SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJOR 5.

The host-country of the 1992 Earth’s Summit on

Sustainable Development
1. The capital of Denmark
A. Philippines
A. Oslo
B. Brazil
B. Copenhagen
C. Britain
C. Stockholm
D. China
D. Reykjavik
Rationalization: B – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rationalization: b – is the capital and largest city of
Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 6. The longest revolt in the Philippines History
(January 1st 2011) and a metropolitan population of
A. Dagohoy revolt
1,918,062 (April 1st 2011). Copenhagen is situated on
the islands of Zealand and Amager. B. Diego Silang revolt
2. Hans Christian Andersen is a Native of what C. Gabriela Silan revolt
Scandinavian country
D. Palaris revolt
A. Denmark
Rationalization: A – Lasted for 85 years
B. Norway
7. What was our government under the 1935
C. Sweden Constitution
D. Finland A. Revolutionary
Rationalization: D – From Odense, Denmark B. Monarchy
3. Known as Ma-I by the early Chinese traders C. Commonwealth
A. Mindoro D. Military
B. Aklan Rationalization: C – Ten-year transition
C. Cebu 8. What is meant by the worker’s right to security of
tenure?
D. Manila
I. To continue in their jobs
Rationalization: A – “Mina de Oro (Mine of gold)
II. Not to be contractual after six months
4. The focal theme/agenda of 2009 Earth’s Summit held
in Copenhagen, Denmark III. May not be dismissed unless there is just or valid
cause provided by law
A. Sustainable Development
A. I and II
B. Climate Change
B. I and III
C. Poverty C. II and III
D. I and III
D. Cyder crime
Rationalization: C – Article XIII of the 1987
Rationalization: B – What is the Copenhagen climate
Constitution
change summit?
9. Which order of presidents correctly applies to
The UN meeting is the deadline for thrashing out a
Philippines History
successor to the Kyoto protocol, with the aim of
preventing dangerous global warming. It will run for two I. II. III. IV. A. B. C. D.
weeks from 7 December and is the latest is a series that
I. Magsaysay
trace their origins to the 1992 Earth summit in Rio
II. Garcia B. Enculturation
III. Quirino C. Cultural relativism
IV. Roxas D. Acculturation
A. IV-III-I-II Rationalization: A – by definition of Assimilation
B. II-I-III-Iv
14. The principle that an individual human’s beliefs and
C. I-II-III-Iv
activities should be understood in terms of his or
D. IV-III-II-I
her own culture.
ANS: A
A. Assimilation
10. The SONA of the President is being delivered every
___________ Monday of July. B. Enculturation
A. First C. Cultural relativism
B. Second D. Acculturation
C. Third Rationalization: C – By defining of Assimilation
D. Fourth 15. The Commanding General of USAFFE
ANS: D A. General Arthur MacArthur
11. The process by which a person learns the B. General Douglas MacArthur
requirements of the culture by which he or she is
surrounded, and acquires values and behaviours that are C. General Jonathan Wainright
appropriate or necessary in that culture D. General Edward P. King
A. Assimilation Rationalization: B – The USAFFE (United States Armed
B. Enculturation Forces in the Far East) was a military command formed
by the United States in the Philippines during World
C. Cultural relativism War II to counter the threat posed by the Imperial
Japanese Army. Major General MacArthur served as its
D. Acculturation
commander. Its headquarters was established on July 26,
ANS: B – By definition 1941,
12. The exchange of cultural features that results when 16. The Commander of the American and Filipinos
groups of individuals having different cultures come into forces in Bataan
continuous first hand contact; the original cultural
A. General Arthur MacArthur
patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the
groups remain distinct B. General Douglas MacArthur
A. Assimilation C. General Jonathan Wainright
B. Enculturation D. General Edward P. King
C. Cultural relativism Rationalization: D – Edward Postell King Jr. (1884-
1958) was a Major General in the United States Army
D. Acculturation
who gained prominence for leading the defense of the
Rationalization: D – by definition of Assimilation Bataan Peninsula in the Battle of Bataan against the
Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II.
13. The process whereby a minority group gradually
adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing 17. The Commander of the American and Filipino forces
culture and customs. in Corregidor
A. Assimilation A. General Arthur MacArthur
B. General Douglas MacArthur
C. General Jonathan Wainright
D. Genaral Edward P. King
Rationalization: C – The Battle for Corregidor was the
culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest
of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942
ended all organized opposition by the U.S. Army Forces
Far East to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the
Northern Philippines.
18. The president of the Japanese-sponsored government
A. Sergio Osmena
B. Manuel L. Quezon
C. Jorge B. Vargas
D. Jose P. Laurel
Wilhelm Wundt - "Father of Modern Psychology"
● William James - wrote the "Principles of psychology"/
consciousness
● hypothalamus - brain's stress center
● Abraham Maslow - physiological needs; "Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs" ; safety&security; love &
belongingness; self-esteem; self-actualization
● John B. Watson - (behaviorist approach) an American
psychologist who established the psychological school
of behaviorism.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
● Metaphor - is a comparison made b/w things w/c are
essentially not alike.
Ex: "Nobody invites Edward to parties because He is a
wet blanket"
● Simile - is like a metaphor and often uses the words
"like" or "as"
Ex: "Jamie runs as fast as the wind"
● Personification - when something that is not human is
given human-like qualities, this is known as
personification.
Ex: " The leaves danced in the wind on the cold October
afternoon"
● Hyperbole - exaggerating, often in a humorous way to
make a particular point is known as hyperbole.
Ex: "My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice
cream cones we we're having for dessert"
● Onomatopoeia - when you name an action by imitating
the sound associated with it.
Ex: "The bees buzz angrily when their hive is disturbed"
● Idiom - an idiom is an expression used by a particular
group of people with a meaning that is only known
through common use.
Ex: "I'm just waiting for him to kick the bucket."
● Synecdoche - a synecdoche is a figure of speech using
a word/words that are a part to represent a whole.
Ex: referring to credit cards as "plastic" is a synecdoche
● Assonance - when you repeat a vowel sound in a
phrase, it is an assonance.
Ex: "It's true, I do like Sue."
● Metonymy - a metonymy is a figure of speech where
one thing is replaced w/a word that is closely associated
with it such as using "Washington" to refer to the United
States
REPUBLIC ACTS
● RA #7836 - Philippine Teacher Professionalization
Act of 1994
● RA #7796 - TESDA Act of 1994
● Article XIV 1987 Philippine Constitution (Educ.Sci &
Tech,Arts,Culture& Sports) 👉this is the very
fundamental legal basis of education in thr philippines.
● Education Act of 1982 (Batas Pambansa 232, Sept
11,1982) 👉an Act providing for the Establishment &
Maintenance of an Integrated System of Education
● RA #4670 - Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
(June 18,1966)
● RA #6713 - Code of Conduct & Ethical Standards For
Public Officials and Employees
● RA #7877 - Anti-sexual Harrassment Act of 1995
● RA #9155 - Decentralization; Legal basis of Shared
Governance in Basic Education
● RA #7784 - Establishment of Center of Excellence
● K-12 Curriculum - Enhanced Basic Education
Curriculum
● RA #90210 - "An Act to Integrate Information
Teachnology into the Public Elementary & Secondary
Curricula & Appropriating funds
● RA #10121 - DRMM approval headed by OCO office
of Civil defense May 2010
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
GEN. ED (ENGLISH and LIT)
*HENLY- " I am the master of my fate, I am the captain
of my soul" poem of INVICTUS
*KEATS- " A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
*MARK TWAIN- American greatest humorist
*EPIC- a long narrative poem dealing with persons of
heroic proportion & actions of great significance
*EDGAR ALLAN POE- considered the father of the
modern american short story
*HAIKU- Japanese poem w/ 17 syllables
*ANTHOLOGY- collection of literary pieces
*SONNET- 14 iambic pentameter lines
*MAHABHARATA- longest epic
*FOLKTALES- stories that reflect people's beliefs & are
handed from generation to generation
*FABLES- these are tales making use of animals as
characters
*MARCELO H. DEL PILAR- his pen name "Dolores
manapat"
*QUEZON- "like the molave" his source of inspiration ✔Fyodor Dostoevsky - most common theme of writing:
enormous contradictions of human nature
*ELEGY- a poem lamenting the dead
*SOLILOQUY- a speech by a person who reveals his
thoughts ✔Lyric poetry - about emotions/feelingsb musical
MANUEL ARGUILLA- author of "how my brother accompaniment; not intended to be sung
Leon brought home a wife"
*JOSE RIZAL- he wrote the famous letter " to the
✔Ballad - narrative poem; intended to be sung
women of malolos"
*URBANA AT FELIZA- a kind of literary piece w/c
moralizes & was written in letter between 2 sisters ✔Epistolary - a compilation of works or series of
dwelling in the city& the other in the province documents or letters with connection; popular in the 18th
Century
*WASHINGTON- author of " the legend of sleppy
hollow"
*RHODORA- "if eyes are made for seeing, the beauty is ✔Picaresque - stories about the adventures of a low-class
its own excuse for being"- is taken from the poem indivudual (example: Robinhood)
*THE ILLIAD OF HOMER- A great epic poem whose
plot centers around the anger & wrath of Achilles against
Agamemnon, a great Leader ✔Mahabharata - the true epic of India with mythology
and religion
*LEONARDO DA VINCI- famous work monaliza
*JUAN LUNA- famous painting "'spolarium"
✔Gilgamesh - 1st heroic narrative of world literature
*MICHAEL ANGELO- created "the statue of David'

LITERATURE ✔"Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats - about beauty;

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

✔Robert Browning - dramatic monologue style of

writing ✔"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy - about the
Napoleonic invasion of Russia

✔Wole Soyinka - 1st African Nobel Laureate

✔"Kublai Khan" by Coleridge - a collection of dreams
stimulated by drugs
✔PLOT - most important in Aristotle's Poetics

✔HAIKU - Japanese poem about transitoriness of life;

captures a moment to memorialize
✔"The Prince" by Niccollo Machiavelli - a political
power handbook

✔Lord Tennyson works:

✔"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery -Break, break, break
-Crossing the Bar
-In Memoriam

✔Blank verse poetry - no rhyme; with meter
✔Free verse - no rhyme; no meter; a characteristic of
Modernism poetry
✔"A Rose is a Rose, is a Rose" by Gertrude Stein - she
is one of the "Lost Generation" writers
✔Filipino local color style - Manuel Arguilla's "How My
Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife"
✔American local color style - Mark Twain's (Samuel
Langhorn Clemens) "Adventures of Huckleberryfin" and
"Life on Mississippi"
✔Marks of Post-Modernism:
-intertextuality
-metafictionality
✔"The Filipino Rebel" by Stevan Javellana - story of a
woman torn between love & obedience
✔"A Child of Sorrow" - 1st English Philippine novel
✔"Bamboo in the Wind" by Azucena Grajo Urranza -
last desperate effort of Filipinos to be free from
colonization
✔Sucesos Felices - 1st newsletter in the Philippines
Prof Ed- Assessment of Learning
1. Criterion reference test
-the students mastery of objectives
2. Define the instructional objective-first step in
planning an achievement test
3. Standard deviation -Validity
4. Central tendency -mean,median and mode
5. Positively skewed score distribution -most of the
scores are low
6.Normal distribution
- mean,median and mode are equal
7.Negatively skewedu
💳means that students perform well in the said
examination or the scores of the students concentrated
on the right part of the curve.
💳good performance of the students
8.Normal distribution curve, a T-score or 70
-two SDsabove the mean
-T score=10z+50
-z=2
9. Mean is to measure of central tendency as quartile
deviation
10. Skewed to the right
-most of the students got scores below the mean,which
means that the examinees performed very poor.
11. Median
-equivalent to the 50th percentile
12. Skewed score distribution
-scores are concentrated more at one
end or the other end.
13.Skewed to the left
-if the class is composed of bright students .High scores
concentrated at the right part of the distribution.
14. -2SD and +2SD in the normal curve
- 95.44
From mean to 1SD is 34.13%
From mean to -1SD is also 34.13%
From 1SD to 2SD is 13.59%
From -ISD to -2SD is 13.59%
The are under the normal curve is the highest score and the lowest score.
34.13%+34.13%+13.59%+ 13.59%=95.44% -Formula=highest score-Lowest score
15. Generousity error 24.Positively skewed
-if a teacher gives additional grade to the students who -left side of the curve
performed well in the class or in the examination,then he
25.Normal curve distribution -1SD to +1SD
commits generousity error.
-68.26%
16. Mode -defines as the number that occured most in
the distribution most.The distribution is also classified as -because -1SD to mean is 34.13%
unimodal.
and from mean to 1SD is also 34.13%
17. Formative test
Thus the sum is 68.26%
-is done after or during discussion.Feedback from the
said exam can be used to determined whether the 26.Median
students have mastery of the subject matter. -The scores of the students is a tutorial
18. Positive discrimination index class are as follows 82,82,85,86,87,94,98
-more from the upper group got the item correctly. -the score 86 is the median
19.Norm-referenced statements -it is the middle most score in the
-you are comparing the performance of a certain students distribution.
with the performance of other students.
27. 0-.20
20.Negatively skewed score distribution
-difficulty index range
-the student consist of academically good
28. -0.46 discrimination index
students
-more students from the lower group
-most of the scores of the students
answered item correctly
concentrated at the right part of curve
29. Multimodal
21.Content validity
-is a score distribution that consist of
-validation that refers to the relationships between a test
and the instructional objectives. more than modes.

-establishes the test measures what it is 30. Median is the most appropriate measure of central
tendency to used when the distribution is skewed
supposed to measure.
31.Negatively skewed distribution
22. Measures of Variability
-most of the scores of the test-takers
-variance
above the mean
-standard deviation
32.Positively skewed distribution
-range
-the mean is greater than the median
-interquartile range
33.TOS
-mean deviation
-Table of Specification
23.Range
34. Range(types of variation)
-If teacher gets the difference between
-is easily affected by the extreme scores,if there is a 47.Grading on the curve/norm referenced
change in either the highest score or lower score the
grading
value of the range easily change.
-the performance of a certain student
35. Mean(types pf central tendency)
compared to the performance of other
-easily affected by the extreme scores.
students in the group
-if there is a changes in highest score
-the mean vallue pulled up
#SharingIsCar
-while if the lowest score become
smaller,the valueis pulled down.
36. Sentence completion test
-word association test and thematic
appreciation test are all projective test.
37.Anecdotal report
-are notes written by the teacher regarding incdents at
the classroom that might be needs special attention in the
future.
38.Sinforoso Padilla
-father of counselling in the Philippines
39.Authentic assessment
-assessment applying real life situation
40. Standardized test
-to engage in easy scoring
41.Scoring rubric
-very important and indespensable
42.Assessment of learning
-emphasis on grades and honors
43.Difficulty index of 1
-the test is very easy.
44.Split half method and Kuder Richardson
-measure internal consistency of the
test scores of the students.
45. Test-retest measures method
-stability of the test scores
46.Parallel method
-measures equuvalence