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Sunday, January 13, 2008
3T civil engineers re-take national exam
MANILA -- The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) "successfully" conducted the re-take of the licensure examination for civil engineers despite efforts to stop it, an official said.
PRC chairman Leonor Rosero-Tripon said out of the 4,776 examinees who are supposed to take the retests 3,261 took the re-take examinations on the two contested subjects -- Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Structural Engineering and Construction in eight testing areas nationwide on Saturday.
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Tripon said 1,515 opted not to take the licensure test.
However, CE board takers interviewed over ABS-CBN claimed hundreds of the board takers walked out in the licensure examination.
They claimed that 400 of the 700 students in Cebu walked out of testing centers in the city while more than 300 in Cagayan de Oro boycotted the examination.
The re-take pushed through after the Court of Appeals (CA) denied to reconsider its earlier decision in junking the petition of a group of CE examinees stopping the retake of the licensure examination.
Examinees opposing the re-take held vigils at the PRC Central Office and in some test centers on the eve and on examination day itself.
Others had even went to the schools sites and venues to distribute manifestos and encourages other examinees no to take the examination.
The PRC nullified the results of the civil engineering board examination in November 2007 for the subject Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering after finding the unusually high grades of the examinees.
In the results, it showed that 461 out of 4,728 perfected the examinations while 627 got higher than 90 percent scores.
The PRC finds the examination results on the said subjects statistically improbable.
Reports of cheating in the examination were further strengthened of reports that two examinees were caught with cell phones containing answers to 30 questions during the examination.
Results of the re-take will be released by the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole). (MSN/Sunnex)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star General Santos. (January 13, 2008 issue)
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