1. The manager told his workers, "We have to reduce our workforce." What did he mean?
A. Workers are free to leave
B. Workers are warned of possible lay off
2. What is the theme of quote "have a good bank
account, a good cook
and a good digestion?"
A. Security
B. Responsibility
3. From the following, choose the two words that lack correlation.
A. Prodigy: offspring
B. Recipe: formula
4. Which of the following words lack correlation?
A. Troupe: company of actors
B. Species: variety
5. Senators were accused by activists of washing their
hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:
A. Guilt
B. Aggression
6. There were
three guests on the stage. They were made up of a parent, the governor and the
principal. Who should be acknowledged first by the valedictorian?
A. The principal
B. The governor
7. What is suggested in the opening line? June 13, 1986 -
they came from all over America - 200,000 heroes strong, with their families.
A. The writer holds great admiration for the veterans
B. The writer is opposed to the Vietnam War
8. A readability mismatch happens when the reading levels
of books exceed the reading levels of the students. In this situation, the
students experience frustration and they fall short of the expected or desired
output. A student who finds himself/ herself in such a mismatch will likely do
which of the following?
A. Give an intelligent critique of the selection or story
read
B. Present an argument that the selection or story
read was not properly written
9. What does this mean: Excuses are for losers... those
who take responsibility for their actions are real winners in life. This tells
of?
A. Accountability of one's action tells of bravery
B. Excuses are
needed to justify any failure
10. A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed
pleasure in these remarks:
A. All guests congratulated the organizers and the couple
B. The ceremonies were very impressive
11: What
correction should be.made to this sentence?
One of the theories is that the first child receives
more of the parents' attention than other children so first-borns tend to be
more intellectual.
A. Insert a comma after children
B. Change parents' to parent's
12. Which of the ""Following lines is a simile?
A. Life has loneliness to sell.
B. Holding wonder like a cup.
13. The statement, "She is a rose" is an
example of:
A. Hyperbole
B. Metaphor
14. "The sun was gone, be he had left his footprints
in the sky." The description of the sun in the sentence contains which of
the following literary devices?
A. Personification
B. Synecdoche
15. “And it seems
to me you lived your life, Like a candle in the wind."
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
16. Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which
has for its first stanza:
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the
long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, 0 jazzmen.
Which words illustrate alliteration?
A. Batter and banjos
B. Sob and winding
17. What is the mood of these lines?
Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of
a new life
And f mustn't give in.
When the down comes
tonight will be a memory, too
And a new day will begin.
A. Afraid
B. Hopeful
18. In what literary genre does the story of Maria
Makiling belong?
A. Myth
B. Legend
19. A distinctive type of literary composition such as
epic, tragedy, comedy and novel.
A. Genre
B. Form
20. Epistolary is a novel told through the medium of:
A. Letters
B. Messages
21. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed
syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is
A. Trochaic
B. Iambic
22. What book is written by Boris Paternak that talks
about totalitarianism rule over Russia?
A. War and Peace
B. Doctor Zhivago
23. Who won the nobel price collection
"Gitanjali," which express faith, hope and beauty of the world.
A. Mashou
Basho
B.
Rabindranath Tagore
24. It is a collection of religious poetry written by
Rabindranath Tagore.
A. Gitanjali
B. Bhagavad Gita
25. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler received the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1919. What was the title of the poem that he was most
known for?
A. "The Stranger"
B. "Olympian Spring"
26. A novel by Leo Tolstoy about the Napoleonic Invasion
of Russia. Also termed as the greatest novel ever written:
A. War and Peace
B. God Sees the Truth but Waits
27. Which is Chaucer's collection of stories in verse
showing his skill as a story teller in
giving a vivid picture of English society in the 1300's?
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. The Song of Roland
28. A collection of fables which was used to educate
Indian princes into becoming wise kings:
A. The Great Epics of the World
B. The Panchatantra
29. George Eliot is the pen name of whose English writer?
A. Jane Austen
B. Mary Evans
30. Who delivers the Gettysburg address to give tribute
to the union soldiers of civil war?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. George Washington
31. Which of the following is a work of Samuel Langhorne
Clemens?
A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Uncle Tom's Cabin
32. Which among
the following narrative uses talking animals to teach moral lessons?
A. Grimm's Brother
B. Aesop's Fables
33. Victor Hugo's masterpiece about the adventures of an
ex-convict named Jean Val Jean, a prostitute named Fantine and her daughter
Cosette:
A. Les Miserables
B. Age of Innocence
34. Who among the following is known as the Indian
Shakespeare?
A. Tagore
B. Kalidasa
35. Known for his fables and other stories that are set
in the jungles of British India. His most famous collection is The Jungle Book
which is about Mowgli and the wolves.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Rudyard Kipling
36. It is Edgar Allan Poe's short story about revenge and
murder between friends namely Fortunato and Montessor:
A. Fall of the House of Usher
B. The Cask of Amontillado
37. He was the American President who said, "Ask not
what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of
man.
A. Franklin
Roosevelt
B. John F.
Kennedy
38. He is the first mythical geographer who was
recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his
her Odysseus:
A. Swift
B. Homer
39. Political idealists advocate ideals in politics such
as justice, and fairness. Political realist have a more realist viewpoint of
politics, aptly stated by "Might is right". Who among the following
is more of a political realist rather than political idealist?
A. Julius Caesar
B. Martin Luther King
40. "Only the heart can see rightly." This
statement is lifted from what particular
novel?
A. The Prince and the Pauper
B. The Little Prince
41. The Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War.
A. Frige
B. Athena
42. It is a medieval German epic:
A. Beowulf
B. Nibelungenlied
43. Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding
Filipino films. This
was a project initiated by:
A Antonio Villegas
B. Ramon Bagatsing
44. She is known for the love sonnets she wrote:
A. Paz Marquez
Benitez
B. Ophelia
Dimalanta
45. Jose Garcia Villa's story that tackles the problems
and disadvantages of marrying at an early age is known as:
A. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
B. Footnote to Youth
46. What reading technique is being utilized when a
teaches asks his students to read a particular passage, and he marks
mispronounced words?
A. IRI
B. DRTA
47. In reading, DRTA means:
A. Directed Reading and Thinking Activity
B. Directional Reading and Thinking Assessment
48. This is a reading technique when a student certifies
and notes certain details from a given paragraph:
A. Skimming
B. Scanning
49. Which of the following numbers is prime?
A. 101
B. 91
50. The GCF of 12 and 42:
A. 12
B. 6
51. Find the GCF of 18 and 36:
A. 18
B. 12
52. Find the LCM of the numbers 18, 24 and 54.
A. 192
B. 216
53. Three or more points that lie on a single straight
line:
A. Coplanar points
B. Collinear points
54. The following are the scores of students on their
math examination: 91, 80, 90, 81, 88, 85 and 87. What is the media of the
group?
A. 88
B. 87
55. The grades in Mathematics of the students in Section
A are as follows: 80, 75, 60, 95 and 100. What is the range of their group?
A. 60-100
B. 80-95
56. 40% of 35 is what percent of 140?
A. 10%
B. 14%
57. Each bag of rice contains 50 Kg. What would be the
increase in the price if the cost of one bag of rice goes from P950.00 to
P1200.00?
A. P250.00
B. P7.50
458.The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 25 feet. If one
leg is 24 feet, what is the length of other other leg?
A. 7 ft
B. 15 ft
59. What are the prime factors of 273?
A. 2 x 3 x 13
B. 3 x 7 x 13
60. Factorize: 2)( + 7x — 15
A. (x — 5) (2x + 3)
B. (x + 5) (2x — 3)
61. Simplify: [(3x — 12) / (3x)] divided by (x — 4)
A. 3x
B. 1/x
62. Simplify (3x — 9) / (x2 — 9)
A. 3 /(x-3)
B. 3 /(x+ 3)
63. In the series of graphs, what is presented by
rectangles?
A. Line graph
B. Bar graph
64. A ball is drawn at random from a box containing 6 red
balls, 4 white balls and 5 blue balls. Find the probability that it is white:
A. 4/15
B. 4/5
465. What is the probability of getting a multiple of 3
when a die is tossed?
A. 1/6
B. 1/3
66. Three fourths of the participants in a regional
training program are from private universities. Two-thirds of these are from
Teacher Education Institutions. If there are 96 participants, how many of them
represent private Teacher Education Institutions?
A. 48
B. 72
67. Mrs. Santos borrowed from a friend P50,000 at 5%
interest per month. She contracted the loan in December 2015. How much will she
pay after a year?
A. P80,000
B. P100,000
68. Clara Ramos works as sales clerk, She is paid a
salary of P3,000.00 a week plus 2% commission on sales over P4,000.00 Find her
gross pay for a week in which her sales are P9,500.00
A. 3,210.00
B. P3,110.00
69. Regaia Company manufactures beds; in its catalogue, a
double bed is at P5,000.00 less a discount of 20% what will Rizza have to pay
for the bed she ordered?
A. P4,150.00
B. P4,000.00
70. There are 120 freshmen in the group of 300 students.
How many percentage of the group are freshmen?
A. 45%
B. 40%
71. A man sleeps 6 hours a day. What is the ratio of the time
he is asleep to the time he is awake?
A. 1:4
B, 1:3
72. Justin mows lawns for extra money. If he mows 5 lawns
in one hour and has 30 lawns to mow, how long will it take him to mow all of
them?
A. 6 hours
B, 5 hours
73. How long will it take A and B together, to finish a
job which can be done by A alone in 6 days and be alone in 3 days?
A. 2 1/2 days
B. 2 days
74. Which three consecutive numbers has a sum of 123?
A. m40, 41, 42
B. 41, 42, 43
75. If the average or arithmetic mean of x and -5 is 10,
then what must be the value of x?
A. 15
B. 25
76. How much greater is the sum of the 20 first counting
numbers than the sum of the first 10 counting numbers?
A. 100
B. 155
77. How many glasses of Cola each to be filled with 150
cu cm of the liquid can be made from 5 family size bottles of cola each
containing 1.5 liters?
A. 60
B. 50
78. A time deposit in a bank will mature after 91 days.
If the deposit was made on April 28, on what date will it mature?
A. July 28
B. July 29
79. Which is the length of the hypotenuse of a right
triangle with legs 5 inches and 12 inches?
A. 11 inches
B. 13 inches
80. The edges of a cubical framer are made of plastic
straws. How much longer is the total length of the plastic edges of a cube
whose edge is 10 cm compared to a cube whose edge is 8 cm?
A. 32 cm
B. 24 cm
81. Which of the following is not true about the sum of
two consecutive odd integers?
A. It is always divisible by 4
B. It is divisible only by 12
82. It takes 20 men to build a house for 60 days. How
many men will be needed to build one in only 15 days?
A. 80
B. 100
83. What is the amount at the end of 4 years if P90,000
is invested at 12% simple interest?
A. P133,200
B. P152,500
84. The readings on a water meter in April and May are 417.8k!
and 430.4k1. if there is a basic charge of 23 pesos and the cost per kl is 20
pesos, how much is the billing for water consumption between the two months?
A. P272
B. P275
85. A map is drawn to scale such that 1,5 cm on the map
corresponds to 75km in actual distance. How many cm on the map would represent
the distance between the two towns which are 270 km apart?
A. 2.7 cm
B. 5.4 cm
86. On a certain day, three computer technicians took
turns in manning a 24hour internet shop. The number of hours Cesar, Bert and
Danny were on duty was in the ratio 1:2:3, respectively. The shop owner pays
them Php 40 per hour. How much would Danny receive for that day?
A. Php 230
B. Php 480
87. A projectile always travels in a
A. Parabolic path
B. Linear path
88. Which among the following statements is ALWAYS TRUE?
A. The complement of an angle is obtuse.
B. The complement of any acute angle is acute.
89. Which of these statements is always TRUE?
A. The sum of the page number of the two consecutive
pages of a book is even.
B. The sum of 5 consecutive numbers is always
divisible by 5.
90. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. A square is a rhombus.
B. A rhombus is a rectangle.
91. If the opposite sides of a quadrilateral are equal,
the figure is a
A. Rectangle
B. Parallelogram
92. A square lot has an area of 121 square meters. What
is the length of each side of the lot?
A. 13
B. 11
93. What is the sum of the measures of the interior
angles of an icosagon?
A. 3140
B. 3240
94. One angle of a parallelogram is 35? What are the
measures of the three other angles?
A. 145 °, 35°, 145°
B. 85°,135°,140
95. Which of the following gives the numerical value of
the population?
A. Parameter
B. Statistics
96. It can be used to show the progress in academic
grades over four quarters.
A. Bar graph
B. Line graph
97. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section
A are as follows: 60, 75, 60, 95, 100. What is the population standard
deviation of their group?
A. 16.91
B. 14.97
98. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section
A are as follows: 80, 75, 60, 95, 100. What is the population variance of their
group?
A.230
B. 206
99. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section
A are as follows: 60, 75, 60, 95, 100.
What is the population standard deviation of their group?
A. 16.91
B. 14.97
100. How many square inches are in 1 square yard?
A. 1296
B. 648