Answers to Philippine Civil Service Reviewer Problem Solving Items 1 to 20

Good Day! I am posting the answers to Philippine Civil Service Reviewer Problem Solving Items 1 to 20 found in the part II of the reviewer. I have answered them personally, so you can ask me anything about the problems. I will be posting the answers to 21-40 maybe next week. Thanks for visiting. Enhance Your Brains.

Answers to Philippine Civil Service Reviewer Problem Solving Items 1 to 20


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Answers to the Number Analogy Problems

Here are the answers to the Number Analogy Part from the Part II of the Civil Service Examination Reviewer. I have explained number 1 and 2 as reference. I am taking my time to answer the word problems too. Do come back for it.

The answer to item 17 is 3) 0.0375

Make sure to review your arithmetics. Numerical analogy requires a lot of division and multiplication and percentage, decimal conversion to fractions, multiplication and division of fractions, cross multiplication, etc. Review simplification of fractions. Don't use calculator while answering the questions. CALCULATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED. Make sure you practice and practice and be very good at it.

Answers to the Number Analogy Questions in Part II Civil Service Professional Exam Reviewer


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How to Pass the Civil Service Examination in the Philippines

 I need someone to back-up what I'm saying here in the blog and I found this cool blog from someone called GeneralHowitzer. It pretty sums up everything. Here is the link.

How to Pass the Civil Service Examination in the Philippines

 I hope you found his advices useful.

Tip: Self-study..Evaluate yourself.. know your strengths and weaknesses..

SELF-STUDY 
 At age of 20, I already knew my mental strengths. Everybody should know this once they graduated college. I knew I'm naturally good at math and logic, specifically algebra and word problems. I also know I'm good at sentence construction. So after looking at the reviewer, I evaluated myself. There was a big chance I could pass the exam based on my strengths. I also knew I have a weakness with memorization of laws and difficult word analogies.
 What I did was I didn't bother with my weaknesses first but focused on my strength because I know this is the only way I could slightly enjoy a very difficult exam and would be my only ALAS in passing it. I practiced word problems so I could solve it faster and accurately. I did some word constructions problems. And lastly, practiced word analogies to prepare for the whole exam because I also know that this would be the reason I could fail the exam.

Tips:
1. You need to know more than half of the exam coverage to have a chance on passing the exam. If you know your weaknesses are about half of the coverage, then you have to study-harder and faster.. Double-time..
2. Focus first on what is easy for you.
3. I would recommend prioritizing on practicing the MATH problems as this would take time.
4. The exam will be very difficult, even those who came on top would say that.

The Rating System of the Civil Service Career Examinations - Paper and Pencil Test

First thing you should know is that you don't need to get 80% of all the questions right. Nope. It does not work that way!! CSC has a quota!! ..which is 8-12% of the takers would only pass the exam!! Believe it or not, you will be ranked based on your score. The first 10% will get the 80++ ratings, regardless of their scores, percent weight of each category. In our time, the top one got an 89 rating.

Here is a photocopy of my certificate as an example.

The exam is divided into 4 categories, Verbal, Analytical, Numerical and General Information.

I was quite sure I failed the exam because of the verbal usage part, I got 83.72%, which is quite shocking for me at first (since I did not know the score system then) because I'm sure I only got less than 50% correct of the verbal usage exam. It was that difficult! But because the system ranked my score  highest to lowest, I got the 83.72% score. I was pretty confident with the analytic and numerical exams though (since this is my thing), I got very good scores while I was practicing on the reviewers. If you noticed I failed in general info, the questions was about laws and constitution and I sucked at it. I barely survived my Political Science and History in college. hehe.

I know this fact and I'm sure about it because it is the same with PRC board exams. They use the same system in Electrical Engineering Board exam, they use the quota system.

By the way, that ID there is the picture I submitted to the Civil Service Commission when I applied for the exam. It was taken from a 3.2 MP point and shoot camera. I photoshopped it, cropped, removed the background and added a name to it. Yes, you can edit your own ID, no need to go to photo shops to get your ID done for 100 pesos. My only expense in the ID is 7 pesos for one 3R photo. I'll try to blog the process here if I have time.

When you get your own certificate of eligibility, you have the option to change your picture with the same format, which will be permanently attached to your certificate because the Civil Service dry seal will be pressed on your picture..

Civil Service Professional and Sub-professional - Paper and pencil Examinations Schedule

For the days to pass, we will be talking about the Civil Service Examinations process
For those who haven't been to the Civil Service Professional and Sub-professional - Paper and pencil test Web Page, CLICK here: http://www.csc.gov.ph/cscweb/anncsexam_ppt.html



The Schedule


 Let us focus on the 1st exam. The first scheduled exam for 2011 is May 22, Sunday, about 2.5 months from today. Let us evaluate ourselves:
  
Am I ready to take the May 22 exam?

 "Hmmm.. Where is that reviewer? Let me look at it first." You should scan the reviewer first (It is posted on this blog). Read some random questions. If you think you can do it. Then file for the exam.

 "Ahhhmm.. I'm not sure. Let me answer them first." If you are having second thoughts, then answer the reviewer, I would recommend the Math part, answer them slowly. And evaluate yourself base on the score. if you think you can do it, Go for It!!

 "Ohh no.. This looks very difficult." or "What the!! I got a really really low score.  Maybe I should take it slowly. I'll file for the next exam (which is October 16). At least I have7 months to prepare. I'll study this reviewer and be good at it."

 Date of Filing for the May 22, 2011 Exam is from February 21, 2011 to April 7, 2011. (Acceptance of applications shall be on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED basis. Applications may no longer be accepted before the deadline if the target number of applicants has already been reached by the CSC Regional/Field Offices.)

I'll find other reviewers for you to answer, 4 hours straight, one week before the exam. 

Answer Keys of the of the Philippines Civil Service Career Professional Examination Reviewer, Civil Service Exam - Paper and Pencil Test (CSE-PPT)

Part IV Philippines' Civil Service Professional Reviewer Answer Key

This is the answer key to the reviewers I have posted. Beware: This document has errors on the numbering.  I will try to review this document so It will coincide with the questions.

Part III of the Philippines Civil Service Career Professional Examination Reviewer, Civil Service Exam - Paper and Pencil Test (CSE-PPT)

Part III Philippines' Civil Service Professional Reviewer

This is the last of the Civil Service Professional Reviewer. See Answer Keys on the Next Post.

Part II of the Philippines Civil Service Career Professional Examination Reviewer, Civil Service Exam - Paper and Pencil Test (CSE-PPT)

Part II Philippines' Civil Service Professional Reviewer

This is the Continuation of the Civil Service Professional Examination Reviewer. See other posts for Part III and the Answer Key.