SET A
1. Is membership to the Accredited Professional Organization of
teachers mandatory for all LET passers?
A. No
B. Yes, when the teacher is already teaching
C. Yes
D. Only for LET passers who are not repeaters
✅ Correct Answer: A. No
Membership in an Accredited Professional Organization (APO) such
as the Philippine Public School Teachers Association (PPSTA) is
encouraged but not mandatory. The Professional Regulation
Commission (PRC) does not require this as a condition for
maintaining a license.
2. Which is TRUE of the periodic merit exam for teachers
provided for in RA 7836?
A. I only
B. I and IV
✅ C. II and III
D. II only
RA 7836 specifies that the merit exam is written and may be used as
an additional basis for merit promotion aside from performance
ratings. It does not require an oral component or a fixed ₱1000 fee.
3. Can Manny Pacquiao be given a special permit to teach boxing
in a special school?
A. No, he is not a teacher education graduate.
B. No, he has not passed the LET.
C. Yes, he is a graduate of ALS.
✅ D. Yes, he has excelled and gained international recognition.
RA 7836 allows the issuance of a special permit to teach for
individuals who possess expertise and recognition in their field,
even without an LET license. Manny Pacquiao fits this due to his
international achievements in boxing.
4. Is it professional for a teacher to receive gifts from students and
parents?
A. Not at all.
✅ B. No, especially if done in exchange for requested concessions.
C. Yes, if deserved.
D. Yes, in-season and out-of-season gifts.
Receiving gifts may be acceptable in certain cultures, but if the gift is
linked to special favors or concessions, it becomes a clear violation
of professional ethics. Teachers must maintain fairness and
objectivity in student assessment and treatment.
5. "Specialization is knowing more and more about less and less".
Then it is better to be a generalist, claims Teacher Cris. On which
philosophy does Teacher Cris lean?
A. Perennialism
B. Progressivism
C. Essentialism
✅ D. Existentialism
Existentialism emphasizes individual choice and personal meaning,
which often includes embracing a broader, less rigid view of
knowledge and teaching. Teacher Cris’s preference for being a
generalist aligns with this learner-centered philosophy.
6. An Education graduate without a license is accepted to teach in
a private school. Is this in violation of RA 7836?
A. No, provided he has taught for at least 3 years.
✅ B. Yes. No one may teach without a license.
C. No.
D. Yes.
RA 7836 mandates that only licensed teachers may legally practice
the profession in both public and private schools. Accepting
unlicensed teachers is a violation of the law regardless of the
school’s status.
7. For relevance to business and industry, what did the First
Biennial National Education on Education (2008) impose for
updating the Licensure Examination for Teachers?
A. Moral or ethical values
✅ B. Technical and scientific competencies
C. Upgraded laboratory facilities
D. Vocational skills
The 2008 recommendations emphasized technical and scientific
competencies to prepare teachers for the demands of a 21st-century
workforce. These competencies reflect industry needs and evolving
technologies.
8. Which program directly embodies both the pre-service and in-
service programs?
A. BESRA - Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda
✅ B. TEDPA - Teacher Education Development Program
C. K-12
D. BEC - Basic Education Curriculum
TEDPA focuses on holistic teacher development, addressing both
pre-service and in-service training. It ensures continuous learning
and skill enhancement for Filipino educators.
9. How can the efforts of four agencies (DepEd, CHED, PRC, and
CSC) be best achieved for the training and development of
teachers?
✅ A. Synchronization
B. Cost-reduction
C. Streamlining
D. Sharing of resources
Synchronization ensures that these agencies’ programs are aligned
in objectives and implementation, avoiding redundancy and conflict.
It leads to a more coordinated and effective teacher development
system.
10. What is at the core of the Teacher Education Development
Program?
A. High-order thinking skills or HOTS
B. Student-centered learning
✅ C. National Competency-Based Teaching Standards
D. Technology integration in instruction
The National Competency-Based Teaching Standards (NCBTS)
serve as the foundation of TEDP, ensuring that teachers meet clearly
defined competencies for quality instruction. It sets benchmarks for
both pre-service training and in-service development.
11. What kind of school environment will MOST EFFECTIVELY
encourage the new teacher for active participation in the school's
unique educational culture?
A. Constructive feedback
B. Involvement in planning/designing activities
✅ C. Induction/orientation program
D. Briefing with colleagues
An induction or orientation program introduces the new teacher to
school policies, culture, and expectations. It ensures smooth
integration and encourages active participation from the beginning.
12. What is known as a self-appraisal for professional growth that
is acceptable and useful for recognizing weaknesses and strengths
for a new or beginning teacher?
A. Master teacher's evaluation
B. Student's evaluation
C. Principal's evaluation
✅ D. Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation helps teachers reflect on their performance, allowing
for personal insights into their strengths and areas for improvement.
This reflection is crucial for professional growth, especially among
beginners.
13. Facilities such as classrooms, fixtures, and equipment can
often damage the morale of new teachers and become an obstacle
for adapting well to the school environment. What should be the
policy for assigning said physical facilities?
✅ A. Needs of students' basis
B. Position ranking basis
C. First-come, first-served basis
D. Service seniority basis
Facilities should be assigned based on the needs of students to ensure
effective teaching and learning. Prioritizing students fosters equity
and professionalism.
14. There are various functions a fellow teacher or peer coach can
help new teachers. What role does a peer coach play by being
present, available to share ideas, problems, and successes with a
new teacher?
A. A provider of technical feedback
B. A facilitator of strategies
C. An analyzer of teaching jobs
✅ D. A close peer or companion
A peer coach serves as a supportive colleague, offering emotional
and professional companionship. This relationship helps the new
teacher navigate challenges and adapt smoothly.
15. Among reforms for enhancing teacher professionalism, which
has been implemented by law in order to determine whether
prospective teachers have acquired professional competencies
prior to granting them a permit to teach?
A. Accrediting a national organization of teachers
B. Setting up centers for excellence in teacher education centers
✅ C. Licensure examination
D. Creation of a professional board for teachers
The Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) ensures that
educators have met the minimum competency standards to enter the
profession. It is a legal requirement under RA 7836.
16. From global competence as defined by international educators,
which is the MOST appropriate characteristic of a globally
competent individual?
A. Familiarity with new culture
✅ B. Open-mindedness to new culture
C. Adaptability to new work environment
D. Foreign-language facility
Open-mindedness is the core trait of global competence, enabling
individuals to understand, respect, and engage with diverse
perspectives. This is crucial for collaboration in global contexts.
17. Teacher Nora sees to it that her classroom is clean and orderly
so her pupils will less likely disarrange seats and litter on the floor.
On which thought is her action based?
A. Existentialism
B. Progressivism
✅ C. Behaviorism
D. Reconstructionism
Behaviorism emphasizes how the environment shapes behavior; a
clean classroom influences students to behave properly. Nora’s
preventive approach reflects this idea.
18. Teacher Hilda is directed to pass an undeserving student with
a death threat. Which advice will a utilitarian give?
A. Don't pass him. You surely will not like someone to give you a
death threat in order to pass.
✅ B. Pass the student. That will be of use to the student, his
parents, and you.
C. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
D. Don't pass him. Live by your principle of justice. You will get
reward, if not in this life, in the next!
Utilitarianism promotes actions that bring about the greatest benefit
or least harm to the majority. Passing the student in this case is seen
as a means to prevent greater harm.
19. For a school, which of the following is most significant in
repairing shorelines with depleted coral reefs?
A. Outreach by depositing rubber tires as artificial coral reefs
B. Implement reporting system against dynamite fishermen
C. Legislative lobby to disallow tourism in endangered shorelines
✅ D. Outreach by educating villagers on protection of coral reefs
Education creates long-term behavioral change. By teaching the
community, schools empower locals to protect and sustain marine
resources.
20. What is the constitutional exemption for prohibition to
establish schools solely for aliens in the Philippines?
A. Religious or mission schools
B. Schools for Asians only
✅ C. Schools for children of diplomats and their dependents
D. Schools for special alien children
The 1987 Constitution prohibits alien-only schools except for those
of diplomatic dependents, recognizing their unique status under
international law.
21. In a tertiary school, the President organized a Fun Run for
students, faculty, and personnel to enjoy camaraderie, physical
exertion under the sun, a sense of engagement, and achievement.
What does the activity promote?
A. Spiritual vigor
B. Cultural consciousness
C. National integrity
✅ D. Moral integrity
Moral integrity includes developing well-being and social
responsibility. The activity promotes unity, sportsmanship, and
healthful living—key to moral and civic development.
22. If your students appear to be more interested in a topic
outside your planned lesson for the day... Which philosophy
governs your action?
A. Rationalism
B. Empiricism
C. Existentialism
✅ D. Progressivism
Progressivism prioritizes student interests and experiences. Adapting
the lesson to their interests is a hallmark of this learner-centered
approach.
23. In what setting is differentiated and multi-lingual teaching
most effective?
A. Special children classes
B. Multi-grade classes
✅ C. Children with diverse cultural backgrounds
D. Pre-school children
Multilingual and differentiated instruction addresses varied
backgrounds, learning needs, and languages. This approach is most
impactful in culturally diverse classrooms.
24. What is essential to the school-based management approach to
upgrading teaching and learning in schools?
A. Outcome-based curriculum
B. Planned document
✅ C. Participation by stakeholders
D. Vision-mission-core values
Stakeholder participation is key to school-based management
because it ensures community ownership and accountability in
educational decisions.
25. In the Education Act of 1901, which established a free public
education in the Philippines, what language was imposed under
the one-language policy?
A. Spanish
✅ B. English
C. Tagalog
D. Filipino
The Education Act of 1901 introduced English as the medium of
instruction. This was part of American colonial policy to promote
public education.
26. Which is the most functional intervention in order to achieve
basic rights of every Filipino child under the Constitution and
Magna Carta for Disabled Persons?
A. Philosophy of education
B. Policy for curricular reform
C. Home study program
✅ D. Structural organization
A supportive structural organization ensures that inclusive
education is implemented system-wide, addressing the needs of
children with disabilities.
27. From a broad vantage view of human development, who has
the primary duty to educate the youths or children?
✅ A. Parents
B. Teachers
C. The state
D. The schools
The family is the primary socializing and educating unit, and
parents are recognized by law and social norms as first educators.
28. Which intervention is directly aimed at responding to the
transitional gap between academic achievement and employment?
A. Identification of centers of excellence
B. Deregulation of tuition fees
✅ C. School networking with business and industry
D. Voluntary accreditation of schools
Industry linkage helps align education with real-world demands,
bridging the gap between school and work.
29. In the formal education system during Hispanic times in the
Philippines, what was not implemented, but which we enjoyed
during the American period?
A. Vocational education
B. Private education
C. Religious education
✅ D. Public education
Hispanic education was mainly religious and limited. Mass-based
public education was introduced by the Americans.
30. If Dr. Jose Rizal lived in the 21st century, what character
expression and commitment would he have shown our generation?
A. Inventor of techniques
B. Citizen and producer
C. Member of family and community
✅ D. Creative dreamer
Rizal was a visionary who advocated reform through education
and creativity. He would inspire innovation and national
development today.
Here’s the continuation for items 31 to 50, each with all choices, the
correct answer, and a specific two-sentence justification:
31. In the learning to do pillar of new education, what is the
enabling factor that can make the learner fully contribute to a
peaceful and just society?
A. Knowledge
B. Skills
C. Insights
✅ D. Values
While knowledge and skills are necessary, it is the internalization of
values that drives ethical behavior and social responsibility. Values
empower learners to apply their knowledge in meaningful and
socially just ways.
32. Before being able to fully learn to live and work together
under the pillar of 21st-century education, what must the learner
attain for himself?
✅ A. Find peace within oneself
B. Attain an altruistic mind
C. Love his fellowmen
D. Become self-actualized
A person must achieve inner peace before developing harmonious
relationships with others. This self-stability allows for empathy,
cooperation, and collaboration.
33. What best describes people of the world learning to live
together in peace and harmony through understanding of each
other's history, traditions, and spiritual values?
A. Interdependence
✅ B. Pluralism and diversity
C. Accentuated risk
D. Contemporaneity
Pluralism and diversity emphasize the appreciation and inclusion of
cultural differences, promoting peace. It leads to mutual respect and
global understanding.
34. The Transparency International's perception that the
Philippines suffers a cultural malaise of corruption; what
component of our character needs to be further developed along
the Learning To Be pillar of education in the 21st century?
A. Familial-social component
B. Physical-economic component
C. Intellectual-emotional component
✅ D. Ethical-spiritual component
Corruption is an ethical failure, and this points to the need to
strengthen moral integrity and spiritual grounding. Fostering this
component ensures better decision-making and character.
35. Of the three aspects of learning, which is NOT mentioned as
needed so that the individual learner in the 21st century can learn
how to learn?
A. Ability to think
✅ B. Mathematical skills
C. Memory skills
D. Concentration
Mathematical skills are content-specific, not a general requirement
for meta-learning. In contrast, thinking, memory, and concentration
are foundational for all types of learning.
36. Which of the following belongs to the more sophisticated
learning-to-learn skills for the individual learner?
A. To ask and gather data
B. To listen and observe
✅ C. To process and select information
D. To read with understanding
Processing and selecting information reflects higher-order cognitive
abilities necessary for 21st-century learning. It involves critical
thinking and discernment, making it more sophisticated than basic
information gathering.
37. This powerful European country supplied arms to
Afghanistan rebels who were fighting a terrorist war in the
Middle East. What was the principle of moral discernment
applicable in this case?
A. Principle of double effect
B. Principle of lesser evil
✅ C. Principle of material cooperation
D. Principle of formal cooperation
Material cooperation involves indirectly supporting an act without
sharing its intention. The country aided the rebels without endorsing
their ideology, which falls under material but not formal moral
support.
38. Which of the following best defines a morally mature person?
A. Cultural values clarification
B. Unhampered exercise of one's right
C. Transmittal of one's moral viewpoint
✅ D. Knowledge and practice of universal moral values
A morally mature individual aligns behavior with universally
accepted ethical standards, not just personal or cultural preferences.
Integrity comes from both understanding and living out those
values.
39. Educated in a religious school, Dona goes to confession every
day to be free of any kind of sin. How do you characterize Dona's
moral attitude?
A. Callous
B. Pharisaical
C. Hypocrisy
✅ D. Scrupulous
Scrupulosity is an excessive concern for moral or religious
correctness, often beyond what is necessary. Dona’s daily confessions
suggest anxiety over sin, even without grave cause.
40. How would you characterize the moral attitude of Hispanic
friars who taught religion but were unfaithful to their vow of
poverty by amassing the land properties of natives?
A. Scrupulous
B. Strict
C. Lax
✅ D. Pharisaical
The friars emphasized outward religious teaching but failed to live by
the values they preached, a classic case of Pharisaism or moral
inconsistency. They were more concerned with image than integrity.
41. How would you characterize the moral attitude of prisoners
with criminal minds who have no sensitivity to the welfare of
other people?
A. Pharisaical
B. Strict
C. Lax
✅ D. Callous
The term callous refers to a lack of empathy or remorse, which fits
the behavior of such prisoners. This moral insensitivity is dangerous
and deeply rooted.
42. Teacher Susan is of the thinking that from the very start
students must be made to realize that study is indeed hard work.
To which philosophy does Teacher Susan adhere?
✅ A. Essentialism
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Reconstructionism
Essentialism emphasizes discipline, rigorous academic content, and
the mastery of essential skills. Teacher Susan's belief in hard work
and fundamentals reflects this philosophy.
43. What was the degree of moral certitude when U.S. statement
decided to drop the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
to prevent mass deaths by a land invasion of Japan?
A. Doubtful
✅ B. Certain
C. Perplexed
D. Probable
The U.S. leaders claimed moral certainty that dropping the bomb
would save more lives overall, based on available data and strategic
estimates. This decision rested on a utilitarian calculation of total
harm avoided.
44. After the embarrassing incident, Teacher Dante vowed to
himself to flunk the student at the end of the school term. What
has Dante done that is against the guidelines for using
punishment?
A. Punishing immediately in an emotional state
B. Using double standards in punishing
C. Doing the impossible
✅ D. Holding a grudge and not starting with a clean slate
Holding grudges violates professional ethics and the principle that
each student deserves a fresh opportunity for improvement. This
undermines fairness and objectivity in assessment.
45. Following the principles for punishing students, which of the
following is the LEAST desirable strategy for classroom
management?
A. Punishing while clarifying why punishment is done
✅ B. Punishing while angry
C. Punish the erring student rather than the entire class
D. Give punishment sparingly
Punishing in a state of anger can lead to irrational, unfair, or
excessive discipline. Teachers must remain composed to maintain
professional judgment and control.
46. According to guidelines on punishment, what does it mean
that the teacher should give the student the benefit of the doubt?
✅ A. Make sure facts are right before punishing
B. Doubt the incident really happened
C. Don't punish and doubt effectiveness of punishment
D. Get the side of students when punishing
Teachers must ensure due process by confirming facts before issuing
punishment. This reflects fairness and ethical responsibility.
47. Which of the following guidelines for punishment may be done?
✅ A. Don't punish students outside of school rules on punishment
B. Don't threaten the impossible
C. Don't use double standards for punishing
D. Don't assign extra homework
All punishments must be aligned with school policies to maintain
legality and consistency. Teachers cannot invent or apply rules
arbitrarily.
48. For group guidance in classroom management, what element
is lacking when there is too much competitiveness and
exclusiveness with the teacher being punitive and partial to some
students?
A. Dissatisfaction with classroom work
B. Poor interpersonal relations
C. Poor group organization
✅ D. Disturbance in group climate
An unhealthy classroom atmosphere reflects a disturbance in group
climate, affecting trust and collaboration. This leads to exclusion,
conflict, and poor morale.
49. To demonstrate her authority, Teacher Tanna made an appeal
to undisciplined students. What kind of appeal did she make by
saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, don't engage in that kind of
behavior, you can do much better?"
A. Invoke peer reaction
B. Exert authority
✅ C. Internalizing students' image of themselves
D. Teacher-student relationship
Tanna’s words appeal to the students’ self-concept, encouraging them
to act in accordance with a positive image of themselves. This
motivates behavior through internal reflection, not fear.
50. What is the term for the leap from theory to practice in which
the teacher applies theories to effective teaching methods and
theories?
✅ A. Integration process
B. Informational process
C. Conceptualization process
D. Construction process
Integration process is the application of theoretical knowledge into
classroom practice. It bridges the gap between knowing and doing in
professional teaching.
