Format, Scoring + Test Day
Not publishedof exam
Verbal (Part 1)
12.5%of exam
Inductive Reasoning (Part 1)
12.5%of exam
Quantitative (Part 1)
12.5%of exam
Perceptual Acuity (Part 1)
12.5%of exam
Biology (Part 2)
12.5%of exam
Physics (Part 2)
12.5%of exam
Chemistry (Part 2)
12.5%of exam
Social Science (Part 2)
12.5%of exam
Quick Facts
- Exam
- NMAT (Philippines)
- Owner
- CEM for CHED
- Items
- 240 multiple choice
- Structure
- Eight 30-item subtests
- Testing time
- 3h45m across two parts
- Format
- Online, remote proctored
- Subtest score
- 200-800 standard score
- Reported rank
- Percentile 1- to 99+
- CHED cutoff
- 40 percentile rank
- Fee
- Php1,900 domestic; USD60 abroad
- Cycles
- Oct-Nov, Jan-Feb, Apr-May
- Source
- Bulletin of Information, July 2025
Session Order
Reminders, Part 1, Break, Part 2, End
12 min reminders2h15m Part 110 min break1h30m Part 21 min end page
APT vs SA
APT
- Part 1 composite
- Mental ability
- Four aptitude subtests
SA
- Part 2 composite
- Academic proficiency
- Four subject subtests
Aptitude vs knowledge
Pacing Picker
- Part 1, 120 items→Under 68 seconds each(135 minutes total)
- Part 2, 120 items→45 seconds each(90 minutes total)
- Verbal subtest→About 30 minutes(CEM guidance)
- Inductive Reasoning subtest→About 35 minutes(CEM guidance)
- Quantitative subtest→About 40 minutes(CEM guidance)
- Perceptual Acuity subtest→About 30 minutes(CEM guidance)
- Any Part 2 subtest→About 22 minutes(Even split of 90)
- Item stalls you→Bookmark and move on(Revisit within section)
Session Map
- Section 1
- Reminders page, 12 minutes
- Section 2
- Part 1, 2h15m120 items
- Section 3
- Test break, 10 minutes
- Section 4
- Part 2, 1h30m120 items
- Section 5
- End test page, 1 minute
- Whole sitting
- About 4 hours 8 minutes
- Timer start
- First item, not login
- Time zone
- Philippine Standard Time
Score Stack
Subtests feed APT and SA, then GPS
Subtest: 200-800APT: Part 1SA: Part 2GPS: percentile rank
Standard Score vs Percentile
Standard score
- 200-800 scale
- Mean 500, SD 100
- Reported per subtest
Percentile rank
- 1- to 99+
- Ranks against norm group
- Attached to GPS
Scale vs rank
Test Day Trouble Picker
- Need scratch space→Whiteboard or chalkboard(One set only)
- Item looks cut off→Scroll, then Previous button
- Want to revisit item→Click Revisit Later(Marker turns orange)
- Chose answer by mistake→Click Clear Response
- Technical problem mid-test→Chat your proctor
- Section looks finished→Attempt all items first(No return later)
- Disconnected over 20 minutes→Contact the help desk(Link may expire)
Score Types
- Standard score
- Each subtest, 200-800SS
- Norm group
- Mean 500, SD 100
- APT
- Part 1 composite score
- SA
- Part 2 composite score
- GPS
- General Performance Score
- GPS basis
- All eight subtest scores
- Percentile rank
- 1- to 99+, midpoint 50PR
- PR meaning
- Percent scoring at or below
- CHED cutoff
- 40 percentile rank minimum
- School cutoff
- Higher of school and CHED
- Rechecking
- CEM does not recheck answers
Platform Rules
- Secure browser
- Mettl Secure Browser requiredMSB
- Internet
- 5 Mbps, ping under 20ms
- Section return
- Impossible once you advance
- Skipping
- Allowed within a section
- Unused time
- Never carries to next
- Blue page number
- Answered or attempted item
- Orange page number
- Bookmarked by Revisit Later
- No highlight
- Item still unanswered
- Clear Response
- Removes your selected option
- Finish Test
- Submits every section, final
- Environment check
- Pauses your test timer
- Disconnection
- Link expires after 20 minutes
Test Day Kit
- Scratch pad
- Whiteboard or chalkboard only
- Scratch set
- One board, marker, eraser
- Paper and pencil
- Prohibited, warrants disqualification
- Tissue as eraser
- Not allowed
- Physical calculator
- Prohibited item
- Watches
- All watches prohibited
- Phones and wearables
- Prohibited, invalidates the test
- Identification
- Physical school or government ID
- Access window
- 1.5 hours to log in
- Test invitation
- Emailed 2-3 days before
- Mouse
- External mouse advised, macOS
- Screenshots
- Any capture invalidates test
Registration Clock
- Test cycles
- Oct-Nov, Jan-Feb, Apr-May
- Domestic fee
- Php500 plus Php1,400Php1,900
- International fee
- USD15 plus USD45USD60
- Payment channel
- Dragonpay, service fees extra
- Registration fee
- Strictly non-refundable
- Refund
- 90% of test fee
- Refund window
- Five working days only
- Rescheduling
- Not allowed; appeal form
- Attempt limit
- None; one registration per cycle
- Score validity
- Two years before admission
- Electronic result
- 20 CEM business days
- Printed ERF
- Six weeks, Philippine address
- Extra ERF copy
- Php50 plus Php80 shipping
- Slots per session
- About 300 to 500
Detail vs Inference
Detail
- Stated in the passage
- Locate and match
- Literal wording
Inference
- Not stated directly
- Must stay supported
- Beware overreach
Find it vs follow it
Analogy Relations
- Synonym
- Same meaning pair
- Antonym
- Opposite meaning pair
- Part to whole
- Petal : flower
- Tool to user
- Scalpel : surgeon
- Cause to effect
- Pathogen : infection
- Degree of intensity
- Warm : scalding
- Category to member
- Vertebrate : mammal
- Function
- Thermometer : temperature
- Worker to product
- Baker : bread
- Object to lack
- Desert : water
- Symptom to disorder
- Jaundice : hepatitis
- Method
- Build a sentence linking them
Reading Question Types
- Main idea
- Whole-passage central claim
- Detail
- Explicitly stated fact
- Inference
- Unstated but clearly supported
- Vocabulary in context
- Meaning from surrounding sentence
- Tone
- Author attitude signal words
- Purpose
- Why the paragraph exists
- Structure
- How the argument is built
- Application
- Extend claim to new case
Word Roots + Affixes
- hyper-
- Above, excessive
- hypo-
- Below, deficient
- brady-
- Slow
- tachy-
- Fast
- dys-
- Difficult, painful, abnormal
- a- / an-
- Without, absent
- ante-
- Before
- post-
- After
- -itis
- Inflammation
- -osis
- Abnormal condition
- -emia
- Blood condition
- -ectomy
- Surgical removal
- -ology
- Study of
- -genesis
- Origin, formation
Mirror Pair Check
A letter and its mirror sum to 27
A-Z is 27B-Y is 27M-N is 27
Series Rule Picker
- Differences are constant→Arithmetic series(Add a fixed number)
- Ratios are constant→Geometric series(Multiply a fixed number)
- Differences grow steadily→Changing difference(Try plus 1, 2, 3)
- Differences of differences constant→Quadratic pattern
- Terms alternate up, down→Two interleaved series(Split odd and even)
- Each term sums two→Fibonacci type
- Terms are 1, 4, 9→Perfect squares
- Letters instead of numbers→Convert to positions(A is 1)
Number Series Rules
- Constant difference
- Arithmetic; add fixed number
- Constant ratio
- Geometric; multiply fixed number
- Growing difference
- Try adding 1, 2, 3
- Second differences
- Quadratic pattern
- Alternating operations
- Add, then subtract
- Interleaved series
- Split odd, even positions
- Fibonacci type
- Sum of previous two
- Perfect squares
- 1, 4, 9, 16, 25
- Perfect cubes
- 1, 8, 27, 64, 125
- Primes
- 2, 3, 5, 7, 11
- Factorials
- 1, 2, 6, 24, 120
- Powers of two
- 2, 4, 8, 16, 32
Letter Series Rules
- Alphabet index
- A is 1, Z is 26
- Skip pattern
- A, C, E, G
- Mirror pairs
- A-Z, B-Y, C-X
- Mirror check
- Positions always sum 27
- Reverse counting
- Z, Y, X, W
- Alternating skips
- Plus 2, then plus 3
- Letter-number mix
- Convert letters to positions
- Wrap around
- After Z, return to A
Figure Grouping
- Odd one out
- It breaks the shared rule
- Rule candidates
- Sides, shading, count, rotation
- Line symmetry
- Mirror across an axis
- Rotational symmetry
- Matches itself when turned
- Rotation
- Same figure, turned only
- Reflection
- Mirrored, not turned
- Element count
- Lines, dots, enclosed regions
- Method
- Test one rule at a time
Order of Operations
PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract
Multiply and divide: leftmost firstAdd and subtract: leftmost first
Quant Setup Picker
- Fixed ratio between quantities→Direct proportion(y = kx)
- One rises, other falls→Inverse proportion(xy = k)
- Percent applied twice→Multiply the factors(Never add percents)
- Two groups combined→Weighted average
- Right triangle side missing→Pythagorean theorem
- Distance, rate and time→d = rt
- Graph or table shown→Read axis units first
- Options are far apart→Estimate, then eliminate
Arithmetic + Percents
- Percent of
- Part over whole, times 100
- Percent change
- New minus old, over old
- Successive percents
- Multiply factors, never add
- Ratio a:b
- Total parts equal a+b
- Ratio to fraction
- a over the total parts
- Direct proportion
- y = kx
- Inverse proportion
- xy = k
- Average
- Sum over count
- Weighted average
- Weight by each group size
- Simple interest
- I = Prt
- Distance formula
- d = rt
- Work rate
- Rates add when working together
Algebra Essentials
- Quadratic roots
- Solve ax2 + bx + c = 0
- Discriminant
- b2 - 4ac sets root count
- Difference of squares
- a2 - b2 = (a+b)(a-b)
- FOIL
- First, Outer, Inner, Last
- Slope
- Rise over run
- Slope formula
- (y2-y1) / (x2-x1)
- Line equation
- y = mx + b
- Product of powers
- Same base, add exponents
- Power of a power
- Multiply the exponents
- Quotient of powers
- Same base, subtract exponents
- Zero exponent
- Any nonzero base gives 1
- Negative exponent
- Reciprocal of positive power
Geometry Formulas
- Circle area
- pi r squared
- Circle circumference
- 2 pi r
- Triangle area
- Half base times height
- Trapezoid area
- Half sum of parallel sides
- Rectangle area
- Length times width
- Pythagorean theorem
- a2 + b2 = c2
- Triangle angle sum
- 180 degrees
- Quadrilateral angle sum
- 360 degrees
- Sphere volume
- Four thirds pi r cubed
- Cylinder volume
- pi r squared times height
- Cone volume
- One third cylinder volume
- Similar triangles
- Equal angles, proportional sides
Data Interpretation
- Axis units
- Check thousands versus units
- Percent versus count
- Percent hides the base size
- Pie chart
- Slices always total 100%
- Trend question
- Compare endpoints, not middle
- Estimation
- Eliminate impossible options first
- Two-variable table
- Read row and column labels
Mirror vs Rotation
Mirror image
- Reflected across a line
- Left and right swap
- Cannot superimpose
Rotation
- Same figure, turned
- Order is preserved
- Can superimpose
Flip vs turn
Mirror Image
- Task
- Pick the reflected figure
- Vertical mirror
- Left and right swap
- Horizontal mirror
- Top and bottom swap
- Rotation
- Turning is not reflecting
- Chirality
- A mirror twin cannot superimpose
- Check
- Compare one asymmetric detail
Identical Information
- Task
- Match strings exactly
- Method
- Compare character by character
- Chunking
- Read in groups of three
- Digit-letter pairs
- 0 and O, 1 and l
- More lookalike pairs
- 5 and S, 2 and Z
- Transposition
- Adjacent characters swapped
- Punctuation
- Commas and hyphens count
- Rule
- One mismatch means not identical
Mitosis Phases
PMAT: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
P: chromosomes condenseM: align at equatorA: sisters separateT: nuclei reform
Mitosis vs Meiosis
Mitosis
- Two daughter cells
- Diploid and identical
- Growth and repair
Meiosis
- Four daughter cells
- Haploid and varied
- Makes gametes
Copy vs halve
Cells + Organelles
- Mitochondrion
- ATP by aerobic respiration
- Ribosome
- Protein synthesis site
- Rough ER
- Ribosome studded, processes proteins
- Smooth ER
- Lipid synthesis, detoxification
- Golgi apparatus
- Modifies, sorts, ships proteins
- Lysosome
- Hydrolytic enzyme digestion
- Nucleolus
- Assembles ribosome subunits
- Chloroplast
- Photosynthesis in plants
- Vacuole
- Storage; large in plants
- Cell wall
- Plants, fungi, bacteria only
- Centriole
- Animal spindle organization
- Prokaryote
- No nucleus, 70S ribosomes
- Eukaryote
- Nucleus, 80S ribosomes
- Fluid mosaic
- Phospholipid bilayer plus proteins
Taxonomy Order
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Cell Division
- Interphase
- G1, S and G2 phases
- S phase
- DNA is replicated
- Mitosis order
- Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
- Mitosis result
- Two identical diploid cells
- Meiosis result
- Four haploid, varied cells
- Crossing over
- Prophase I, homologs exchange
- Independent assortment
- Metaphase I alignment
- Cytokinesis
- Cytoplasm physically divides
- Diploid
- Two sets of chromosomes
- Haploid
- One set of chromosomes
Genetics Ratios
- Monohybrid Aa x Aa
- 3:1 phenotype ratio
- Monohybrid genotype
- 1:2:1 ratio
- Dihybrid cross
- 9:3:3:1 phenotype ratio
- Test cross
- Cross with homozygous recessive
- Incomplete dominance
- Blended intermediate phenotype
- Codominance
- Both alleles fully expressed
- Sex-linked recessive
- Affects males more often
- Hardy-Weinberg
- p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1
- Allele frequencies
- p + q = 1
- Genotype versus phenotype
- Genes versus visible traits
- Central dogma
- DNA to RNA to protein
Human Physiology
- Pulmonary circuit
- Right heart to lungs
- Systemic circuit
- Left ventricle to body
- Adult heart rate
- 60 to 100 per minute
- Blood pH
- 7.35 to 7.45
- Nephron
- Filters blood, forms urine
- Insulin
- Lowers blood glucose
- Glucagon
- Raises blood glucose
- Antidiuretic hormone
- Kidney reabsorbs more water
- Alveoli
- Gas exchange surface
- Bile
- Liver makes, gallbladder stores
- Neuron path
- Dendrite, soma, axon, terminal
- Resting potential
- About -70 millivolts
- Homeostasis
- Negative feedback restores setpoint
Ecology + Evolution
- Trophic transfer
- About 10% energy passes up
- Producer
- Autotroph, makes own food
- Decomposer
- Returns nutrients to soil
- Carrying capacity
- Maximum sustainable population size
- Natural selection
- Differential reproductive success
- Genetic drift
- Random allele change; small populations
- Gene flow
- Migration moves alleles
- Homologous structures
- Common ancestry, different function
- Analogous structures
- Same function, different ancestry
- Mutualism
- Both species benefit
- Commensalism
- One benefits, other unaffected
- Parasitism
- One benefits, host harmed
Kinematics Equations
SUVAT: s, u, v, a, t
v = u + ats = ut + 0.5at2v2 = u2 + 2as
Speed vs Velocity
Speed
- Scalar quantity
- Magnitude only
- Uses total distance
Velocity
- Vector quantity
- Magnitude and direction
- Uses displacement
Scalar vs vector
Mechanics Formulas
- Speed
- Distance over time
- Velocity
- Displacement over time
- Acceleration
- Velocity change over time
- Newton's second law
- F = ma
- Weight
- Mass times gravity, W = mg
- Gravity on Earth
- 9.8 m/s2 downward
- Momentum
- p = mv
- Impulse
- Force times time
- Work
- W = F d cos theta
- Kinetic energy
- Half m v squared
- Gravitational energy
- m g h
- Power
- Work over time
- Density
- Mass over volume
- Pressure
- Force over area
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Radio, Micro, Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma
Left: longest wavelengthRight: highest frequencyVisible: 400-700 nm
Thermodynamics
- First law
- Energy conserved, heat plus work
- Second law
- Entropy of universe increases
- Kelvin conversion
- K = C + 273.15
- Fahrenheit conversion
- F = 1.8C + 32
- Water freezing
- 0 C, 32 F, 273.15 K
- Water boiling
- 100 C at 1 atm
- Specific heat
- Q = m c dT
- Latent heat
- Q = m L
- Conduction
- Contact transfer through solids
- Convection
- Transfer by fluid movement
- Radiation
- Transfer by electromagnetic waves
Waves + Optics
- Wave speed
- v = f lambda
- Frequency
- Cycles per second, hertz
- Period
- One over frequency
- Speed of light
- 3.0 x 10^8 m/s
- Sound in air
- About 343 m/s at 20C
- Visible light
- About 400 to 700 nm
- Snell's law
- n1 sin t1 = n2 sin t2
- Convex lens
- Converging, focuses parallel rays
- Concave lens
- Diverging, virtual upright image
- Concave mirror
- Converging, can invert image
- Doppler effect
- Approaching source raises pitch
- Transverse wave
- Vibration across travel direction
- Longitudinal wave
- Vibration along travel direction
Electricity + Magnetism
- Ohm's law
- V = I R
- Electrical power
- P = V I
- Charge
- Q = I t
- Series resistors
- Resistances add directly
- Parallel resistors
- Reciprocals of resistances add
- Series current
- Same through every element
- Parallel voltage
- Same across every branch
- Coulomb's law
- Force falls with distance squared
- Elementary charge
- 1.6 x 10^-19 coulomb
- Right-hand rule
- Current, field, force directions
Polyatomic Ion Endings
The -ate ion has more oxygen than -ite
Sulfate SO4Sulfite SO3Nitrate NO3Nitrite NO2
Molarity vs Molality
Molarity
- Moles per liter solution
- Symbol capital M
- Shifts with temperature
Molality
- Moles per kilogram solvent
- Symbol small m
- Temperature independent
Volume vs mass
Moles + Stoichiometry
- Avogadro's number
- 6.022 x 10^23 particles
- Moles
- Mass over molar mass
- Molarity
- Moles solute per liter
- Molality
- Moles solute per kg solvent
- Dilution
- M1 V1 = M2 V2
- Molar volume
- 22.4 L at 0C, 1atm
- Limiting reagent
- Runs out first
- Percent yield
- Actual over theoretical, times 100
- Empirical formula
- Smallest whole-number atom ratio
- Mass conservation
- Balanced equations both sides
Ionic vs Covalent
Ionic
- Metal plus nonmetal
- Electrons transferred
- High melting point
Covalent
- Nonmetal plus nonmetal
- Electrons shared
- Lower melting point
Transfer vs share
Gas Laws
- Boyle's law
- P1 V1 = P2 V2
- Charles's law
- Volume over temperature constant
- Gay-Lussac's law
- Pressure over temperature constant
- Combined gas law
- PV over T constant
- Ideal gas law
- PV = nRT
- Gas constant
- 0.0821 L atm per mol K
- Dalton's law
- Partial pressures add up
- Graham's law
- Lighter gas effuses faster
- Temperature units
- Always convert to kelvin
Acids + Bases
- pH
- Negative log hydrogen ion
- pOH
- 14 minus pH at 25C
- Neutral pH
- 7.0 at 25 degrees C
- Water constant
- Kw = 1.0 x 10^-14 at 25C
- Strong acid
- Fully dissociates in water
- Weak acid
- Partially dissociates, equilibrium
- Arrhenius acid
- Releases hydrogen ions
- Bronsted-Lowry acid
- Proton donor
- Lewis acid
- Electron pair acceptor
- Buffer
- Weak acid plus conjugate base
- Neutralization
- Acid plus base gives salt
- Titration endpoint
- Indicator changes color
Organic Functional Groups
- Alkane
- Single bonds, suffix -ane
- Alkene
- Double bond, suffix -ene
- Alkyne
- Triple bond, suffix -yne
- Alcohol
- -OH group, suffix -ol
- Aldehyde
- -CHO at chain end
- Ketone
- C=O inside the chain
- Carboxylic acid
- -COOH, suffix -oic acid
- Ester
- -COO- from acid, alcohol
- Ether
- R-O-R linkage
- Amine
- -NH2, basic nitrogen
- Amide
- -CONH2 linkage
- Benzene
- C6H6 aromatic ring
- Isomers
- Same formula, different arrangement
Biochemistry Basics
- Carbohydrate
- CH2O repeating unit
- Protein monomer
- Amino acid
- Peptide bond
- Amine plus carboxyl, loses water
- Lipid
- Nonpolar, glycerol plus fatty acids
- Nucleotide
- Sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
- DNA pairing
- A with T, G with C
- RNA pairing
- Uracil replaces thymine
- Enzyme
- Lowers activation energy
- Denaturation
- Heat or pH unfolds protein
- Hydrophobic
- Repelled by water
Erikson Stage Starters
Trust, Autonomy, Initiative, Industry, Identity
Infant: trust vs mistrustToddler: autonomy vs shameTeen: identity vs confusionOld age: integrity vs despair
Reinforcement vs Punishment
Reinforcement
- Behavior increases
- Positive adds stimulus
- Negative removes stimulus
Punishment
- Behavior decreases
- Positive adds aversive
- Negative removes reward
Increase vs decrease
Psychology Theorists
- Pavlov
- Classical conditioning
- Skinner
- Operant conditioning
- Watson
- Founded behaviorism
- Freud
- Id, ego, superego
- Erikson
- Eight psychosocial stages
- Piaget
- Four cognitive stages
- Kohlberg
- Moral development stages
- Maslow
- Hierarchy of needs
- Bandura
- Social learning by modeling
- Vygotsky
- Zone of proximal development
- Durkheim
- Social solidarity and anomie
- Weber
- Bureaucracy and social action
Mores vs Folkways
Mores
- Strong moral norms
- Serious sanctions
- Breach shocks people
Folkways
- Everyday customs
- Mild sanctions
- Breach seems rude
Moral vs customary
Learning + Memory
- Positive reinforcement
- Add stimulus, behavior increases
- Negative reinforcement
- Remove stimulus, behavior increases
- Positive punishment
- Add aversive, behavior decreases
- Negative punishment
- Remove reward, behavior decreases
- Extinction
- Unreinforced response fades away
- Shaping
- Reinforce successive approximations
- Sensory memory
- Very brief, large capacity
- Short-term memory
- Seconds, about seven items
- Long-term memory
- Durable, effectively unlimited
- Encoding
- Getting information in
- Retrieval
- Getting information out
Sociology Concepts
- Norm
- Shared expectation for behavior
- Mores
- Norms with moral weight
- Folkways
- Everyday customs, mild sanctions
- Ethnocentrism
- Judging others by own culture
- Cultural relativism
- Judging culture on own terms
- Social institution
- Family, school, state, religion
- Socialization
- Learning culture and roles
- Enculturation
- Learning your birth culture
- Acculturation
- Culture change from contact
- Social stratification
- Ranked layers of inequality
- Status
- Position a person occupies
- Role
- Behavior expected of a status
Research Methods
- Independent variable
- Manipulated by the researcher
- Dependent variable
- Measured outcome
- Control group
- Untreated comparison baseline
- Random assignment
- Equalizes group differences
- Correlation
- Association, never proof of cause
- Experiment
- Only design showing causation
- Mean, median, mode
- Measures of central tendency
- Standard deviation
- Spread around the mean
- Reliability
- Consistent results on repetition
- Validity
- Measures what it claims
Common Traps
Which NMAT is this
Philippines NMAT is CEM ≠ India NMAT is GMAC
Pass mark vs cutoff
NMAT has no pass mark ≠ Schools apply percentile cutoffs
Standard score vs percentile
200-800 is subtest scale ≠ 1- to 99+ is rank
Time does not bank
Finishing early saves nothing ≠ Next section starts full
Guide time vs limit
Part 2 limit is 90 minutes ≠ Subtest guidance totals 120
Section navigation
Skip only within a section ≠ Never return after advancing
Scratch materials
Whiteboard and marker allowed ≠ Paper and pencil disqualify
Electronic vs printed result
Electronic copy is unofficial ≠ Printed ERF is valid
Reschedule vs refund
Rescheduling is not allowed ≠ Refund needs five working days
Correlation vs causation
Correlation shows association only ≠ Experiments establish cause
Practice set vs demo test
Practice set has answer key ≠ Demo test is unscored
Molarity vs molality
Molarity uses solution volume ≠ Molality uses solvent mass
Last Minute
- 1.240 items; 120 per part
- 2.Eight subtests, 30 items each
- 3.Part 1 = 2h15m; Part 2 = 1h30m
- 4.Part 2 pace = 45 seconds
- 5.Subtest score = 200-800 standard
- 6.Norm group = mean 500
- 7.GPS percentile = 1- to 99+
- 8.CHED cutoff = 40 percentile rank
- 9.Score valid two years before admission
- 10.No going back between sections
- 11.Attempt all items before advancing
- 12.Unused section time is lost
- 13.Whiteboard only; no paper, pencil
- 14.No calculator, watch or phone
- 15.Fee Php1,900 domestic; USD60 abroad
- 16.Cycles: Oct-Nov, Jan-Feb, Apr-May
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