19 December 2013, 6:54 p.m. – THE UNIVERSITY slid in the recent licensure exams for electronics engineers, but three Thomasians broke into the top 10 list of passers.
UST’s passing rate dipped to 55.86 percent from last year’s 62.73 percent. Eighty-one out of 145 Thomasian examinees passed the test, results from the Professional Regulation Commission showed.
Leading the new batch of Thomasian electronics engineers is second-placer Kevin Tolentino (87.80 percent). Thomasians Joseph Christian Agreda and Neil Ross Vera were tied at ninth place after posting identical scores of 85.90 percent.
Jan Paolo Go of De La Salle University-Dasmarinas led this year’s topnotchers with a grade of 88.9 percent.
The University of the Philippines-Diliman was named the only top-performing school for this year after getting a 96.67-percent passing rate, or 29 passers out of 30 examinees. PRC requires an 80-percent passing rate with 30 or more examinees to be declared a top-performing school.
The national passing rate plunged to 34.51-percent from last year’s 51.57 percent. Out of the 4, 947 who took the exam, only 1, 707 students passed. Jon Christoffer R. Obice
