1. Finish the exam. Guess the answer if it takes too long to solve. Don't leave one item blank. If you ran out of time, shade randomly. Don't be afraid to erase wrong answers.
2. For snacks, I would recommend chocolate bars (Cloud 9, Snickers, etc.) or chocolate drinks. Anything that could release the stress.
3. Pray before the exam.
4. Pee and don't drink too much water before the exam. If you feel the need to pee during the middle of exam, think of Kim Kardashian if you're a guy, or for gals, fantasize on whoever Christian Grey that comes to your mind. LOLS
5. Listen to the proctor carefully. Pay attention.
6. Ask for the time left if you feel worried.
7. Answer fast but think carefully.
8. There will be lots of errors in the exam, questions that are unsolvable, same answers/choices but different letters. Try troubleshooting it first, eliminate some answers and choose your answer carefully.
9. Ask for blessings and luck from your love ones.
10. Lastly, don't forget to give me something to work on. Please come back to this site and post some of the questions.
11. May the odds be ever in your favor.. Let the Hunger Games begin!!
God Bless for Sunday's Exam.
Hi. I wil take the CS on sunday and until now I don't know where room I belong and I only is the place will in CDO but I don't know what school and room. please do help me I am worried.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be on Capitol University, near the gaisano mall
ReplyDeleteHey, check out www.csc.gov.ph, and look for the notice of school assignments. All the info about room numbers and location, etc are there.
ReplyDeleteAfter I pass the booklet and the answer sheet, I signed something. Are there any more steps that I missed? I'm just making sure.
ReplyDeleteprobably not, it's the proctor's job to see everything that should be signed. How was it?
ReplyDeletei forgot my chocolates..
ReplyDeleteHey thanks for putting up a cool blog like this one, it "warned" me of what to see in the actual exam. It was quite mind-boggling, actually. Hahaha! When the exam started, I kept thinking your rule number 1 and 7, so I repeatedly told myself "Answer as fast as you can!" and I finished 30 minutes before the time ran out--still enough to let me review not-so-sure answers. Kudos to you, sir! :D
ReplyDeletethanks for coming back. Good for you! Actually, I did no. 1 when I took the exam, I was totally out of time with the general info part and I really don't know what the questions are all about so I just shaded with what answer looks good. haha
ReplyDeletethat's all right. hehe
ReplyDeleteHaha, I am sharing this blog to my friends who will take the exams next year. This day's CSE had a shorter part for the General Info (more on the Constitution, right?). They had a bigger chunk of the exam devoted for those number sequencing and Algebra/Statistics/Trigo parts. I envy you, you know these stuff. Haha! Thanks again, sir!
ReplyDeletemahirap po ang exam nung linggo, especially kung di ka nagreview.. ako nga nagreview na nahrapan pa.. haiixt. i rily hate ung part na may graph., ndi ko alam kung anung part un.. parang sa logic ata,, or math.. hmmft. ewan ko ba...
ReplyDeleteSa may general info po, 15 questions, 136 to 150. Ang natatandaan ko natanung ung national terretory, kung wat ung nilalaman nun.. pag po binasa niu ung constitution saka ung R.A. 6713 madadalian lng po kau,, tapos madami ung english, . ang Simula nun Vocabulary, 10 questions yta un, tapos Grammatical error, den ung pagsusunurin mu ung sentence, tapos madami pa... ung math, problem solving po. tapos pinaka mahirap pra sakin eh ung logic.
ReplyDeleteSir Jed! statistics po ba ung may mga graph? ndi ko kc nasagutan un.. ;(
ReplyDeletethis blog really helped me a lot..thanks jed!
ReplyDeleteanu answer sa sequence na 1,4,27___,3125? If im not mistaken,its 256 right?:)
ReplyDeletemath ata yun.. If marecall mo, may graphing na part sa algebra, x and y axis. Kailangan mo lang i-analyze what the graph is all about.
ReplyDeleteyep, 1^1, 2^2, 3^3 ____ 5^5, 4^4=256
ReplyDeleteprang sa may part po ng logic yun ehh,, ganito po kc ung question na sinundan nun,, 96. A to H are persons compared according to their age and the speed at which they finish a
ReplyDeletecertain job. A is older than B and faster than C. D is younger than E, older than H, and slower
than F. G is older than H, younger than C, slower than H, and faster than F. H is older than A
and Slower than C. Based on the preceding statements, which of the following is true?
--YUNG PARANG GANYAN PO,, tapos po ang sumunod ung merong mga chart.. ndi ko na po kasi na-analyze ung question kasi gahol na ko sa oras.. You think po part ng LOGIC yun??
part logic nga pala.. bago yang style na yan, hindi ko yan na encounter noon.. I think your goal is to figure out who's who.. Who is fastest, who is slowest, who is the oldest and who is youngest. You'l just have to read through the graph and rank the names who base on age and their speed
ReplyDeleteGrabe po talaga.. kahirap talaga nun.. Analogy nga po siguro yun..
ReplyDeleteee Yung number series po ba part din ng analogy?.. or Numerical na po yun?
Kelangan ko po bang maka 80% para makapasa? 80% po ba ng 150 items?
ahhh.. Sana nman po makapasa ako.. Parang ayoko na umulit pag nag-failed ako.. T_T
isa lang masasabi ko.. ANG HIRAP NG EXAM! more on analytical type ang exam. Lots of graphs and tables analysis
ReplyDeleteHere are some questions I answered during a Computer-Assisted Test (Professional Level) two weeks ago. This is just from memory so they might not be very accurate.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of items about re-arranging the order of the sentences to form substantive paragraphs. This took so much of my time. They are using lengthy sentences with lengthy words.
16.81% 25.64% 36.49% _____
1 1/3 1/3 1/9 _____
Simplify 1344/3008.
One problem used exponents but since they are using an old-school DOS application, one term was expressed like this: x2 (x squared).
In grammar, the proper usage of I/me in sentences were asked.
Word Problem: A girl bought mangoes at P7.50 each. There were two types of mangoes: good ones and not so good ones. She sold the good ones at P7.90 each and the not-so-good ones at P7.70 each. If she earned P34, how many mangoes did she buy?
Word Problem: A pipe can fill a water tank at X hours. Another pipe can fill a water tank at Y hours. If both pipe are used to fill the tank, how many hours would it take? (I can't remember X and Y)
If the president and the vice president die, who should replace them? (Can't remember the choices, just the answer: senate president)
You are a principal of a school. The school is expanding and the houses in the vicinity must be destroyed. What will you do? (i can remember two choices out of five: support the people, file leave of absence so you don't have to worry about it)
How many days are allowed to respond to letters/telegrams? (15 working days (answer), 15 calendar days, 7 working days, 10 calendar days, 10 working days)
How many committees of five members can you form with eight people?
There are -a lot- of math problems (solving fractions, word problems, pattern recognition, time problem, etc). No area problems
The word problems in your reviewers appeared (word analogy, correct word usage,
The test is 170 items, 20 items for personal info 21 onwards is the test proper. Questions 21-(around 110) are about grammar, re-arranging sentences, and reading comprehension (making sense out of the paragraph - selecting the statement implied by the paragraph). The last item in some categories are in Filipino. There are less than 10 questions in Filipino. 111 onwards are math problems and general info questions.
And here's a sample interface of the program I drew from memory as well:
http://i.imgur.com/XPY9J.jpg (upper right is time left to finish the exam)
It was programmed by someone named Glenn Arcilla or Arcillas. It was only shown in the splash screen before the test starts.
The schedule for the exam is 7:30 and 11:30. You can be late for a few minutes because examinees will be called one by one to verify that the data they encoded in their system is correct. There will also be an audio-visual presentation regarding the software. After watching the video and data verification, examinees will proceed inside the office to sign the seat plan. Then, there is a locker inside the room where you can put your things. After putting your things in the locker, you can proceed to your assigned computer. All examinees should be seated before they can start the exam. We started around 12:30pm.
A strip of paper containing some codes will be distributed. Examinees should enter the examinee number and the code in the strip of paper.
The program has a 10-minute practice test.
You can bring water with you during the test.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER the exam, your score will be displayed.
Very few passed the exam. After the exam, there are two sheets of paper. One for those who passed and another for those who did not. All scratch papers must be returned.
About thirty minutes after the exam, the certificates were distributed.
Hope this helps your blog. :)
thank you so much Rational! I'll make a new blog post for this comment. These are very good information. I haven't done the Computer-Assisted Test. So this really helps a lot to those who will be taking the CAT.
ReplyDeleteI will take Civil service Exam on April 2013 .. Im nervous :(
ReplyDeleteSad to say pero failed naman ako ulit..... I taught I will be acing the test!..... Failure na naman pero masaya naman kasi LET Passer na ako ngayon....... Pero mas gusto ko parin may CSC Eligibilty ako..... Kailan ko kaya ito mapapasa.... Mageexam ulit ako ngaung 2014.... this will be my fourth take....
ReplyDeleteNahihirapan ako sobra when it comes to Mathematics.... I do understand naman the problem...pero pag dating na sa pagawa ng solution doon na ako nawawala sa katinuan.... Ewan ko ba? Ano po ba ang faster way to make this CSC so easy to pass.???? Mahirap tagala baga 60% na naman rating ko....nagcompute naman ako pero kulang lagi sa time.... mas sanay kasi ako sa long method of computation? pano po ba gawing shorter method ung sa word problem????
ReplyDeleteSa Vocabulary ata yon...lagi lumalabas yong mga word na ito:
ReplyDeleteMAGNANINOUS
DEXTERITY
MUFFLE
IMMUTABLE
RESOUNDING
etc.
Yong mga marble problem na yon....ang gulo minsan..... yong may mga red car white car blue car magulo rin.....yong find the slope ba yon...may mga y=mx+b....yong may mga interest sa banko..... ung mga naglo loan.... basta ang gulo....
How many prime numbers are there in 1 to 100?
Sorry MAGNANIMOUS pala
ReplyDeleteWhat is the syllabus for upsc exam? Which is the best study material for upsc civil services preliminary exam book
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