VERBAL REASONING 7.

Unlike the other interviewees, the NON-VERBAL REASONING

last applicant interviewed
1. Ethology: animal behavior: 1. What is the reflection of the given
conducted herself with
Meteorology: _____ figure when placed in front of the
commendable ____ despite her
a. Comets vertical mirror?
being repeatedly asked annoying
b. Meteors
questions.
c. Weather
a. Decorum
d. Rocks
b. Patience
2. Virgil: Inferno: ____: ____
c. Ferocity
a. Cervantes : Don Quixonte
d. Belligerence
b. Milton : Paradise Lost 2. Which one is identical to this
8. Abysmal: topmost: abortive: ____
c. Medea : Euripides figure?
a. Fruitful
d. Canterbury Tales : Chaucer
b. Faithful
3. Child: children: oasis: ____
c. Fruitless
a. Oasis
d. Unfaithful
b. Oasis’
9. Manifold: numerous: opulence:
c. Oases
___
d. Oases’
a. Wealth
4. Queen: crown: nun: ____
b. Magnitude
a. Burqa
c. Appearance
b. Habit
d. Concentration
c. Wimple
d. Aura MISD KUMP GOTH means MERRY
5. Bowed strings: violin: woodwind: CHRISTMAS DAD.
___
GOTH WUIM FREK KUMP means DAD
a. Guitar
IS MERRY TODAY.
b. Flute
c. Piano KOMP WUIM FREK KUMP means
d. Horn MOM IS MERRY TODAY.
6. Argentina: Buenos Aires:
Australia: ____ 10. Which word means
a. Sydney CHRISTMAS?
b. Canberra a. MISD
c. Melbourne b. GOTH
d. Lisbon c. KUMP
d. WUIM
3. Which among the following 12. Which is the next figure in the
figures comes next? 9. Using the vertical mirror, what is next figure?
the reflection of the given figure?

10. Which among the following is the

4. What shape is needed to result when the given figure is
rotated?

11. A three-dimensional object is

shown. Which front view is
correct?
complete the series below?
5. What is the result when the given
figure is folded into a cube?
6. If the given figure is folded into a
cube, what would be the result?
7. What figure completes the given
analogy below?
8. Which of the four figures below is
the result when the figure is
folded along the dotted lines?
13. Which box contains the shape as
the top series?
14. Which of the four choices is the
result when the figure is cut by a
plane as shown below?
15. Which cube cannot be made
based on the unfolded cube?
16. Which of the four choices below ENGLISH
is the rotated version of the given
1. What makes this sentence
figure?
wrong?
17. If you rotate the given figure,
Recalling and to observe are
which of the following will be the
used by children to marshal the
result?
information and concepts given to
18. Which of the following frames
them.
does not belong to the group?
a. To observe
19. What figure completes the series
below?
20. What figure comes next in the
next series?
 b. Used how people build relationships d. Works just on time
c. Marshal through various media. 9. Everybody went inside the room
d. Concepts d. Technology-mediated soon after the bell has ____
2. In the mountains, a tribal group communication through a. Rang
has no means of transportation various media has changed b. Rung
so they have to ride Shank’s how relationships are built c. Ringed
mare. among people. d. Ranged
a. To go on foot
b. To ride on mountains
c. To travel a lot
d. To run fast
3. ____ student wants to take 6. They stayed at the hotel three 10. Identify the error in the following
course in liberal arts. weeks. sentence
a. Many a. During An educator who is involved with
b. Many a b. For the curricular questions are
c. A few c. In exclusively concerned with
d. Several d. last determining the objectives of the
4. What is the opposite of the word 7. Theresa got 85% in her Math educational system.
assiduous? exam in the last quarter and 87% 11. The strong ___ between parents
a. Diligent this quarter. Which sentence best and teachers is that they have the
b. Courteous describes Theresa’s scores? students’ best interest at heart.
c. Lazy a. Theresa’s Math scores had a. Laiason
d. Solemn improved. b. Liason
5. Which of the following sentences b. Theresa’s Math scores have c. Liaiason
has a different meaning? improved. d. Liaison
a. Technology-mediated c. Theresa’s Math scores will 12. Harry and _ are both scared of
communication which uses have improved. ghosts.
various media has changed d. Theresa’s Math scores have a. I
how people build relationships been improved. b. Me
b. Technology-mediated 8. My boss is a diligent person. He c. Us
communication has changed burns the candle at both ends. d. Them
how people use various media What does the underlined word 13. Her ancestors are Chinese
to build relationships mean? natives who travelled to our
c. Technology-mediated a. Works conscientiously country. What does the
communication has changed b. Works very early and very late underlined word mean?
c. Works carelessly a. Relatives
 b. Kin
c. Progenitors
d. Parents
14. Choose the option that best
expresses the same idea as the
sentence below.
I know I will pass the scholarship
test because I’ve prepared for it.
a. I will pass the scholarship test
because I know I’ve prepared
well for it.
b. I will pass the scholarship test
because I’ve prepared for it, I
know.
c. I’ve prepared well for it, so I
know I will pass it.
d. I’ve prepared well for the
scholarship test, so I know I
will pass it.
15. He deposited his money in the
bank at the eleventh hour.
a. 11:00 AM
b. 11:00 PM
c. Just in time
d. 11th hour of the day
16. The speaker of the event wore a
resplendent gown that awed
everyone. What does the
underlined word mean?
a. Magnificent
b. Splendid
c. Beautiful
d. Significant
17. Antithesis means ____
a. Term paper
b. Contrast
c. Against war
d. Opposite rule
18. Not many people like her to be a
friend since she only paddles
one’s own canoe.
a. Doing things for others
b. Do things for oneself and
others.
c. Prioritize others than oneself
d. Do things for oneself
19. Which underlined part of the
sentence shows an error?
a. Physics are
b. The science concerned with
c. The qualities and properties
d. Of matter and energy
20. Which underlined part of the
sentence shows an error?
a. Geography is very significant
b. In the school curriculum
c. Because is dealt with
d. Our physical environment
21. Mr. Montefalco brought new
office _____
a. Equipment
b. Equipments
c. Equipment’s
d. Equipments’
22. Men and women differ in
childhood socialization. Girls
create friendships by exchanging
secrets while boys establish
bonds by doing things together.
Which of the following is a good
paraphrase for this passage?
a. There is a gender difference
among children as girls like
spilling secrets while boys like
playing games
b. There are gender differences
in childhood socialization
since girls like sharing secrets
and boys like doing things as
a group.
c. Girls’ bond over sharing
secrets and boys’ preference
for doing activities together
show gender differences
when children socialize.
d. Girls like intimate sharing of
secrets while boys enjoy
playing games, so they are
different in their childhood
socialization.
23. Many youngsters nowadays
spend much on expensive items.
They play ducks and drakes.
a. Spend intelligently
b. Waste their money
c. Loose their money
 d. Ask for more money from their
parents
24. Which of the following sentences
has a different meaning?
a. Today, the result of the
qualifying examination which I
took last month will be
released.
b. The result of last month’s
qualifying examinations which
I took will be released today.
c. The result of the qualifying
examinations today is what I
took last month.
d. The result of the qualifying
examination that I took last
month will be released today.
25. Which of the following words are
used to indicate a place?
a. Their
b. There
c. They’re
d. They are
26. “Leadership is not about
education or job experience. It is
not about power or charisma. And
it is not about social class or
distinction. As John Maxwell once
wrote, “Leadership is influence.
Nothing more, nothing less.” And
by this definition, every man,
woman, and child in this nation of
90 million is a leader in his or her
own right.” – John Xavier R.
Valdes (2009)
Which of the following restates
the author’s main idea?
a. Anyone can be a leader who
belong in this nation.
b. Anyone who has power and
charisma can be a leader.
c. Anyone is capable of
leadership which is defined as
influence.
d. Anyone with an education that
is respectable has leadership.
27. Which sentence tells a person to
eat food because he succeeded
in the exam?
a. Your snack should be a desert
because you passed the
exam.
b. You’re snack should be a
dessert because you past the
exam.
c. You’re snack should be a
desert because you past the
exam
d. Your snack should be a
dessert because you passed
the exam.
28. Yumi began working in the bank
in 2009. She still works in the
same bank now and recently
received a Loyalty Award. Which
sentence is true about Yumi?
a. Yumi is working in the bank
since 2009.
b. Yumi was working in the bank
since 2009.
c. Yumi has been working in the
bank since 2009.
d. Yumi had been working in the
bank since 2009.
29. Which is the appropriate
response to this sentence?
“Do you mind opening the
window”
a. Not at all
b. Why? Do you feel hot?
c. Later, I’m busy
d. Yes, please. I’d like that
30. Websites of nonprofit groups
usually end in?
a. .gov
b. .org
c. .edu
d. .com
31. A strand of spider’s silk is one of
the strongest substances in the
world. It can hold five times more
weight that a similar strand of
steel. The silk is extremely
elastic. A strand can stretch to
twice its original length before
breaking.
How can this paragraph be
improved?
a. Use “moreover” to begin
sentence 3 to improve
coherence.
b. Add the phrase “of spider’s
silk” in sentence 4 to improve
clarity.
 c. Mention examples of others
substances to improve
content.
d. Replace sentence 2 with other
detail to improve unity.
32. “He whom the gods favour dies in
youth.” – Plautius, Bacchides
a. Oxymoron
b. Irony
c. Metonymy
d. Paradox
finished his assignments on My brother joined the ___ of
time. cadets in his school.
d. The student is not feeling well. a. Corse
She still attended her classes. b. Corps
36. The Salazars’ are wealthy people c. Corpse
but they always take down a pen. d. Coarse
a. Brag about their wealth
b. Accept criticism
c. Help others
d. Be humble

33. Which pair of words does NOT

37. What makes the sentence SCIENCE
have the same meaning?
incorrect?
a. Shy – effusive 1. What is the probability that the
Jonel is unsure which among the
b. Slim – svelte offspring of a heterozygous tall
two desserts is more delicious.
c. Visible – conspicuous father and a short mother is tall?
a. Unsure
d. Talkative – loquacious a. 25%
b. Among
34. Ayala is known to have built b. 50%
c. Desserts
edifices all around the metro. c. 75%
d. More
a. Chaos d. 100%
38. What does flambeaux mean?
b. Huge hospitals 2. It is a prediction about a person’s
a. Cement
c. Tall buildings future based on his or her
b. Torch
d. Corrupt government astrological sign.
c. Brick
35. Which of the following pairs of a. Astrology
d. Stone
sentences is the conjunction YET b. Zodiac
39. She is a charlatan in all her ways.
be best used? c. Horoscope
What opposes the underlined
a. The boy found money in the d. Déjà vu
word?
classroom. He surrendered it 3. What percent all marine life was
a. Impostor
to the teacher. wiped out during a mass
b. Priest
b. The little girl likes the color extinction 248 million years ago?
c. Composer
blue. She also likes the color a. 95%
d. Real
yellow. b. 90%
40. What appropriate word completes
c. The mother promised to bring c. 85%
the sentence?
her son to the movies. He d. 80%
4. Imagine you have a pet animal 7. How long will it take a bus chromosomes in each egg cell of
called Diwata. Diwata is fat and travelling 72 km/hr to go 36 a kangaroo is ___.
she has a very think fur coat. She kilometers? a. 6
also likes to sleep for moths in a. 20 minutes b. 12
time. After a year in you house in b. 30 minutes c. 18
the Philippines, you notice that c. 35 minutes d. 24
Diwata is suffering. You then d. 40 minutes 12. Decomposing water by electric
decide to release her back to her 8. Solids do not diffuse like gases current will give a ration of
natural habitat. Which biome do because the particles of a solid oxygen to hydrogen by volume
you think is right for her? a. Are stationary equal to
a. Desert b. Are too close to each other a. 9:1
b. Tundra c. Are too heavy to move b. 2:1
c. Savanna d. Cannot move around each c. 1:2
d. Tropical forest other d. 1:8
5. Vitamins help to control chemical
reactions in our bodies. Without 9. An object with what looks like a 13. Oxidation and reduction always
vitamins, certain reactions cannot tail is visible at the sky for days. occur simultaneously. Oxidation
take place. We need only tiny What object is this? cannot take place without an
amounts of vitamins, but without a. Asteroid accompanying reduction.
them we will suffer from b. Comet Reactions in which these linked
deficiency diseases, like the lack c. Meteor processes occur are called redox
of vitamin D will lead to d. Meteoroid reactions. An atom has been
a. Beriberi 10. A total solar eclipse is when the oxidized when it
b. Rickets Sun is completely blocked out. I gain an electron
c. Scurvy When this happens, the halo gas II loses an electron
d. Night blindness around the sun called ___, can III combines with oxygen
6. Who used the scientific method to be seen. a. I only
prove that blood circulates a. Corona b. II only
through the body, pumped by the b. Solar flares c. III only
heart? c. Sunspots d. II and III only
a. Galen d. Solar radiation 14. Which of the following does not
b. Mayer 11. Different organisms have different exist in carbohydrate?
c. Watson numbers of chromosomes. a. Nitrogen
d. Harvey Kangaroos have 12 b. Carbon
chromosomes in each body cell. c. Hydrogen
This means that the number of d. Oxygen
15. Tides occur due to the
gravitational pull of the Moon on
the oceans (and to a lesser
extent the pull of the Sun). Lower
high tides is called neap tides and
extra high tides are called spring
tides. Neap tides occur
a. Every midnight
b. Every noontime
c. When the Sun and the Moon
are at right angles to the Earth
d. When the Sun and the Moon
are both in line with the Earth
16. Which of the following is not an
evidence of a chemical reaction?
a. A liquid water freezes into an
ice cube
b. An iron nail changed into a
rusty orange color
c. A piece of copper raised the
temperature of an acid upon
addition
d. Gas bubbles produced when
an antacid tablet was place in
water
17. All of the planets move in
elliptical orbit in the same
direction around the Sun, and
they lie in almost the same plane
except
a. Jupiter
b. Pluto
c. Neptune
d. Uranus
18. Who proposed the continental tightly-covered jar for one day at
drift theory? room temperature. At the end of
a. Harry Hess the day, it was observed that the
b. Albert Einstein solid became gas. You should
c. Alfred Wegener expect that CO2 gas would have
d. Isaac Newton a mass of
19. You come across a fossil that is a. Less than 10 g
believe to be petrified wood. You b. 10 g
are curious to know how old this c. About 15 g
fossil is. What dating technique d. Exactly 15 g
will you use to know the age? 23. An object’s acceleration is zero
a. Relative dating: superposition so it must no be moving
b. Relative dating: fossil a. True
succession b. False
c. Absolute dating: carbon dating c. True, as long as it is not
d. Absolute dating: potassium- moving
argon dating d. False, as long it is not moving.
20. Which of the following is not a 24. What is the normal body
safety procedure against COVID- temperature of humans?
19? a. 37 degrees F
a. Avoiding crowded places b. 370 degrees C
b. Wearing facemasks after c. 98.6 degrees F
sneezing d. 98.6 degrees C
c. Washing hands with soap and 25. Energy within the process the
water before and after eating oceans is distributed through
d. Practicing social distancing which process?
21. It is the name given by a. Conduction
astronomers to any fuzzy patch in b. Convection
the sky, even galaxies and star c. Radiation
clusters. d. Refraction
a. Cloud cosmos 26. What component of hard water
b. Black hole makes it “hard”?
c. Galaxy a. Sodium and nitrogen
d. Nebula b. Oxygen and hydrogen
22. Ten grams of solid carbon dioxide c. Large amounts of calcium and
(dry ice) were placed in the magnesium ions
 d. Large amounts of sodium and 31. One of the following diseases is a. Cast
carbon dioxide caused by bacteria. What is it? b. Clowder
27. A bird flying upward at an angle a. Chicken pox c. Dray
of 45 degrees with the horizon. b. Flu d. Murder
The direction of the force of c. Tuberculosis 37. Which of the following best
gravity acting on it is d. Common colds summarizes the purpose of the
a. Upward 32. The radioactivity we encounter circulatory system?
b. At an angle upward comes mostly from a. Nourish the cell and carry
c. Downward a. Medical x-rays away the waste
d. At an angle download b. Nuclear power plants b. Bring digested food to the
c. Natural environment heart
d. Nuclear weapon tests c. Bring oxygen to the lungs
d. Pump blood to the lungs

28. If a fish wore goggles above the

water surface, it will see better if it
has goggles that are 33. The Earth is heated by the Sun
a. Tinted blue-green by which process? 38. Lice are found to thrive on the
b. Flat a. Radiation hair of the dogs. This type of
c. Tinted red b. Convection relationship is referred to as
d. Filled with water c. Conduction a. Mutualism
29. Soon after you remove a bottled d. Refraction b. Parasitism
mineral water from a cold 34. Which among the following is not c. Symbiosis
refrigerator it becomes wet. This part of an animal cell? d. Commensalism
wetness is primarily due to a. Chloroplast 39. The sweet colorless water in the
a. Conduction b. Nucleus coconut fruit is its ___
b. Convection c. Mitochondrion a. Endosperm
c. Condensation d. Ribosome b. Cotyledon
d. Evaporation 35. Adding a catalyst to a reaction c. Embryo
30. The weight of an atoms comes will change the d. Rainwater
mostly from its a. Enthalpy 40. A piece of brass has a mass of
a. Neutrons b. Activation energy 16.0 g and a volume of 1.9 cm3.
b. Electrons c. Entropy What is its density?
c. Protons d. Nature of the product a. 4.2 g/cm3
d. Charge 36. What do you call a group of b. 8.4 g/cm3
crows? c. 0.11875 g/cm3
 d. 12.6 g/cm3
41. Which of the following is not a
metal?
a. Sodium
b. Lithium
c. Carbon
d. Mercury
42. All the following are postulates of
Kinetic Theory of Gases,
EXCEPT:
a. The collisions between
molecules are elastic
b. The gas molecules are in
constant, random motion
c. At lower temperatures,
molecules have higher kinetic
energies
d. The volumes of the molecules
are negligible compared with
the volume of the container
43. A limousine accelerates uniformly
from 15 kph to 45 kph in 10
seconds. Find its acceleration
a. 30km/h-s
b. 3 km/h-s
c. 83 km/h-s
d. 8.33 km/h-s
44. For your birthday, a friend gave
you a plant as a gift. You named
the plant Pag-asa. Pag-asa is
succulent, has many spines and
barely no leaves. Which biome is
Pag-asa’s natural habitat?
a. Desert
b. Tundra
c. Grassland
d. Tropical rainforest
45. Plants make use of ____ in food
making.
a. Nitrogen
b. Carbon monoxide
c. Carbon dioxide
d. Oxygen
46. A rocket with a mass of 1000 kg
is fired vertically upward with an
initial velocity of 100 m/s.
calculate its potential energy
when it reaches the maximum
height.
a. 5 x 105 joules
b. 5 x 106 joules
c. 5 x 107 joules
d. 5 x 108 joules
47. In your biology class, you look
into a compound microscope.
You notice that the organism you
are trying to view is out-of-focus.
Which microscope part do you
adjust to sharpen the focus?
a. Mirror
b. Eyepiece
c. Fine adjustment knob
d. Coarse adjustment knob
48. The correct name for N2O3 is __
a. Nitrogen pentoxide
b. Dinitrogen tetraoxide
c. Trinitrogen dioxide
d. Dinitrogen trioxide
49. How is spermatogenesis different
from oogenesis?
a. Sperm cells take longer to
develop unlike in egg cells
b. Ovum is produced in
continuous manner unlike in
sperm production
c. Spermatogenesis occurs at
certain parts of childhood
while oogenesis occurs only
during adolescence
d. There are prolonged
interruptions in oogenesis
unlike in spermatogenesis
which occurs in constant
manner.
50. Ethan is designing an experiment
to investigate how heat transfer is
affected by the type of medium
through which they travel. Which
is the independent variable?
a. Temperature
b. Type of medium
c. Speed of the heat transfer
d. Thermal energy
51. Flowering plants, such as daisies
and orchids, belong to
Magnoliophyte. Based from the
phylogeny of their character, the
flower of the daisy and the flower
of an orchid have been acquired
from a common ancestor. If the
daisy and the orchid’s common
ancestor has a flower, what can
be inferred from this character?
a. This character is said to be
analogous
b. This character is said to be
homologous
 c. This character is said to be
discontinuous
d. This character is said to be
homoplasious
52. Tsunami comes from two
Japanese words tsu meaning
harbor and nami meaning ___
a. Water
b. Wave
c. Sea
d. Ocean
53. After a period of vigorous
exercise, blood leaving a muscle
is expected to have ____.
a. Less carbon dioxide, less
oxygen and less glucose
b. More carbon dioxide, less
oxygen, and less glucose
c. More carbon dioxide, more
oxygen, and less glucose
d. More carbon dioxide, more
oxygen and more glucose
54. Plants produce their own food
molecules through a process
called photosynthesis. What do
plants need for photosynthesis to
push through?
a. Light
b. Light and water
c. Light, water and carbon
dioxide
d. Light, water, carbon dioxide,
and oxygen
55. Evolution is best defined as
a. Survival of the fittest
b. An adaptation of an organism d. MERS
to its environment 60. What is the main reason why
c. An abrupt replacement of one Latin is used in scientifically
community by another naming organisms?
d. A process of change in a. It has predetermined naming
organisms over a period of conventions
time b. It is an obsolete language
56. Fog is a cloud with tis base at or c. Pioneers in Science mainly
very near the ground. The used Latin
formation of fog generally occurs d. Science in Latin America
after the ground has lost heat by flourished when Columbus
a. Convection came
b. Transpiration
c. Radiation
d. Evaporation
57. The building blocks from which all MATHEMATICS
matter is composed are known as 1. Only 9,788 examinees passed in
a. Elements the DOST Scholarship
b. Liquids Examination last March 2020 out
c. Compounds of 102,526 takers. What is the
d. Atoms passing rate?
58. Who is the Father of Biology? a. 9.00%
a. Aristotle b. 9.55%
b. Hippocrates c. 10.03%
c. Plato d. 10.47%
d. Thales 2. Which of the following is true
59. Which among the following is not about right triangle ABC?
a disease caused by a I. The hypotenuse is the
coronavirus? longest side
a. A H1N1 II. The sum of the degree
b. COVID-19 measures of its internal
c. SARS angles is 180 degrees
 III. The sum of the squares d. 243 number subtracted from 90.
of the lengths its legs is What is the number?
equal to the square of 6. What is the 41% of 1,200? a. -60
the length of its a. 410 b. 10
hypotenuse b. 120 c. 12
a. I only c. 492 d. 60
b. II only d. 192 11. Given the sequence of first nine
c. I and II only 7. The volume of gas is inversely prime numbers:
d. I, II, and III proportional to its pressure. 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23
3. What should be multiplied to the When the pressure of 30 cm of Can four numbers be chosen to
binomial x-2y so that the product mercury, the volume is 600 cubic form an arithmetic sequence?
is a trinomial? cm. Find the pressure when a. Yes, the arithmetic sequence
a. 2y volume is 250 cubic cm? is 3,5,7,11
b. x-2y a. 12.5 cm of mercury b. Yes, the arithmetic sequence
c. x+2y b. 28 cm of mercury is 3,7,1117
d. x2+2y+4y2 c. 72 cm of mercury c. Yes, the arithmetic sequence
d. 65 cm of mercury is 5,11,17,23
8. How many diagonals are there in d. No, it is not possible
4. Dianne is making a triangular nonagon? 12. Simplify: √54 + √24 - √864
wall with building blocks. The top a. 9 a. 7√6
row has one block, the second b. 18 b. 6√7
row has three, and the third has c. 27 c. -7√6
five, and so on. How many rows d. 36 d. 3√7
can she make with a set of 225 9. At a rally, protesters 13. What is the range of the
blocks? outnumbered the policemen by following data?
a. 12 12 to 1. Seventy-two arrest were 86,70,83,90,85,78,79,81,87
b. 13 made averaging 3 for every 2 a. 12
c. 14 policemen. How many protesters b. 15
d. 15 attended the rally?
a. 48
5. If a2 = b3 and b2 = 81, then what b. 144
is the positive product of a and c. 576
b? d. 720
a. 9 10. Two times a certain number
b. 27 added to 30 gives the same
c. 81 result as three times the same
 d. 20 20. Dianne is making a triangular
14. A committee of 10 students must wall with building blocks. The top
select a president, vice- row has three blocks, the second
president, a secretary and a row has five, and the third has
treasurer. In how many possible seven, and so on. How many
ways can this be done? rows can she make with a set of
a. 5040 120 blocks?
b. 720
c. 210
d. 10

18. Taylor went to the Gracious

15. How many twenty thousand are Shepherd to buy snacks which is
there in one million? a mixture of peanuts and green
a. 500 peas. The peanuts and green
b. 50 peas are being sold there for 50
c. 100 cents per 10 grams, and 80
d. 1000 cents per 10 grams, respectively.
16. In sophomore class at If she wants a kilogram of the
Technological High School, there snack for Php 60.00, what must
are 18 boys and 12 girls. The be the composition of the
average height of boys is 170 cm mixture?
and that of girls is 160 cm. what a. Nuts:650 grams, Green
is the average height of all peas:350 grams
students in the class? b. Nuts:600 grams, Green
a.165 cm peas:400 grams
b.166 cm c. Nuts:550 grams, Green
c.167 cm peas:450 grams
d.168 cm d. Nuts:500 grams, Green
17. Which of the following values peas:500 grams
closest to the square root of 19. If a (b+1) = c, then b =?
4000? a. c/a
a. 19 b. c – a – 1
b. 22 c. (c/a) + 1
c. 200 d. (c/a) – 1
d. 400
 a. 10 25. Given: 28. Mrs. Princess’ bathroom has to
b. 11 A={Diego,Jepoy,Jasmine,Ivy, be covered with tiles. The edge
c. 12 Emilia} of the bathroom needs a
d. 13 B={Arnaldo,Emilia,Raul,Diego, rubberized tile. If the tub is 2.3
21. What should be multiplied to the Maja} meters long and 1.8 meters
trinomial a2 – ab – b2 so that the If sets A and B represent the wide, how may meters of
product is a binomial? friends of Arlene and Bayani, rubberized tiles are required?
a. ab respectively, which of the a. 4.14 meters
b. a + b following notations represent the b. 4.60 meters
c. a – b common friends of Arlene and c. 8.20 meters
d. a2 + ab – b2 Bayani? d. 9.20 meters
22. If x=13, y=17 and z are sides of a. A U B 29. Suppose that a + b = 2. If the line
a triangle, which of the following b. A ∩ B given by ax + by = 16 passes
numbers is a possible value of c. A – B through (3, -2), what is the value
z? d. B – A of a and b?
a. 35 26. If 25% of z is 15, then what is a. a = 10, b = -8
b. 33 30% of z? b. a = 8, b = -6
c. 31 a. 16 c. a = 6, b = -4
d. 29 b. 18 d. a = 4, b = -2
23. A tenant was awarded a house c. 24 30. What is the mean of the scores
and lot package worth Php d. 32 of 12 students are:
180,000.00. She has to pay the 27. Which expresses the trinomial in 76,80,75,83,80,79,85,80,88,90,
package for 20 years at 9% per the following? 75,80
annum. How much will the house a. 2x + 4x – 3 a. 82.92
and lot cost after 20 years? b. 2y + 2y3 b. 81.92
a. Php 504,000.00 c. 3x2 + 2x3 – 3 + 2 c. 81
b. Php 500,000.00 d. 3 d. 80
c. Php 604,000.00 31. Janine invested Php 80,000 into
d. Php 704,000.00 a venture that pays 3.5% annual
24. If a regular polygon has 54 simple interest. How much will
diagonals, how many sides does she earn after a year?
it have? a. Php 28,000
a. 10 b. Php 2,800
b. 11 c. Php 108,000
c. 12 d. Php 82,000
d. 13
32. If 2y = 7y – 25, then what is y2? 36. A student downloaded 6 music 39. Emma decided to invest Php
a. 5 files to a portable MP3 player. In 120,000 in an internet café and a
b. 10 how many different orders can photobooth. The internet café
c. 16 the songs be played and the photobooth pay monthly
d. 25 a. 6 interest 5% and 4.5%,
33. A box contains ten balls. Each b. 24 respectively. If she wants to earn
ball is labeled such that each ball c. 120 a total of Php 5,800 a monthly
corresponds to a prime number d. 720 from the two businesses, how
less than 30. If two balls are 37. Given arithmetic sequence of six much must she allot to each
drawn from the box, what is the number: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 business?
probability that the sum of Which three numbers can be a. Internet café: Php 100,000,
numbers the written on them is chosen to form a geometric Photobooth: Php 20,000
even? sequence? b. Internet café: Php 90,000,
a. 0 a. 6, 12, 24 Photobooth: Php 30,000
b. 1/10 b. 6, 18, 30 c. Internet café: Php 80,000,
c. 9/10 c. 12, 24, 36 Photobooth: Php 40,000
d. 1 d. 24, 30, 36 d. Internet café: Php 70,000,
34. Which fraction is equal to 38. Given: Photobooth: Php 50,000
0.25%? A={Diego,Jepoy,Jasmine,Ivy, 40. Which of the following
a. ¼ Emilia} proposition forms may represent
b. 1/25 B={Arnaldo,Emilia,Raul,Diego, the proposition below?
c. 1/40 Maja} “If the diagonals of a
d. 1/400 If sets A and B represent the quadrilateral bisect each other
35. Which of the following friends of Arlene and Bayani, and they are perpendicular, then
propositional forms may respectively, what does A U B the quadrilateral is a rhombus”
represent the proposition below? represent? a. (P ^ Q) → R
“If the sides of a quadrilateral are a. The common friends of b. P v (Q→R)
parallel and congruent, then the Arlene and Bayani c. (P v Q) → R
quadrilateral is a parallelogram.” b. The combined friends of d. P ^ (Q → R)
a. P ^ (Q → R) Arlene and Bayani
b. (P v Q) → R c. The friends of Arlene who are
c. P v (Q → R) not friends of Bayani
d. (P ^ Q) → R) d. The friends of Bayani who
are not friends of Arlene
MECHANICAL TECHNICAL d. 18 9. Which of the following is both a
5. Some homes have ___ that producer and a consumer?
1. What are the four main bridge
capture the Sun’s energy to heat a. Tomato plant
designs?
water. b. Fly
a. Truss, arch, beam,
a. Solar panel c. Cat
suspension
b. Solar mill d. None of the above
b. Pier, truss, pylon, deck
c. Solar container 10. What is used to tighten and
c. Arch, beam, pier, deck
d. Solar collector loosen nuts and bolts?
d. Suspension, pylon, truss, pier
6. Which of the following is NOT a a. Wrench
2. How do hydroelectric dams work?
mechanical process for b. Lever
a. Controlling the flow of rivers
fastening? c. Gauge
b. Preventing flooding
a. Welding d. Hammer
c. Making reservoir lakes for
b. Buttoning 11. The suspension system on a
irrigation
c. Bolting bicycle is likely to use which of
d. Channeling force of rivers to
d. Covalent bonding the following mechanical
move turbines
7. It is a technique for drilling as devices?
3. The power that a human has to
much as 4 miles deep into rock a. Chain
move an object is limited. In order
formations to get oil or natural b. Pulley
to compensate for their limited
gas. c. Gear
power, humans developed____.
a. Fracking d. Spring
a. Energy
b. Fracturing 12. A girl thrust a glowing splint
b. Machine
c. Fueling rods containing a certain gas. The
c. Power
d. Rock fission splint bursts into flame. The gas
d. Heat
8. Which example proves light is in the bottle could be
4. When traffic is heavy, Mr.
faster that sound? a. Steam
Ackerman takes an alternative
a. We hear lightning before b. Oxygen
route to his office. This alternative
seeing thunder c. Nitrogen
route is 7 kilometers longer than
b. We see lightning before d. Carbon dioxide
the direct route. When he goes by
hearing thunder 13. Bats are nocturnal although they
the alternative route and returns
c. We see ripples in water before are blind at night. They use the
by the direct route, the round trip
hearing a splash sound that they produce to
is 45 kilometers. How many
d. We see ripples in water after familiarize themselves with their
kilometers is the direct route?
hearing a splash surroundings. In which
a. 38
environment would a bat find
b. 26
most difficult to move around?
c. 19
a. Cage made of marble
 b. Cage made of metal
c. Cage made of wood
d. Cage made of corrugated
carton
14. A compass is used for what
purpose?
a. To measure angles
b. To tighten and loosen bolts
c. To drive and remove nails
d. To draw circles of various
sizes
15. Spaces are left between the
cement blocks of a sidewalk to?
a. Speed up drying
b. Allow for drainage
c. Improve appearance
d. Prevent cracks
16. Which medium does sound travel
slowest?
a. Solid
b. Liquid
c. Gas
d. It depends on the position of
molecules present
17. Why do animals in deserts have
lighter-colored fur compared to
those in other biomes?
a. Lighter fur colors absorb less
heat that darker ones.
b. Water retention is promoted
by light-colored fur.
c. Lighter fur color helps the
animals locate their mate.
d. Lighter fur color absorbs
moisture
18. A jackscrew is a combination of 22. A slope’s shear strength depends
an inclined plane and a ____. on the slope materials strength
a. Screw and cohesiveness and on the
b. Wedge amount of internal friction
c. Pulley between grains. These factors
d. Wheel and axe promote slope stability. Which of
19. What is the purpose of a cooling the following factors can actually
system? enhance the slope stability?
a. To freeze water a. Water content
b. To tighten and loosen nuts b. Overloading
and bolts c. Vegetation
c. To release heat generated by d. None
the engine 23. Mr. George found a large piece of
d. To dissipate light generated wood drifting during the flood
by the cooling system after Typhoon Ondoy. Since he
20. Which of the following is the force sees the wood as still useful, he
that begins to set a truck in plans to smoothen the surface
motion? using a hand tool. Which of the
a. The burning of gasoline following tools can he use smooth
b. The push of the hot gases on the piece of wood?
a piston a. Wrench
c. The push of hot gases on b. Screwdriver
shafts and gears c. Plane
d. The push of the piston on d. Hammer
shafts and gears 24. Which of the following is not a
21. On a map, ¼ inch represents 20 type of valve?
feet. If a driveway is 50 feet long, a. Butterfly valve
what is its length in inches on the b. Tight valve
map? c. Plug valve
a. 3/8 d. Check valve
b. 5/8 25. An ambulance is sounding its
c. ¾ siren while its moving away from
d. 2/1 you to respond to an emergency.
As you observed, the pitch of the
siren’s sound relative to its
normal pitch?
 a. Higher c. Gear 1 turns counter
b. Lower clockwise
c. The same d. Gear 2 turns counter
d. It depends upon the weather clockwise
26. What is the standard unit of 29. An automobile is moving at a
force? speed of 25 km/hr. how fast is it
a. Newton moving in units of meters per
b. Pascal minute?
c. Joule a. 417 meters/minute
d. Watts b. 25 meters/minute
27. In a food chain, which organism c. 425 meters/minute
would have the least amount of d. 250 meters/minute
energy obtained from the 30. Oil or grease prevents steel form
producer? rusting because it
a. Decomposer a. Keeps metal warm
b. Final consumer b. Make the metal slippery
c. Primary consumer c. Keeps the air away from the
d. Secondary consumer metal
28. Consider the 4 gears shown d. Keeps the light away from the
below. Which of the following metal.
happens when gear 3 turns
clockwise?
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a. Gears 1 and 4 turn clockwise

b. Gears 2 and 4 turn clockwise