Questions 241-250

It is the process of transmitting a message from a source to an audience via a channel:

• language
• education
• interaction
• communication

Which word is sensible?

• humanoid
• humanocracy
• humanphile
• humangram

The Queen of Philippine Flowers:

• Waling-waling
• Ilang-ilang
• Dama de noche
• Sampaguita

The change in velocity per unit of time:

• speed
• magnitude
• acceleration
• displacement

Which of the following shows an immoral act among public officials:

• positive legislation
• foster learning
• protect underworld characters
• promote social tranquility

A condition which results if the pH of the blood is lower than 7.35. It can result from starvation, fasting, or a low carbohydrate diet:

• glycemia
• diabetes
• apnea
• acidosis

Used when speaking to a king:

• sire
• holiness
• pope
• sage

Nora Aunor became a legend in the show business because of her talent, determination, and hard work. What role does this illustrate?

• achieved role
• ascribed role
• hereditary role
• temporary role

The quantity of air over a part of the earth:

• air mass
• air force
• air weight
• air density

A man owing and farming a small estate:

• shepherd
• agronomist
• yeoman
• agriculturist

Questions 231-240

This university was created by Act No. 1870 passed by the old Philippine Legislature on June 18, 1908:

• West Visayas State University
• Technological University of the Philippines
• University of the Philippines
• Philippine Normal University

A substance that gives up a hydrogen ion (H+) in a water solution. It has four characteristic properties. (1) it has a sour taste; (2) it turns blue litmus paper red; (3) it neutralizes a base; (4) it reacts with active metals to produce hydrogen gas:

• acid
• base
• colloid
• solution

A young person:

• neonate
• juvenile delinquent
• youth
• orphan

What is that inevitable force in history which takes place from time to time:

• change
• development
• progress
• evolution

Athena, an accountant, who now lives with a married man, was disowned by her family and friends. This punishment is a form of __________________.

• isolation
• deportation
• ostracism
• character assassination

Introduction of particles and gases in the air as a result of man’s activities:

• air combat
• air pollution
• air corruption
• air clearing

Tiredness and lack of energy or interest:

• lassitude
• perversion
• fecundity
• obesity

Which of the following situations presents a value conflict?

• The teacher pressures the student to get higher grades.
• The teacher and his students have better class standing as their priorities.
• The teacher and the administrator follow a set of criteria in giving grades.
• The teacher has students whose parents want their children to obtain higher grades than what they are capable of getting.

What is the capital of the province of Kalinga?

• Tabuk
• Bontoc
• Lagawe
• Kabugao

The only sea with which the ancient Greeks were acquainted:

• the Euxine Sea
• the Mediterranean Sea
• the Adriatic Sea
• the Caspian Sea

Questions 221-230

The coldest month in the Philippines:

• December
• November
• January
• February

Properties that undergo changes when a substance is subjected to different conditions:

• physical properties
• extrinsic properties
• nuclear properties
• chemical properties

A school which operates not only to cater to its students but for all the people where it is located :

• public school
• private school
• societal school
• community school
  

The Philippines ranks first in the world production of _______________.

• coconuts
• mangoes
• corn
• coffee

Tomorrow is __________________.

• a half-holiday
• a half holiday
• half-holiday
• half holiday

Organisms that hasten the decay of dead organic matter:

• producers
• consumers
• decomposers
• predators

A fanatic:

• zealot
• harlot
• faggot
• maggot

Mrs. Luna gave her students a unit test and found out that three of them got failing marks in subtracting mixed fractions. What should she do to help them?

• Ask the bright students to coach them.
• Personally give them remedial lessons.
• Tell the parents to get them a personal tutor.
• Let the class know what happened to the three.

A computer file in which the information is compressed so that it uses less space:

• e-file
• cyber file
• zip file
• net file

You have some foreign visitors who will stay for a time in your community. What two actions will you take to manage the conflicting situations and at the same time bring about values that enhance your sense of nationhood?

• Try hard to speak the way they do for better understanding.
• Bring them to places the country is well-known for.
• Serve them the same food that they eat in their country.
• Show them desirable Filipino traits.

Questions 211-220

An instrument used to measure the mass of objects:

• pedometer
• balance
• dynamo
• chronometer

The Philippines lies in _______________.

• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• East Asia
• Southwest Asia

If you were Mrs. Legayada, which action would you take to show a balance between balance and responsibility?

• Give them more free time during the camping period.
• See to it that the older boy scouts take charge of the safety of the group.
• Let the boy scouts do the scheduled activities during the camping while he had a drinking spree with the other scout masters.
• Prepare structured activities that allow independent work among the boy scout groups and rate them according to the agreed criteria.

A lot of, a great many, a great deal of, a couple, and a dozen are expressions of ________________.

• quantity
• quality
• certainty
• probability

What is the northernmost island of the Philippines?

• Y’ami
• Babuyan
• Itbayat
• Basco

A positively charged particle:

• plasma
• ion
• cation
• isotope

He was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. He was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature:

• Nick Joaquin
• Jose Rizal
• Carlos Bulosan
• Jose Garcia Villa

What is the largest bay in the Philippines?

• Laguna Bay
• Manila Bay
• Batangas Bay
• Tayabas Bay

Divorce is legal in the United States but is not acceptable in the Philippines. What does it show?

• Culture is illegal.
• Culture is uniform.
• Culture is relative.
• Culture is phenomenon.

My mother bought __________________ of apples.

• one and a half kilos
• one and a half kilo
• one and half kilos
• one and half kilo

Questions 201-210

The short story, _______________, by Nick Joaquin carefully and brilliantly depicted the status Filipino women had during in the past. In this still seemingly patriarchal world, we are somehow forced to believe that men are superior and that women are just subordinate to men. This ideology was even more highlighted in the past, where women were totally deprived of the necessary rights that men had always enjoyed.

• House on Zapote Street
• May Day Eve
• The Summer Solstice
• Mariang Makiling

In order to know a country well, we study its _______________ because it is the story of a country and its people.

• history
• literature
• economics
• politics

Aling Maria has taught her daughter how to prepare good and delicious desserts from local fruits and vegetables. What cultural transmission process is this?

• observation
• acculturation
• enculturation
• indoctrination
  

A and an are _______________.

• indefinite articles
• prepositions
• conjunctions
• interjections

The study of plants:

• biology
• zoology
• botany
• petrology

What is the only Christian nation in Asia?

• Israel
• India
• Philippines
• Japan

This Filipino writer attended the University of the Philippines. He graduated simultaneously from the Conservatory of Music and the College of Medicine. He trained further at Johns Hopkins University's medical school, publishing a paper on a rare form of hyperbilirubinaemia (jaundice):

• F. Sionel Jose
• Leoncio P. Deriada
• Celso Al Carunungan
• Arturo B. Rotor

Early Chinese traders who visited Mindoro called our nation _______________. This means “land of gold”, because they bought gold in Mindoro.

• Ma-yi
• Mu
• Maharlika
• Maharlika

Mr. Palarca was teaching something on mores, folkways, customs and beliefs in his Social Studies class. What was his lesson about?

• material culture
• non-material culture
• tangible culture
• hereditary culture

I need ________________.

• a visa
• an visa
• the visa
• some visa

Questions 191-200

Amusing in an unusual way:

• droll
• excessive
• trifling
• petty

Which guidance service suggests the importance of maintaining continuous effort of knowing the whereabouts of the graduates and drop outs?

• evaluation
• placement
• counseling
• follow-up

Percentage of salts dissolved in the sea:

• salinity
• saltiness
• salt proportion
• saline percentage
  

It is the oldest form of mass communication:

• television
• radio
• book
• newspaper
  

Social status which is earned or acquired by means of a talent and effort-making:

• civil status
• contractual status
• ascribed status
• achieved status
  

A and an are __________________.

• indefinite articles
• definite articles
• indefinite pronouns
• coordinating conjunctions
  

Rizal’s Noli Metangere was published in ____________________ in 1887.

• Ghent, Belgium
• Berlin, Germany
• Vienna, Austria
• London, England
  

Moving through space is called _______________________.

• locomotion
• ambulation
• action
• coordination

Tom is looking for his key. He can’t find it. He _____________________.

• lost his key
• has lost his key
• had lost his key
• was losing his key
  

To make instructional planning very effective, the teacher continually checks the students' capabilities to design the best and appropriated instructional materials and technique. Being a teacher, how can you ensure and maintain such effectiveness?

• Make sure the instructional materials are of good quality.
• Seek the help of the superiors for proper guidance and assistance.
• Concentrate on the contents and objectives of the lesson to be taught.
• Revise regularly the unit or lesson plan according to learning outcomes.
  

Questions 181-190

A _____________ remark, argument etc is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding:

• dirty
• weird
• facile
• groovy
  

The starting principles of teaching deal _______________.

• with the nature of the child who is to be educated
• with the teaching-learning process
• with the intellectual competence of the teacher
• with the materials used in learning
  

I work in a travel agency now. Before that I ____________________ in a department store.

• was working
• have worked
• worked
• had worked
  

The Father of Educational Measurement:

• Cattell
• Matthews
• McCall
• Thorndike
  

Substance that enters into a chemical reaction:

• reactant
• element
• compound
• molecule
  

What will surely take place whenever society adapts modernization abruptly?

• There is peace.
• There is harmony.
• There is progress.
• There is confusion.
  

Bacteria in the blood:

• hemobacteria
• bacterium
• bacteremia
• blood bacteria
  

Large, impressive, or expensive:

• carnal
• improper
• grotesque
• lavish
  

Newspapers are divided into three categories. Which is not one of these?

• metropolitan dailies
• spreadsheet
• small dailies
• community
  

In Western Philosophy, language has long been closely associated with __________________, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols.

• religion
• reason
• attitude
• skill

Questions 171-180

Someone who works in an embassy, and deals with a particular subject:

• envoy
• attaché
• minister
• barrister
  

Dr. Lopez attends to emotionally disturbed student. Which guidance service is being provided by Dr. Lopez?

• inventory service
• information service
• counseling service
  
• placement service

A person who is physically fit possesses ___________________.

• strength
• power
• endurance
• all of these
  

It is the only country in Central America where English is an official language:

• Belize
  
• Honduras
• Guatemala
• Costa Rica
  

Pablo Picasso was a ____________________.

• sculptor
• painter
• novelist
• movie director
  

To ____________________ is to make a hole or passage in the ground.

• renounce
• abase
• slacken
• burrow
  

Refers to the ability of the person to change position or directions easily and quickly, while under control:

• agility
• balance
• reaction time
• speed
  

__________________ called the “Poet of the Piano”, was the only great composer who wrote exclusively for the piano. No composer has made the piano sound so beautiful as he. His unique melodic gifts creates illusions that the piano sings.

• Johannes Brahms
• Frederic Chopin
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  

Who wrote the poem To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time?

• Christopher Marlowe
• Ben Jonson
• Robert Herrick
• Thomas Lodge
  

The primary objective of research is to _______________.

• bring about change
• present facts
• provide intellectual exercise
• satisfy human desires
  

Questions 161-170

Relying heavily on other sciences for concepts and principles, the study of earth science basically includes all of the following, except one. Which?

• oceanography
• toxicology
• astronomy
• meteorology
  

Reflexes are _______________.

• temporary
• acquired
• inborn
• learned
  

This singer was known as "Empress of the Blues":

• Bessie Smith
• Billie Holiday
• Betty Carter
• Pattie Austin
  

I need _______________.

• the visa
• a visa
• some visa
• any visas
  

Common body of knowledge we all need to know - this is the philosophy of education called _______________.

• essentialism
• social reconstructivism
• progressivism
• perennialism
  

In morphology, which hypothesis - which first appeared in Chomsky (1970) - was a reaction to the programme of generative semantics ?

• morphological hypothesis
• limited access hypothesis
• lexicalist hypothesis
• reductionist hypothesis
  

The art of bell-ringing:

• bellology
• oncology
• campanology
• ringology
  

Confucianism emphasizes that man's role in the universe is _______________.

• to be essentially passive
• to master nature
• to conform with the natural rhythm of things
• to harmonize with the dominant rhythm of nature
  

It is associated with the normal blood clotting and bone strength:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B Complex
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K
  

Let's stop by the bookstore, _______________?

• won't we
• don't we
• shall we
• didn't we
  

Questions 151-160

Sarah is in her car. She is on her way to work. She _______________.

• drives to work
• is driving to work
• has driven to work
• drove to work
  

This started the educational and vocational guidance in the Philippines:

• EDCOM Report
• Philippine Guidance and Personnel Association
• the Industrial Revolution
• Monroe Educational Survey Commission
  

The first important advancement of the Greeks was the creation of the _______________.

• sound system
• alphabet
• picture symbols
• sentence structures
  

He was spokesman for Moses to the Egyptian pharaoh in his attempts the lead the Israelites out of Egypt but gave in to their idolatrous worship in Moses' absence:

• Abraham
• Aaron
• Lot
• Jacob
  

In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, a child between birth to two years, that is during the sensorimotor period does not see things in abstract forms. Therefore, in teaching mathematics to young children, the _______________.

• use of pictures may not be necessary
• use of concrete objects may not be necessary
• concrete stage should precede the abstract stage
• abstract stage should precede the concrete stage
  

Person who wrecks, or who plunders wrecked ships:

• shipper
• wrecker
• plunderer
• sailor
  

Civilized man everywhere lives in some system of organized society, which is known as _______________.

• community
• state
• group
• club
  

Based on a situation that is not real, but that might happen:

• hypothetical
• grisly
• uncanny
• logical
  

Parson's University is located in _______________.

• New York
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• Seattle
  

The only sea with which the ancient Greeks were acquainted:

• the Euxine Sea
• the Mediterranean Sea
• the Adriatic Sea
• the Caspian Sea
  

Questions 141-150

Inflammation of a ligament:

• arthritis
• desmitis
• rhenitis
• cystitis

The primary purpose of counseling is to assist the individual in _______________.

• self-development
• self-direction
• self-discipline
• self-confidence

There was an accident this morning. A bus _______________ a car.

• collided
• collided with
• collided at
• collided on

The rise of liquid in a capillary tube:

• cappillary rise
• tube rise
• liquid rise
• aqua-rise

This Filipino value results in strengthening cooperation and loyalty:

• utang na loob
• indolence
• ningas cogon
• mañana habit

The study of the relationship between workers and their environment:

• conchology
• kinesthetics
• vexillology
• ergonomics

Tom is looking for his key. He can't find it. He _______________.

• lost his key
• has lost his key
• loses his key
• is losing his key

The worst war in Philippine history:

• World War I
• World War II
• Moro-Christian War
• Battle of Manila Bay

This book is intended _______________ intermediate students.

• for
• to
• by
• at
  

A finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, ice-cream, or pastry cream, usually coated with an icing:

• eclair
• eclat
• eck
• eckhart
  

Questions 131-140

A mark made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted:

• hyphen
• apostrophe
• caret
• dash

A unit of measurement that shows by how much the separate scores tend to differ from the mean is _______________.

• variance
• graph
• range
• standard deviation

I _______________ to see Chris on my way home.

• dropped
• dropped in
• dropped out
• dropped over

A precious yellow metal:

• gold
• silver
• copper
• bronze

The patron saint of Negroes in America:

• St. Peter Claver
• St. Martin de Porres
• St. Ignatius Loyola
• St. Nikolaus Kostka

A beauty treatment for the face:

• facial
• fascism
• facility
• face lift

The liquid portion of whole blood is called _______________.

• serum
• plasma
• lymph
• water

In 868, Wang Chieh printed the _______________, the oldest known printed book in the world.

• Bay Psalm Book
• Doctrina Cristiana
• Succesos Felices
• Diamond Sutra

Vitamin B1 is also called _______________.

• cyanocobalamine
• riboflavin
• thiamine
• niacin

Teaching requires a careful blending of _______________.

• facts and knowledge
• theory and practice
• skills and practice
• attitudes and values
  

Questions 121-130

"Farewell-to-spring" is _______________.

• a form of friendly greeting
• a weather condition
• a slender, showy herb
• a state of perfect happiness

The first process in analyzing scores is _______________.

• finding the mean
• grouping
• tallying
• ranking

Rachel _________________ at the gym three times a week.

• works in
• works on
• works out
• works off

The ratio of mass to volume:

• mass density
• volume density
• mass volume
• density mass

The use of language, where words are used to represent objects, is an example of _______________.

• symbolic thought
• acquisition
• representative thought
• object permanence

Fandango is a lively _______________.

• Italian dance
• Spanish dance
• Portuguese dance
• French dance

The father of Orestes in Greek mythology:

• Menelaus
• Agamemnon
• Priam
• Atreus

Following are the preventions of malaria, except one. Which?

• eradication of anopheles mosquito
• screening of houses
• use of mosquito nets while sleeping
• taking of aspirin table

Abraham is also an important figure in Islam:

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

The study of biology at the molecular level. Both molecular anatomy and molecular physiology is called _______________.

• biochemistry
• bacteriology
• anatomy
• histology
  

Questions 111-120

Marketing specialists have conducted extensive studies of what _______________ customers to buy a particular product.

• attractive
• attraction
• attracts
• attracting

In research, the method that involves the researcher to inquire deeper and examine thoroughly the behavior of a person is _______________.

• cluster sampling
• case study
• cross-section method
• developmental study

Shall we stop at this petrol station or shall we _______________ to the next one?

• drive in
• drive on
• drive at
• drive for

The smallest unit in a chemical compound:

• element
• substance
• mixture
• molecule

Socialization begins with the intimate relationship in the _______________.

• home
• school
• church
• community

The belief that all events are decided in advance by God or Fate so that human beings are powerless to alter their destiny:

• Fascism
• Deism
• Fatalism
• Theism

Which is not a basic part of speech in English?

• preposition
• indirect speech
• noun
• conjunction

The only one full-length epic that has survived in English literature:

• Beowulf
• Widsith
• Deor's Lament
• Piers Plowman

This term refers to the birth of two or more babies within a few hours or days:

• live birth
• caesarian birth
• ectopic pregnancy
• multiple birth

Good speech depends upon the ability to produce the following characteristics of the language correctly, except one. Which?

• the sounds of the vowels and the consonants
• the intonation patterns
• the rhythm of the spoken language
• where to stop when speaking
  

Questions 101-110

In Greek mythology, the son of Hercules and Deianira:

• Pyramus
• Glenus
• Astyanax
• Skamandrios

Mrs. Cruz, the guidance counselor, helps students in understanding themselves in learning about the world of work, in making decisions about jobs and careers. she applies _______________.

• transactional analysis
• clinical counseling
• placement service
• vocational counseling

What is the past tense of "sit" ?

• sat
• set
• sitted
• satted

Undesirable substances in the atmosphere:

• particulates
• pollutants
• sewage
• precipitates

An adult female:

• girl
• lass
• belle
• woman

Acts and omissions punishable by law are _______________.

• felonies
• deviations
• faults
• immoral deeds

She became an international heroine in 1928 as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane:

• Amelia Earhart
• Golda Meir
• Benazir Bhutto
• Valentina Tereshkova
  

Witty remark:

• epicure
• epilogue
• epigram
• epiphany

How fast a driver can act is called _______________.

• preventive action
• decision time
• reaction time
• agility

Which kind of culture is tangible?

• non-material culture
• material culture
• static culture
• dynamic culture
  

Questions 91-100

The Elizaldes went on vacation in Boracay.

Who went on vacation in Boracay?

• all people whose family name is Elizalde.
• the Elizalde grandfather and grandmother
• all Elizalde fathers
• Mr. and Mrs. Elizalde and children

This class in ancient England traced his ancestry to some war captive of the tribe:

• earl
• churl
• duke
• count

Who wrote the play "New Yorker in Tondo" ?

• Marcelino Agana, Jr.
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
• Alberto S. Florentino
• Wilfrido D. Nolledo

_______________ may be the most important legacy of the Arabs to the Filipinos.

• The Sultanate
• Islam
• The Arabic language
• Sarimanok

A simple statistical way of checking individual items in a test:

• distractor evaluator
• ranking of scores
• measures of central tendency
• item analysis

A British scientist who first proposed the theory of Evolution in his book "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection":

• Isaac Newton
• Charles Darwin
• Sigmund Freud
• Carolus Linnaeus

A sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit:

• anosmia
• bulimia
• nausea
• anorexia

A large scale communication reaching and involving virtually everyone in a society to a greater or lesser degree:

• mass media
• media of instruction
• public media
• organizational media

Small or unimportant:

• fibroid
• fickle
• fictitious
• fiddling

A scientific theory is _______________.

• a hypothesis not yet subjected to experimental tests
• an idea that correctly predicts the results of many experiments
• a figment of the imagination
• a guess
  

Questions 81-90

In theater, what is the chief source of character revelation?

• action
• dialogue
• prop
• costume

When a person is more alert and has trained his faculties for effective study and work, he is _______________.

• physically fit
• mentally fit
• socially fit
• emotionally fit

An acid derived from ants:

• peptic acid
• hydrochloric acid
• lactic acid
• formic acid

A small fleet or a fleet of small ships:

• flotilla
• flounder
• flotsam
• flotation

A river in San Joaquin, Iloilo at whose mouth the ten Bornean datus first landed:

• Pan-ay River
• Andona River
• Jalaud River
• Tigum River

Which British statesman was famous for his particularly large vocabulary?

• Tony Blair
• John Major
• Winston Churchill
• Henry VIII

What is the capital of Colombia?

• Bogota
• San Jose
• Montevideo
• Tegucigalpa

Literature of power appeals to the _______________.

• intellect
• imagination
• sensibilities
• spirituality

A carefully planned and systematic investigation into some "question" to discover or establish facts and generalizations:

• science
• learning
• education
• research

It represents an idea, experience, or quality rather than an object that you can touch:

• collective noun
• abstract noun
• proper noun
• common noun
  

Questions 71-80

He suggested that competition and awards should be used to motivate people:

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Herbart
• Socrates
  

An apt theme that could be tagged to Hernando R. Ocampo's short story "Rice and Bullets":

• No Man is an Island
• Mind Over Matter
• Blood is Thicker than Water
• Necessity Knows No Law
  

This suffix is used for the person who does an activity:

• -er
• -ee
• -ion
• -ist
  

The only learning opportunity in ancient Egypt:

• religious instruction
• internship
• apprenticeship
• formal school system
  

It is used to preserve vital body organs awaiting transplantation:

• CT Scan
• endoscope
• cryogenics
• laser
  

This used to be the monetary unit of Italy:

• pound
• schilling
• peseta
• lira
  

The study of light:

• mechanics
• optics
• acoustics
• thermodynamics
  

Western civilization came much later than Asian civilization. It grew along the Mediterranean Sea among the early peoples of _______________.

• Greece
• Rome
• England
• Norway
  

Bilang ng mga pantig sa isang taludtod:

• kaanyuan
• sukat
• tugma
• tayutay
  

In chemistry, all measurements are made in the _______________.

• metric system
• English system
• either the metric system or the English system
• none of these
  

Questions 61-70

"Kismet" means _______________.

• fashion sense
• a central area
• destiny or fate
• love and romance

A kind of soil mostly composed of coarse particles of rock:

• sandy soil
• rocky soil
• alluvial soil
• colluvial soil
  

It is considered to be the highest and most refined of all the levels of usage because it is stylized:

• literary language
• technical language
• colloquial language
• provincial language

The science or philosophy of law:

• jurisprudence
• jurisdiction
• justice
• legality

A pirate:

• freelancer
• freak
• freedman
• freebooter

The branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons:

• homilogy
• homililogy
• homiliary
• homiletics

The fourth estate:

• the government
• the people
• the press
• the military

Movement of cold, deep currents toward the equator:

• polar creep
• solar creep
• lunar creep
• ocean creep

A pragmatic philosophy maintaining that the function of thought is to be instrumental in controlling environment, and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience or progress:

• instrumentalism
• functionalism
• purposivism
• existentialism

The presence of glucose in the blood:

• hemoglobin
• glycemia
• anemia
• leukemia
  

Questions 51-60

When one conducts a research, he is always guided by the _______________.

• mentor or adviser
• rewards received
• satisfaction on efforts exerted
• purpose
  

A British award for slavery, usually awarded to civilians:

• Boniface Cross
• John Cross
• George Cross
• Augustine Cross
  

An instrument used to measure the vibrations of an earthquake:

• seismograph
• barograph
• hydrograph
• anemometer
  

The present military training requirements among students in the secondary and tertiary levels can be traced as a strong influence of the _______________.

• Greeks
• Romans
• Spartans
• Athenians
  

The process of separation where particles settle at the bottom of the container:

• aeration
• sedimentation
• filtration
• manipulation
  

A castrated male horse:

• ass
• gelding
• stallion
• stag
  

Point of view held by Wundt and Tichener:

• Functionalism
• Structuralism
• Behaviorism
• Gestalt
  

Changing materials so that they can be used:

• recycling
• decomposition
• recombination
• re-using
  

An article of clothing:

• garment
• garland
• garret
• garter
  

Mike wanted to pass the board examinations for teachers. In the process, however, he has to make some concessions in his lifestyle to realize this objective. What will you suggest to Mike to resolve this conflict?

• He should not take the board examinations.
• He should continue his lifestyle.
• He should make a choice that would serve a useful purpose.
• He should leave things to chance.
  

Questions 41-50

Identifying sounds is very important in distinguishing words.

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

Hudhud is _______________.

• an Ilocano epic
• an Ifugao epic
• a Muslim epic
• a Mangyan epic

The median of the scores 4, 6, 7, 5, 4 is _______________.

• 6.0
• 5.5
• 5.0
• 5.2

The upper extremity of the animal body, containing the brain and the organs of sight, hearing, taste, and smell:

• trunk
• cranium
• head
• thorax

You should do _______________ your teacher tells you

• like
• as
• seem
• even

The state shall promote social justice to ensure the dignity, welfare, and security of _______________.

• all the people
• the military officials
• the government leaders
• the clergy

Where can you find Mount Apo?

• Zamboanga Peninsula
• Southern Luzon
• Western Visayas
• Mindanao

What does the word "adjacent" mean?

• beneath
• behind
• beside
• across

The Greek hero who killed Hector:

• Paris
• Agamemnon
• Achilles
• Odysseus

The first identifying attitude for the individual:

• limitation
• distribution
• attribution
• projection
  

Questions 31-40

Substances that result from chemical reactions:

• chemicals
• reactants
• products
• elements
  

A young goose:

• gosling
• gosler
• goslet
• goser
  

He holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature:

• Wole Soyinka
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Po Chi-I
  

A particle found in the nucleus of an atom. It is positively charged and has a mass of nearly 1 amu.

• proton
• neutron
• electron
• positron
  

A big drum of animal skin struck by a twig used by the ancient Malays as means for making public announcements in the barangays:

• kudyapi
• agong
• budyong
• tultogan
  

Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought:

• Taoism
• Confucianism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
  

A small biting two-winged insect:

• gnat
  
• carbuncle
• gander
• canary
  

A resource that can be used and then replaced:

• nonrenewable
• renewable
• limited
• unlimited

The first Filipino military pilot:

• Cadet Jose Padilla
• Cadet Alfonso de Guzman
• Cadet Leoncio Malinao
• Cadet Marcillano Navarro

The general condition of the body and mind with reference to soundness and vigor:

• stability
• sanity
• health
  
• fitness
  

Questions 21-30

Community health is a service that is provided in an environment that is constantly changing. This implies that the health worker in providing relevant services must _______________.

• involve other discipline in carrying health care services in various settings
• provide services that are community-based
• provide services that are integrated and comprehensive
• upgrade her knowledge on the current and evolving characteristics of health care system

What is the past tense of "split" ?

• split
• splat
• splitted
• splatted

A student challenges your authority as a teacher that caught you by surprise. It is best that you _______________.

• shout back at the student and impose your will on him
• ignore his challenge and do your own thing
• report the matter to the principal and recommend appropriate disciplinary action
• report to the police such dastardly act

We will _______________ in three weeks.

• be back
• be over
• be on
• be with

Children learning the alphabeth is a common form of _______________.

• serial learning
• repetition
• pairing
• rehearsal

I don't want to hear anymore about this matter. Please don't _______________ again.

• bring it out
• bring it on
• bring it up
• bring it off

What divides North Korea and South Korea?

• Pektu Mountain
• 38th Parallel
• Yellow Sea
• Han River

As soon as the board of elections " promulgates" the list of candidates, a ballot is prepared.

Give the meaning of the quoted word.

• informally discusses
• quickly contacts
• officially declares
• critically reviews

The scientific method starts with _______________.

• a solution
• a hypothesis
• a problem
• an experiment

I _______________ to tie my shoelace.

• bent
• bent down
• bent over
• bent off
  

Questions 11-20

Under the _______________ organization, the individual has a much narrower choice; he is a worker, or soldier of industry, who must fall into place wherever the state most need him.

• democratic
• totalitarian
• socialist
• religious

Between Mars and Jupiter are heavenly bodies smaller than planets. What do you call them?

• meteorites
• planetoids
• meteors
• stars

Tests that stress objective evaluation by language specialists:

• intuitive tests
• subjective tests
• communicative tests
• scientific tests

A change in technology and science is _______________.

• innovation
• geographical change
• culture change
• social change

Marriage is an institution for the stabilization of _______________.

• family
• school
• society
• country

The use of white lies to please a person:

• euphemism
• onomatopoeia
• polysemy
• litotes

Movable beads for counting developed by the Chinese:

• movable blocks
• calculator
• abacus
  
• sun dial

Which is the most accepted definition of sociology?

• Science of man and his environment
• Science of human behavior
• Science of man and society
• Science of man, development and works

What was the basic aim of primitive education?

• security and survival
• enhance individual interest
• training of the young for the future
• all of the above

A stated comparison between two unlike things or persons using "as" or "like":

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• irony
  

Questions 1-10

The process by which drug passes into the bloodstream:

• assimilation
• absorption
• injection
• adhesion
  

A very frightening dream:

• hearth
• nightmare
• abortion
• debt

Name for the people of the Cordillera region, in the Philippines island of Luzon. They form two subgroups: the larger group lives in the south, central and western areas, and is very adept at rice-terrace farming; the smaller group lives in the east and north. This group of people formerly practiced headhunting:

• Ifugao
• Igorot
• Ibaloi
• Ivatan

Study and use of electronic devices in aviation:

• avionics
• electronic aviation
• avitionology
• avio-electronics

Removal of fluids from the peritonial cavity:

• abdominal paracentecis
• liquid paracentecis
• peretonial paracentecis
• bodily paracentecis

Although the concept of consanguinity referred to relations by "blood", many anthropologists have argued that one must understand the notion of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand "family" through other concepts rather through genetic distance.

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

In 1879, he established the first psychological experimental laboratory in Leipzig, Germany:

• Carl Jung
• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James
• Sigmund Freud

Essayist, poet, and politician; best known for his elegant articles in the two periodicals, "The Tatler" and "The Spectator":

• Joseph Addison
• George Orwell
• Norman Cousin
• Matthew Arnold

Indonesia is formerly known as _______________.

• the East Indies (Netherlands)
• Indo-China
• Celebes
• Annam

A substance that releases hydrogen (H+) ions in solution:

• base
• acid
• water
• toxin