Civil Engineering students hit PRC’s silence on retake issue

Though the dialogue between members of the Civil Engineering Students Against Retake Students Union - Cebu Chapter and Professional Regulations Commission-7 regional director Dan Malayang reaped “good feedback”, still PRC’s silence continues to punish examinees for an error that only the PRC could be blamed for.

This was according to Engr. Perfecto Padilla, Jr. of the Padilla Review Center who accompanied members of the CE-AGRESSION group, supported by Sanlakas Cebu, during the dialogue which urged the PRC-7 to release a public statement affirming that there was no irregularity carried out during the Civil Engineering Licensure Examination last November 2007.

In an interview, Padilla revealed that so far the dialogue reaped good feedback from Malayang. However, the latter could not issue yet a public statement as he is still waiting for the go-signal from the court.

Also, Sanlakas Cebu coordinator Jose Aaron Pedrosa called on the PRC to issue a statement that no cheating ever transpired here in Cebu. “Failure to do so would mean standing for the retake decision which is devoid of justice,” he said.

A retake was ordered after the Civil Engineering licensure examination in November last year yielded “statistically improbable” results in the areas Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering with the “unusually high grades obtained by the examinees.”

Further, one of two mobile phones said to have been confiscated from two examinees in the subject Structural Engineering and Construction contained answers to 30 questions, 21 of which were found to be correct.

CE-AGRESSION whose members carried out a boycott of a retake in the examination slated last January 12 said that there is no truth to the statement issued recently by the PRC and the Department of Labor and Employment that the retake was successful. — Phoebe Jen Indino/MEEV