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March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: SPED (Day 18)
1. Which among the following is a mood disorder?
A. Bipolar disorder
B. Obsessive/compulsive disorder
C. Phobias
D. Selective mutism
2. It is the placement of a disabled child who is enrolled in a special class, in a regular school, where a
student could participate in some activities with nondisabled peers.
A. Normalization
B. Mainstreaming
C. Integration
D. Inclusion
3. This is the inability or loss of ability to manipulate arithmetic symbols and do mathematical calculations
A. Congenital Arithmetic Disorder
B. Gerstman Syndrome
C. Dyscalculla
D. Acalculla
4. It states: “Where needs warrant, there shall be at least one special class in every province, and if
possible, special schools for the physically handicapped, the mentally retarded, the emotionally disturbed
and the specially gifted. The private sectors shall be given all the necessary inducement and
encouragement.”
A. Declaration of the Rights of the Mentally Retarded
B. Education Act of 1982 (Batas Pambansa 232)
C. Child and Youth Welfare Code (PD 603)
D. Rights of the Disabled
5. This is defined as any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range
considered normal for a human being.
A. Abnormality
B. Disability
C. Handicap
D. Impairment
3. When the Filipino reformists asked for the assimilation of the Philippines by Spain, what did they ask for?
For the Philippines to ________.
A. become independent from Spain
B. become a province of Spain
C. be independent from Spain with certain conditions
D. be represented in the Spanish Cortes
5. The maximum price that can be legally changed for a good or service is called _____.
A. minimum wage
B. price floor
C. legal wage
D. price ceiling
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: EARLY CHILDHOOD
(Day 16)
1. He is the “Father of Pedagogy” and considered the first to teach young children of preschool age.
A. John Dewey
B. Howard Gardner
C. Burrhus Skinner
D. Johann Heinrich Peztalozzi
2. Learning disability is detected when the child:
A. has visual or hearing difficulty.
B. is a brain injured and has difficulty in talking.
C. is mentally retarded or has emotional disturbance.
D. does not achieve commensurate with his/her ability level.
3. What should the teacher apply when struggles between children emerge during play?
A. Conflict Management
B. Facilitation
C. Motivate
D. Observation
4. Which is the most essential consideration in making a schedule in the preschool?
A. Copy the schedule from your companions since the activities are the same.
B. Make a variety of activities in the schedule.
C. Plan a sequence of events that occur daily in the preschool program that would satisfy the needs of the
pupils.
D. Wait for the need to arise, then make a schedule.
5. What mathematical skills can be integrated by counting?
A. Addition, measurement
B. Geometry, seriating
C. Temporal concept, comparing
D. Classifying, telling time
Answers to DAY 16’s LET questions for early childhood education specialization:
1. D. Johann Heinrich Peztalozzi
2. D. does not achieve commensurate with his/her ability level.
3. A. Conflict Management
4. B. Make a variety of activities in the schedule.
5. A. Addition, measurement
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
(Day 15)
3. What term is used to indicate the amount of water vapor actually present in the air at a given time?
A. Atmospheric humility
B. Absolute humidity
C. Atmospheric moisture
D. Relative humidity
5. If you clap your hands and hear the echo from a distant wall 0.20s later, how far away is the wall?
A. 68 m
B. 70 m
C. 32 m
D. 34 m
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: FILIPINO (Day 14)
Para sa specialization sa Filipino, sasaklaw ang mga tanong sa panitikan, wika at mga pamamaraan sa
pagtuturo ng Filipino, gaya ng saklaw ng pagsusulit para sa English.
Subukang sagutin ang sumusunod na mga tanong upang magabayan ang inyong paghahanda:
1. Sino ang tinaguriang ama ng pelikulang Pilipino na nagtayo ng kauna-unahang kompanya ng pelikula sa
bansa na tumatalakay sa kalagayaan ng mga tao?
A. Narcisa Reyes
B. Jose Nepomuceno
C. Jose Reyes
D. Jose Perez
2. Ibigay ang aspekto ng pandiwa ng pangungusap na ito: KASUSULAT LANG NIYA NG KUWENTO.
A. Perpektibo
B. Komtemplatibo
C. Pawatas
D. Imperpekto
3. Sa anong bahagi ng pag-aaral ng wika pinag-uukulan ng pansin ang kayarian ng panaguri at ng paksa?
A. Morpolohiya
B. Ponolohiya
C. Sintaks
D. Semantika
5. Sa aling panahon naging madalas na paksa ng mga manunulat ang buhay sa lalawigan?
A. Republika
B. Hapon
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: ENGLISH (Day 13)
1. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and attitude of literature of ancient
Greek and Rome?
A. Romanticism
B. Realism
C. Classicism
D. Naturalism
3. When a teacher wants to emphasize the learners’ needs to identify why they are writing and for whom,
he/she can use the _________.
A. process approach
B. controlled writing approach
C. free writing approach
D. communicative writing approach
5. The official stand of the newspaper on a particular issue is found in the _______.
A. Inside page
B. editorial page
C. features section
D. front page
1. C. Classicism
2. A. Father and Sons
3. D. communicative writing approach
4. C. That she dances well surprises me.
5. B. editorial page
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Majorship: CONTENT COURSE
(Day 12)
Content course majors among our future professional elementary teachers, you need not worry that much
about the scope of the specialization module. Work on basic concepts in all the courses—English, Filipino,
math, science, values education and edukasyong pantahanan at pangkabuhayan—and teaching applications
and you should do well. Give these a try:
2. “Tumungo sa ibang bansa ang Pangulo at mga senador.” Ibigay ang kayarian ng pangungusap.
A. Tambalan
B. Langkapan
C. Hugnayan
D. Payak
3. How much larger is the supplement of a 57 degree angle than the complement of a 75 degree angle?
A. 108 degrees
B. 13 degrees
C. 123 degrees
D. 5 degrees
5. Integrity means wholeness. The bully lacks integrity in the sense that he/she looks at the world only in
terms of _______.
A. popularity
B. power
C. material wealth
D. pleasure
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Specialization: BIOLOGY (Day 11)
1. Which of the following is referred to as the “suicidal bags” of the cell?
A. Chloroplasts
B. Vacuoles
C. Ribosomes
D. Lysosomes
2. If Albert and Kate have 5 children, all of which are boys, what is the probability that their next child will
be a girl?
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 75%
D. 100%
3. Joy planted 4 pots of gumamela plants in four different locations. What is her independent variable?
A. Location
B. Gumamela plant
C. Pot
D. Plant growth
4. Jason was awakened by his mother because there is fire in their kitchen. What division in his nervous
system is most active during this time?
A. Central
B. Parasympathetic
C. Peripheral
D. Sympathetic
5. In which of the following organisms are tracheal systems for gas exchange found?
A. Earthworm
B. Jellyfish
C. Insect
D. Vertebrate
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Assessment (Day 10)
1. While she in the process of teaching, Teacher Arlie finds out if her students understand what she is
teaching. What is Teacher Arlie engaged in?
A. Criterion-reference evaluation
B. Summative evaluation
C. Formative evaluation
D. Norm-reference evaluation
2. Which behavioral term describes a lesson outcome in the highest level of Bloom’s cognitive domain?
A. Create
B. Evaluate
C. Analyze
D. Design
4. Teacher Marielle constructed a matching type test. In her columns of items are combinations of events,
people and circumstances. Which of the following guidelines in constructing matching type of test did she
VIOLATE?
A. List options in an alphabetical order.
B. Make list of items homogeneous.
C. Make list of items heterogeneous.
D. Provide more options than stems.
5. Among the choices given, A, B, C, D, for an item, no student chose D. It means D is:
A. a defective distracter
B. a vague distracter
C. an effective distracter
D. a plausible distracter
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Facilitating Learning (Day 9)
ET reviewee, don’t be discouraged by the long list of psychologists-theorists that have contributed to our
understanding of the learning process and child and adolescent development. Just aim for the mastery of
theorist-theory association and the basic terms and principles and items such as these will be no problem for
you:
1. A teacher rewards a child for doing things correctly. This technique is called:
A. Reinforcement
B. Fading
C. Chaining
D. Conditioning
2. Based on Piaget’s theory, what should a teacher provide in the formal operational stage?
A. Games and other physical activities to develop motor skills
B. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering
C. Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with
D. Activities for hypothesis formulation
3. Contrary to Freud’s concept that the primary motivation of human behavior is sexual in nature, Erikson’s
is _________ in nature.
A. Biological
B. Cultural
C. Physical
D. Social
4. If one is asked to develop himself to the fullest, what need is s/he trying to satisfy according to Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs?
A. Safety needs
B. Physiological needs
C. Self-actualization
D. Belongingness
5. Teacher Wendell gives his students opportunities to be creative because of his conviction that much
learning results from the need to express creativity. On which theory is Teacher Wendell’s conviction
anchored?
A. Behaviorist
B. Humanist
C. Cognitivist
D. Associationist
Answers to DAY 9’s LET questions for facilitating learning, child and adolescent development:
1. A. Reinforcement
2. D. Activities for hypothesis formulation
3. D. Social
4. C. Self-actualization
5. B. Humanist
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Principles of Teaching (Day 8)
4. Which activity should I use when I want to generate possible topics for panel discussion?
A. Task group
B. Forum
C. Debate
D. Brainstorming
March 2012 LET Review – Sample LET Items in Foundations of Education (Day 7)
For Professional Education we start with the foundations of education and its social dimensions. This area
takes up 10 percent of the whole test. Don’t be surprised to find items such as this in the LET in March:
1. Which feature was TRUE of Philippine education during the Spanish regime?
A. Separation of Church and State
B. Vernacular as a medium of instruction
2. If a teacher believes that the purpose of education is to foster self-discovery and consciousness of choice,
as well as the responsibility for making choices, then the teacher adheres to the ideas of______.
A. Essentialism
B. Existentialism
C. Empiricism
D. Epicureanism
4. Are elementary and secondary education compulsory for all children of school age?
A. No, only elementary education is compulsory.
B. Yes, for all children regardless of age.
C. Yes, that is why they are free of charge.
D. No, this violates parents’ and children’s right to decide what is best for them and their children.
Math is the easiest subject to master for the LET. Yes! If you learn how to solve Math problems in time for
the LET, you’d have a handy source of no-miss points. In Math, there will always be definite answers unlike
other parts of the LET which are value-laden or sometimes very subjective.
Math comprises 20% of the General Education module. The following items may help you gauge how much
preparation you need for it:
2. A man is 3 times as old as his son now. Four years ago, the sum of their ages was 36. Find the man’s age
now.
A. 33
B. 11
C. 29
D. 36
4. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 25 feet. If one leg is 24 feet, what is the length of the other leg?
A. 6 ft.
B. 5 ft.
C. 20 ft.
D. 7 ft.
5. If two variables X and Y are directly related, which of these is NOT true?
A. When X is low, Y is also low.
B. As X increases, Y also increases.
C. When X increases, Y decreases.
D. A high Y is associated with a high X.
2. Ano ang kayarian ng pangungusap na ito? Kulang daw tayo sa pagtutulungan at pagdadamayan bilang
magkakabaranggay.
A. Hindi karaniwan
B. Karaniwan
C. Payak
D. Hugnayan
3. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang naglalaman ng posisyon o paniniwala ng isang pahayagan tungkol sa isang
napapanahong isyu?
A. masthead
B. kartung pang-editoryal
C. balitang banner
D. larawan sa pangmukhang pahina
4. “Ang iyong mga mata ay waring mga bituin sa kalangitan.” Anong tayutay ang ginamit dito?
A. Pang-uyam
B. Personipikasyon
C. Pagwawangis
D. Pagtutulad
1. “No one was prepared for the oral examination. We _____ have read the exercises last night.”
A. ought
B. would
C. can
D. should
2. If I ________ your parent, I would ground you for a month for your misbehavior.
A. should be
B. am
C. were
D. was
3. What figure of speech is used in these lines from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales? “His eyes rolled,
they never seemed to settle, / And glittered like the flowers beneath a kettle”
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Personification
4. What is meant by “two pins” in this sentence? For two pins I could have hit him on the nose.
A. With a second course of action
B. Without much persuading
C. Given a second chance
D. With an alternative response
5. What correction should be made to this sentence? Most fire-related death’s result from household fires,
yet many people do not have fire extinguishers in their homes.
Higit bang madali ito kaysa sa English items kahapon, na nasa ibababa ang mga tamang sagot?
1. B. would
2. C. were
3. A. Simile
4. B. Without much persuading
5. D. Replace “death’s” with “deaths”.
2. What may occur when there is a severe damage to some parts of the brain due to lack of blood supply?
A. Heart attack
B. Rheumatic heart
C. Stroke
D. Thrombosis
4. Meteorology is a very important branch of natural science, without which we cannot be informed of
forthcoming _______.
A. earthquakes
B. typhoons
C. comets
D. meteors
Did you get these correctly in Day 2’s LET questions for Science:
1. D. Muro-ami
2. C. Stroke
3. A. Adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D
4. B. typhoons
5. D. Producers
5. Which characteristic applies to the kind of government during the Spanish period?
A. Decentralized
B. Democratic
C. Highly centralized
D. Between democratic and socialist
Have you done yesterday’s initial exercises? If not yet, do them first before taking a look at these Answers
to yesterday’s (Day 1) LET questions for Social Studies:
1. B. China, Vietnam, Taiwan
2. B. Cagayan River
3. A. Isabelo de los Reyes
4. D. A tourist lectures his foreign hosts on the “uncivilized” nature of their marriage customs
5. C. Highly centralized