18 April 2013, 11:07 p.m. – UST IMPROVED its standing in the licensure exam for teachers (LET), placing third in the roster of top-performing schools for secondary education and producing two topnotchers.
Results from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) released today showed that UST had a 92.16-percent passing rate in the March LET for the secondary level, significantly higher than last year’s 86.84 percent. This year, 47 out of 51 Thomasian examinees passed the test, 43 of which were first-time examinees. In 2012, 33 of 38 examinees made the cut.
UST trailed behind University of the Philippines-Diliman (95.00 percent) and Saint Louis University (94.92 percent), which grabbed the top two spots in the roster of best-performing schools.
Leading the new batch of Thomasian teachers are Marieta Baysa, who scored 90.80 percent, and Maria Isabel Bautista, who got a 90.40-percent rating. Baysa and Bautista ranked seventh and ninth, respectively.
Thomasians did not make it to this year’s top 10 list for LET-elementary, but UST’s passing rate went up to 90 percent from 66.67 percent in 2012. Nine out of 10 Thomasians passed the exam, compared with two out of three examinees in 2012.
Talisay City College was the only top-performing school, scoring a 90.24-percent passing rate with 74 out of 82 students hurdling the exam. It was the only school that met the PRC requirement of a passing rate of at least 80 percent and a minimum 50 examinees.
The national passing rate for LET-elementary slid to 27.78 percent, with only 10,310 passers out of 37,117 examinees. Last year’s passing rate was 42.46 percent, with 13,925 passers out of 32,798 examinees.
For LET-secondary, the national passing rate rose to 39.61 percent with 15,223 successful examinees out of 38,433, from last year’s 24.85 percent. Lord Bien G. Lelay
