Our •In’s & Out’s of the LET

Agenda •LET items

Examination Program
•NOTE: Separate Test Booklets will be used for the
General Education (GE) and Professional
Education (PE) subjects for both elementary and
secondary levels in the LEPT, SUNDAY, OCTOBER
2, 2022.
FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHER EXAMINEES ONLY
5:30 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS/FILLING OUT OF FORMS
TIME SUBJECT WEIGHT
8 a.m.-10 a.m. GENERAL EDUCATION 40%
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 60%
100%
FOR SECONDARY TEACHER EXAMINEES ONLY
5:30 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS/FILLING OUT OF FORMS
TIME SUBJECT WEIGHT
8 a.m.-10 a.m. GENERAL EDUCATION 20%
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 40%
3:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. SPECIALIZATION 40%
100%
Passing Percentage
•TO PASS THE EXAMINATION, AN EXAMINEE
MUST OBTAIN AN AVERAGE RATING OF NOT
LESS THAN 75% AND MUST HAVE NO RATING
LOWER THAN 50% IN ANY OF THE TESTS
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LEPT EXAMINEES
1. Check or verify your school/building assignments at the
PRC official website (www.prc.gov.ph) or through the
Notices/ Announcements to be posted at the PRC premises
two (2) to three (3) working days before the date of
examination. Accomplish the Examinees Tracing Form a day
before the examination.
2. On the day of the examination, report to the
school/building assignment not later than 5:30 A.M. Be
punctual. Late examinees will not be admitted.
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3. Examinees are required to wear the following attire on
examination day:
a. Male examinee - Tucked-in white polo shirt with collar
(without any seal, logo, or mark), Decent pants or slacks
b. Female examinees - Tucked-in white blouse or shirt with
collar (without any seal, logo, or mark), Decent pants or
slacks
4. Examinees must be well-groomed, with hair properly
clipped and/or pony tailed.
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5. Bring the following on examination day:
a. Official Receipt of payment of application for examination
b. One (1) piece Long Transparent White Plastic Envelope (for
keeping your valuables and
other allowed items)
c. One (1) piece long size brown envelope
d. Two (2) or more Pencils (No. 2)
e. Ball pen with black ink only.
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6. Pursuant to Resolution No. 25 (s 2019), examinees for the
Secondary level, with major in Mathematics, may use
calculators during the LEPT, provided, that such calculators
have the following features only; addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, trigonometric function, logarithm
and xy. Only one (1) calculator shall be allowed inside the
examination room. All calculators shall be thoroughly
inspected by the examination personnel.
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7. The following are PROHIBITED inside the examination rooms/premises:
a. Books, notes, review materials, and other printed materials containing coded
data/information/formula;
b. CELLULAR PHONES, EAR PLUGS, TRANSMITTERS, PORTABLE COMPUTERS,
SMART WATCHES, BLUETOOTH, AND OTHER ELECTRONIC GADGETS/DEVICES
WHICH MAY BE USED FOR COMMUNICATION PURPOSES;
c. CALCULATORS, regardless of model or unit (For all examinees with majors other
than Mathematics);
d. Bags of any kind (ladies’ bag, shoulder bags, attaché case, backpack, etc.);
e. Other examination aides not stated in this program.
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8. Per Joint Administrative Order No. 01 (s 2021), the following shall be
observed.
8.1 All examinees and examination personnel shall enforce the following
precautionary measures among themselves:
8.1.1 Observe physical distancing of at least two (2) meters between examinees.
Examinees shall be restricted to their assigned seat;
8.1.2 Wear face mask (at least 3-ply surgical mask, preferably N95 mask) and
face shield2 at all times;
8.1.3 Bring 70% ethyl alcohol for hand disinfection;
8.1.4 Wear latex gloves for exam personnel handling the test
questionnaires;
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8.1.5 Avoid close contacts like “beso-beso”, hugging,
handshake, and directly touching other persons;
8.1.6 Avoid touching one’s eyes, nose, and mouth;
8.1.7 When sneezing and/or coughing, facial tissues must be
used to wipe the nose and mouth areas. Dispose of used facial
tissues properly; and
8.1.8 Avoid spitting in public, on floors, and along corridors.
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8.2 Examinee shall submit the duly accomplished Informed
Consent (Annex “A”) and Health Declaration (Annex “B”) forms
with the Notice of Admission (NOA) and the negative RTPCR
test result/Quarantine Certificate or copy of the Complete
Vaccination Card to the proctor on the examination day.
8.3 Examinees and examination personnel shall bring their
own meals (pre-packed meal/snack and drink) to be eaten
during breaks, on their assigned seats. Face masks and face
shields will only be removed when taking meals or drinks.
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8.4 Windows will be opened to improve ventilation
during breaks.
8.5 Examinees shall bring their own pens, pencils, and
erasers. Borrowing from a seatmate is strictly not
allowed.
8.6 Talking and loitering are prohibited in the hallways
or in the examination room.
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8.7 Physical distancing shall be strictly observed in the
queuing of the examinees entering the testing venues;
8.8 All examinees and examination personnel shall
undergo temperature scanning:
8.8.1 Only examinees with a temperature of less than
or equal to 37.5 degrees Celsius (37.5°C) shall be
allowed to enter the testing venue;
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8.8.2 Examinee with a temperature of more than 37.5
degrees Celsius (37.5°C) shall be referred to the Building
Supervisor, who shall refer the concerned examinee to
onsite medical doctor/personnel for assessment. The
examinee will not be allowed to take the rest of the
examination.
8.9 Examinees shall proceed immediately to their
designated examination rooms after the thermal
scanning/screening.
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8.10 During the examination proper, the following shall
be strictly observed:
8.10.1 Watchers/Proctors and examinees shall practice
social distancing measures at all times within the
examination rooms, particularly when examinees
submit their answer sheets and test
booklets/questionnaires; only one examinee at a time
shall be accommodated;
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8.10.2 Any examinee who needs to use the
restroom shall be accompanied by a room
watcher/proctor, always maintaining social
distancing measures. Only one examinee at a time
shall be allowed to go to the restroom. Proper
hand hygiene shall be observed particularly every
after use of the restrooms; and
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8.10.3 Protective facemasks and handkerchiefs/tissue shall be
inspected by room watchers/proctors before the start of every
subject and, if necessary, during the conduct of examination to
ensure that they are not 7 used to conceal codigos. In
compliance with social distancing measures, the inspection
shall be done one at a time, while the rest of the examinees
are seated. Examinees must show all the angles of their
facemasks and handkerchiefs to the room watcher/proctor for
inspection, from a distance of at least one (1) meter from the
examinee.
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9. All examinees shall be required to download and fill-out a Post
Examination Health Surveillance Form and submit the same fourteen
(14) days after the examination through the designated Regional
Offices’ email address.
10. In addition to the above, the examinees are required to submit
results of their RT-PCR or Saliva tests from any of the Department of
Health (DOH) accredited facilities 3-5 days before the examination
date/s, if falling under the groups stated in DOH Memorandum 2020-
258A.3 Only those examinees with negative results shall be allowed to
take the examination.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LEPT EXAMINEES
If the examinee does not fall in the groups mentioned in
DOH Memorandum 2588-A (s 2020), he/she shall be
allowed to take the examination in the absence of RT-
PCR test, provided, that he/she must undergo a fourteen
(14)-day quarantine period wherein he/she is
asymptomatic for at least fourteen (14) days prior to the
scheduled examination date/s. Provided further, that
he/she has no close contact or exposure to the
aforementioned cases.
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A Certificate of Quarantine or its equivalent signed by any of the following
shall be submitted instead:
1. Duly licensed Physician (government or private physician);
2. Municipal Health Officer, Provincial Health Officer or City Health Officer;
3. Barangay Officer visiting the examinee’s residence or examination
personnel attesting that he/she has been in quarantine for fourteen (14)
days.
Examinees coming from other countries are required to quarantine for
fourteen (14) days in any government accredited facility and/or provide a
negative RT-PCR/ Saliva test result whichever is
shorter.
Who was the first person to win two
Nobel prizes in two different categories?
Marie Curie - With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie,
she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was the sole
winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first
woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the
award in two different fields.
Sir Isaac Newton – inertia, acceleration (F= ma), action-reaction
Antoine Lavoisier – Father of Chemistry
Dmitri Mendeleev – Father of Periodic Table
Who was the first known Greek
philosopher?
Thales of Miletus
Socrates – know thyself, Socratic method
Plato – Republic, Academy
Aristotle – Father of Modern Science
Hippocrates – Father of Medicine
Which of the following is a physical
change?
melting of ice
Physical change – no new product; reversible (all phase change)
Chemical change – new product; irreversible (burning, rusting,
decay/decomposition)
The openings underneath the leaves that
serve as the breathing organ of the plants
are called
stomata – where exchange of gas happens
xylem – transport of water and nutrients
phloem – transport of food
Confucianism was officially adopted and given
exclusive patronage by Emperor Wu. Of which
dynasty was the reign of Emperor Wu?
Han Dynasty
Confucius – Golden Rule, greatest Chinese philosopher (CSE),
rituals, analects (short & witty sayings)
Mencius – all men are good
Lao Tzu – Taoism (be one with nature)
Mao Zedong – founder of the PRC
Sun Yat Sen – Father of Modern China
The Sandugo (One Blood) was a blood compact
performed in the spirit of friendship between the
Spaniards and Filipinos by Datu Sikatuna and
Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The
Blood Compact has a monument which can be
found in
Tagbilaran, Bohol
National Artist for Sculpture (1976) - Napoleon V. Abueva
Aling teorya ng wika ang nagsasaad na ang wika ay
nagmula sa mga tunog na nalilikha ng mga
sanggol?
Coo Coo
Bowwow – tunog ng hayop
Dingdong – tunog ng gamit sa kapaligiran
Poohpooh – masidhing damdamin
TararaBoomDeay – ritwal
Yoheho – pwersang pisikal
Tata – kumpas ng kamay (paalam)
The surprised teacher asked, “What was all the
HUBBUB about?” HUBBUB means
Commotion
penchant – fondness
pulchritude – beauty
rancor – bitterness
candor – frankness
hiatus – lapse
eureka - discovery
Kung ang awit ng pag-iibigan ng mga Tagalog ay
kundiman, ano naman sa Bisayas?
Balitaw
sambotani – pagtatagumpay
kumintang – pakikidigma
talindaw – pamamangka
dalit – pasasalamat sa Diyos
uyayi – pagpapatulog sa bata
suliranin – ng mga manggagawa
dung-aw – awit sa patay
diona – kasal
Which of the following light has the longest
wavelength?
Red; wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency
In which of the following medium would sound
waves travel the fastest?
Solids > liquids > gas (space) inverse for light
A Spanish economist and diplomat who wrote in
1843 about the denial of the Spanish officials of the
human rights of the Filipinos which the officials
benefit themselves is __.
Sinibaldo de Mas
Dengue is an infectious disease transmitted by an
organism classified under which phylum?
Arthropoda – invertebrates with segmented bodies
• with the greatest number of species; undergoes
metamorphosis
• different from spiders (Class Arachnida) because they have 3
pairs of legs; spiders have 4
• Aedes mosquito – dengue
• Anopheles mosquito – malaria (caused by plasmodium vivax)
The Portuguese explorer who chanced upon the
Philippines in 1521.
Magellan (March 16, 1521)
• Vasco de Gama – discovered the route from Europe to India
• Francisco Pizzaro – Incans in Peru
• Hernan Cortes – Aztecs in Mexico
• Juan Ponce de Leon – Puerto Rico and Florida
• Amerigo Vespucci – namesake of America (Columbus)
Which was the first labor union in the the country
founded by Isabelo de los Reyes on July 1901?
Union Obrera Democratica
When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun, it is
summer and the sun shines all the time both day
and night. What is this called?
Midnight Sun
• Northern/Dancing Lights – aka Aurora borealis (caused by the
ionosphere in the thermosphere of the atmosphere)
Which organism is an example of a fungus?
Yeast – feeds on sugar and carbohydrates
• decomposer – feeds on dead matter
• saprophyte – feed on decaying matter
An organism has a natural environment where it
lives and thrives. This is called its ___.
Habitat
• Niche – ecological role (consumer, producer, etc.)
• Symbiosis – interaction between two different organisms living
in close physical association
• Mutualism (+ +)
• Parasitism (+ -) – parasite and host
• Commensalism (+ 0)
Penicillin was discovered by ___.
Alexander Fleming
• Galileo – used the telescope for Astronomy; Hans Lippershey
invented it
• Gregor Mendel – genetics
• Charles Darwin – evolution
• Carolus Linnaeus - taxonomy
What economic principle states that population
increases geometrically but food supplies do NOT
increase as much?
Malthusian principle
• Law of Diminishing Returns - predicts that after some optimal
level of capacity is reached, adding an additional factor of
production will actually result in smaller increases in output
• Law of Supply and Demand - explaines the interaction
between the supply of a resource and the demand for that
resource
• high supply, law demand à surplus (low price)
• low supply, high demand à shortage (high price)
Insulin deficiency or resistance of the pancreas
leads to ____.
diabetes
• insulin – a hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of
Langerhans, which regulates the amount of glucose in the
blood
• glucagon - a hormone formed in the pancreas which promotes
the breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver
What is the cellular metabolic process that
transforms biochemical energy into ATP?
cellular respiration
• happens in the mitochondria (powerhouse of the cell)
• produces energy (ATP – adenosine triphosphate)
• opposite and complementary to photosynthesis (happens in
the chloroplast)
The very hot gas of nuclei and electrons is called
______.
plasma
The vermiform appendix
is part of the large
intestine but has no
digestive function, thus,
it is _______.
Vestigial structure
(pelvic bone for
whales, wisdom
tooth, coccyx)
The newspaper of the reform movement against
colonial rule was _____.
La Solidaridad
• La Independencia - the periodical organ of the Philippine
Revolution against Spain; edited and founded by General
Antonio Luna
When Andres Bonifacio died, his revolutionary
activities were taken over by his wife ______
Gregoria de Jesus
• Leonor Rivera (Taimis) – true love of Rizal
• Melchora Aquino – Tandang Sora
• Gabriela Silang - female leader of the Ilocano independence
movement from Spain; wife of Diego Silang
• Teresa Magbanua - "Visayan Joan of Arc”; woman general
• Agueda Esteban – worked for Katipunero fighters and brought
materials from Manila to make gunpowder and bullets,
delivered letters to Gen. Ricarte
Mr. Bustos ordered merchandise listed at Php
32,000.00. The invoice showed a net price of Php
20,800.00. Find the discount rate.
32,000 – 20,800 = 11,200 (discount)
___% of 32,000 is 11,200
___% x 32,000 = 11,200
11,200/32,000 = 0.35 or 35%
It takes 10 artists 6 days to finish the graffiti. At the
same rate, how long will it take 4 artists to finish it?

inverse proportionality – work, supplies (b:b = s:s)

10 artists/x days = 4 artists/6 days
60/4 = 15 days
Total amount after adding 8% interest for 3 months
on 6,000?

Total = P + I
Total = P + PRT
Total = 6,000 + (6,000 x 0.08 x 0.25)
Total = 6,000 + 120
Total = 6,120
What number must be subtracted from both
numerator and denominator of the fraction 11/23
to give a fraction with the value of 2/5?
∗3
11/23 – 3/3 = 8/20 (GCF 4) = 2/5
Interest at 8 % after 3 months on P 6,000.
I = PRT
I = 6,000 x 0.08 x 0.25
I = 120
Lizan Company manufactures office tables. A table
priced at P8,000.00 was sold with 20% discount.
How much was paid for the table?
8,000 – (20% of 8,000) =
8,000 – (0.2 x 8,000) =
8,000 – 1,600 = 6,400
GCF and LCM
For GCF, start with the highest choice. Divide the given by the
choices.
For LCM, start with the least choice. Divide the choices by the
given numbers.
If the scores of your test follow a negatively skewed
score distribution, what went wrong?
Items were easy
• Skewness = tail (less number of scores)
Which is the best class performance on a
100-item test?
A. Mean is 80 and SD is 2.
B. Mean is 82 and SD is 10.
C. Mean is 90 and SD is 2.
D. Mean is 80 and SD is 12.
According to
Bronfenbrenner, what
system contains
structures that have
direct contact with the
child?
What does it mean if the difficulty index of
an item is 1?
Very easy item
Which can be said of Arielle who obtained
a score of 75 out of 100 items in a
Grammar objective test?
answer choices
A. She performed better than 25% of her
classmates
B. She answered 75 items in the test
correctly
C. Her rating is 75
D. She answered 75% of the test items
correctly
A type of error committed to grading the performance
of the students by the rater who avoids both extremes
of the scale and tends to rate everyone as average
Central Tendency Error
•Severity Error – tendency to give low scores
•Generosity Error – tendency to give high scores
Setting up the criteria for scoring a test is meant to
increase its
Objectivity
•Validity – measures what it intends to measure
•Reliability – consistency of scores
•Scorability, Administrability, Usability
Teacher Mimi sees to it that she checks for
understanding as she teaches to ensure that every
student can follow the lesson. With what form of
assessment is she occupied with?
Assessment for learning
•FOR – formative; checking understanding; guides the
decision of a teacher
•OF – summative; measures the quality of learning
•AS – reflection by students
A mother gives her son his favorite snack every time
the boy cleans his room. Afterward, the boy cleans his
room every day in anticipation of the snack. Which
theory is illustrated?
Operant Conditioning
•by BF Skinner – reward, punishment, feedback,
reinforcement, computer aided instruction
•Classical Conditioning by Pavlov – phobia, trauma;
excitation, extinction, discrimination, generalization
• US; CS; UR; CR
• digestive system of dogs
In order to lessen the likelihood of students
disarranging chairs and to ensure there is no litter on
the floors, Teacher Coleen makes sure the classroom
is clean and orderly. What school of thought is
exemplified?
Behaviorism
•Essentialism, Existentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism
•Empiricism vs Rationalism
•Stoicism, Utilitarianism, Reconstructionism,
Constructivism
•Epicureanism and Hedonism
The University wants to ensure that incoming students
will succeed in their chosen field of endeavor. The
Guidance Center will conduct what kind of test?
Aptitude Test
•Diagnostic Test/Pretest – entry-level (before)
•Formative – during
•Summative/Achievement – after
When asked, students of Teacher Joel described him
as someone who is in authority to discuss thoroughly
a subject in Research. Teacher Joel therefore exhibits a
power known as _____.
Expert Power
•Referent Power – love and belongingness
•Reward Power
•Legitimate Power
In Piaget's Concrete-Operational stage in cognitive
development, which refers to the ability to order or arrange
things logically based on dimensions such as weight, volume
or size?
Seriation
A teacher, who is a recognized expert in carpentry
works, taught his students how to prepare and
construct good and aesthetic furniture from local
resources. What cultural transmission process is this?
Enculturation
•Indoctrination – brainwashing
•Acculturation – blending of cultures
•Assimilation – completely forgetting your native culture
In Grace Goddell’s Reading Skills Ladder, which is
found at the very bottom and needed to move up to
the sequential ladder of reading skills?

Basic Sight Words

Which among
the following
is TRUE about
the Cone of
Experience?
It is arranged from the
most concrete to the most
abstract.
It occurs when a teacher is teaching a lesson or one
topic but then inserts unrelated material from a
previous lesson.
flip flop
•dangle – hanging topic
•thrust – unclear instructions
•stimulus-bound – easily distracted
•withitness - eyes at the back of the head
Under the 1987 Constitution, what is the condition for
allowing students to be taught religion in public
schools?
Upon written permission by parents (during school
hours)
What is meant by the acronym RPMS?
Results-Based Performance Management System
•a systemic mechanism to manage, monitor and
measure performance, and identify human resource
and organizational development needs to enable
continuous work improvement and individual growth
What is the key element of the Teacher Education
Development Program?
NCBTS - National Competency-Based Teacher
Standards
•The PPST (Philippine Professional Standards for
Teachers) outlines the required skills and competencies
of quality teachers, enabling them to cope with the
emerging global frameworks
In what structure of personality do instincts belong?

Id
Fe is a licensed teacher but has quit teaching for the
past years. After five years, she decided to serve as a
teacher again. Can Fe go back to teaching
immediately?
No, she has to take first a 12-unit refresher course
before she can go back to teaching. (six (6) units of
pedagogy and six (6) units of content courses)
at least eighteen (18) units in professional
education – DIT
the minimum CPD requirement is 45 units
Hera took the LET last March 2016. However, she
failed in the examination. Is she qualified for the
position of para-teachers?
Yes, if her rating is not lower than 5 percentage
points from the passing general average rating.
Hera took the LET last March 2016. However, she
failed in the examination. Is she qualified for the
position of para-teachers?
Yes, if her rating is not lower than 5 percentage
points from the passing general average rating.