MANILA, Philippines — The Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) has scheduled 101 licensure examinations this year to make up for the low number of exams conducted in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
PRC chairman Teofilo Pilando Jr. said Thursday that only 212,000 applied for exams in 2020 as opposed to the 660,000 in 2019.
The PRC was also only able to conduct 11 exams last year as compared to the 83 exams conducted in 2019, he added.
“To makeup, we have scheduled 101 licensure examinations for 2021,” he said in a Laging Handa briefing.
However, there are professional boards that have recommended the cancellation of exams “for various reasons,” Pilando said.
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