4 Cebuanos top teachers board exam

CEBU, Philippines - Four students from Cebu topped in the recent Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET).

Two are from the Talisay City College (TCC), one from the University of Cebu in Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue (UCLM) and one from the Cebu Normal University.

Jestoni Limpangog Potot of the UCLM made it to the top 4 in the elementary level with 88.20 percent. Sheila Mae Mangubat Diano of Cebu Normal University, who garnered 90.80 percent in the secondary level, placed number 7.

Junnalie Labajo Brago and her fellow TCC graduate, Angielo La bajo Pahamutang, placed 10th in the elementary and secondary levels, respectively. This is the fifth time in a row that TCC placed in the top spots.

Brago, a graduate of Bachelor in Elementary Education major in Special Education, garnered an 87-percent rating while Pahamutang, who finished a Secondary Education major in Filipino, got 90.20% in the secondary level exam.

Out of 37,117 examinees who took the exam last March, 10, 2013, 10,310 elementary teachers passed (27.78 percent) while 15,223 secondary teachers out of 38,433 examinees or 39.61 percent were successful.

Meanwhile, out of 82 elementary teachers from TCC who took the exam, 74 passed; while out of 148 examinees from the secondary level, only 115 of them passed.

Last year, Diana Rose Bucar Zamoras of TCC (elementary) was number 7 in the same exam; Mary Kaye Oliverio Misa (elementary) was 8th in 2011 and Zaldy Villarias (elementary) placed 10th in the 2010 exam. Aiza Valenzona Pansacala (elementary) started the trend by making it to the top 9 in 2009.

Placing first in the elementary level was Aileen Ventinilla Dacasin of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (89.80) while second placer was Mae Gabrielle de Chavez Gabrieles, also of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (89.60).

Aside from the graduates of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, those from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) were also among the top placers, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced yesterday. —/JPM (FREEMAN)