media enriches the educational
programs.
17. What is the kind of education that c. Mass media increases student's exposure to
emphasizes human-earth relationships and diversity.
fosters a vision of education for sustainable
development to build a global culture of d. Mass media helps provoke discussion of
ecological responsibility? current issues.

a. Human Rights Education

b. Development Education 20. Which among the following rights manifests

rule of law and good governance?
c. Environmental Education
a. Right to education
d. Global Education
b. Right to environment protection

c. Right of participation
18. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of
multicultural education? d. Right to work

a. Multicultural education increases positive

relationships through achievement of common
goals, respect, appreciation and commitment to 21. Which among the following is NOT a core
equality among the teachers and students. principle of human rights?

b. Multicultural education decreases a. Human dignity

stereotyping and prejudice through direct contact b. Non-discrimination
and interaction among diverse individuals.
c. Universality
c. Multicultural education promotes
independence of various ethnic groups in d. Independency
development and supports fragmented view of
the world.

d. Multicultural education renews vitality of 22. How are human rights principles reflected in
society through the richness of the different the activities of national and local governments?

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a. Legislating laws to include rights education in 25. Which of the following is NOT a guiding
all levels of schooling statement of peace education?

b. Organizing local exhibit or event to highlight a. Peace education teaches students what to
the children's talents and local products think rather than how to think.

c. Asking the community leaders to volunteer in b. Peace education employs holistic and
the construction of a barangay hall participatory approach.

d. Lobbying to the UN High Commission for c. Peace education aims not to reproduce but
Human Rights to allocate higher budget for transform.
Philippines' Commission on Human Rights.
d. Peace builds bridges of support among key
participants.

23. Which of the following could be a reason to

justify peace education as a series of "teaching
encounters" or teaching-learning process? Answers: 1B 2B 3D 4B 5A 6B 7C 8A 9A 10A
11B 12C 13B 14A 15D 16D 17C 18C 19A 20C
a. Desire for peace 21D 22A 23D 24C 25A

b. Nonviolent alternatives for managing conflict

c. Skills for critical analysis of structural

arrangements that produce and legitimize
injustice and inequality

d. All of the above

24. Which of the following is accurate in regard

to working with parents in diverse classrooms?

a. The parent's culture is important, but should

not influence their children's education.

b. Teachers should demonstrate their "expertise"

to parents to show they know best.

c. Teachers should strive to use a variety of

ways to keep parents informed, including
parents who cannot speak English or Filipino.l

d. The importance of the family's influence on

children's education has diminished over the past
few years.

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