2017 ELLNA

Test Administration
Guidelines
Pre-Test
Test Materials
Replica of the Name Grid and the Coverage of the
Test
Two Test Booklets (TBs)
TB1 Green Cover- For English, Filipino and
Filipino Numeracy
TB2 Yellow Cover- For Mother Tongue and
Numeracy Mother Tongue
Listening Guide for the Examiner, test (English,
Filipino and 18 Mother Tongue has a
corresponding Listening Guide)
 Board Work
For Tagalog Mother Tongue Speakers only:
Parts of the Test Item Time Allotment Time Time
Numbers Started to End
General Directions 5 mins ______ ______
Part I (EDQ) 1- 23 25 mins ______ ______

Part II (Test Proper)

Test Booklet 1
Listening Test in English 1 – 12 25 mins. ______ ______
English 13 - 45 50 mins. ______ ______
Listening Test in Filipino 1 – 12 20 mins. ______ ______
Filipino 13 – 45 35 mins. ______ ______
Filipino Numeracy 1 - 20 20 mins. ______ ______

Total Time Allotment 2 hrs. 45 mins.

 Board Work
For Mother Tongue Speakers other than the
Tagalog only:
Parts of the Test Item Numbers Time Allotment Time Time
General Directions 5 mins Started to End
Part I (EDQ) 1- 23 25 mins ______ ______
______ ______
Part II (Test Proper)
Test Booklet 1
Listening Test in English 1 – 12 25 mins. ______ ______
English 13 - 45 50 mins. ______ ______
Listening Test in Filipino 1 – 12 20 mins. ______ ______
Filipino 13 – 45 35 mins. ______ ______
Filipino Numeracy (For Tagalog Mother Tongue 1 - 20 20 mins. ______ ______
Speakers only)

Total Time Allotment 2 hrs. 45mins

(Examinees who are done with Booklet 1 can be
dismissed)
BREAK
Test Booklet 2
Listening Test in Mother Tongue 1 – 12 15 mins. ______ ______
Mother Tongue Grammar 13 – 45 20 mins. ______ ______
Mother Tongue Numeracy 1 – 20 35 mins. ______ ______
Total Time Allotment 20 mins. ______ ______

1 hr. 25 mins
 Entrance and Seating Arrangement
Inspect the seating arrangement before instructing
the examinees to enter the testing room. There
should be four rows of armchair. Check if the first
and last rows are close to the walls.
Instruct the examinees to line up outside the room.
Call out the names of the examinees by
alphabetical order of their surnames. Let the first
four examinees occupy the front line first, then the
second, until the last line as shown below.
 Entrance and Seating Arrangement
In no case shall there be more than 30
examinees in a room.
Check again the seating arrangement by calling
out the names of the examinees from the list in
Form 1 prepared by the School Principal/Testing
Coordinator.
Check the identities of the examinees inside
each examination room by all means (e.g. ID,
notebooks bearing the examinee’s name; etc.).
Testbooklets
For Tagalog Mother Tongue Speakers only:

Pupils will only answer Test Booklet 1 with the

following subtests:
English- 45 items
Filipino- 45 items
Filipino Numeracy- 20 items
 Testbooklets
For Mother Tongue Speakers other than Tagalog:

You will answer Test Booklet 1 with the following subtests:

English- 45 items
Filipino- 45 items
*Note: Don’t let the pupils answer the Filipino Numeracy
Test

and Test Booklet 2 with the following subtests:

Mother Tongue- 45 items
Mother Tongue Numeracy- 20 items
 Answer Sheet
In the distribution of the TBs and AS follow
the numbering of examinees. Start with the
examinee in Number 1, by giving him/her
the TB/AS with the lowest serial number
and end with examinee in Number 30,
giving him/her the highest serial number.
Answer Sheet
Seats of late comers / absentees should be
left vacant. Test Booklets and Answer
Sheets allocated to the said examinees
should be placed inside the original plastic
bag by the Room Examiner pending their
arrival. However, the Test Materials
should not be distributed yet if there are
only less than 10 examinees in the room.
Test Proper
 For Booklet 1
The Examiner will read the English Listening Guide up to item 12
only.
The examinees will continue answering from nos. 13 to 45.

After the English test, Examiner gets the Filipino Listening Guide
and reads up to item 12 only. The examinees will continue
answering from nos. 13 to 45.

After the Filipino Test, the examinees will continue answering the
Filipino Numeracy Test from nos. 1 to 20 (for Tagalog Mother
Tongue speakers only).

Record on the board the time started and the time to end this test.
Go around and see to it that the examinees shaded the correct
part of the test. After the allotted time for TB1.
 For Booklet 2
The Examiner will read the Mother Tongue Listening Guide up
to item 12 only. The examinees will continue answering from
nos. 13 to 45.

After the Mother Tongue Test, the examinees will continue

answering the Mother Tongue Numeracy Test from nos. 1 to
20.

Go around and see to it that the examinees are recording their

answers properly. Note on the board the item to end. The
indicated time to end is from the time started, excluding the 15-
minute snacks break.
Collect and count all used and unused test booklets and
answer sheets and place these in the original plastic bags.
Make sure that all materials have been retrieved. In case a
Test Booklet is missing expend all means to find it.
DISMISS EXAMINEES ONLY AFTER
ACCOUNTING THESE TEST MATERIALS.
Post Test
 Preparing the Reports and Sealing the
ETRE
Do the following activities:
Accomplish Form 7, the Room Examiner’s Test Administration – Evaluation
Report
Copy from the board the Time Record Report on Test Administration
Indicate in the ETRE the number of registrants and the number of
actual examinees.

Place the following inside the Room Examiner’s Transmittal

Report Envelope (ETRE):
Time Record Report
Used Answer Sheets arranged consecutively by Examinee Number Placed in
original plastic bag
One Copy of BEA Forms 1 and 2 (back to back) and Form 7

Seal the ETRE with the DepED-BEA paper seal while still inside
the examination room.
 Turning Over of Materials to the
Chief Examiner
Turn over to the Chief Examiner the following
materials:

Sealed ETRE with its contents

Used and unused Test Booklets assembled together
and arranged
consecutively by Serial Numbers packed in their
original plastic bags retaining the Batch Slip inside
the plastic bag.
Examiner's Handbook