INTEGRATED PREBOAD A

LET SEPTEMBER 2019

ENGLISH

1. Which of the following words has an alternate correct spelling as shown in any good dictionary?
A. Aggravate
B. Ageless
C. Advertisement
D. Apologized

2. Fill in the correct word: “I enjoy _______ but I would not like ______ it all my life.”
A. Painting: doing
B. To paint: doing
C. To paint: to do
D. Painting: to do

3. These two words lack correlation:

A. Angel: spiritual being
B. Chord: small rope
C. Censor: try
D. Alter: vary

4. What type of language is normally used in ordinary conversation and other informal communication? e.g. “What a close shave?”
A. Solecism
B. Jargon
C. Trite Expression
D. Colloquialism

5. There aren’t ________ for everybody attending the meetings.

A. Enough chairs
B. Chairs enough
C. Much chairs
D. Enough of chairs

6. What type of error is shown in this sentence?

“Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead.”
A. Faulty Coordination
B. Misplaced Modifier
C. Faulty Parallelism
D. Comma Splice

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

7. In biology, what is the term that describes the appearance of an organism without regard to its hereditary constitution?
A. Genotype
B. Values
C. Beliefs
D. Phenotype

8. Which of these materials is not a major component of the plasma membrane?

A. Phospholipid
B. Glycoprotein
C. Amino acids
D. Nucleic Acid

9. Who among the following scientists formulated the “Germ Theory of Disease”?
A. Robert Koch
B. Edward Jenner
C. Louise Pasteur
D. Adolf Eduard Myer
10. Which of the following kingdom has the most number of species?
A. Kingdom Monera
B. Kingdom Animalia
C. Kingdom Plantae
D. Kingdom Protista

11. Which kind of relationship is exhibited by algae and fungi in lichen?

A. Commensalism
B. Parasitism
C. Symbiosis
D. Competition

12. When canopy and shrubs start to grow in a damaged area, it is called:
A. Primary succession
B. Secondary succession
C. Tertiary succession
D. Quaternary succession

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

13. How do scientists generally speculate on how the dinosaurs become extinct?
A. Sudden change by meteoric impact
B. Impact of solar waves
C. Advent of ice age
D. Loss of oxygen

14. Which of the following would be the effect of a rise on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
A. Cooling of the atmosphere
B. Increases in the solar radiation
C. Darkening of the air
D. Warming of the atmosphere

15. What do you call the underground where an earthquake starts?

A. Epicenter
B. Focus
C. Fault
D. Fault line

16. These are compounds which are elements occurring in combination with other elements, EXCEPT:
A. Salt
B. Sugar
C. Water
D. Oxygen

17. Because these rocks are formed from molten or partly molten magma, they will most likely be found around Mt. Pinatubo and Mayon
Volcano.
A. Metamorphic
B. Sedimentary
C. Organic
D. Igneous

18. A group of organisms that live together in a particular location is known as:
A. Niche
B. Habitat
C. Colony
D. Population

SOCIAL SCIENCE

19. It is the declaration and enumeration of the individual rights and privileges which the Constitution is designed to protect against
violations by the government, by groups or by individuals.
A. Civil rights
 B. Social rihts
C. Bill of rights
D. Constitutional rights

20. Since Philippines is a republic, democratic country, it elects the president directly. What is the smallest electoral unit of the
government?
A. Electoral Tribunal
B. COMELEC
C. Election precinct
D. Representative district

21. The population increase geometrically but food Supply does not increase as much as is the economic theory known as:
A. Socialism
B. Supply and Demand
C. Diminishing Returns
D. Malthusian

22. Which of the following states the right to human dignity?

A. Poperty ownership
B. Honor and reputation
C. Fair trial
D. Political independence

23. Aside from the Philippines, which countries claim part of the Spratly islands in the South China Sea?
A. China, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia
B. China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia
C. Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Malaysia
D. China, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia

MATHEMATICS A

24. The solution set for the equation x2 - 4x - 5 = 0

A. x = 5, 9
B. x = 5, 1
C. x = -5,1
D. x = 5, -1

25. Simplify (3x – 9) / (x2 – 9):

A. 3/(x-3)
B. 3/(x+3)
C. 3/(x+1)
D. 3/(x-1)

26. An angle is 14° more than its complement. Find its supplement.
A. 38
B. 52
C. 142
D. 128

27. Joan received 52% of the votes as class officer. If she receives 104 votes, how many votes were cast?
A. 50
B. 75
C. 100
D. 200

28. If 9 in 798567 is change to a 5 how much smaller is the new number formed?
A. 30000
B. 3000
C. 40000
D. 4000

MATHEMATICS B
29. At 9:00 am one car travels 30kph due North and the other car travels 40kph due East .How far are the two cars at 11am?
A. 70 km
B. 80 km
C. 100 km
D. 120 km

30. A certain bacteria double every 30 minutes. If there are 100g at the start, how many are there after 2 hours?
A. 200 g
B. 400 g
C. 800 g
D. 1600 g

31. A taxi charges P50 for the first kilometer and charges Php3 for each additional kilometer. How far could P200 go?
A. 50 kilometers
B. 51 kilometers
C. 66.67 kilometers
D. 4 kilometers

32. Each new box of files contains 50 individual files. If Laura was told to purchase 25000 boxes of files how many individual files would be
there?
A. 125
B. 125 000
C. 1 250 000
D. 12 500

33. What is the standard form of (6x104) + (5x103) + (7x100)?

A. 657
B. 65,700
C. 65, 007
D. 650, 007

FILIPINO

34. Ano ang salitang ugat ng PINAGLABANAN?

A. laban
B. ilaban
C. labanan
D. paglaban

35. LINANGAN ng Pilipinas. Ang salitang nakasalungguhit ay nangangahulugang _____________.

A. pamahalaan
B. unibersidad
C. batasan
D. ahensya

36. Ito ang tawag sa dulang nagpapakita ng buhay at pagpapasakit ni Hesu-Kristo.

A. Pasyon
B. Senakulo
C. La Pieta
D. Salubong

37. Ano ang kahulugan ng idyomang ginamit sa pangungusap na “Marami sa mga magsasaka ang INALAT dahil sa patuloy na pagbuhos ng
ulan.”
A. Minalas
B. Nagalit
C. Nawalan ng pag-asa
D. Nanibago

38. Isang paraan ng pagkuha ng datos na ginagamitan ng sunod-sunod na tatlong tuldok para ipakita na may mga bahaging hindi na sinipi
sa talata.
A. Ellipsis
 B. Abstrak
C. Synopsis
D. Sintesis

39. Uri ng pagsulat na ang pokus ay ang imahinasyon ng manunulat upang pukawin ang damdamin.
A. Jornalistik
B. Akademiko
C. Malikhain
D. Teknikal

INTENSIVE GEN ED BOOSTER

40. What is the figure of speech in the sentence: “You are the sunshine of my life.”
A. Personification
B. Irony
C. Metaphor
D. Hyperbole

41. The altitudes of the base of a triangle are 20 meters, and 5 meters respectively. What is its area?
A. 60 square meters
B. 55 square meters
C. 45 square meters
D. 50 square meters

42. The legs of one right triangle are 9 and 12, while those another right triangle are 12 and 16. How much longer is the perimeter of the
larger triangle than the perimeter of the smaller triangle?
A. 84
B. 12
C. 7
D. 14

43. Polysaccharides, triglycerides, polypeptides, and nucleic acids are classified as:
A. Acids and bases
B. Macromolecules
C. Mixtures
D. Compounds

44. Which of the following planets is considered to be closes to the Earth, with an approximate distance of 41 million kilometers?
A. Mars
B. Venus
C. Mercury
D. Jupiter

45. Isang istratehiya na ginagamit sa pananaliksik upang mailarawan ang isang phenomenon ng kanyang natural na kapaligiran kung saan
nagaganap ang pananaliksik.
A. Follow up study
B. Case study
C. Field study
D. Trend study

COMPREHENSIVE GEN ED BOOSTER

46. Jerome’s family lives __________Salvacion Street.

A. At C. To
B. In D. With

47. In 1872 the martyrdom of Gomburza truly inspired Rizal to fight the evils of Spanish tyranny and redeem his oppressed people. The governor-general
who ordered the execution of Gomburza was .
A. Governor General Rafael de Izquierdo
B. Governor General FernandoPrimo de Rivera
C. Governor General RamonBlanco
D. Governor General Camilo de Polavieja
 48. What is the smallest city in the Philippines in terms of land area?
A. Pateros C. San Juan
B. Pasay D. Paranaque

49. Whichorganism is classified under Kingdom Fungi?

A. Red algae C. Diatoms
B. Microsporidia D. Streptococcus

50. “Youcan count on me,”ang pinakamalapit na salin nito ay:

A. Bilangin mo kami
B. Bilangin mo ako
C. Ibilang mo ako
D. Maaasahan mo ako

FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

51. Teacher Nancy is directed to pass an undeserving student with a death threat. Which advise 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 off 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!

52. Virtue as one component in the teaching of Rizal as a course focuses on the teaching of good and beauty in God. What philosophy
supports this?
A. Existentialism
B. Social Reconstructionism
C. Idealism
D. Progressivism

53. What is the general quality is lacking in a teacher who is moody, loner, easily giving up, with poor interpersonal relationship?
A. Cooperativeness
B. Reliability
C. Buoyancy
D. Fairness

ETHICO-LEGAL

54. It is said that some private schools employ teachers without license. Is that in accordance with the Philippine Teachers’
Professionalization Act?
A. Yes, provided the teacher has at least five years of teaching experience
B. Yes, the Teachers’ Professionalization Act applies only to teachers in government schools.
C. No, the license as a requirement for teaching applies to teachers in both public and private schools.
D. No, except if the teacher has very satisfactory performance continuously in the past five years.

55. Based on the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, which does basic education in the Philippines encompass?
I. Kindergarten
II. Elementary
III. Secondary
IV. Alternative

A. II and III
B. I II, III, and IV
C. I, II and III
D. I and II

56. What is the highest career stage of a teacher in the PPST?

A. Distinguished
B. Proficient
C. Highly proficient
D. Most proficient
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

57. While having supper, Mrs. Garcia asks her two children what they learned in school earlier that day. Which level of curriculum is shown
in this situation?
A. Institutional
B. Experiential
C. Societal
D. Instructional

58. Section 5 of RA 10533 states that “the curriculum shall be contextualized and global”. How is this implemented?
I. Inclusion of 21st century skills
II. Allowing schools to localize and indigenize
III. Encouragement of schools to produce learning materials locally.

A. I, II and III
B. II and III
C. I only
D. II only

59. The aim of this educational philosophy in education is to educate the rational person or to cultivate the intellect.
A. Perennialism
B. Essentialism
C. Reconstructionism
D. Progressivism

60. Which is the language medium of instruction from K to 3 in accordance to RA 10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013?
A. Language chosen by parents
B. Mother tongue of the learners
C. English as the official language
D. Language chosen by the school

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

61. Mr. Geronimo, a fresh graduate teacher was hired to teach in an elementary school where there are enough resources for instruction.
The principal asked him to start preparing his instructional materials. Which of the following processes would you suggest him in using
an instructional technology?
A. Design, utilization, evaluation, development
B. Development, design, utilization, evaluation
C. Design, development, utilization, evaluation
D. Development, utilization, design, evaluation

62. What technology integration is achieved by teacher Nina who encourages adaptation of tool-based software that allows the student to
choose a tool and modify its use to accomplish a task at hand?
A. Adaption
B. Transformation
C. Infusion
D. Adaptation

63. Miss Mendoza is evaluating an app for her Grade 7 English class. She is finding out whether the app taps the skill found in the Grade 7
standards to ensure that this app will be helpful in meeting her objectives. She wants to make sure it is not too easy nor too difficult
for her students. Which criterion is the focusing on?
A. Accuracy
B. Organization
C. Appropriateness
D. Currency

64. MOOCs are considered as a course because ____________.

A. They have a guide or a syllabus that indicates content, objectives, activities, and assessment.
B. They are a requirement for Bachelor’s degree.
C. They are graded.
D. They are always given by a fully-recognized university in the world.
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING

65. The best way to assess learning is to use real-life situations, objects and materials existing in the environment. Hence, teachers are
encouraged to use:
A. Rating scale
B. Pencil-and-paper test
C. Observation technique
D. Authentic assessment

66. Which assessment leads students to become self-directed and independent learners?
A. Assessment FOR learning
B. Assessment AS learning
C. Summative assessment
D. Formative assessment

67. The teacher is engaged in a criterion-referenced interpretation of scores. Which of the following does she do?
A. She uses a specified population of persons as its interpretative frame of reference.
B. She describes every individual student performance in relation to the clearly-defined learning task.
C. She describes every individual student performance in relation to the performance of the age group of the student.
D. She compares every individual student performance with the performance of the rest.

68. Compared with evaluation which is subjective, testing students is more objective because it is based on _____________.
A. Homework
B. Quantifiable data
C. Human judgment
D. Class work

FACILITATING LEARNING

69. The teacher always checks on entry knowledge and skills before she proceeds to her new lesson. On which principle is the teacher’s
practice grounded?
A. Effective teaching proceeds from the concrete to the abstract.
B. Attention is essential for learning.
C. Learning increases when the lesson is relevant.
D. New learning builds on previous learning.

70. It is a response attached to a stimulus through the stimulus occurring just prior to the response so that the recurrence of the stimulus
will evoke or cause the response:
A. Feedback
B. Adhesive principle
C. Metacognition
D. Cohesive principle

71. Skinner is known for his theory based upon the notion that learning is a result of change in overt behavior, meaning, and individual
responds to events that occur in the environment. This theory came to be known as:
A. Operant conditioning
B. Stimulus-response associations
C. Classical conditioning
D. Connectionism

72. Which of the following develops critical thinking skill among the students?
A. Asking low level questions
B. A willingness to suspend judgment until sufficient evidence is presented
C. Asking convergent questions
D. Blind obedience to authority

HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

73. One research-based principle of child development is that “Early experiences have strong effects on children’s development and
learning”. What is an implication of this to teaching-learning?
 A. Enrich early childhood with favorable experiences.
B. Assist their development by bringing them to tutorial centers.
C. Enroll them in preschool.
D. Teach them academic lessons early.

74. Study shows that this is NOT among the appropriate practices of cognitive development among preschoolers?
A. One year old develop creative interest
B. Three year old speak as often as possible
C. Four year old say nursery rhymes
D. Five year old add drama to reading situations

75. Which teaching practice gives primary consideration to individual differences?

A. Preparing two different sets of examination, one for the fast learners and another for the slow learners.
B. Allowing children to show that they learned the stages of mitosis in away where they feel most comfortable except by lecturing.
C. Allowing children to show that they learned the stages of mitosis in a way where they feel most comfortable.
D. Applying two sets of different standards.

76. This stage of development is known as the questioning age or exploratory because the child is constantly asking so many questions.
A. Babyhood
B. Infancy
C. Early childhood
D. Late childhood

PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING

77. Here is an expected learning outcome: “At the end of the lesson, all learners must develop a positive towards work.” Is this a SMART
lesson outcome?
A. No, since this is not specific and measurable.
B. Partly, since this belongs to the affective domain.
C. Yes, since this is result-oriented.
D. Yes, since this is a behavioral objective.

78. Ms. De Guzman knows that concepts are learned early by students when they are meaningful. Meaningfulness depends on:
A. The amount of practice
B. Students’ background knowledge
C. The attractiveness of the devices used
D. The variety of learning

79. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance Approach to discipline, what happens when students seek to hurt others to make up for
being hurt or rejected?
A. Revenge seeking
B. Power seeking
C. Withdrawal
D. Attention getting

80. In effective classroom management, the closure of a lesson is as important as its beginning. Which statement is suggestive of effective
management of closure?
A. That’s all for today. Good bye.
B. There’s the bell. Get ready for home.
C. Before we end, let us look at what we learned today.
D. Our time is over, you are responsible for all the problems we did not finish today.

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS

81. Which of the following expressions displays an attitude of mediocrity among teachers?
A. “Kakayanin natin”.
B. “Talagang ganyan lang”
C. “Walang urungan.”
D. “Pagbutihin natin.”

82. What is the best meaning of collaboration in schools?

A. It is working interdependently to analyze professional practice
 B. It is support for the beginning teachers
C. It is identifying mentors among the experienced teachers
D. It is working independently to determine impact of practice

83. What is the most appropriate tagline for the slogan on cultural diversity: “Our true nationality is mankind.”
A. The nationalist
B. The millennial
C. The parochial mind
D. The cosmopolitan man

84. When the teacher encourages the students to analyze issues, think critically about information given to them, and help develop their
skills on their own, which pillar of learning does she try to develop?
A. Learning to know
B. Learning to do
C. Learning to be
D. Learning to live together

DEVELOPMENTAL READING

85. Mr. Navarro is a Grade 1 teacher who plans reading instruction as part of language block. He provides varied reading experiences that
involve children sitting quietly, silently reading library books or making a book based on their own experiences. What theoretical
model of reading does Mr. Navarro show?
A. Bottom-up model
B. Top-down model
C. Interactive model
D. Schema model

86. Which of the following reading skills or strategies utilizes a bottom-up procedure in dealing with unfamiliar words?
A. Inferencing
B. Structural analysis
C. Predicting outcomes
D. Using contextual clues

87. To show phonological awareness skill in ___________, student say the word and then say the syllable or sound.
A. Rhyming
B. Blending
C. Segmenting
D. Combining

88. Chona’s mother guides her in acquiring functional listening and speaking vocabulary and initiates activities using concrete objects and
regularly tells stories to her. What kind of reader will become of Chona?
A. Impatient
B. Disabled
C. Slow
D. Proficient

COMPREHENSIVE PROF ED BOOSTER

89. A Filipino Master’s Degree graduate is surprised to know that he cannot proceed the doctorate program applied in United States
because of the short ten-year basic education. Based on Bronfenbrenner’s theory, to which system in the environment can this be
attributed?
A. Mesosystem
B. Exosystem
C. Macrosystem
D. Chronology system

90. How would you characterize the moral attitude of Hispanic friars who taught religion but were unfaithful to their vow of property by
amassing the land properties of natives?
A. Scrupulous C. Strict
B. Lax D. Pharisaical

91. In the 4As of facilitating learning, ABSTRACTION is?

 A. Practical Ideas
B. Concrete Ideas
C. General Ideas
D. Specific Ideas

92. The Learning Resource / Audio-visual / Educational Technology Center regularly provides the Teachers a list of websites, apps and
instructional materials available in the city which are relevant to the different subjects they teach. This fulfills which function?
A. A link to other community resources
B. Recreational reading center
C. Center of resources
D. Laboratory of learning

INTENSIVE PROF ED BOOSTER

93. What is being employed when the teacher advises, coaches, inspires, motivates, urges and inspires?
A. Multiple response
B. Prompting
C. Clarification
D. Concept revision

94. A movement based on the belief that education should be concerned with actualities of life, in effect it was a form of protest against
the formalism of humanist and the religious reformers.
A. Idealism
B. Realism
C. Existentialism
D. Essentialism

95. Which is not a component of curriculum designing?

A. Objective
B. Learning content
C. Learning experiences
D. Diagnosis of needs

96. What explains the tendency of preschool children to focus on an aspect of an object while excluding other aspects?
A. Centration
B. Translation
C. Intuition
D. Ego-centration

SESSION ON METACOGNITION

97. Why should continuing professional development be in accordance with the Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF)? Because the
PQF for each level of the Philippine Education System ______________.
A. States the assessment tasks
B. States the qualification standards
C. Describes the attributes of a graduate
D. Lays down the industry requirements

98. Mr. Cabaluna considers the multiple-choice type of test the best among the written type of test, so for assessment of learning he uses
only multiple-choice type of test. Is this in accordance with the principle of assessment?
A. Yes, for as long as the multiple-choice tests measure low- and high-level thinking skills.
B. Yes, well-formulated multiple-choice tests measure HOTS.
C. No, he should make use of varied tools for assessment data-gathering.
D. No, he has only one source of data.

99. Teacher Allan does not teach well. His students do not study well. Expected learning outcomes are not clear to both the teacher and
students. Teacher Allan’s assessment tasks are not aligned to the learning outcomes. What is most likely the result of assessment?
Describe the score distribution.
A. Skewed to the right
B. Skewed to the left
C. Leptokurtic
 D. Follows the normal curve

100. Denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform ambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender?
A. Transgender
B. Dyke
C. Lesbian
D. Third sex