2016 LET Review for Technology and Livelihood Education

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer 9. Which of the following tools is used in
checking the squareness of the corners and
flatness of a surface?
1. The preparation of good quality lumber a. Straightedge
includes several stages. When it is dried the b. Steel square
process involved is c. Sliding T-bevel
a. Seasoning d. Try square
b. Staining 10. The strongest form of wood joint applicable
c. Lumbering for table leg is
d. Logging a. Miter
2. The smallest division of the metric scale that b. Mortise and tenon
you can find in the steel rule is c. Dado
a. Decimetre d. Butt and lap
b. Centimetre 11. You are almost finished with your project.
c. Millimetre One of the procedures below is done before
d. Meter the application of finishing materials
3. What is the conversion equivalent of one inch a. Cutting
to centimetres? b. Spraying
a. 25.4 c. Sanding
b. 2.54 d. Varnishing
c. 0.254 12. In carpentry, splicing or joining of wood using
d. 0.0254 two side blocks is called
4. A seasoned lumber is ideal for carpentry a. Lapping
works. Which among the following is best to b. Scarfing
use? c. Fishing
a. Sun dried d. Jointing
b. Kiln dried 13. There are considerable number of woods
c. Air dried joints, the simplest and easiest to make is
d. Natural dried a. Lap joint
5. There are numerous kinds of saw. When b. Dado joint
sawing along the grain of wood,, you need a c. Miter joint
a. Back saw d. Butt joint
b. Cross cut saw 14. A triangular file is used to sharpen a saw.
c. Rip saw What is the angle of the file set against the
d. Circular saw bevel of he tooth of a cross cut saw?
6. In measuring cylindrical object, what is the a. 30 degrees
appropriate tool to be used is b. 45 degrees
a. Ruler c. 90 degrees
b. Caliper d. 60 degrees
c. C. pull-push rule 15. A person who installs pipes, fixtures and other
d. Meter stick apparatus convey and supply water in
7. Fastening materials are important in buildings and to dispose and discharge waste
woodworks. The most common of these water.
materials is a. Carpenter
a. Dowel b. Plumber
b. Bolts c. Mason
c. Screw d. Mechanic
d. Nails 16. It is receptacle or vault used to collect organic
8. A wood product made of three or more waste discharged from the house sewer
veneer slice that are laid one upon the other a. Septic tank
and bonded with glue or synthetic resin b. Manhole
a. Pressed wood c. Water tank
b. Plywood d. Waste tank
c. Particle board 17. The semi-liquid substance accumulated at the
d. Soft wood bottom of the septic tank
a. Scum
 b. Sediment 27. What must be installed to prevent siphonage
c. Sludge or backflow of the water seal in the drainage
d. Slit system?
18. An underground tunnel that carries off the a. Vent pipe
drainage and waste matter from a home or b. Drain pipe
town is called c. Soil pipe
a. Drainage system d. Cleanout
b. Fixture 28. Which of the following is NOT required by the
c. Sewerage National Plumbing Code?
d. Sewer a. Drainage pipe should be inclined
19. The pipe that conveys waste from various properly for a downward gravity
fixture other than from the water closet b. Drainage pipe should be provided with
a. Waste pipe adequate cleanout
b. Soil pipe c. No vent pipe is needed
c. Vent pipe d. All pipe joints must be well-fitted and
d. Drain pipe tightly connected
20. It is fitting or device that provides liquid seal 29. What is ideal inclination of a horizontal waste
to prevent the back passage of air pipe as recommended by the National
a. Loop Plumbing Code?
b. Fixture a. 2% slope
c. Sewer b. 3% slope
d. Trap c. 4% slope
21. The tools used to tighten or loosen hexagonal d. 0% slope or level position
fittings like unions and other metal fittings 30. For purposes of troubleshooting in case of
a. Pipe vise stoppage of flow, what must be installed in
b. Pliers the pipe system?
c. Wrenches a. Vent pipe
d. Threader b. Cleanout
22. The kind of fitting used to connect fixed pipe c. Drain
and fixture is d. Tee fitting
a. Wye fitting 31. Plastic pipes are commonly used in water
b. Coupling fixture installation nowadays. Which of the
c. Union fitting following I preferred?
d. Reducer a. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
23. A fitting device installed at the inlet of a water b. Chlorinated PVC (CPVC)
pump to prevent backflow of water c. Cross-linked polyethylene (PEX)
a. Ball valve d. Polyethylene
b. Check valve 32. The Plumbing Code on House Drain provides
c. Backwater valve that there must be no more than two closets
d. Gate valve that shall discharge into a ______________
24. It is device installed in water lines that can be pipe diameter
closed or opened to allow installation or a. 3 inches or 75 mm
troubleshooting of fixtures b. 80 mm
a. Check valve c. Less than 75 mm
b. Gate valve d. 70 mm
c. Ball valve 33. A metal or plastic fitting used to connect
d. Float valve smaller pipe from a larger pipe
25. A schedule 40 pipe is a. Reducer
a. Thicker than schedule 20 b. Elbow
b. Thicker than schedule 80 c. Union
c. Thinner than schedule 10 d. Coupling
d. None among the choices 34. As a basic pre-requisite for most plumbing
26. What material is used to seal off threaded project, what should be connected for each
fittings to avoid leakage faucet, toilet and fixtures?
a. Masking tape a. Fixture shutoffs
b. Teflon tape b. Main shutoffs
c. Scotch tape c. Intermediate shutoffs
d. Adhesive gum d. Valves
35. Bricks are laid where its longer side is exposed 44. How many cubic yard of concrete do you need
to view. This arrangement is called to cover a space with an area of 25 square
a. Header foot and a slab thickness of four (4) inches?
b. Stretcher a. 0.34 cu yd
c. Bond b. .32 cu yd
d. Mortar c. .25 cu yd
36. The most widely used masonry materials for d. .51 cu. Yd
construction works 45. What tool or instrument is used to set-up the
a. Ashlar lateral level of a concrete fence?
b. Bricks a. Water hose level
c. Rubble stones b. Spirit level
d. Concrete hollow blocks c. Plumb bob
37. It is the masonry material manufactured from d. Straight edge
clay and other materials 46. According to the Building Code of the
a. Stones Philippines, for how many days shall concrete
b. Stucco be maintained above 100C temperature and in
c. Bricks moist condition?
d. Concrete pavers a. 3 days
38. What is the tool used to guide the vertical b. 5 days
position in laying bricks? c. 7 days
a. Plumb bob d. 10 days
b. Water hose level 47. Which of the following are known as coarse
c. Spirit level aggregates in a concrete mixture?
d. String or chord a. Sand
39. Which of the following is a finishing tool for b. Soil
concrete? c. Gravel
a. Crandal d. Stones
b. Bolster 48. What do you call the process of hardening of
c. Float concrete?
d. Spade a. Curing
40. Which of the following is NOT a requirement b. Setting
to consider in proportioning concrete c. Hardening
mixture? d. Molding
a. Economy 49. What is the type of hydraulic cement is widely
b. Workability used in small and large construction including
c. Strength roads and highways?
d. Flexibility a. Hydraulic cement
41. Concrete is said to be workable if it can be b. Portland cement
molded or deformed without segregation. c. Pozzolan cement
This characteristics is known as d. Lime
a. Consistency 50. How many pieces of 4”x8”x16” concrete
b. Plasticity hollow blocks (CHB) can be laid per bag of
c. Mobility cement as mortar?
d. Workability a. 55-60 pcs
42. Following are factors that regulate the b. 25-30pcs
strength of concrete except one. Which is it? c. 30-36 pcs
a. Correct proportion of ingredients d. 40-45pcs
b. Proper method of mixing 51. What ingredient in concrete is added to the
c. Adequate protection of concrete batch immediately before or during its mixing
during curing to improve its durability and accelerate
d. Dropping concrete mixture from high strength development?
elevation a. Fine aggregates
43. What class of concrete mixture is consisting of b. Coarse aggregates
1 bag of cement, 2 cu ft of sand and 4 cu ft of c. Admixture
gravel or 1:2:4? d. Water
a. Class AA 52. Which of the following refers to the structural
b. Class A reinforcing member that holds or binds
c. Class B together the main reinforcement of a
d. Class C column?
 a. Lateral tie c. Gothic letters
b. Stirrups d. Roman letters
c. Spiral Tie 62. Horizontal lines are best drawn using this
d. Rebars instrument
53. These lines are used to indicate the a. T-square
measurement of objects and are represented b. Ruler
by fine dark solid lines. c. Meter stick
a. Leader lines d. Triangles
b. Extension lines 63. The drawing pencil of a drafstman is graded
c. Dimension lines the softest, medium, the hardest. Which of
d. Center lines the following grades is the softest?
54. If a drawing has an equal measure then it a. 6B
refers to b. HB
a. Perspective drawing c. 3B
b. Sometric drawing d. 9H
c. Mechanical drawing 64. Which grade of pencil is commonly used for
d. Oblique drawing lettering by a draftsman?
55. When parts that are not seen are represented a. 2H
by series of light dash lines then this line is b. HB
classified as c. 4H
a. Reference line d. 6H
b. Visible line 65. A drawing instrument that serves as guide in
c. Section line drawing vertical and diagonal line as in
d. Invisible line triangles, it is generally used in drawing
56. One of the best practices of a good draftsman horizontal lines. Which one is it?
is to NEVER letter without a. Triangular scale
a. Guidelines b. T-square
b. Pencil c. Triangle
c. Lettering pens d. French curve
d. Ink 66. Which instrument is used in drawing curves
57. If a drawing has one surface that is called except circles and arcs?
parallel to the picture plane then this method a. Compass
is called b. Protractor
a. Oblique drawing c. French curve
b. Isometric drawing d. Divider
c. Perspective drawing 67. To completely describe a cone sphere, and
d. Orthographic drawing rectangular pyramid the number of views
58. This pictorial view is normally seen by the needed is
observer’s eyes. Which one is it? a. One
a. Isometric drawing b. Two
b. Oblique drawing c. Three
c. Perspective drawing d. Six
d. Orthographic drawing 68. This line is projected as a shorter line in a
59. The fine line used to show clearly the drawing
dimension limits is called a. Inclined line
a. Center line b. Vertical line
b. Extension line c. Curve line
c. Dimension line d. Horizontal line
d. Phantom line or section 69. Boxing Method is the most widely used
60. A horizontal guide line used to determine the method of drawing a/an
general height of lower case letters a. Isometric view
a. Base line b. Pictorial view
b. Cap line c. Mechanical view
c. Waist line d. Perspective view
d. Drop line 70. Two intersecting lines which form right angles
61. Letters that are composed of uniform width are called
elements are classified as a. Straight lines
a. Italic letters b. Parallel lines
b. Text letters c. Perpendicular lines
 d. Tangent lines 80. In facial make-up foundation serves as make-
71. A polygon is classified according to the up base. What is the best type of foundation
number of sides. What do you call a four- recommended for dry skin?
sided polygon?
a. Pentagon a. Cakes
b. Quadrilateral b. Cream
c. Hexagon c. Liquid
d. Octagon d. Stick
72. How many meters is thirty feet? 81. The purpose of thinning the hair is to remove
a. 3 meters its excess bulk without shortening its length.
b. 30 meters What is the best shear to use for thinning
c. 12 meters bulky hair?
d. 9 meters a. All-purpose shear
73. A form of electricity where the flow of current b. Clipping shear
is always in the same direction c. Razor
a. Voltage d. Thinning shear
b. Power 82. The process of thinning, tapering and
c. Alternating current shortening of the hair
d. Direct current a. Hair cutting
74. The force which opposes and reduces the flow b. Hair drying
of electrical current is recognized as c. Hair setting
a. Power d. Hair styling
b. Resistance 83. Make up is applied to the face for the purpose
c. Electromagnetism of improving its appearance. To give color to
d. Frequency the cheeks, which of the following should be
75. A part of an electric circuit which converts applied?
electrical energy into another form of energy a. Eye shadow
to do work b. Lipstick
a. Load c. Mascara
b. Circuit d. Rouge
c. Source 84. To correct misshaped eyebrows, it is best to
d. Control use
76. A law states that current is directly a. Depilatory
proportional to voltage and inversely b. Eyebrow pencil
proportional to resistance is known as c. Electric clipper
a. PEC d. Razor
b. Law of resistivity 85. Arrange the following cosmetics in their order
c. Kirchoff’s law of use in applying make up
d. Ohm’s law 1. Curl lash
77. In Ohm’s Law , to find the unknown voltage in 2. Eye liner
the circuit, the formula to be used is 3. Eye shadow
a. E=I x R 4. Mascara
b. E= I/R a. 1 2 3 4
c. I=E/R b. 2 3 4 1
d. R=E/I c. 3 2 1 4
78. What amount of current does a 40-watt d. 4 1 2 3
fluorescent lamp draw from a 220 volts power 86. A make up tool that makes eyelashes wavy is
source? a. Blush on brush
a. 5.5 amperes b. Curl lash
b. .18 amperes c. Eye liner
c. 25.5 amperes d. Mascara
d. 50.5 amperes 87. A corrective make-up that makes small eyes
79. The standard number or diameter of wires for appear bigger
convenience outlet layout should be a. Adding lines on the eyelids
a. No. 12 b. Using dark colored eyes hadow
b. No. 14 c. Using light colored eye shadow
c. No. 18 d. Using mascara
d. No. 10 88. An emery board is used to shape the ______
of the nails
 a. Cuticle c. Smaller
b. Free edge d. Deeper
c. Lunula 98. Mariana would like to apply the principle she
d. Root of the nails learned in corrective make-up to a friend
89. An orangewood stick is used to whose lips are broad. Which should you not
a. Apply oil on the nails recommend?
b. Remove excess cuticle remover a. Apply light color lipstick
c. Remove excess nail polish around the b. Apply lip gloss
nails c. Use lip liner at the outer portions of
d. Remove stain on nails the lips
90. The ability of the hair to absorb moisture d. Use lip liner on the inner lips
whether the hair is coarse, medium or fine is 99. The nail is composed mainly of
a. Hair analysis a. Melanin
b. Hair elasticity b. Keratin
c. Hair porosity c. Collagen
d. Hair texture d. sebum
91. Foot cosmetic with tiny particles that helps 100. The form of carbohydrates in which the
remove stubborn dirt when giving foot spa is plants store their reserve energy
a. Foot balm
a. sugar
b. Foot scrub
c. Foot soak b. starch
d. Foot spray
c. rice
92. Arrange steps in cleaning the nails
1. Apply cuticle d. legumes
2. Cut and file nails
101. A poultry product made by milling or
3. Push cuticle
grinding cereal grains, root crops, legumes
4. Trim cuticle
and similarly milled foods.
a. 1 3 2 4
b. 2 1 3 4 a. wheat
c. 3 1 4 2
b. miseca
d. 1 3 4 1
93. One way of shaping the eyebrow with the use c. glutinous rice
of shaver is d. flour
a. Depilation 102. An informal way of serving a meal to
b. Epilation relatively large number of person in limited
c. Threading space and no waitress is needed.
d. Waxing a. Compromise Style
94. A heavy make-up is suitable for b. Buffet Style
a. casual affair c. Russian Style
b. Evening affair d. English/Family Style
c. Picture affair 103. Vary with areas and with families within
d. Night swimming areas
95. The first cosmetic applied on the nail when a. meal pattern
applying nail polish is b. meal planning
a. Base coat c. menu
b. Colored nail polish d. satiety value
c. Cuticle remover 104. 78. Includes all tools used for eating and
d. Top coat serving foods such as knives, fork and spoon
96. What is the proper term for the practice of a. linens
dividing the hair into smaller, more workable b. individual cover
pieces for the purpose of control? c. cover
a. Bunching d. chinaware
b. Splitting 105. The finishing touches that are essential to
c. Sectioning the over all harmony of a table
d. Texturizing a. center piece
97. A darker shade of eye color makes the natural b. sterling
color of the eye appear c.placemats
a. Lighter d.chinaware
b. Darker
106. It holds the entire place setting, but they a. pan-boil
should never overlap b. scale
a. table runner c. single
b. silverware d. clothing
c. placemats 115. Which food is the best source of thiamine?
d. chinaware a. Pork
107. Caramelization is a process by which sugar b. Milk
and sugar acids are heated to high c. Carrots
temperature above 200 C, where a d. Potatoes
characteristic flavor and brown color results. 116. Water boils at 212 degrees. What does
In which of the following food items this rolling boil means? The bubbles are____
particular process is applied? a. Rolling non-stop
a. bibingka b. Forming rapidly and cannot be
b. leche flan stopped when stirred
c. suman c. Forming slowly and can be stopped
d. puto when stirred
108. Flour is to sift as coconut milk is to d. Spilling out of a container
a. drain 117. Meats are considered rich in proteins.
b. grind What kind of protein is found in connective
c. stir tissue of meat that converts to gelatin when it
d. strain is cooked?
109. Carrots, pineapples, cucumbers, tomatoes a. Elastic
and parsley are generally used as ingredients, b. Gluten
but are used also to decorate food to arouse c. Marbling
one’s appetite. What is the best term used to d. Collagen
describe their latter function? 118. Which of these nutrients is an anti-
a. dressing oxidants?
b. marinade a. Vitamin E
c. garnishes b. Calcium
d. toppings c. Fiber
110. 84. You were asked to blanch the d. Vitamin B 12
ingredients for coleslaw such as shredded 119. Which of the following ingredients will use
cabbage, and carrots, you must therefore: creaming method?
a. mip cabbage and carrots a. Butter,flour and egg
b. toss cabbage and carrots b. Flour, butter and egg
c. Butter, egg and sugar
c. dip cabbage and carrots into boiling
d. Flour, butter and sugar
water for a few minutes
120. What do you call that pourable mixture of
d. soften the said vegetables flour, liquid and other ingredients?
111. Pare is for potato as peel is for a. Dough
a. sweet potato b. Batter
b. gabi c. Cream
c. banana d. Syrup
d. papaya 121. A schematic diagram shows the
112. To minimize meat shrinkage and retain components of an electronic circuit by means
much moisture of its nutritive value, the best of __
cooking temperature is a. Symbol
a. moist heat b. Construction
b. low to moderate heat c. Physical appearance
c. high heat d. Linear appearance
d. dry heat 122. One of the following is a non-polarized
113. A starchy part of the cereal grain which electronic component
contains the largest amount of protein a. Transistor
a. bran b. Resistor
b. germ c. Diode
c. embryo d. Electrolytic capacitor
d. endosperm 123. A diode is an electronic part that at all times
114. To remove feather or bristle from poultry is expected to do one of the following
by passing over a flame is to: functions. Which one is it?
 a. Allow current to flow in both 132. It is the process of replenishing water lost
directions through evaporation and seepage
b. Multiply voltage a. Pond draining
c. Allow current to flow in one direction b. Pond preparation
only c. Pond freshening
d. Not allow any current flow d. Pond flushing
124. When diode is tested and the reading is 133. This is the regular or orderly change from
zero, it means the diode is one style of community to another.
a. Shorted a. Biological food chain
b. Open b. Ecological succession
c. Leaky c. Material removed
d. Good d. Ecological balance
125. The production of magnetic field by current 134. It is a collective term for all the small
in a conductor suspended organisms that passively drift and
a. Electromagnetism float in the water
b. Ferromagnetism a. Lumot
c. Magnetism b. Lab-lab
d. Diamagnetism c. Benthic organism
126. Working efficiently is a good work habit. d. Plankton
Tinning the tip of a soldering iron refers to 135. The scientific name of milkfish
a. Cleaning the tip with a sand paper a. Clariasbatrachus
b. Making the tip pointed b. Caranxarmatus
c. Cutting the tip c. Chanoschanos
d. Applying flux to the tip d. Cyprinuscarpio
127. The common cause of an erratic or 136. The process of releasing fish in a body of
distorted sound of a transistor radio is a water, like fish pond or lake is called
defective a. Acclimatization
a. Amplifier b. Stocking
b. Volume control c. Thinning
c. Antenna d. Transferring
d. Tuner 137. It is the quantity of an organism, fauna or
128. An appliance with 110 V Ac supply is flora in a specific ecosystem made at a time of
accidentally plugged to a 220V AC outlet. observation
What component is usually destroyed? a. Materials removed
a. Switch b. Production rate
b. AC plug c. Quantity production
c. Line fuse d. Standing crop
d. Power transformer 138. It refers to the process of adjusting the fish
129. It refers to the quantity of organisms to its new environment
produced under a given situation per unit of a. Stocking
space, time and efforts. b. Acclimatization
a. Standing crop c. Migration
b. Production d. Sampling
c. Algal bloom 139. It refers to a complex association of small
d. Cycle of production bottom-dwelling plants and animal organisms
130. An animal that captures or preys upon that occur as a brownish, greenish or
other for its food known as yellowish mat near the pod bottom
a. Predator a. Nektons
b. Nuisance b. Detritus
c. Parasite c. Lab-lab
d. Competitor d. Algae
131. It refers to the straining or overtaxing the 140. The combination of raw materials to satisfy
ability of fish to easily adjust to changing the established nutrient requirements of the
environment conditions species and age of fish is known as
a. Acclimatization a. Feed formulation
b. Stress b. Feed additive
c. Recovery c. Feed stuffs
d. Treatment d. Preservatives
141. It is the general index of the efficiency of
conversion of a fish of the efficiency of
conversion of a feed into flesh
a. Feed conversion ratio
b. Feed frequency
c. Feed efficiency
d. Feed consumed
142. The name given to a sudden mass
development of unicellular algae, the water
getting a green appearance like vegetable
soup is
a. Red tide
b. Algal bloom
c. Intoxication
d. Asphyxiation
143. It refers to a collective term covering all
materials used to control, destroy or mitigate
plants
a. Pesticide
b. Disinfectant
c. Drugs
d. Cure
144. Poisonous substance produced by certain
species of mold (aspegilus sp.)
a. Aflatoxin
b. Mimosine
c. Red tide
d. Algal bloom
145. Causes toxicity of shellfish and finfish due to
presence of dinoflagellate
a. Algal bloom
b. Aflatoxin
c. Red tide
d. Intoxication

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