THE UNIVERSITY registered a lower performance for the Civil Engineering (CE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) professional licensure examinations held last April and May, respectively.
The University’s passing rate in the CE board dropped to 88 per cent from last year’s 94 per cent as seven of the eight Thomasians who took the exams passed. Six of them were first-time takers.
The national passing rate also dropped from 44.37 per cent last year to 33.19 per cent this year as 914 out of the 2,754 examinees passed.
Meanwhile, in the ME licensure examinations, five of the eight UST examinees passed, as the University posted a lower 63 per cent passing rate, from last year’s 78 per cent.The ME’s national passing rate, however, increased from last year’s 49.32 to 50.42 per cent as 602 out of the 1,194 examinees passed.
But CE department chair Josefin de Alban explained that the exam results should not be a cause for disappointment.
“Although we really do not emphasize the May exams as only very few of our graduates take it, it is very nice to hear that our graduates performed well as in the case of the first-time takers,” De Alban told the Varsitarian. John Constantine G. Cordon
