TOP ACHIEVERS PRIVATE SCHOOL, INC.

(TAPS)
Alicia; Cauayan; Santiago; Sta. Ana; Roxas; Ilagan; Solano Campus
“School of the Future”
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1 Monthly Examination

Values 4
I. Multiple choice. Read the situation. Select the choice that tells what you
will do in the situation.
1. You have a school project to work on. You do not know how to do it.
What will you do?
A. I will ask someone to teach me.
B. I will let someone do the project for me.
C. I will not do the project.
2. Your mother is busy cleaning the kitchen. You are not doing anything.
What will you do?
A. I will just watch Mother work.
B. I will go out and play with my friends.
C. I will help Mother with her work.
3. Your mother asked you to water the plants. Your friends invite you to
play with them. What will you do?
A. I will finish my work before I go and play.
B. I will leave my work unfinished and play.
C. I will water only some of the plants then play.
4. Your grades for the second quarter are rather low. What will you do?
A. I will ignore the problem.
B. I will study harder.
C. I will ask my parents to talk my teachers into giving me better
grades.
5. You have an assignment to do but your little brother is inviting you to
watch movie. What will you do?
A. I will join my little brother so that he won’t feel bad.
B. I will talk to my little brother in a nice way that we can watch
later after doing my assignment.
C. I will just ignore him.
6. You are following the time management steps. You just made a list of
your tasks and estimated how much time you will take. What should you
do next?
A. I should take a break and eat snack.
B. I should cross off tasks that I don’t want to do right away.
C. I should prioritize my tasks, or put them in order of importance.
 7. You have a final exam on Tuesday. Your goal is to earn an A on it. On
Monday afternoon, you start playing video games. When your father
tells you to study, you respond, “I’ll do it later.” What could you do to
improve your time management skills?
A. I should think about my goals and the things that will help me to
reach them.
B. I should make a more flexible schedule.
C. I should take more breaks.
8. Which of the following is a good time management strategy?
A. forgetting about deadlines
B. thinking about the consequences of your actions when you
prioritize your tasks
C. keeping your phone next to you while you study
9. If you aren’t sure how long a task will take, you should ______.
A. skip it
B. give yourself only 5 minutes to finish it
C. do it last
10. You have a task to do, but you want to play, what will you do first?
A. I will do my task first, before playing.
B. I will play first; I can do my task later.
C. I will just play and ignore my task.
II. Multiple Choice. Read the questions carefully then choose the correct
answer from the given choices.
11. From the selection, “Never Put Off for Tomorrow What You Can Do
Today,” which of the boy used his time wisely?
A. Alex
B. Isidro
C. Felipe
12. Why did Mr. Felipe punish Isidro and reward Alex?
A. Because Isidro did not do his task while Alex finished his task on
time.
B. Because he never listens to his father.
C. Because he deserves to be punished.
13. How would you feel if you were Isidro?
A. I will feel bad with my father.
B. I will feel bad for not doing my work on time.
C. I will feel hurt and unloved.
 14. Who is the inspiration of many Filipinos in using his time wisely?
A. Jose Rizal
B. Andres Bonifacio
C. Rodrigo Duterte
15. Why should you emulate Jose Rizal?
A. Because he kept a daily work schedule, and followed this schedule
strictly.
B. Because he used his time wisely --- he read a lot, wrote poems,
painted pictures, and even sculpted figures.
C. All of the above.
16. In the selection, “The PPA Stars,” What does PPA mean?
A. Perfect Punctuality and Attendance
B. Practice Positivity and Alertness
C. Promote Punctuality and Alertness
17. Why does the 4A pupils want to earn more stars?
A. Because the class wants to get a free day for reach-out
activities.
B. Because the class wants to earn a good score in their subject.
C. Because they want to be the best.
18. What did they do to complete the stars?
A. They sleep early at night so they can wake up early in the
morning.
B. They go to school every day.
C. All of the above
19. What was their reward after completing the fifteen stars?
A. They had a grand time at the zoo.
B. They had a picnic in the park.
C. They had a party celebrating their success at school.
20. What is the meaning of this line, “Lost time is gone forever”?
A. Once time had passed, we could not turn it back anymore.
B. Time is essential to everyone.
C. Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

III. TRUE or FALSE. Read each statement below carefully. Choose TRUE if
the statement is correct and FALSE if it is not.
21. It is possible for family members to be a source of time management
problems.
22. The key to effective time management is to understand what you need
to accomplish and to delegate time to accomplishing it.
23. It is always easy to figure how much time you need to set aside for
study purposes.
24. By establishing priorities, you are identifying what is important and
needs to be done first, second, and so on.
25. Something that is urgent will not always be something that leads you
to your goals.
26. Something that is important is connected with your goals.
27. Good time management means never taking breaks.
28. Time management means always doing more than one task at the same
time.
29. One way to manage your time well is to ignore deadlines and focus on
doing the most fun activities.
30. Time management is about planning to get tasks done and doing them.
31. You should spend your time on things that are important to others.
32. Taking the time to set goals wastes your limited time.
33. In order to effectively manage your time and to be productive each
day, you must organize your workspace.
34. Leisure time is time spent doing routine, necessary things like sleeping
and eating.
35. One can become successful in life through hard work.