“Pasa ba ang Pending? Eh ang Degree Program with Available Slot?” And Other UPCAT Results-Related Questions

Surprise: May Essay na ang UPCAT! (What to do?)

August 3, 2012 By momsterteacher 15 Comments

Have you read this?

If you consider yourself UPCAT-ready, then only one thing will surprise you:

1. For the first time, UPCAT examinees will be asked to write an essay.

The UPCAT previously consisted of multiple-choice questions in four areas: Language Proficiency, Science, Mathematics and Reading Comprehension.

Consider bringing more food for your snacks as the addition of the essay portion to the exam will make the UPCAT longer this year, bringing the actual duration of the test to four hours and 20 minutes.

And is probably scaring you.

Image courtesy of csu.edu.au

Easier said than done, but then, DON’T PANIC. That will only do you more harm than good, as I’ve written on my most previous post.

OK, here’s what to remember: if you’ve done pretty well on your language proficiency and reading comprehension subtests, there really is no need to panic. Essay writing is an application of those: kinarir mo ang pagiging Grammar Nazi? E ‘di flawless ang syntax ng essay mo! You understand passages pretty quickly? Then chances are, your train of thought is pretty fast as well. That also means you also have good vocabulary! I remember our Essay Writing Contest for FREE UPCAT Review winner, Dwight de Leon…he aced the language proficiency subtest. So there really is a connection. [Read more...]

UPDATE: Brain Train’s UPCAT Passers and Outstanding DLSU CAT, ACET, and UPCAT Passers

January 27, 2012 By momsterteacher 6 Comments

To all those took time to correct their names and add their names on my previous post (For the huge, yellow tarp: BRAIN TRAIN’s 2012 UPCAT Passers List), thank you! Grabe, we thought we already had so many UPCAT passers, ‘yun pala mas marami pa! On the first list I gave, wala pa pala dun ‘yung passers ng isang venue. Again, thank you for getting that BRAIN TRAIN advantage! Thank you too for remembering and praising the Dewmaine’s INUNAT Formula© (don’t forget the copyright!) Question: ‘yung Dewmainean Theorem© hindi na ba ninyo naaalala? Haha. Anyway, here’s our new list. Again, please check your names ( Brain Train’s yellow tarps are being posted right now in Los Banos and Cavite. Expect the other tarps within the next weeks).

PS: I’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Brain Train‘s Outstanding UPCAT, ACET, and DLSU CAT Passers! Here they are:

OUTSTANDING DLSU CAT Passers

Vaugirard Scholarship (DLSU CAT Top 120 examinees)

Kimberly Palomique
David Benedict Robles
Marvin Darron Santiago
Francis Manuel Resma

Star Scholar Candidates

Kimberly Palomique
David Benedict Robles

OUTSTANDING ACET Passers

San Ignacio de Loyola Merit Scholar (1 of only 10 Awardees)

Aliya Luisa Dalmacio

Director’s List (Top 2% in the ACET)

Christopher Patrick Elegado
Kimberly Palomique
Angelo Gabriel Dionora
Ria Mikhaella Panis (updated Jan. 29, 2012)

OUTSTANDING UPCAT Passers

Oblation Scholars (UPCAT Top 50)

Kimberly Palomique
David Benedict Robles
Christopher Patrick Elegado (updated Jan. 29, 2012)

INTARMED Candidates

Oscar Acopiado Jr.
Zyra Krizia Arcos
Kimo Anthony Bello
Maika Loise Dingal (updated Jan. 29, 2012)
Christopher Patrick Elegado
Kimberly Palomique
Ria Mikhaella Panis
Francis Manuel Resma
David Benedict Robles
Marvin Darron Santiago

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Filed Under: Ma'am Dew's Overtime Lessons, UPCAT-Related Tagged With: upcat

For the huge, yellow tarp: BRAIN TRAIN’s 2012 UPCAT Passers List

January 23, 2012 By momsterteacher 32 Comments

For more than a decade now, BRAIN TRAIN Tutorial and Review regularly publicizes its list of UPCAT passers. The names of UPCAT passers are placed on a huge, yellow tarpaulin and posted in every BRAIN TRAIN review venue. What was supposed to be just an advertisement turned out to be a tourist spot! We’ve seen several BRAIN TRAIN UPCAT passers posing beside this huge yellow tarpaulin, and even making it their profile pic on Facebook! Sometimes, motorists even stop and stare at the list, looking for a familiar name. Apparently, we didn’t expect that seeing their child’s name on this yellow tarp means so much to parents. In fact, about 2-3 years ago, a father called us asking why her Brain Trainee daughter who passed UP Diliman wasn’t on the tarp. We apologized for the oversight, but he insisted we put her daughter’s name on the tarp…dream daw nilang makita yung name ng anak nila sa yellow tarp na yun (mas importante pa sa website ng UPCAT, haha)! So we did on the tarp that is in their municipality. After a week, we received another call again…bakit daw wala sa tarp na nasa Calamba! Nung dumaan daw siya, hinanap niya dun! Haha. We were amused, even flattered that the BRAIN TRAIN yellow tarp is a HUGE deal. My mom told me that it indeed was a HUGE deal, and that we SHOULD add the name. At that time, Randy and I still did not have our Raviv, so I guess we weren’t that sensitive to parents’ feelings.

BRAIN TRAIN Family (wala ako!) against the 2011 Yellow Tarpaulin

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Filed Under: Ma'am Dew's Overtime Lessons Tagged With: brain train, upcat

UP Waitlist/Reconsideration Process

January 19, 2012 By momsterteacher 158 Comments

Lulubusin ko na Pati recon at waitlist, post ko na.

Like what is stated on the UPCAT results web pages, here’s what you need to do if your name is NOT on the passers list:

WHAT IF I DO NOT QUALIFY FOR A CAMPUS?

If you do not qualify to any of your campus choices, you have several options:

FIRST : You can try other UP campuses if:
1. your rating is within their posted cut-off, and
2. they still have available slots.

Present your Non-Qualifier’s Slip (which will be sent to you in the mail and which will show your admission rating) to the Registrar’s Office of the campus you want to enter. However, there is no guarantee of acceptance as each campus makes its own decisions according to its own criteria.

SECOND : If no UP campus can accommodate you, you can enroll in a college or university other than UP. After earning 33 academic units with a weighted average of 2.00 or better on the UP marking system, you can apply for transfer into a UP campus. Again, each campus has its own rules on transfer and accepts only a limited number of transfer students. Information regarding transfer to UP may be obtained from the Office of the University Registrar of the respective UP campuses.

Let’s focus on the FIRST scenario. So what are the cut-offs of the UP campuses? Using a scale of 1.000-5.000, with 1.000 being the highest and 5.000 being the lowest, here they are:

UP Diliman: 2.2 (no waitlist/recon)
UP Manila: 2.285 – 2.5
UP Baguio: 2.659 – 2.574
UP Tacloban: 2.7 – 2.7
UP Cebu: 2.7 – 2.7
UP Iloilo: 2.7 – 2.7
UP Mindanao: 2.75 – 2.75
UP Los Banos: 2.42 – 2.8