PRACTICE TEST FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION d.

National Scholarship Program

1. A student knows that the examination week 5. _____was the 1980’s foremost educational
is approaching, but instead of studying, he issue.
chose to spend his time playing computer
a. Bilingual Education
games. On the examination day itself, He opted
to pray for miracles rather than studying. Which b. Values Education
attitude towards religion is displayed?
c. Accountability
Miracles rather than studying which attitude
towards religion is displayed? d. Mainstreaming

a. Religion as Fake 6. The government’s educational program on

b. Religion as Magic
c. Religion as authentic
d. Religion as real
2. ___ is/are used as medium/media of
instruction in schools during the Spanish era.
a. The vernacular
b. English
c. Spanish
d. Spanish and the vernacular
3. The use of the integrated approach in both
secondary and primary level subjects is a result
of the implementation of the _____.
a. Program for Decentralized Education
b. School- based management
c. Basic Education Curriculum
d. School First Initiative
_____made the Philippine Education Placement
Test accessible for adults and
out-of-school-youth.
a. Equitable Access
b. Quality
c. Quality and relevance
d. Relevance
7. College students are required to take a
constitution course for them to ____.
a. Develop students into responsible and
thinking students.
b. Acquaint students with the historical
development of the Philippine Constitution
c. Make students experts in terms of Philippine
Constitution
d. Prepare the students for law making.
8. _____ supports equitable access but on the
other hand, quality might be compromised.

4. What government program allows students a. Open admission

who are not accommodated in community
public schools to enroll in private school at the
government’s expense?
a. Government Assistance Program
b. Study now Pay later
c. Educational Service Contract System
b. School accreditation
c. Deregulated tuition fee
d. Selective retention
9. Educational institutions’ effort of developing
work skills inside the school are aimed at
_____. short span of time, but this does not guarantee
that the child won’t cheat ever again
a. Developing moral character
Based on Thorndike’s theory on punishment
b. Inculcating love of country
and learning, this shows that______.
c. Teaching the duties of citizenship
a. Punishment strengthens a response
d. Developing vocational efficiency
b. Punishment doesn’t remove a response
10. In Piaget’s concrete operational stage, a
c. Punishment removes response
teacher should provide ____.
d. Punishment weakens a response
a. Activities for hypothesis formulation
14. Laughing at a two-year old child who
b. Learning activities that involve problems of
uttered a bad word is not a proper thing to do
classification and order
because in this stage of the child’s life, the child
c. Activities for evaluation purposes. is______

d. Stimulating environment with ample objects a. Considering the views of other

to play with
b. Socializing
11. Interpersonal intelligence is best shown by a
c. Distinguishing sex differences
student who ____.
d. Distinguishing right from wrong
a. Works on his/her own
15. “Men are built not born.” This quotation by
b. Keeps interest to himself/herself
John Watson states that______.
c. Seeks out a classmate for help when problem
a. The ineffectiveness of training on a person’s
occurs
development
d. Spends time meditating
b. The effect of environmental stimulation on a
12. A student is finding it hard to read. When person’s development
the guidance counselor traced the child’s
c. The absence of genetic influence on a
history, the counselor was able to find out that
person’s development
the student came a dysfunctional family, aside
from that, the child was abused and neglected. d. The effect of heredity
What could have caused the student’s reading
16. A child who is cold towards the people
disability?
around him might have failed to attain what
a. Emotional factors basic goal based on Erikson’s theory on
psychological development?
b. Neurological factors
a. Autonomy
c. Poor teaching
b. Initiative
d. Immaturity
c. Trust
13. A child was punished for cheating in an
exam. For sure the child wont cheat again in d. Mistrust
17. A boy is closer to his mother and a girl is c. Pensionados
closer to her father. These instances are under
d. Reformists
______.
22. Jose Rizal said that national redemption can
a. Oedipal Complex
be achieved by ______.
b. Phallic stage
a. Gaining economic recovery
c. Latent stage
b. Stabilizing political situation
d. Pre-genital stage
c. Opening our doors to foreign influence
18. ______ are rights that cannot be renounced
d. Upgrading the quality of the Filipinos through
because they needed for a person to fulfil
education
his/her primordial obligations.
23. A foreign who studying here in the
a. Perfect rights
Philippines was turned­off by the Filipinos’ lack
b. Acquired rights of punctuality and poor word choice

c. Alienable rights a. Ethnocentrism

d. Inalienable rights b. Xenocentrism

19. A grade 1 pupil likes to play with his friends, c. Colonial mentality
but gets angry when defeated. Piaget’s theory
d. Culture shock
states that this pupil is under what
developmental stage? 24. If you are a wise voter, you would vote
____.
a. Concrete operation
a. A candidate who has the making of a public
b. Formal Operation
servant
c. Sensory motor
b. A neighbor who is closest to you in times of
d. Pre-operation need

20. Which describes Philippine education during
the Spanish regime?
a. Establishment of a normal school
b. Vernacular as medium of instruction
c. Separation of church and state
d. Emphasis on religious instruction
21. Some Filipino teachers are sent abroad to
study. We call them_____.
a. Insulares
c. A candidate who helped you by giving cash
d. A godfather who gave your father a job
25. A pregnant, unmarried woman aborted her
baby to avoid disgrace. Is she morally justified
to do that?
a. No, the unborn child cannot be made to
suffer the consequences of the sins of his/her
parents.
b. Yes, it can save her and the child from
disgrace when he grows up.

b. Peninsulares c. No, abortion is immoral.

d. Yes, it is better to prevent the child from
coming into the world who will suffer very
much due to the absence of a father
26. This constitutional provision is the full and
partial integration of the capable deaf and
blind students in the classroom.
a. Creating scholarship for poor and deserving
students.
b. Academic freedom
c. Providing citizenship and vocational training
to adult citizens and out-of-school youths.
d. Protecting and promoting the right of all
citizens to quality education.
27. The difference between Christian and
Muslim marriage, the former being
monogamous and the latter being polygamous
is called _____.
a. Ethical Relativism
b. Acculturation
c. Enculturation
d. Cultural relativism
28. A perfect duty is exemplified:
a. Supporting a poor but deserving student
school
b. Donating an amount for noble project.
c. Paying the worker the wages agreed upon.
d. Giving alms to the needy
29. Teachers are tasked with so many things to
do aside from teaching. Sometimes these tasks
adversely affect their teaching. Does this mean
that teachers should be only preoccupied with
teaching?
a. Yes, if they are given other assignments
justice demands that they be properly
compensated.
b. No, because every teacher is expected to
provide leadership and initiative in activities
for betterment of communities.
c. Yes, because other community leaders, not
teachers, are tasked to lead in community
activities
d. Yes, because teaching is enough full time job
30. The brain’s left hemisphere is involved in
_____function.
a. Intuitive
b. Nonverbal
c. Visual
d. Logical
31. The Professional Teachers Code of Ethics
does not cover ____.
a. Teachers in the tertiary level
b. All full time or part time public and private
school teachers and administrators
c. Teachers in all educational institutions at the
pre-school, elementary and secondary levels.
d. Teachers of academic, vocational, special,
technical or non-formal institutions
32. _____ is the start of Education in human
rights.
a. Loving others
b. Caring for others
c. Liking others
d. Respects towards others
33. This is the objective of the continuous
progression scheme that was introduced in the
elementary level in the school year 1970 to
1971.
a. Mastery of three r’s
b. Mass promotion
c. Pupils progression according to capacity
d. Access to education
34. Schema theory states that:
a. We learn by the process of conditioning
b. We are passive learners
c. We organize what we learn according to
patterns
d. We are totally conditioned by our
environment.
35. If one asked to develop himself to the
fullest, what need is he trying to satisfy
according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
a. Safety needs
b. Belongingness
c. Physiological needs
d. Self-actualization
36. Filipinization is violated if:
a. An educational institution is owned by a
corporation of which 40% of the capital is
owned by Filipino Citizens.
b. An educational institution owned by a
religious order
c. An American serving as president of the
educational institution.
d. An Educational institution owned by a
charitable institution.
37. Education during the American regime can
be characterized as:
a. Centralized
b. Religious
c. Filipinistic
d. Decentralized
38. According to the Republic Act 7836 the
licensure exam for teachers is with:
a. CHED
b. PRC
c. DECS
d. Civil Service Commission
39. Libel violates what particular human rights?
a. The right to one’s own life
b. The right to make a livelihood
c. The right to one’s honor
d. The right to property
40. We owe today’s widespread Philippine
educational system to:
a. The first Filipino political leaders
b. The Japanese
c. The Americans
d. The Spaniards
41. Thomasites are:
a. The soldiers who doubted the success of the
public educational system to be set in the
Philippines
b. The first American teacher recruits to help
establish the public educational system in the
Philippines.
c. The first religious group who came to the
Philippines on board the US transport named
Thomas.
d. The devotees of St. Thomas Aquinas who
came to evangelize.
42. During the American regime, they named d. Indolence
the American soldiers, who were recruited to
47. Who is the forerunner of the presence of
help set the public educational system, as
the Language Acquisition Device?
Thomasites because:
a. Watson
a. They arrived here during the feast of St.
Thomas b. Chomsky
b. They first taught at UST c. Gardner
c. They were devotees of St. Thomas Aquinas d. Piaget
d. They disembarked from the CIS Transport 48. A teacher rewards a child for doing things
called Thomas correctly. This technique is called:
43. The following functions are done by the a. Conditioning
brain’s right hemisphere except:
b. Chaining
a. Nonverbal functions
c. Fading
b. Intuitive functions
d. Reinforcement
c. Detail-oriented function
49. Erikson said that children aged 3-5 is most
d. Visual function likely:
44. The right brain involves _____ functions. a. Mischievous
a. Visual. Intuitive, Logical b. Ego-centric
b. Visual, Nonverbal, Logical c. Lazy
c. Visual, Intuitive, Nonverbal d. Altruistic
d. Visual, Logical, Detail-oriented 50. Erikson labeled children who are two years
of age as “terrible two” because_____.
45. This is a Filipino trait that involves practicing
values in different regions and social groups. a. They are inquisitive
a. Crab mentality b. They Are playful
b. Procrastination c. They are sickly
c. “Kanya­kanya” mentality d. They are assertive
d. Existential intelligence

46. In the Philippine culture, the term “bahala

na” implies:

a. Lack of self-reliance

b. Lack of foresight

c. Willingness to take risks