PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

1. Which is a teaching approach for kindergarten that makes real world experiences of the child the focal
point of educational stimulation?

a. Montessori approach✔

b. traditional approach

c. Eclectic approach

d. Situational approach

2. The use of mnemonics helps a pupils _________ information.

a. analyze

b. understand

c. apply

d. remember✔

3. Which program was adopted to provide universal access to basic education to eradicate illiteracy?

a. “Paaralan sa Bawat Barangay”

b. Education for All✔

c. Values Education Framework

d. Science and Education Development Plan

4. Teacher Z instructs her class to refer to the dictionary in correcting their spelled words.

Which particle is exemplified?

a. Curriculum indigenization

b. Computer assisted instruction

c. Multi level instruction

d. Self evaluation✔

5. In research, which is the dependent variable?

a. Stimulus

b. Input✔
c. Attribute

d. Predictor

6. What is the mean of this score distribution: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10?

a. 8.5

b. 6

c. 7.5

d. 7✔

7. Which statement correctly applies to student who got a score of 72 in the test?

a. He surpassed the scores of 72 students

b. He correctly answered 72% of the items in the test

c. He obtained a raw score of 72✔

d. He answered only items in the test

8. Which measure (s) of central tendency can be determined by mere inspection?

a. Median

b. Mode

c. Mean

d. Mode & Median✔

9. Teacher C adds the number of cases and 1 over 2 to obtain

a. mode

b. median✔

c. median and mode

d. mean

10. It is not wise to laugh at a two year old child when he utters bad words because in his stage he is
learning to:

a. Consider other’s views

b. Distinguish right and wrong✔

c. Socialize

d. Distinguish sex differences

11. Mothers who demand their 3 to 5 children to spend their time in serious academic study forget that
early childhood is the

a. questioning age

b. pre school age

c. initiative age

d. toy age✔

12. Which refers to a single word or phrase that tells the computer to do something with a

program or file?

a. Computer program

b. Command✔

c. Password

d. Computer language

13. To determine student’s entry knowledge and skills that test should be given?

a. Aptitude

b. Standardized

c. Diagnostic✔

d. Placement

14. What is the mode in the following score distribution: 96, 97, 98, 97, 93, 90, 89, 97,

81, and 80?

a. 96

b. 98

c. 97✔

d. 33
15. If a teacher is concerned with the development of student’s higher order thinking skills, his lesson
objectives must go beyond.

a. Analysis✔

b. Recall

c. Comprehension

d. application

16. Which statement on counseling is FALSE?

a. The ultimate goal of counseling is greater happiness on the part of the counselee.✔

b. For counseling to be successful, the counselee is willing to participate in the process.

c. The school counselor is primarily responsible for counseling

d. Counseling is the program that includes guidance.

17. A test item has a difficulty index of .81 and discrimination index of .13. What should the test
constructor do?

a. Retain the item

b. Make it a bonus ite

c. Revise the item

d. Reject the item✔

18. Which is the final, indispensable component of a lesson plan?

a. Assignment✔

b. References

c. Activity

d. Evaluation

19. For mastery of learning in a certain subject, which type of testing is appropriate?

a. Formative testing✔

b. Criterion reference testing

c. Aptitude testing
d. Norm reference testing

20. Which is NOT included in item analysis?

a. Determining the percentage equivalent of the cut off score

b. Identifying the highest score

c. Determining the cut off score

d. Determine the effectiveness of distracters✔

21. The first thing to do in constructing a periodic test is for a teacher to.

a. decide on the type of test to conduct

b. go back to her instructional objective✔

c. decide on the number of items for the test

d. study the content

22. The strengthening of liberal education which includes classical literature in the curriculum is based
on the thought of the

a. rationalists

b. hedonists

c. humanists✔

d. stoics

23. Which statement of human right is CORRECT?

a. Human rights are unlimited.

b. Human right is a moral power not a physical power.

c. All human rights are inalienable.✔

d. Human right is might.

24. Which is an example of an alienable right?

a. Right to possess a house through inheritance

b. right to life

c. Right to alms✔
d. Right to marry

25. It is an area of philosophy which deals on the nature of knowledge and the best methods of teaching
is

a. Epistemology✔

b. Metaphysics

c. Ethics

d. Aesthetics

26. To occupy a government position, one has to pass an examination on Confucian thought. From whom
did this influence come?

a. Hebrews

b. Chinese✔

c. Hindus

d. Greeks

27. Who was a strong supporter of inclusive education and “education for all” concept?

a. Dewey✔

b. Hegel

c. Rousseau

d. Kung fu tsu

28. A son put a time bomb in the luggage of his mother who took it abroad a Philippine airline. The
bomb exploded while the airplane was in flight killing the mother and forty other passengers. Although
the motive of the criminal act was never revealed by the son, he aroused suspicion, when he named
himself beneficiary to an insurance policy he had previously taken out on his mother’s life. Was the son
accountable for the death of his mother and the other passengers?

a. Yes. He may have been directly interested only in the insurance money but directly as foreseen
consequence, he willed the death for all passengers.✔

b. No. He did not directly the death of his mother and the other passengers.

c. No, if he refused to get the insurance money after the incident.

d. Yes, if he got the insurance money after the death.

29. Which software allows teachers and students to write, edit, and polish assignments and reports?

a. Spreadsheets

b. Word processing✔

c. Database

d. Graphics

30. To have a test with a wide coverage, power to test analytical thinking and ease of scoring. Which type
should teachers use?

a. Completion

b. Short answer

c. Alternate response

d. Multiple choice✔

31. What does a conservative Filipino student experience when she migrates to the United States and
witness for herself public display of affection?

a. Acculturation

b. Culture shock✔

c. Colonial mentality

d. Enculturation

32. In what way can teachers uphold the highest possible standards of quality education?

a. By working out undeserved promotions.

b. By putting down other professions to lift the status of teaching

c. Wearing expensive clothes to change people’s poor perception of teachers

d. By continually improving themselves personally and professionally✔

33. Which learning activity is most appropriate if teacher’s focus is attitudinal change?

a. Field trip

b. Role play✔

c. Game
d. Exhibit

34. Which questioning practice promotes more class interaction?

a. Asking rhetorical questions.

b. Focusing on convergent actions.

c. Focusing in divergent questions.✔

d. Calling a student to answer before asking the question

35. Which holds true to norm reference testing?

a. comparing individual’s performance to the average performance of a group✔

b. Determining tasks that reflect instructional objectives

c. Constructing test items in term of instructional objective

d. Identifying an acceptable level of mastery in advance

36. The mode of a score distribution is 25. This means that

a. twenty five is the average of the score distribution.

b. twenty five is the score that occurs least.

c. twenty five (25) is the score that occurs most✔

d. there is no score of 25.

37. If a teacher gets the difference between the highest and lowest score, he obtains the

______

a. range✔

b. standard deviation

c. level of difficulty

d. median

38. Which one described the percentile rank of a given score?

a. The percent of cases of a distribution within the given score

b. The percent of cases of a distribution above the given score

c. The percent of cases of a distribution below and above a given score

d. The percent of cases of a distribution below the given score✔

39. To the rationalist, which is the highest faculty of a man?

a. Senses

b. Reason✔

c. Emotion

d. Will

40. The index of difficulty of a particular test is .10. What does this mean? My student’s

_________.

a. found the test item was neither easy nor difficult

b. performed very well against expectation

c. were hard up in that item✔

d. gained mastery over that item

41. Jose reads WAS for SAW or D for P or B. from his reading behavior, one can say that

Jose suffers from _________.

a. dysgraphia

b. dyslexia✔

c. dysphasia

d. dyspraxia

42. If you want a child to eliminate an undesirable behavior, punish him. This in accordance with
Thorndike’s law of __________.

a. multiple response

b. reinforcement✔

c. exercise

d. effect
43. In which cognitive development stage is a child unable to distinguish between his own perspective
and someone else’s?

a. Pre operational stage✔

b. Concrete operational stage

c. Sensorimotor stage

d. Formal operational

44. Which developmental stage is sometimes called the pre school years?

a. Middle childhood

b. Adolescence

c. Early childhood✔

d. Late Infancy

45. According to Piaget’s theory, in which developmental stage can the child do symbolic thinking and go
beyond the connection of sensory information and physical action?

a. Pre operational✔

b. Concrete operational

c. Formal operational

d. Sensorimotor

46. In which competency do the students find greatest difficulty? In the item with the difficulty index of
________.

a. 0.10✔

b. 0.90

c. 1.00

d. 0.50

47. What psychological principle is invoked when a teacher connects the new lesson to the one just
completed so that the student may gain a holistic view of the subject?

a. Conceptualization

b. Recognition
c. Stimulation

d. Apperception✔

48. Which teaching method is intended primarily for skill and concept mastery by way of practice?

a. Project

b. Supervised study

c. Drill✔

d. Review

49. What is the possible effect of an overcrowded curriculum?

a. In depth learning tends to be given greater emphasis

b. Lifelong learning skills tend to be fully developed

c. There is lack of personal analysis and reflection on major concepts✔

d. There is greater concept of understanding

50. Teacher D begins her lesson with concrete life experiences then leads her students to abstraction.
Which method does she employ?

a. Inductive✔

b. Deductive

c. Transductive

Goodluck to us.

LITERATURE

● Folklore - traditionally derived and orally transmitted literature

● Folktales - reflect the people's beliefs handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth

● Epilogue - conclusion or final part of non-dramatic literary work

● Genre - distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy & novel
● "Quo Vadis" - means "where are you going"

● hieroglyphics - oldest forn of egyptian writing

● Allegory - narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface

● Elegy - a meditated poem of grief

● Sonnet - verse w/14 iambic pentameter lines

● Epic - long poem w/c depicts the adventure of a great hero who reveals his country's aspirations;
narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings w/local actor in w/c people sing/chant

● Soliloquy - speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts

● Manuel Arcilla - "How my brother Leon brought home a wife"

● Washington Irving - "The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow"

● Fall of the house of usher - hypochondriac living in morbid fear

● Cyrano de Bergerac - poet & soldier noted for his Peculiar nose

● "The Illiad of Homer" - great epic poem whose plot centers around the anger & wrath of Achilles
against agamemnon

● "The Bells" - "If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being"

● Cacophony - literary term w/c means harsh & discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect

● George Bernard Shaw - know for his excellence of characterization, swiftness of narrative & clarity of
style.

● Edgar Allan Poe - greatest American writer of horror and detective stories

● Rabindranath Tagore - best known for his collection of poems called Gitanjali/song offerings

● Robert Frost - ranked as one of the best modern American poets.

● Geoffrey Chaucer - Morning Star of English Literature

● Mark Twain - "Samuel Clemens"

● Harriet Stowe - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

● Charles Darwin - Origin of species

● Lazlo Biro - invented the ball point pen

● Harry Potter - epic kind of story

VOCABULARY

Emulate 〰 imitate

Vouchsafe 〰 grant

Abeyance 〰 suspended

Denigrate 〰 malign

Furtive 〰 sneaky

Remonstrate 〰protest

Corroborate 〰confirm

Gullible〰easily deceived

Germane〰relevant

Plebeian〰common

Vulpine〰cunning

Spendthrift〰spender

Impolitic〰unwise

Terse〰concise

Parsimonious〰stingy

Stupefy〰make numb

Pariah〰outcast

Wizened〰shrivelled

Dubious〰doubtful

Incriminates〰accuse

Frivolous〰worthless

Susceptible〰inclined
Impertinent〰irrelevant

Ostracized 〰excluded

Conglomeration〰diffusion

Cacophonous〰loud and unpleasant

Carnal〰worldly

Aplomb〰composure

Candor 〰honesty

Contemptuous 〰 scornful

Feeble 〰 weak

Inevitable 〰 certain

FILIPINO

● Ang panubong - handog sa dalagang may kaarawan (koronang bulaklak)

● Florante at Laura - (awit) "katiwalian ng mga kastila"

● Jose dela Cruz - tungkod ng tulang tagalog

● Noli Me Tangere - (Rizal) suliraning panlipunan ng bayan

● "Doktrina Kristiyana" - Fr. Domingo de Nieva � unang aklat na nalimbag sa pilipinas

● Severino Reyes - Ama ng dulaang tagalog

● Juan Luna - La Spolarium

● "Alim" - pinakamatandang epiko ng pilipinas

● Jose Palma - naglikha ng "Himno Nacional Filipino"

● Liwayway - nabigyan ng pagpapahalaga ang sariling wika

● Lope K.Santos - "Ama ng balarila ng pilipino"

● Andres Bonifacio - "anak bayan"

● Pupdok/Kinting kulirat - hindi kailanman ginamit ni Marcelo del Pilar

● Teodoro Agoncillo - isang kilalang manunulat ng kasaysayan

● Manuel Quezon - Ama ng Wikang Pambansa

● Constancio de Guzman - lumikha ng awit na "Ang Bayan Ko"

● Pascual Poblete - Ama ng pahayagang tagalog

GENERAL EDUCATION

1. Despite her parent's complaint, she decided to live by ________ in Manila.

A. her B. herself C. oneself D. himself

2. Your findings are impertinent to the results of this investigation. The underlined word means

A. malicious B. violent C. important D. irrelevant

3. The price of these sneakers _____ reasonable.

A. is B. are C. seem D. aren't

4. The famous singer and composer ___ arrived.

A. have B. has C. will D. is

5. Some of my friends _____here.

A. are B. was C. will D. am

6. The pair of scissors____ on the table.

A. was left B. were left C. was leaving D. is leaving

7. Joan lives ____ Santillan Road.

A. In B. on C. at D. to

8. The test was hard for Alice and _____.

A. me B. I C. myself D. himself

9. He is the _______ of the two brothers.

A. most tall B. tallest C. very tall D. taller

10. Those are probably the _____ blankets in the store.

A. least fancy B. fanciest C. most fanciest D. most fancy

11. The kittens play with each other happily. Which word in the sentence is an adverb?

A. kittens B. each C. play D. happily

12. Your sister is paying for your tuition fee, _______?

A. aren't you B. isn't it C. is she D. isn't she

13. _______not making the most of _______ opportunities.

A. You're-your B. You're- you're C. You-your D. You're- you

14. Both Rony and ____ plan to go.

A. my B. me C. myself D. I

15. Which sounds like "when"?

A. Pin B. Whine C. While D. Pet

16. He was as helpless as a child. Classify this statement.

A. Simile B. Idioms C. Synonym D. Hyperbole

17. She is a rose is an example of a _______.

A. Idiom B. Metaphor C. Simile D. Hyperbole

18. News travels as fast as the wind. This statement is a/an______.

A. Idiom B. Metaphor C. Simile D. Hyperbole

19. Stop shilly-shallying and make-up you mind. This serves as not to ________.

A. go ahead B. hesitate C. decide D. continue

20. What figure of speech is employed when the author states. "O souls and spirits of the martyred
brave arise?"

A. Idiom B. Metaphor C. Simile D. Apostrophe

21. Wala ______ lahat maliban sa ilang katulong na na nagliligpit ng mga kalat.

A. ng B. nang

22. Naipadala na _____Traffic manager, na si Narciso, ang tugon sa pahatid-kawad.

A. ng B. nang

23. Dapat ka _____ matuto sa lahat ng darating pang mga suliranin.

A. ng B. nang

24. Marami _____ bayani ng sangkatauhan ay makapagkilala sa pamamagitan ng pahayagan.

A. ng B. nang

25. Tawa ______ tawa ang kapatid ko dahil sa palabas.

A. ng B. nang

26. Bukas na _____ umaga.

A. ng B. nang

27. Bukas na ______ maaga.

A. ng B. nang

28. Mag-aral ka _____ mabuti.

A. ng B. nang

29. Paborito ko _____ iyan.

A. rin B. din

30. Ang kaibigan _____ ay sadyang malapit sa akin.

A. rin B. din

CORRECT ANSWERS>>>>>

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

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