28 May 2013, 7:46 p.m. – THE UNIVERSITY’S passing rate dropped in the recent off-season licensure exams for certified public accountants (CPA), with no Thomasian entering the top 10 list of passers.
UST got a 50-percent passing rate, with just 52 out of 104 Thomasian examinees making the cut. This was lower than last year’s 69.09 percent, in which 76 out of 110 examinees passed.
Forty out of 75 Thomasian first-time takers and 12 out of 29 repeaters passed the recent test.
No Thomasian made it to the list of topnotchers this year.
Last year, Katherine Rose Catindig placed second, scoring 94.43 percent.
De La Salle University was the only top-performing school in this year’s licensure exam, with an 88.33-percent passing rate. UST failed to meet the requirement of at least an 80-percent passing rate and a minimum 50 examinees to be declared a top-performing school.
UST accounting graduates usually take the CPA board exam in October.
The national passing rate slid to 27.41 percent–equivalent to 1,553 passers out of 5,665 examinees–from last year’s 37.54 percent. Lord Bien G. Lelay
