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The UPCAT is scheduled on September 18, 2016.

The UPCAT is for students who are graduates of secondary school OR senior high school students expecting to graduate in 2017. Grade 10 students are not allowed to take the UPCAT yet since UP does not accept senior high school applications.

Online applications for UPCAT 2016 will start in July 18, 2016

Online UPCAT Review

Aside from the online application, UP is also offering a free online UPCAT review, a service for students who applied to take the test. They started the service last year to help applicants prepare for their test (Review Masters has a free online review since 2009 which you can access here).

UPCAT Coverage

The UPCAT has 4 subtests: Language Proficiency (English and Filipino), Reading Comprehension (English and Filipino), Science and Mathematics. In the previous exams, the Filipino part of the two subtests were not formally announced by UP. This year however, they made a very clear pronouncement about the exam’s coverage.

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This is the first time that UP will have an online application for the UPCAT.

Here’s a screen shot of the online application homepage:

The UPCAT online application website is also mobile-ready. You may create your account and complete your application using your smartphones.

To create your account, here is a simplified guide:

• Visit https://upcatonline.up.edu.ph
• Create an account. You will be asked to enter your name, email and password. Make sure that your email is active for it will serve as your username for the account. A verification link will also be sent to your email.
• Access your email inbox and look for the email from “UPCAT” with the subject “Activate your account.” Click on the verification link. If you can’t find the email, look into your Spam or Junk folder.
• Once verification is complete, you may log in to your account.

After creating your account, you need to complete the process of filling the necessary information, submitting the requirements and paying the application fee. For a more detailed procedure on this, visit the UPCAT General Information page.

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The UPCAT is scheduled on August 30, 2015.

According to the website, applications for UPCAT 2015 will start in July. In the previous years, applications were only done through physical and courier/mail submissions. Now, applications can be accomplished online which will enable students faster application processing.

Aside from the online application, UP mentioned that they will include a link to the free Online UPCAT Reviewer, a service for students which they announced early this year (Review Masters has a free online review since 2009 which you can access here).

UP also released the coverage of the UPCAT. The test will consist of 4 subtests: Language Proficiency (English and Filipino), Science, Math and Reading Comprehension (English and Filipino). In the previous exams, the Filipino part of the two subtests were not formally announced by UP. This year however, they made a very clear pronouncement about the exam’s coverage.

The UPCAT general information, however, did not include a provision of who can take the test. We all know that this year is the transition period for the implementation of the K to 12 curriculum and students are still wondering if Grade 10 students can take the test. As of this moment, we are yet to hear the official announcement of UP about this matter.

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It’s now official. There will be an UPCAT this year 2015 (READ: Is there an UPCAT this year? A Free Report).

The University of the Philippines Admission Office has confirmed that the UPCAT will be held this year. However, as of now, there are no dates yet on the schedule.

According to UP’s official Facebook page, the Office of Admissions notified the System information Office regarding the announcement.

Application forms for the UPCAT will be available online between the 1st and 2nd week of June.

With this development, however, parents and students are asking, “Who will be allowed to take the exam?” We know for a fact that the Department of Education (DepEd) is currently in the process of implementing the K to 12 curriculum. A number of schools are already adapting the new curriculum and their students are expected to have additional two years before they graduate.

For more information and updates on the UPCAT, please visit the Office of Admissions website.

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This video of UPLB says otherwise. This is the UPLB we know. A beautiful and peaceful campus. Just watch and see for yourself. Who knows? You might be writing it as your first choice campus in you application form.

The video was made by Darryl Santos, a freelance web developer and videographer. You can check more of his work at his Tumblr page.

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We have been learning our whole lives; our entire childhood was spent in school. We attended class, listened to lectures, answered our assignments and took exams. However, it seems that what we remember does not correlate to how much is being taught to us.

What could be causing this?

A body of research shows that the key to effective learning is not just what you know, but what you know about what you know (get it?).

To put it straightforwardly, when a student learns, he or she calls two kinds of prior knowledge from the mind:

• knowledge about the subject at hand (physics, math, history, etc.)
• knowledge about how learning works

Here’s the bad news: the current education system emphasizes on the first point and almost completely disregards the second one. The disregard could be unintentional but it is very damaging, given that one’s ability to learn is a huge predictor of life success, from academics achievements to work milestones.

Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge. We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts. But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself — the ‘metacognitive’ aspects of learning — is more hit-or-miss, and it shows.Annie Murphy Paul

Putting this in perspective, our current education teaches students what to learn and NOT how to learn.

New researches show that there is great variations in what students know about how to learn.

The most striking finding is that low-achieving students show “substantial deficits” in their awareness of the cognitive and metacognitive strategies that lead to effective learning. This means that these students are struggling due to a gap in their knowledge about how learning works.

So how do we learn how to learn? Here are the learning techniques that work. Make sure that you apply these when you study and review for your tests.

1. Force yourself to recall

By default, learning is a bit hard and not fun. Recall needs effort. However, when you trying to recall things and you are having difficulty with it, that’s when you are learning best. It just like weightlifting; the more weight you lift, the stronger you get.

2. Make connections

The author of the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning tells us that “the more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.”

Using real-life examples of concepts you just recently learned is one effective technique to remember in making connections. If you have just learned about gas laws, think of what happens when you inflate a tire or when you put a balloon in the fridge.

3. Answer the question WHY?

Knowing the underlying reason why a phenomenon is happening or a concept is proven is one way of learning effectively. With questioning, our brains are making connections, doing logical processes and creating images that facilitates our understanding.

Asking why is part of a larger technique, which is reflection. Contemplating on why things are, what happened during the day and how something works helps improves our self-efficacy.

4. Avoid fluency

Fluency is the feeling of ease when you’re reading something.

It’s a trap!

Say, for example, you are in a commercial building and you are trying to remember the room number where you went to. On the door says 112-B. You then think, “Oh, 112-B. Easy!” Then as you walk away, you forgot it instantly.

Instead of just reading the room number, a better way to do it is after looking away, ask yourself, what’s the room number? If you recall it’s 112-B, then you’re good to go.

5. Be hilarious and make exaggerations

Consider this statement: DO NOT think of a pink flying elephant. Were you able to avoid thinking about it? Compare that to an ordinary elephant, which is easier to remember?

Words and pictures work great together. If properly put into use, it can be a powerful learning technique.

If you can put a concept in a mental image that is unforgettable, then it is easier for you to recall things. One way of doing that is by imagining concepts using hilarious and exaggerated images. Adding more details using the other senses aside from sight to you mental image will enhance your recall.

For example, if you are studying European history, imagine a bobble-head Napoleon Bonaparte wearing a shiny crown riding a red tank eating french fries. You can use these cues to remember that he is a French (hence, the fries) military leader (indicated by the tank) and emperor (the crown).

Final Thoughts

Learning is not just about content and subjects matter. It’s also about the process. Learning how to learn is probably one of the major factors that could spell success or failure in one’s academic life.

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DepEd released the partial list online, composed of DepEd and non-DepEd schools, technical vocational institutions (TVIs), higher education institutions (HEIs), state universities and colleges (SUCs).

DepEd Secretary Br. Armin Luistro issued a statement that the 2014 and 2015 budgets already have allocations for 30,000 classrooms for SHS. In addition, he said that the government will further allocate funds for the SHS. The 2016 proposed budget targets the construction of over 20,000 classrooms for SHS.

3,839 public schools that were part of the list was submitted to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for funding and to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for bidding and construction. Aside from public schools, the list also includes 1,866 non-DepEd schools (includes private schools), HEIS, TVIs, LUCs, and SUCs which were already given the go signal to offer SHS this June 2016.

The partial list of schools are available here:
DepEd schools – SHS
non-DepEd schools – SHS

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“UPCAT, our admissions exam in UP, will be reinvented to be able to assess higher skills: knowledge, values, skills and competencies of our senior high school graduates from grade 12,” said VP Concepcion.

UP has been preparing for the K to 12 transition for the past years and the changes in its admission system is part of the pipeline. These changes are part of UP’s medium-term goal in its K to 12 road map. Aside from this, part of the preparation for K to 12 is UP’s participation in training public school teachers who will be teaching senior high school students.

The UPCAT is the most competitive and is probably the most popular entrance examination in the country. About 86,000 students take the exam each year, vying for a slot in the country’s premier university.

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With the upcoming ‘reinvention’ of the UPCAT, several suggestions were offered during the UPD Cluster Workshop 2013 held last September 30. These were:

• a 2-stage admission through UPCAT and a track test
• a program-specific exam on top of the UPCAT
• and make a position paper to the government re-establishing an assessment exam for K-12 graduates beginning 2018.

Aside from these suggestions, UP President Alfredo Pascual suggested that the UPCAT and its questions should be reviewed to make it “less achievement-based and more aptitude-based to identify geniuses from all walks of life…the bright students from poor families.” – Review Masters

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