GENERAL EDUCATION LET REVIEWER D.

The Daughter of a Friar

2023 (New Curriculum) - 150 ITEMS
7. What happened in the Philippines in 1896 that ended the
MARVEN S. LANGUITA, LPT dictatorial rule and came to be admired internationally as
model of non-violence was popularly known as revolution.
1. The article that Rizal wrote in Diariong Tagalog urging
his compatriots to love their fatherland just like his prize- A. Covid-19
winning piece "A La Juventud Filipina" is
B. Bagong Lipunan
.
C. Propaganda
A. Amor Patrio
D. People Power
B. Mi Amor
8. Which among the following is NOT a prime
C. Mi Ultimo Adios
number?
D. Amor Fati
A. 61
2. Only 83,152 examinees passed in a Licensure
B. 71
Examination for Teachers out of 228,963 examinees.
What is the passing percentage? C. 31
A. 36% D. 51
B. 36.32% 9. The literary piece that expresses truth through
symbolic people and events is known as .
C. 36.82%
A. fiction
D. 46.56%
B. epic
3. Some qualities that would describe Jose Rizal
except . C. elegy
A. courageous D. allegory
B. intelligent
10. Pinakapayak na anyo ng salita na walang
kahalong panlapi ay .
C. audacious
A. laguhan
D. pessimistic
B. gitlapi
4. Distance education made possible by computers is
known as . C. salitang ugat
A. Tutorial earning D. wikang likas
B. Online learning 11. The indigenous people of the Cordillera Mountain
Range of Northern Luzon are the .
C. Learning by texting
A. Igorots
D. Module learning
B. Aetas
5. Which marked the declaration of war against
Spain? C. Mangyans
A. The exile of Rizal to Dapitan D. Dinagats
B. The execution of Dr. Jose Rizal 12. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang mahalagang salik ng
talumpati?
C. The discovery of Katipunan
A. malinaw na paliwanag
D. The death of GOMBURZA
B. matikas na tindig
6. All are famous works of Jose Rizal except .
C. magyabang
A. To The Filipino Youth
D. manggulat
B. Touch Me Not

C. The Reign of the Greed

13. There are levels in the hierarchy of biology 19. 35 is what percent of 560?
taxonomy.
A. 6.5%
A. 6
B. 16%
B. 7
C. 62%
C. 8
D. 6.25%
D. 15
20. He is known as the “father of ancient taxonomy”.
14. A bottle of perfume costs P10,000. If a discount of
10% is given, the bottle of perfume will cost . A. Socrates

A. P1,000 B. Carl Linnaeus

B. P9,000 C. Aristotle

C. P8,000 D. Plato

D. P5,000 21. The acronym MERS stands for .

15. Which of the following are the components of
fungal cell wall?
A. Nucleotides, proteins and sugar
B. Lipids, proteins and sugar
C. Cellulose, lipids and nucleic acids
D. Chitins, proteins and sugar
A. Man to Eagle Respiratory Syndrome
B. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
C. Mild Enhanced Respiratory Syndrome
D. Mild Enhanced Resistance Syndrome
22. To describe an easy task, the idiomatic
expression to use is:

16. Mamalia is to class , as primate is to . A. spill the beans

A. Order B. bite the bullet

B. Family C. break a leg

C. Genus D. piece of cake

D. Species 23. Humans reproduce when an ovum is combined with

sperm leading to the development of an embryo. This
17. All these nations are members of the Association of form of reproduction is called .
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) EXCEPT .
A. propagation
A. China
B. fertilization
B. Singapore
C. abortion
C. Indonesia
D. grafting
D. Myanmar
24. Regarded as a polymath, Rizal's genius was
18. The Philippines was discovered in 1521 by a
manifest in .
Portuguese explorer .
A. science along
A. Vasco De Gama
B. both science and arts
B. Philip of Spain
C. arts alone
C. Ferdinand Magellan
D. both oratory and writing
D. Bartholomeu Dias
25. Who is considered the father of ethics? 31. The literal coefficient of -7x³m²n is .
A. Aristotle A. 6

B. Homer B. x³
C. Socrates C. x³m²n

D. Carl Linnaeus D. -7

26. The main aim of Brundtland Commission define as: 32. The best reliable source of scientific knowledge is
“development that meets the needs of the present without .
compromising the ability of the future to meet their own
needs.” This advocacy is classified as _. A. educated guess

A. Environmental development B. interview result

B. Uncompromising development C. empirical study

C. Ecological development D. personal experience

D. Sustainable development 33. The union of egg cell and sperm cell in a test tube is
fertilization.
27. Soil is considered an ecosystem. Which of the
following supports this statement? A. Embryology

A. Soil differs in color, odor, and water holding B. in vitro

capacity.
C. in vivo
B. It consists of biotic and abiotic components of the
environment. D. Prolination

C. It is a mixture of minerals, water, and gases. 34. Which terrestrial biome houses the greatest
biodiversity?
D. It is the habitat of microorganisms.
A. Tundra
28. An orchid attached to a mango tree is example of
. B. Taiga

A. Predation C. Middle Latitudes

B. Osmosis D. Tropics

C. Commensalism 35. A child at the top of a slide, a ripe guava before it

falls, a yoyo before it is released are examples of potential
D. Parasitism energy.

29. Which of the following is not a member of A. gravitational

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
B. electrical
A. India
C. mechanical
B. Laos
D. chemical
C. Philippines
36. In this university, Jose Rizal went to Spain to
D. Combodia continue his studies and earned his degree in
medicine in 1884.
30. At what age did Rizal wrote the poem Our Mother
Tongue? A. University of Santo Tomas

A. 10 B. Ateneo de Manila University

B. 8 C. University of Heidelberg

C. 13 D. Universidad Central de Madrid

D. 27
37. Which of the following is used in classifying plants 43. Total amount adding 8% interest for 3 months of
based on phylogenetics? P6,000?
A. Chemical composition A. Р6,130
B. Structural similarities B. P6,120

C. Physiological traits C. P10,500

D. Evolutionary sequence D. P10,300

38. Of the following sources of energy listed below 44. Hemophilia is a common sex-linked disorder that is x-
which one is caused by the concentration in the Earth's linked recessive trait. If a man is hemophiliac, this means
crust and gives detrimental effect on the food supply. that .

A. Solar A. he got the disease from his mother

B. Geothermal B. he will have children with hemophilia
C. Wind C. all his brothers and sisters will be hemophiliac
D. Nuclear D. none of his brothers and sisters will be
hemophiliac.
39. The branch of biology that deals with the study of
heredity and inheritance of characters is . 45. Pilosopo Tasyo is a character in Noli Me Tangere
personified by whom in reality?
A. Ecology
A. Paciano
B. Taxonomy
B. Isagani
C. Genetics
C. Elias
D. Psychology
D. Ibarra
40. All are american writers except .
46. The famous character in Rizal's novel who became the
A. Mark Twain
symbol of the abused Filipino mother was
.
B. Edgar Allan Poe
A. Tiya Isabel
C. Longfellow
B. Sisa
D. Christopher Marlowe
C. Maria Clara
41. A forest suffered from wildfires and destroys the
existing vegetation; however, the soil remained viable. Five
D. Perlita
years later, trees and other bushes are seen flourishing in
the forest once again. This phenomenon is called . 47. A book on a table before it falls, a car that is parked
at the top of a hill, river water at the top of a waterfall
A. Primary ecological succession
are examples of energy.
B. Secondary ecological succession
A. kinetic
C. Tertiary ecological succession
B. mechanical
D. Quarterly ecological succession
C. gravitational potential
42. Complete the very famous and commonly quoted
D. chemical potential
line: A thing of beauty is a forever.
48. The Merchant of Venice is to Shakespeare as The Song
A. dream
of Hiawatha is to .
B. pleasure
A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
C. joy
B. Christopher Marlowe
D. pulchritude
C. William Shakespeare

D. Samuel Clemens
49. Energy transfer illustrated by the storage current in a 55. He was known as the “Father of abstract
battery of power bank is energy. painting”.
A. chemical A. Pablo Picasso
B. nuclear B. Vincent Van Gogh

C. potential C. Wassily Kandinsky

D. kinetic D. Natalia Goncharova

50. Make sure to properly hold the of the horse. 56. An avocado tree is planted beside a sampaguita plant
in a garden, demonstrates what kind of relationship?
A. reign
A. competition
B. rain
B. co-optation
C. rien
C. predation
D. rein
D. parasitism
51. The characters in Rizal's novels symbolize the
varied reactions towards the colonizers from . 57. All these are the beneficial effects of scientific
knowledge EXCEPT .
A. United States
A. solution to practical problems
B. China
B. making informed decisions
C. Spain
C. pursuance of political agenda
D. Japan
D. development of new technology
52. An american short-story writer whose tales
romanticized the commonplace–in particular the life of 58. Ito ay tungkol sa pagsulat, pagsasalita, at
ordinary people who used a pen name of . pagsasagawa ng presentasyon sa iba-ibang
manunuod at para sa iba't ibang layunin.
A. O. Henry
A. Balagtasan
B. George Eliot
B. Talumpati
C. Longfellow
C. Sintesis
D. Mark Twain
D. Malayuning Komunikasyon
53. The Republic Act that requires the compulsory
teaching of Rizal Course and the lives of other Filipino 59. All the sisters and brother of Rizal used "Mercado",
patriots is . the father's surname; Rizal instead used the maternal
surname of his father to allow Rizal to move freely while
A. RA 9262
studying because .
B. RA 7610
A. Young Rizal was expelled from a parochial school
C. RA 9994
B. The mercado siblings were blacklisted in schools
D. RA 1425
C. The mercado family members were suspects as anti-
54. Rizal was a polyglot, conversant in how many government
languages?
D. Jose Rizal was an adopted son
A. 8
60. The sum total of society’s customs, traditions, ethics,
B. 22 values, beliefs and prevalent practices is .

A. Science
C. 15

D. 12 B. Technology

C. Culture
D. religion D. Marie Curie

61. Dante Alighieri's long poem which contains vivid 67. “The Triumph of Science over Death” is Rizal's
descriptions of hell, purgatory and paradise was entitled famous:
.
A. essay
A. Divine Comedy
B. sculpture
B. Dr. Faustus
C. novel
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. poem
D. Phantom of the Opera
68. The island of Luzon is estimated to be 100,000
62. Due to close family ties Filipino families are square kilometers. In exponential form, it can be
generally . expressed as .
A. nuclear A. 10^6
B. matriarchal B. 1 x 10^4
C. patriarchal C. 10^5
D. extended D. 1 x 10^6
63. Rizal's mother preferred to be imprisoned and walked 69. Balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, rhythm,
50 kilometers as punishment for a trumped-up charge of a unity, and variety are classified as the .
Spanish official, rather than apologize by accepting the
charge, such action shows that she was a woman of: A. Elements of Design

A. submission B. Principles of Art

B. incertitude C. Design Elements

C. hesitation D. Principle of Elements

D. conviction 70. A secret word that must be entered into the

computer before a person is allowed access to
64. Ang kahulugan ng “a stitch in time, saves nine” ay information is called .
.
A. input
A. masayahin
B. password
B. maagap
C. program
C. mahinay
D. statement
D. malingap
71. Which of the following is not a benefit of
65. Who was the Philippine general who lost his life in the technology in education?
Battle of Tirad Pass?
A. Improves critical-thinking abilities.
A. J. Luna
B. Unlimited access to games and other internet sites.
B. Jose Rizal
C. Allows cooperative learning.
C. M. H. del Pilar
D. Increases self-expression
D. G. del Pilar
72. “Panahon na upang magdilat ng mata at makisangkot
66. The laws of heredity were the results of the study of sa mga usapin.” Ito'y nagpapahiwatig na
. .

A. Alexander Fleming A. idilat ang mga mata

B. Gregor Mendel B. umiwas sa usapin

C. Charles Darwin C. kalimutan ang usapin

D. magising sa katotohanan

73. In writing a letter, which productivity tool is used?

79. A person who draws or produces maps.
A. Word processing
A. Geographer
B. Publisher
B. Photographer
C. PageMaker
C. Cartographer
D. Spreadsheet
D. Producer
74. Based on his work, “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” would
80. A seminar or other presentation that takes place on
Rizal favour the use of the mother tongue in the early
the internet is called .
grades?
A. Symposium
A. Yes
B. Webinar
B. No
C. Workshop
C. He did not express this clearly
D. Conference
D. Yes, but mixed with English
81. Which one of the following devices is required to
75. Perform the operation and reduce to simplest connect a computer to the internet?
form: 3x - (2y - 4x) + 6y
A. hard drive
A. -2x - 3y
B. mouse
B. -7x - 4y
C. modem
C. 7x + 4y
D. keyboard
D. 2x + 3y
82. Which of the following is not an internet search
76. Pre-colonial trade in the Philippines was engine?
prosperous. What system did they use for their
business transactions? A. Google

A. Money B. Windows

B. Barter C. Yahoo

C. Credit D. MSN

D. Banking 83. All are ICT tools except .

77. Ito ang tawag sa pinakamaliit na yunit ng isang A. Laptop

salita na nagtataglay ng kahulugan.
B. Computer
A. Asimilasyon
C. Cellphone
B. Metatesis
D. Satellite
C. Kolokyal
84. Bernadette’s aquarium has length, width and
D. Morpema height of 10 cm, 8 cm and 6 cm respectively. Its
volume is:
78. Which is the unlawful act of escaping from
payment of taxes? A. 72 cubic centimeters

A. Evasion B. 24 cubic centimeters

B. Avoidance C. 240 cubic centimeters

C. Exemption D. 480 cubic centimeters

D. Shifting
85. He invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in
1989.
91. The body of knowledge including the process by
A. Tim Berners-Lee
which knowledge is developed is .
B. Ajay Bhatt
A. innovation
C. Alan Mathison Turing
B. science
D. Charles Babbage
C. technology
86. Who was popularly known as “Agno”?
D. invention
A. Emilio Jacinto
92. Gaseous compound, usually produced by the
direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen.
B. Emilio Aguinaldo
A. Carbohydrates
C. Jose Rizal
B. Sugar
D. Apolinario Mabini
C. Ammonia
87. The night before his execution, Rizal's genius was
manifested in his poem “Mi Ultimo Adlos” which is D. Carbon dioxide
classifled as .
93. The study of the nature of the universe, its origin and
A. haiku structure.
B. elegy A. Astronomy
C. epic B. Histology
D. sonnet C. Cosmology
88. The largest common factor of two or more D. Cosmetology
numbers is called?
94. The first institution which took care of the first
A. Least common factor Covid-19 case.
B. Greatest common factor A. San Lazaro Hospital

C. Prime common factor B. Manila Doctors Hospital

D. Prime factor C. RITM

89. How is the Wuhan coronavirus transmitted? D. St. Luke's Hospital

A. From pets to people 95. Contract tracing means identifying everyone who has
come in close with someone who has .
B. Eating bat soup
A. virus
C. From person-to-person
B. illness
D. From eating raw meat
C. depression
90. Violist who brought classical violin music to the
masses is . D. Covid-19
A. Chan 96. The Philippines lies in a place where there are
many volcanoes which make it prone to .
B. Molina
A. typhoon
C. Katindig
B. flooding
D. Kabayao
C. drought

D. earthquakes
97. How many seconds are in a 24 hour day? 103. The lines below are taken from the poem ”The
Spouse” by Luis Dato. Read the lines and decide which
A. 84,600 best describe the role of the wife.

B. 86,400

C. 89,500 "She holds no joys beyond the the day's tomorrow, She

D. 83,450 finds no world beyond his arms' embrace

98. Which is the statement is true of Mindanao? She looks upon the man behind the furrow

A. It is the second biggest island in the country Who is her motion, time, and space"

B. It is the third largest island in the country

C. It is the biggest island in the country A. Working Wife

D. It is where the smallest deer found B. Artist

99. On the computer screen, what indicates the C. Business Woman

position of the mouse?
D. House Wife
A. Click
104. The number of hours spent for review in Algebra,
B. Start Chemistry and English is in the ratio of 4: 3 : 1. How many
hours does each student spend for Chemistry in a 24-hour
C. Scroll review package?

D. Cursor A. 3

100. In classical Athens, who emphasized the individual's B. 6

attainment of excellence through rhetoric, grammar,
music, and mathematics? C. 9

A. Plato D. 12

B. Socrates 105. An ample amount of water needed for the

city to sustain its communities.
C. The sophists
A. is
D. Aristotle
B. were
101. Which sector of the economy consumes the
most energy? C. are

A. transportation D. was

B. electric utilities 106. Who is the author of My Father Goes To Court?

C. residential A. Paz Marquez Benitez

D. industry B. Carlos Bulosan

102. Ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller, famous for C. Nick Joaquin
writing a collection of fables known as Aesop's Fables.
D. Christopher Marlowe
A. Homer
107. What novel opens with the line, "Call me
B. Aesop Ishmael"?

C. Shakespeare A. Mrs. Dalloway

D. Chaucer B. Moby- Dick

C. Daniel Defoe C. 45

D. The Gatsby D. 64

108. Solve for the value of x to make the proportion x :

8 = 4: 16 true. 114. The museum was built in to Dr. Jose Rizal.

A. 1 A. protection
B. 2 B. irreverence
C. 3 C. defense
D. 4 D. homage
109. “How do I love thee, let me count the ways” is the 115. In the Noli Mi Tangere, what causes the death of
first line of a famous love sonnet written by . Donya Pia?
A. Jane Austen A. Difficulty of giving birth
B. J. K. Rowling B. Fever
C. Elizabeth Browning C. Old age
D. Emilie Bronte D. Polio
110. Mirage is an optical illusion caused by . 116. The sum of three consecutive integers is 96. The
integers are
A. electrolyte
A. 33, 34, 35
B. combustion
B. 30, 32, 34
C. cellular reaction
C. 31, 32, 33
D. optical focus
D. 32, 33, 34
111. All of the following are Filipino writers except
. 117. All these were “ilustrados” EXCEPT .

A. Francisco Sionil José A. Andres Bonifacio

B. Edgar Allan Poe B. Marcelo H. del Pilar

C. Miguel Syjuco C. Jose Rizal

D. Peter Solis Nery D. Graciano Lopez Jaena

112. Simplify the following expression: x - (2y + 3x) - 118. Alin ang may wastong baybay?
2y
A. paru-paro
A. - 2x - 4y
B. gamugamo
B. - 2x + 4y
C. kurokuro
C. 2x - 4y
D. iba't-iba
D. 2x + 4y
119. Ang lathalain ay isang uri ng pamamahayag na nag
113. How many possible number of books, each 1.4 cm ulat ng tunay na pangyayari batay sa masusing
thick that can be put vertically in a shelf which is 64 cm .
long?
A. pagbabasa
A. 45.7
B. pananaliksik
B. 46
C. pakikipagkwentohan
D. pagtatanong A. Aristotle

B. Plato

C. Socrates

D. Darwin

120. If 2 apples cost ₱25.00, how many apples can be 126. A quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.
purchased for ₱100.00?
A. Prime numbers
A. 2 dozens
B. Parallelogram
B. 8 apples
C. Trapezoid
C. 1 ½ dozens
D. Rectangle
D. ½ dozen
127. What does a pH below 7 indicate?
121. The witness showed admirable “equanimity” in his
statements before the investigation committee members A. Acidity
who were impressed by his .
B. Purity of the sample
A. indifference
C. Alkalinity
B. pretension
D. Presence of ions
C. nervousness
128. Antonio de Morga, in his book “Sucesos de las Islas
D. composure Filipinas” noted that the ancient Filipinos had army and
navy with artillery and other weapons of warfare like Kris
122. An atom of silicon has a mass number of 28 and an and Kampilan, richly ornamented with iron and steel. All
atomic number of 14. How many protons are in this atom? these point to the fact that before the Spanirds came, the
early Filipinos had their own .
A. 7
A. culture
B. 12
B. houses
C. 14
C. crops
D. 28
D. history
123. During the Spanish regime in the Philippines, there
were Europe-educated Filipinos who belonged to affluent 129. Bagoong smells because:
middle families called .
A. air and volatile particles from bagoong mix and get
A. obreros spoiled further
B. mestizos B. that is the neutral scent of bagoong
C. ilustrados C. molecules from bagoong spread in air

D. propagandists D. it uses spoiled fish ingredients

124. He was described as the greatest “might-have- 130. “The Raven” is a narrative poem by American
been” in the history of mathematics. writer .
A. Blaise Pascal A. William Shakespeare
B. Jacob Bernoulli B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. George Dantzig C. William Wordsworth

D. Charles Darwin D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

125. “A life unexamined is not worth living” is a 131. It refers to the transfer of pollen grains from the
famous dictum supposedly uttered by . another to the stigma of the flower.
A. fertilization C. fishing

B. pollination D. logging
C. cell division

D. germination

132. Sa Noli Me Tangere, ano ang pangalan ng ina ni

Maria Clara?
138. What is the direction of the planet's revolution?
A. Donya Maria Elena
A. west to east
B. Donya Santa Clara
B. east to west
C. Donya Pia Alba
C. clockwise
D. Donya Severina
D. south to north
133. It is known as the storage unit of data.
139. The Japanese invaded in Manila in 1942. It fell on
A. Byte
the hands of which Commander General of the Imperial
Japanese Army?
B. CPU
A. Yokihiro Yamashita
C. Computer worm
B. Hirohito Masaki
D. MBPS
C. Masahiro Tanaka
134. Predation is a relationship exemplified by:
D. Masaharu Homma
A. an orchid attached to a mango tree
140. Bantas na ginagamit sa paghihiwalay ng dalawang
B. a hunter shooting a duck in the forest and having it for
salita na nagkakaroon ng ibang kahulugan ay .
dinner
A. kukuwit
C. a tapeworm living in the gastrointestinal tract of a
toddler
B. tuldok
D. a clownfish living within a sea anemone
C. gitling
135. The prime factorization of 154 is .
D. kuwit
A. 2, 7, and 11
141. The two consecutive even integers, the sum of
which is 34 are .
B. 5, 7, and 11
A. 17 and 19
C. 2, 5, and 7
B. 20 and 21
D. 2, 2, 7, and 11
C. 16 and 18
136. Which among the following is a terrestrial
planet?
D. 20 and 22
A. Saturn
142. Zebra, horse and donkey have similar characteristics
because they belong to the same .
B. Neptune
A. taxonomy
C. Mars
B. species
D. Uranus
C. rank
137. Knowing how important forests are, governments
regulate strictly .
D. genus
A. hunting
143. The novel written by Rizal which was first
published in 1891 in Ghent, Belgium translated as
B. mining
“The Reign of Greed” was .
A. A La Juventud Filipina B. Mi Ultimo Adios

B. Noli Me Tangere C. El Verdadero Decalogo

C. El Filibusterismo D. Dasalan at Toksohan

D. Mi Ultimo Adios
150. This is TRUE of recessive genes.
144. “Isang bandila, isang wika, isang bayan” ay
sawikain na nanghihikayat ng . A. have more superior phenotypic traits

A. pagkakabukod - bukod B. will prevent a dominant gene from expressing its

phenotype
B. pagkakaisa
c. should be paired with a dominant gene for it to be
C. pakikipaglaban expressed
D. palaisipan D. will only have phenotypic expression if present as
homozygous genotype
145. What is the closest planet to the Sun?

A. Mercury

B. Venus

C. Jupiter

D. Pluto

146. The painter of Virgin Exposed to the Populace.

A. Juan Luna

B. Maximo Malaw

C. Felix Ressureccion-Hidalgo

D. Mariano Ponce

147. The perimeter of a square of area 144 square

meters.

A. 48 m

B. 40 m

C. 60 m

D. 24 m

148. “I shall die without seeing the dawn break upon my

homeland” was a statement from .

A. Elias

B. Maria Clara

C. Doña Victorina

D. Sisa

149. What poem of Rizal tells us how beautiful the

Philippines is and how Rizal wants us to learn from our
past and to see the truth about how the world view us?

A. Ala Patria