LET Reviewer: General Education

1. As a parent and at the same time a teacher, which of the following will you to do
to show your cooperation to a PTA project in your school to be financed with the
proceeds of the sales of the school canteen where food prices are a little bit higher?

A. Bring food for you and your children, but always make it a point to buy in the school
canteen.
B. Buy all your food in the school canteen but request for a discount.
C. Bring food enough for you and your children but do not eat in the canteen.
D. Buy all your food from the school canteen even if you cannot afford to do every day.

2. How can you help a habitual borrower of money get rid of his habit?

A. Let him do something for you in return for the money you lent him.
B. Direct him to others.
C. Do not lend him anymore.
D. Ask for a collateral for the cash he is loaning.

3. Periodic checks on student seatwork with a smile and pat on the should
effectively reinforce good study habit is an example of ____.

A. Discrimination reinforcement
B. Continuous reinforcement
C. Variable-ratio schedule
D. Fixed interval and variable interval schedule

4. A person strives to work at a given task because of a need. Which of the following
situations can make a person strive to meet his needs? (needs of the learners)

A. Minimize the unpleasant consequences of student involvement.

B. Utilize your own opinion as teacher in making final decisions in the classroom.
C. Use unfamiliar materials as examples in order to initially arouse their curiosity.
D. Ask pupils to submit test questions or reactions from which you can select topics.

5. The singing of the National Anthem in schools in an offshoot of the philosophy

of ____.

A. Nationalism
B. Naturalism
C. Pragmatism
D. Socialism

6. The environment in order to facilitates, learning must be interactive. Which of

the following best typifies this kind of environment?

A. The child goes out and discovers for himself some rock or fossil.
B. The child listens to a lecture on fossils given by the teacher.
C. The child summarizes the section on fossils in his science textbook.
D. The child copies a list of fact concerning fossils on the blackboard.

7. Social development means that acquisition of the ability to behave in accordance

with ____.

A. Social expectation
B. Social insight
C. Stereotyped behavior
D. Universal norms

8. When an adolescent combines ability to use deductive and inductive reasoning

in constructing realistic rules that he can respect and live by, how does he perceive
his environment?

A. He views the world from his own perspective

B. He interprets events from a limited views
C. He views events apart from himself and other people
D. He views the world and himself through the eyes of other people

9. Who introduced the technique of using the drawing of a man as a measure of

intelligence?

A. Aristotle
B. Herbert
C. Goodenough
D. Benet

10. Which Republic Act provides government assistance to students and teachers
in private education?

A. RA 7784
B. RA 6728
C. RA 7836
D. RA 6675

11. The authoritarian setting in the Filipino home is reinforced by a classroom

teacher who:

A. Encourage pupils to ask questions B. Is open to suggestions

C. Prescribes what pupils should do D. Ask open ended questions

12. Who among the following believes that learning requires disciplined attention,
regular homework, and respect for legitimate authority?

A. Essentialist
B. Perennialist
C. Progressivist
D. Reconstructionist

13. The Constitutional provision on language has the following aims, EXCEPT:

A. To make the regional dialect as auxiliary media of instructions in regional school

B. To maintain English as a second language
C. To make Filipino the sole medium of instruction (no-against bilingual; multilingual
policy)
D. To make Filipino the national language & medium of instruction & communication

14. The tendency to emphasize so much on school beautification to the detriment

of pupils performance illustrates the:

A. Filipino’s lack of seriousness

B. Filipino’s sense of humor
C. Filipino’s lack of reflection
D. Filipino’s love for “porma”

15. Which is NOT a characteristic of democratic discipline?

A. Child has opportunity to express his/her opinion

B. Child given punishment is related to the misdeed
C. Child understands the meaning of rules
D. Child obeys blindly
16. Who among the following stressed the processes of experience and problem
solving?
A. Dewey B. Aristotle C. Hegel D. Plato

17. Which of the following reasons for measuring student achievement is NOT
valid?

A. To prepare feedback on the effectiveness of the learning process

B. To certify that students have attained a level of competence in a subject area
C. To discourage students from cheating during test and getting high scores
D. To motivate students to learn & master the materials they think will be covered by
the achievement test.

18. Which characterizes the perfectionist type of students?

A. Does not volunteer or initiate

B. Give up easily
C. Rarely complete tasks
D. Often anxious, fearful or frustrated about quality work

19. When a school decides to work on a thematic curriculum which should be out
of the picture?

A. Peer collaboration
B. Integration
C. Team teaching
D. Competition

20. Teacher wants to teach his pupils the technique on reading for information.
Which technique should be use?

A. Text structure
B. Prior knowledge
C. Story map
D. SQ3R

21. In instructional planning, which among these three: unit plan, course plan,
lesson plan is (are) most specific? ____plans

A. Course and lesson

B. Course
C. Lesson
D. Unit

22. The use of drills in the classroom is rooted on Thorndike’s law of:

A. Readiness
B. Exercise
C. Effect
D. Belongingness

23. Positive interdependence as an element of collaborative learning means that

the students must:

A. Learn to depend on each other to achieve a goal

B. Depend on the diligent students
C. Help one another in the individual test for everyone to pass
D. Be grouped heterogeneously

24. Which of the following measures should a teacher do to a principal whom she
would like to file a case of sexual harassment w/o violating the relationship of the
teacher to her superiors?

A. Present the case before competent authority & prepare to prove the charge
B. Write an anonymous letter to a higher school official to denounce the superior
C. Call a parent-teacher meeting and denounce the superior
D. Encourage the other teachers & students to hold a demonstration to oust the superior

25. Pick out the situation that illustrates the duty of a new teacher to the state:

A. Take a long vacation which she firmly believes she deserves after four years of
diligent study before taking the examination for teachers
B. Apply for teaching job where eligibility is not required to gain teaching experience
before taking the teachers board examination.
C. Prepare for the wedding she and her boyfriend have long planned to be able to raise
a family with children which they plan to rear as good citizen of our country
D. Take the licensure examination for teacher and an oath to do her best to help carry
out the policies of the state

26. Parents are up in arms on the telephone bills that pay for sex calls. What is the
solution to this problem?

A. The telephone company is to blame for this (not a solution)

B. The government restriction have no teeth (not a solution)
C. Parents allow this to make their children modern (inconsistent to the situation)
D. Parents, school and students should discuss this openly

27. Cooperatives are encouraged in as many groups as possible. What agency

controls the different cooperatives?

A. Security and Exchange Commission

B. Commission on Audit
C. Department of Local Government
D. Bureau of Cooperative (Cooperative Development Authority)

28. Society and media know drinking starts off drug addiction. What should be
discussed in schools?

A. Drug addiction has been traced to drinking wine

B. Nobody drinks at home except father
C. TV ads show drinking is a source of fellowship (the only choice that includes media
& society)
D. High taxes on liquor will be a deterrent to eventual drug use

29. Cooperatives have branched out to consumers cooperative. Schools have

included the concepts of cooperatives. Where is it practiced?

A. School book stores

B. Schools uniform purchases
C. School canteen
D. Class stores

30. A student collapsed in her social class. It was found out that he did not eat her lunch.
What principle is shown in the situation?

A. Psychological need
B. Physiological need
C. Somatotonic
D. Safety need

31. The main function of a philosophy of education is to:

A. Aid the learner to build his own personal philosophy

B. Reconsider existing educational goals in the light of society’s needs
C. Provide the academic background prerequisite to learning
D. Define the goals & set the direction for which education is to strive

32. Which technique(s) enable(s) a teacher to identify and eventually assists

students with interpersonal difficulties?

A. Anecdotal record
B. Cumulative record
C. Personal inventory
D. Sociogram

33. Teachers and students can participate in these levels of computer use. Give the
order of computer use from simplest to complex?

A. Computer competency, computer literacy, competency expertise

B. Computer literacy, computer expertise, computer competency
C. Computer competency, computer expertise, computer literacy
D. Computer literacy, computer competency, computer expertise

34. Which one is considered the “Brain” of the microcomputer?

A. CPU
B. Software
C. Video screen
D. Keyboard

35. A group activity wherein one group representative presents the output to the
bigger group rather than individual pupils presenting the output is known as:

A. Consensus decision
B. Composite report
C. Jury trial
D. Agenda

36. In the formulation of classroom, which of the following should a teacher refrain
from doing?

A. State classroom regulation as clearly as possible

B. Enlist student aid in the formulation of classroom regulation
C. Enforce classroom regulations consistently and fairly
D. Teacher and the class should make as many regulations as possible
37. Zero standard deviation means that:

A. The students’ scores are the same

B. 50% of the score obtained is zero
C. More than 50% of the score obtained is zero
D. Less than 50% of the scores obtained is zero

38. Which is the least authentic mode of assessment?

A. Paper-and-pencil test in vocabulary

B. Oral performance to assess student’s spoken communication skills
C. Experiments in science to assess skill in the use of scientific methods
D. Artistic production for music or art subject

39. In what period of a child is physical growth fastest?

A. Prenatal period
B. Early childhood
C. Early adolescence
D. Pubescence

40. How does fear affect the voluntariness of an act?

A. Makes the act involuntary

C. Increase voluntariness
B. No effect at all
D. Lessens but not destroy voluntariness (fear- modifier of human act)

41. A group of people asserts that their culture is superior to another. This
exemplifies:

A. Cultural gap
B. Norm conflict
C. Cultural conflict
D. Ethnocentrism (equivalent to superiority complex)

42. A test consists of a graph showing the relationship between age and population.
Following it is a series of true-false items based on the graph. Which type of test
does this illustrate?
A. Laboratory exercise
B. Performance
C. Problem solving
D. Interpretative

43. Which curricular move served to strengthen spiritual and ethical values?

A. Integration of creative thinking in all subject

B. Reducing the number of subject areas into the skill subject
C. Introduction of Value Education as a separate subject area
D. Re-introducing Science as all subject in Grade 1

44. Which computer seems to have the most potential for the classroom?

A. Mainframe computer
B. Microcomputer
C. Minicomputer
D. LPC

45. A teacher notices glaring wrong pronunciation of vowel sounds among her
students necessitating more practice. Which of the following activities would be at
most help?

A. Dictionary use
B. Assignments
C. Review
D. Drill

46. Which storage device is significantly more efficient in holding information

A. Hard disk
B. Software
C. Floppy disk
D. Audio cassette

47. The Filipino tendency to resort to the easy way out from a term paper as a
course requirement by hiring a ghost writer or by passing a photocopied term
paper provide which Filipino traits?

A. Anticipation
B. Ambivalence
C. Pakikisama
D. Lack of discipline

48. “No pain, no gain”. This means that:

A. Only those willing to carry the crosses that like impose can share the joy of life
B. One should be a penitent every good Friday by carrying his cross(not logical)
C. The more suffering in this life, the more one is assured of heaven (fanatism)
D. One should look for suffering to save himself/herself (not logical)

49. Which trust on value formation is meant to help the students make use of their
thinking and scientific investigation to decide on topics and questions above
values?

A. Value inculcation
B. Value clarification (investigation)
C. Analysis
D. Moral development

50. Which interactive teaching should be AVOIDED?

A. Using “put down” strategy

B. Asking more divergent questions
C. Using multiple response strategy
D. Asking more evaluative questions