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 C.E.E.M.A.: COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION MOBILE APPLICATION
Anthony D. Gerarman, Jane B. Onotan, Queen Marie M. Putungan and Chris T. Sagarino
chrissagarino206@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The College Entrance Exam Mobile Application
(C.E.E.M.A) is a mobile learning android application for
graduating grade 12 students who will be taking the System
Admission and Scholarship Examination (SASE). The goal
of C.E.E.M.A is to provide review materials for all the
students who will be taking the said exam. The contents of
the application includes Practice Quizzes of all four
different subject areas that the exam is divided into. This
easy to access practice quizzes will be very helpful to those
students who wants to have the SASE review but can’t
afford the financial charge on having the said review. The
quiz features a time limit to test the comprehension speed of
the students. The mobile application also includes a review
feature so that users of C.E.E.M.A. will be able to rate the
application’s overall performance. The feedbacks are noted
by the researchers and had developed a more enhanced
service. C.E.E.M.A also includes a survey feature to which
allows users to rate the usefulness of having a review on the
SASE Examination. The Forum features enables users to
post questions or answers regarding to the topic.
This application will utilize the mobile phones of
the students into a more productive one and increase the
number of students’ passers who will take the exam by
having these handy reviewer on their mobile phones.
C.E.E.M.A will provide a review that is more effective,
fast, and convenient to all students.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Not all graduating students have the capabilities to
afford the expenses that is required in going to college. That
is why students take the rare opportunities of being granted
with free education offered by our government. One of the
institutions that offers this rare opportunities is the
Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology.
The said institution conducts an examination yearly which
is open to all students notwithstanding where they came
from. The SASE exam is composed of four different
subjects which are Abstract, English, Mathematics, and
Science. It examination will test the broadness of the
student’s knowledge. The examination is also mostly based
on how well a student can comprehend a certain question in
a limited time. Students who make it to the cut-off score
(67) will have a chance of being admitted in the MSU
System Unit of their choice. The Mindanao State University
System Admission and Scholarship Examination (MSU
SASE) was considered necessary due to the rapid increase
of high school graduates competing for admission and
scholarship in the MSU Campuses (MSU-IIT, 2014).
The researchers had already conducted a research
which is to assess the ICNHS review on 2018 MSU-SASE
and in that research, the researchers had obtained many
knowledge regarding the topic: 1. The review materials of
ICNHS was effective according to the students who
participated on the review 2. 58.72% of the respondents
have passed the SASE examination 3. 41.28% of the
respondents did not pass the examination. Therefore, there
are more students who passed the exam than those who
failed to pass the exam. Based on the research’s
recommendation, the students who took the review was
mostly satisfied with the review conducted. They
recommend that students should also take the review
offered by Iligan City National High School and that they
want the school to maintain and sustain their style of
reviewing and their way of demonstrating the subjects
because it was a great help for them.
The only downside that other students are taking
into consideration to is that the review is not free. Students
need to pay a certain amount of money per session of the
review to recompense the efforts of the facilitators who
conducted the review. Cellphone applications (apps) have
been created to support use of phones in school
environments. As of February 2018, 80,000 applications
were available for teacher use. A variety of messaging apps
provide communication for student to student relationships,
as well as teacher to student communication. An advantage
of messaging apps is their easy usage and accessibility for
students, teachers and parents. These apps make it easier for
students to access the internet which is very useful for
educational purposes. Standard mobile phone applications
include alarm clocks, calculators and converters, all of
which may help student’s productivity (Wright, 2019).
The goal of the MSU-SASE Mobile Reviewer
Application is to provide review materials for all the
students who will be taking the SASE exam. Not only does
it provide you with wide ranges of review but also this
application is very useful to assess whether having a review
is effective or not because the application comes with a
survey feature which allows users to rate the different fields
of the review. This will be very useful to the researchers
who wanted to know the feedbacks of the past SASE takers.
The researchers would like to immerge the two different
concepts; SASE review and mobile applications through
developing an application which will enable student’s to
have an online reviewer which is very accessible to
everyone. This application will be very useful in a way that
it will be useful to those students who wants to have the
SASE review but can’t afford the financial charge on
having a review on ICNHS. This application will be very
comprehensive since the mobile application can be reached
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any time of the day unlike the amount of time allotted on
reviews that are very limited. The researchers want to
encourage every student in taking reviews before
examinations because it was found very useful by those
students who decided to have a review. This application
will also promote the increase of students passing the SASE
exam by providing very comprehensive content which
students can analyze on their own.
1.2 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The figure below shows the flow of this research project:
INDEPENDENT INTERVEINING
VARIABLE VARIABLE DEPENDENT
VARIABLE
 Assessment of  Development
the reviewers t  Insights of
and utilization
the ICNHS
of mobile
the
review respondents
 Percentage of application
towards the
SASE Passers for the SASE
application
and non-passers review
Figure 1: Conceptual Framework
Figure 1 illustrates the relationship of reviewees’
assessment and passing level (dependent variable) when it
comes to developing a new mobile application for the
SASE review (dependent variable). It is perceived in the
Conceptual Framework that the reviewees’ assessment to
the ICNHS review and their percentage whether passed or
failed has a direct effect on the process of making the new
mobile application. Through this assessments, the
researchers would be able to distinguish the different
insights of the respondents towards thee application.
1.3 OBJECTVES OF THE STUDY
Main Objective
This study aims to develop and utilize mobile application as
college entrance exam review material.
Specific Objective
This study will also aim the following:
1. To help students’ review in a more effective,
convenient, and fast way.
2. To make the mobile app the source of hand-outs
and not paper which could be easily damaged or
lost.
3. To help students’ assess their knowledge in the four
different subject areas.
4. To serve as a review material to those students who
can’t afford to go to review centers.
5. To increase the number of student passers who will
take the exam by having these handy reviewer on
their mobile phones.
6. To provide a much comprehensive and detailed
discussions on the four subject areas without the
time limit.
7. To help utilize the mobile phones of the students
into a more productive one instead of wasting their
time on social media and games.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This research project aims to develop a mobile
application for college entrance exam for the students of
Iligan City National High School of the school year 2017-
2018. This study will also answer the following questions:
1. How is the C.E.E.M.A. application developed?
2. What are the insights/feedbacks/evaluation of the
reviewees towards the mobile application?
3. Is there any significant difference on the assessment
of the reviewees on the following subjects (review
materials, instructor, and scope of the review) using
the mobile application?
a) Abstract
b) English
c) Mathematics
d) Science
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings presented in this study will be a great
significance to the following:
Students. The application will be a great help to the
students’ because the mobile application provides a
comprehensive, convenient, and user-friendly way of
reviewing. The researchers compiled the best review hand-
outs in the mobile applications and because of this, it will
boost the chance of the students’ passing rate to the SASE
examination.
ICNHS faculty and staff. This project will help the
school’s faculty and staff in a way that the distribution of
hand-outs will no longer be through papers but instead,
hand-outs will be uploaded on the mobile application for a
more thrifty approach.
Future researchers. Instead of conducting surveys on
those students who already graduated, information are
inputted on the application system which will be very useful
to those future researchers who would decide to take the
MSU-SASE topic. This will provide less hassle to those
upcoming researchers in gathering their data.
School administration. This application will assess the
strengths and weaknesses when it comes to performance for
improvement of the review conducted through the objective
and unbiased application of this process.
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION
This research project will determine whether the
mobile application entitle “College Entrance Exam Mobile
Application” that was created by the researchers was
effective or not. This application will be utilized by the
graduating Grade 12 students who will decide to take the
SASE exam no matter what school they came from. The
contents of the mobile application will include:
1) Comprehensive review materials that students can
access anytime and anywhere
2) Interactive quizzes which will test the knowledge
3) Surveys for the assessment of the mobile
application’s effectiveness
4) Tips and techniques to students when taking the
SASE exam
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 5) Images and videos for a more detailed explanation
regarding difficult topics which needs further
explanation.
6) Sources of the practice quizzes are shown before
starting a quiz.
1.8 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
ASSESSMENT. Is the act of judging or deciding the
amount, value, quality, or importance of something or the
judgement that is made (Cambridge, 2018).
In this study, Assessment is referred to the students’
comment, critique, or feedback regarding the 2018 MSU-
SASE Review. They were able to voice out their opinions
whether the mobile application was able to help them when
taking the exam or no help at all.
EFFECTIVENESS. Means how efficiently an
operation or activity is at achieving its goal and the overall
objective (My Accounting Course, 2019).
In this study, Effectiveness is referred to how the
mobile application made reviewing much more convenient
and accessible for every student. If the app accomplished its
task which is to encourage students to review before an
exam.
ICNHS FACULTY AND STAFF. Are group pf
teachers who impact education to the students in school or
college (KeyDifference, 2018).
In this study, Faculty and Staff is referred to the Iligan
City National High School – Senior High School
Department teachers who became the instructors of the
students who decided to register on the 2018 SASE review.
MOBILE APPLICATION. It is a type of application
software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a
smartphone or tablet computer. Mobile applications
frequently serve to provide users with similar services to
those accessed on PCs. Apps are generally small, individual
software units with limited function (TechnoPedia, 2019).
In this study, it is the project proposal which the
researchers will develop. This mobile application will
prepare the reviewees by providing hand-outs and quizzes.
This application will also have an interactive system in
which users will be able to rate the quality of the review
and the application itself.
UTILIZATION. It is the act of using something in
an effective way (Cambridge Dictionary, 2019).
In this study, it refers on how the proposed mobile
application will be used as a review handout for the SASE
exam. The mobile phones of the students will be put into
good use and make them productive in school unlike
spending their time on social media and games.
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN AND SAMPLING
The researchers used Experimental Descriptive
research design because it best served to answer the
question and the purposes of the study.
Experimental Descriptive research is a study
designed to depict the participants in an accurate way. More
simply put, descriptive research is all about describing
people who take part in the study. Open-ended questions
allow for a greater variety of responses from responses but
are difficult to analyze statistically because the data must be
coded or reduced in some manner.
It is only fitting that the researchers chose this type
of research design because the proposed mobile application
will contain surveys in which the users of the application
can rate and give assessment regarding the applications
quality content. The users will be able to express their
thought on the things on which the application is lacking.
They can also reflect whether the application was indeed
convenient and easy to use but still maintaining its wide
scope on the four subject areas which are Abstract, English,
Mathematics, and Science. These information gathered
from the users will be used to improve the performance of
the review on the application.
The researchers used a Convenience Non-
probability Sampling where subjects are selected because of
their convenient accessibility and proximity to the
researcher because the population size is so large and
sharing the application through Shareit personally would
take a long time. That’s why the researchers decided to
gather information to those people who were easy to access.
3.2 RESPONDENTS
In this study, the researchers will develop a mobile
application which will be very useful to the graduating
Grade 12 students of both public and private schools if they
will be taking college entrance examinations. The
application will promote diversity through accepting
students from public, private, and Out of school youth.
Everyone will be able to access the review so that the
passing rate of SASE exams would be higher. This grade 12
students came from every strand namely Science and
Technology Engineering and Mathematics, Accountancy
and Business Management, Humanities and Social
Sciences, Sports, and Technical Vocational Livelihood.
3.3 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
This study will be conducted by the researchers will
make use of the following instruments in analyzing and
interpreting data:
Appypie.com. Appypie.com was being used as the
platform in making the research project because if offers a
free service. Appy Pie is a cloud-based DIY mobile app
creation tool that allows users without programming skills
to create an app for almost any platform and publish it
(Krol, 2018).
When using Appy Pie, you're presented with
different themes, ranging from a restaurant to a radio
station. They also have an appointment scheduler tool,
which is especially useful for businesses such as doctors,
salons, or spas with contact features such as one-touch call
included. Using the code page you can embed custom code
and embed iframes.
It is a type of application software designed to run
on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet
computer. The researchers will use this type of research
instrument because students nowadays are inclined to
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technology and some of them are unable to afford the cost
of having a review for the SASE Exam. That’s why the
researchers came up with this accessible and easy to use
application.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test. It is an
application designed to indicate how difficult a passage in
English is to understand. In these research project, this is
used to know the grade level that would understand the
question in the practice quiz features in the mobile app.
Likert-type scales. It is a type of a close-ended
survey questionnaire wherein the users will be asked to
answer with their permission whether their level of
satisfaction regarding the application’s performance. The
researchers made scales from 0-25%, 26-50%, 51-75%, and
76-100% to enable the respondents to rate the quality of the
content being inputted on the app.
Open-Ended Questionnaire. This type of research
instrument asks the users to supply and give their own ideas
and thoughts towards a question. The researcher will not
provide a pre-defined answers, so users would be able to
express what they want in a free manner. This type of
research instrument was used by the researchers in the
forums features because it will allow the respondents to
define the central issue and also, it can broaden the
perspective of the researchers on the study through the
insights of the respondents.
Multiple Choice Questions. It is a type of a close-
ended survey questionnaire in which will be very useful in
making quizzes that was inputted in the applications
system. This type of review will test whether the user had
actually learned something in the application. This will also
be helpful in users assessing the mobile apps’ usefulness
and its scope of the review.
3.4 DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE
Figure 3: Illustration flow of the data gathering procedure
The researchers will develop a mobile application
which will aim to make reviewing for the SASE exam
much easier and more convenient. This application will also
be a basis for users to assess the reviews scope and
effectiveness. After the application is already been
developed, the researchers will distribute it to the grade 12
students who will be taking the SASE exam. The said users
will then asked to rate and give their opinions and
recommendation regarding the review and the overall
performance of the mobile app. Those data given by the
users will then be gathered by the researchers and will then
be analyzed through tabulating the scores.
3.5 STATISTICAL TREATMENT
The researchers will transform what was collected
or observed from the respondents and covey it into
numerical data. This involves measuring or counting
attributes. This will be concerned with finding evidence to
either support or contradict an idea or hypothesis the
researchers might have. Quantitative data analysis enables
you to make sense of data by organizing them, summarizing
them, doing exploratory analysis and to communicate the
meaning to others by presenting data as tables, graphical
displays, and summary statistics. We can also use
quantitative data analysis to see where responses are
similar, if there are differences between the things we have
studied, and if there is a relationship between the things we
have studied.
Mean. This will be very useful to the researchers in
a way that it will help the researchers analyze the average
rating of the users who will rate the mobile application and
the review. It would be a great help because in determining
the application’s effectiveness of the proposed mobile
application.
Frequency and Percentage Distribution. In this
study this will be going to be used to find the percentage of
a sublevel. It provides a visual representation for the
distribution of a particular variable for example how often
does reviewees have accurate/false answer in a particular
number in the quiz feature of the application.
Interval. A confidence interval establishes an
interval based on a sample that contains the true population
(or process) parameter or metric x% of the time, if a
random sample is drawn repeatedly from the same
population (Weibull, 2017).
This statistical tool will be used in the quota of
users who will be using C.E.E.M.A.
4.1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE
ENTRANCE EXAM MOBILE APPLICATION
(C.E.E.M.A.)
Figure 4: Illustration flow of the Development of
C.E.E.M.A.
Conceptualization of the project
The researchers wanted to merge the idea of having
an effective College Entrance Review and the growth of the
users of mobile apps among students. It was found in their
past Practical Research 1 and 2 that one of the main
problems students are unable to review is because of the
financial issues. The researchers want to propose a project
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that would help the students in reviewing and also be
affordable and accessible at the same time.
Utilization of Mobile Application
The researchers put an emphasis on the usage of
mobile application in to good use, specifically for
Educational purposes. Mobile phones consist of educational
applications that can help grow student’s knowledge. The
researchers want students to not only use their mobile
phones for social media and entertainment purposes but
also for educational purposes. This education mobile
application will not only improve the productivity of
students when it comes to their studies but also it would
increase the percentage of passers on entrance exams.
Creation of App through Appypie.com
With an array of platforms in building applications,
most of them are paid that’s why the researchers had a hard
time on finding a platform that offers it for free. The
researchers chose Appypie.com as the platform in making
the research project because if offers a free service. Appy
Pie is a cloud-based DIY mobile app creation tool that
allows users without programming skills to create an app
for almost any platform and publish it (Krol, 2018).
When using Appypie, you're presented with
different themes, ranging from a restaurant to a radio
station. They also have an appointment scheduler tool,
which is especially useful for businesses such as doctors,
salons, or spas with contact features such as one-touch call
included. Using the code page you can embed custom code
and embed iframes.
Choosing the name of the application
The researchers brainstormed on what should be the
name of the mobile application. The researchers came up
with the acronym S.N.M.R.A which stands for SASE
Mobile Reviewer Application. Since the name of the
application was too long the researchers decided to use an
acronym for it in order to be easily remembered and since
the name labelling feature of Appypie is limited and the
proposed name is too long.
Designing the features of S.M.R.A.
Figure 5: The Mobile Application
Since Appypie contains over 100 features which
you can include in your application, the researchers focused
on the educational features. The researchers want the app to
still be user-friendly and easy to navigate. The researchers
picked these features; Quizzes (four subject areas), Forums,
Survey, Images, Review, About C.E.E.M.A., and About the
Developers. The researcher also personally designed the
logo, background, style, and theme of the mobile
application
The researchers designed each features manually
and inputted all the needed information that C.E.E.M.A.
should contain in order to operate smoothly. The
researchers also personalized some features just like
displaying the quiz results after the user had finished a quiz,
time limit on a quiz, introduction of the subject area before
taking up a quiz, inputting helpful images that can assist
users when reviewing, encrypting the applications’
information, putting the information of the developers of
the app and their social medias and contact numbers, and
generating open ended questions in the forum feature to
which the users can freely express their thoughts on the
given question.
Downloading of the mobile application
After the researchers had revised all the
application’s feature, a link is then sent directly to their
phone. The link is needed to launch the SASE Mobile
Reviewer Application. The researchers then downloaded
the mobile application and after that, the application is then
distributed to the respondents through the application
Shareit. The users then had a copy of the College Entrance
Exam Mobile Application.
4.2 TESTING
After C.E.E.M.A. had been downloaded by the
researchers, they tested the smoothness of how the mobile
application performs. The researchers let their research
project adviser, Mr. Chris Sagarino and experts to critic and
review the contents and the overall performance of the
mobile application. There were some alterations that needed
to be done in the mobile application as suggested by Mr.
Sagarino. That’s why the researchers decided to create a
new application again because the free trial that Appy pie
offers within its first 48 hours was over. That’s why the
researchers can’t no longer edit the contents of the
application that’s why the researchers decided to come up
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with a new and improved application. It was a hassle in the
side of the researchers because encoding of the practice
quiz of the four different subject and redesigning a brand
new mobile application were tedious to do that’s why it
consumed a lot of time.
4.3 VALIDATION
A. Face Validity
This validation is built upon the principle of
reading through the plans and assessing the viability of the
research, with little objective measurement. face validity is
a more general measure and the subjects often have input (
Shuttleworth, 2009).
The researchers was given a quota to reach by their
research adviser which was to let the maximum numbers of
the following to evaluate C.E.E.M.A; 1 Administrator, 10
teachers, and 20 students. The administrator and 2 teacher
were given a hand out for the rating sheet personally while
the other teachers and 20 students were gathered online. It
was done through the review feature in the mobile
application.
C. Readability Test (Flesch-Kincaid R.T.)

Figure 6: Documentation of the Face Validity of S.M.R.A.

by Mr. Sagarino

In this research project, Face Validation was done

by the researchers through submitting the unedited version
of C.E.E.M.A. which was S.M.R.A. The researchers
personally showed Mr. Sagarino the mobile application and
the objectives, design and content of the project. The
researchers shared a copy of C.E.E.M.A. to Mr Sagarino
and through that he was able to use application himself.

B. Content Validity
This refers to the validation of the contents of
C.E.E.M.A. by the evaluators. The researchers gave an
evaluation letter to the evaluators and they had signed it.
The researchers provided a rating sheet for the evaluators to
be able to rate the application. Scales from 1-4 were chosen
by the evaluators which corresponds to their rating of the
given mobile application.
The different criteria that were being validated
were Visual Appeal, Usability, Design Documentation &
Review, Mobile Technologies, Originality, Overall Quality,
Copyright, and Average. Suggestions and Comments was According to the table 1, the grade level that could
also made so that evaluators would be able to state their easily comprehend the Math Practice Quiz starts with Grade
insights regarding C.E.E.M.A. 3. It is easy to understand because the questions in Math are
straight to the point because it only involves numbers and
easy equations.

Table 2: Abstract Practice Quiz

Question Grade
Level
Appendix L: Documentation of the Content Validity by Mr.
1.) N/A N/A
Lluisma, Ms. Bongacwil, and Ms. Cadiente

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2.) N/A N/A 7.) An object of mass ‘m’ travelling at
3.) N/A N/A a speed ‘v’, is struck back in the 4
4.) N/A N/A opposite direction with the speed
v. The magnitude change of the
5.) N/A N/A
momentum of the ball is....
6.) N/A N/A 8.) A scooter’s velocity increases 6
7.) N/A N/A uniformly from 8 m/s to 24 m/s
8.) N/A N/A while covering 100 m in a straight
9.) N/A N/A line. This will happen in time
10.) N/A N/A 9.) Jumping out of a moving bus, a 4
11.) The sum of the greatest and the 4 passenger should run for some
smallest numbers 217, 9, 63, and distance in a direction
14 is..... 10.) At the highest point of the 8
12.) What is the length of a pin tow- 3
projectile, its velocity is
fifths as long as a pin 4 cm long? 11.) In a case of a uniform circular 10
13.) How many odd numbers less than 8 motion, the acceleration is
50 are exactly divisible by 3? 12.) Which kind of mirror can be used 5
14.) 19, 23, 26, 30, 33, ? -2 to put a piece of paper of fire with
15.) 40 40 31 31 22 22 13 _ _ -1 sunlight
16.) 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, 19, 25, ___ -2 13.) The lens used to rectify the defect 10
17.) 1, 6, 13, 22, 33, ___ -2 of farsightedness (Presbyopia) is a
18.) 6, 11, 21, 36, 56, ___ -2 14.) The defect of eye called myopia 7
19.) 978, ___, 924, 852, 708, 420 -2 can be corrected by using a
20.) 20, 19, 17, ___, 10, 5 -2 15.) The density of water is 6
AVERAGE O.1 16.) Water pipes burst in winter. This 0
is due to
According to the table 2, the grade level that could 17.) The velocity of sound in a 5
easily comprehend the Abstract Practice Quiz starts with
Grade 0. The result was very low because the Abstract medium is 425 n/s. A source of a
practice quiz is mostly composed of numbers and some of frequency 850 Hz will produce
the questions can’t be validated because it was on image waves with wavelength of
form.
18.) Who among the following 12
Table 3: Science Practice Quiz scientists discovered the
relationship between electricity
Questions Grade and magnetism?
Level 19.) A fundamental electrical property
1.) Nautical mile is a unit of distance 3 that is either of positive or 13
in negative type to which the mutual
2.) An angstrom measures 3 attractions or repulsions between
3.) One lightyear is approximately 11 protons or electrons is attributed
equivalent to 20.) Which of the following set of 12
4.) The unit of pressure are 1 electromagnetic waves has
5.) 1 kilowatt-hour is a unit of 2 wavelengths in increasing order?
6.) A cyclist covers 6 km in 20 0 AVERAGE 6.1
minutes. His speed is

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 According to the table 3, the grade level that could few days.
easily comprehend the Science Practice Quiz starts with
Grade 6. There were some scientific terms included on the 17.) Shy and timid by nature, Dante 9
Science practice quiz that’s why the grade level increased became even more _____ when in
compared to the Math and Abstract Practice Quiz. the presence of his superior.
18.) Unable to attend the reunion, Susan 10
Table 4: English Practice Quiz
could enjoy it only in a _____ fashion,
Questions Grade through the videos taken there.
Level 19.) Ants appear to behave ______, 8
1.) First quarter revenue __________ 3 actively helping one another to find
$45.1 billion from $44.7 billion a year food.
earlier. 20.) An editorial praised the generosity of 12
2.) All the orders got _________ on 0 an anonymous ________, who had
schedule. donated over a million pesos to the
3.) Commercials builders downplayed 7 victims
_______ a bust in the superheated 21.) I haven't got …… 0
housing market. 22.) N/A N/A
4.) Property taxes _____ about 40 6 23.) I have Flamenco classes …… 5
percent of the overall tax revenue the 24.) David is the boss, you need to speak 1
states collects. to ….
5.) _______ the end of year results were 3 25.) N/A N/A
published, the managers got their 26.) Every year,he goes to the coast for 5
bonuses. his holidays ....
6.) Poverty: Prosperity 12 27.) N/A N/A
7.) Stage: Theatre 2 28.) They …….. time for lunch -3
8.) Tree: Sapling 0 29.) N/A N/A
9.) Cool: Frigid 0 30.) I'm going out .......some cigarettes 7
10.) Lamb: Frisk -3 31.) He says he's been robbed. He can't 0
find his wallet …..
11.) Evidently, neither of the professors 9
32.) ..... orange juice in the fridge -1
______ aware that the letter of
33.) N/A N/A
complaint has been linked to him.
34.) We haven’t got ..... mineral water. 7
12.) Either her brother or her parents 6
35.) I wanted a purple bike but they only 4
_______ Leah’s address in California.
had .....
13.) There in the middle of the aisle 9
36.) N/A N/A
______ my abandoned cart along
37.) N/A N/A
with all the items I had intended to
38.) Micheal ..... in Paris since 1999 2
purchase. 39.) Have you finished the shopping ..… 1
14.) Somebody leaves _____ computer 9 ?
on after work, and I intend to 40.) Have you sent that e-mail to Mr. -2
discover who that is. O'Neill? Yes, I’ve …..done that.
15.) Either the tests or the papers ______ 2 AVERAGE 4
been misplaced
16.) The coming of super typhoon is not 6
______; it threatens within the next

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 According to the table 4, the grade level that could
easily comprehend the English Practice Quiz starts with
Grade 4. There were some items in the quiz that involved
some difficult terms but also there some items that only
involved simple terms in Englsih that’s why the average
was in the middle.
4.4 REVISION
Figure 5: Illustration flow of the revision of the new app
C.E.E.M.A.
Feedbacks from the users
After the researchers had already distributed the
mobile app for review and for validation, the researcher
learned what aspects of the application should be improved.
The first feedback that was given to us by our research
project adviser was to change the S.M.R.A’s name because
its original name is so specific that would limit its users.
The researcher’s adviser suggested to have a catching
acronym which also has a broad scope when it comes to
their audience.
After content validation, the researcher’s adviser
also suggested to put a time limit to the practice quizzes to
develop speed and comprehension to the students. It was
also suggested to add more questions to the English Practice
Quiz because in the actual SASE exam, the subject English
is quite numerous that’s why the researchers expanded their
questions.
Alteration of S.M.R.A.
The researchers had considered all the users’
feedback and tried their best to immerge them in the
existing application. Here are the list of changes that were
being made into S.M.R.A;
Figure 7: Final Revision of C.E.E.M.A.
1.) The researchers changed the mobile apps name into
College Entrance Exam Mobile Application
(C.E.E.M.A.) which was originally named SASE
Mobile Reviewer Application.
2.) The researchers changed the logo, theme, and
background picture into a more catchy and young
vibe in order to get the attention of the students
who will be using the app for educational purposes.
3.) The researchers altered the time-limit which was
originally 2 minutes in the whole practice quiz into
20 minutes. Which means that one question is
equivalent into one minute (except for the Abstract
Practice Quiz which has a one question per thirty
seconds).
4.) The researchers decided to separate the information
of the application and the information of the
developers which was originally merged into one.
5.) The researchers inputted their individual profile so
that users will be able to identify them easily (it
includes the researcher’s profile picture, social
media links, and contact number)
Development of College Entrance Exam Mobile
Application (C.E.E.M.A)
The researchers already altered and improved the
said research project to provide a user-friendly and
accessible mobile reviewer for all students who will be
taking up college entrance exams in the future. The
researchers hoped that the said application will be put into
good use and have a positive impact towards students that
reviewing does really improves your chance in having
success on your exams.
4.5 UTILIZATION
The research project entitled College Entrance
Exam Mobile Application was used by the Grade 12
students in reviewing for their college exams. The Practice
Quizzes of all four different subject areas contained a time
limit in which it improved the speed and comprehension of
the students. The correct answers that were being provided
by the researchers at the end of each practice quiz helped
the users assess their wrong answers and were able to
identify the correct answers.
The review feature of C.E.E.M.A. was utilized in
the assessment of the overall performance of the research
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project. Users were able to give their feedback and their
suggestions regarding their experience upon using
C.E.E.M.A. The users also gave their rate which was being
symbolized by the number of stars which corresponds to
their feedback. The feedbacks were being sent on the gmail
of the researchers so that the researchers was being
informed on their positive and negative insights. The
researchers then compiled all of the reviews to come up
with a conclusion.
The mobile application served as a tool so that
future researchers will have additional information
regarding their feedback on the usefulness of having a
review upon taking college entrance exam. This was done
through the survey feature which was included on
C.E.E.M.A.

4.6 EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK

After C.E.E.M.A. had been utilized by the users,
they had given their own feedbacks and evaluation of the
application based on their personal experience while using
the application. The following table is the targeted number
of users who will be giving their ratings of C.E.E.M.A.
according to their research adviser;

Table 5: Target Interval of the users of C.E.E.M.A.

1 administrator

10 teachers

20 students

Evaluation of C.E.E.M.A.
The researchers chose Mr. Vicente Lluisma
(Asssitant Principal of Senior High Department), Amyfill
Bongcawil (M.I.L. Teacher), and Mae Ann Limpangog
(I.C.T. Teacher) to evaluate and rate the contents of
C.E.E.M.A. The evaluators were given hand-outs with a
rating sheet for them to fill in. The following are the copy
of the rating sheet that were given to the evaluators:
Feedback of the users of C.E.E.M.A
The researchers also distributed the mobile application to
teachers and students because they were also the
benefactors of the research project. The researchers also let
them give their rating and feedback through online review
on the C.E.E.M.A’s program. The following are the top
feedbacks that really helped the researchers in improving
the overall performance of C.E.E.M.A.
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
C.E.E.M.A had been distributed to its users, the
researchers asked their respondents to give their feedbacks
and suggestion towards the application. The review feature
let the users rate the application by stars, 5 stars being the
highest and 1 star being the lowest. The researchers had
already gathered the feedbacks from the required feedback
which is 1 administrator, 10 teachers, and 20 students. Here
is the summary of their assessment of C.E.E.M.A;
According to the result, users rated five stars when
it comes to the criteria of making a mobile application.
Consisting of 62% of the whole population of the
respondents. 10 users rated four stars on C.E.E.M.A’s
overall performance, taking 29% of the overall percentage
of the respondents. Three students gave C.E.E.M.A. three
stars, consisting 9 percent of the overall percentage of the
respondents. Meanwhile, there are no users that rated
C.E.E.M.A. with 2 stars or 1 star.

5.2 CONCLUSIONS
Based on the findings, the researchers conclude the
following:

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 1. The MSU-SASE reviewer is developed using an
innovative technology that is accessible which is
Appypie.com that lets you create mobile
application for free.
2. Most users of C.E.E.M.A. have an exemplary/Very
good response towards the application.
3. There are some parts of the C.E.E.M.A. that needs
to be improved.
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the findings and conclusion presented, the
researchers recommend the following:
1. The researchers recommend that the users should
have a mobile phone, Shareit application, and
enough memory storage to be able to upload
C.E.E.M.A.
2. To be able to load all the features of C.E.E.M.A.,
internet connection is necessary to be accessed. The
researchers recommend that users have an internet
connection in the start-up of the application to be
able to load the four subject Practice quiz, Images,
and Forums feature of the mobile application.
3. The C.E.E.M.A’s features like Review and SASE
Review Assessment Poll requires an internet
connection to be accessed by its users. The
researchers recommend to the users to have internet
connection or mobile data to be able to give a
review and answer the poll in the mobile
application.
4. The researchers recommend to create an account if
the students will answer the Poll feature of the
mobile application.
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