MANILA, Philippines — Senator Joel Villanueva is pushing for a thorough review of the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), lamenting that the low passing rate at 30 percent every year is never okay.
The chairman of the Senate committee on higher education noted that the average LET passing rate stood at about 30 percent over an 11-year period and upon closer scrutiny of last year’s test showed that a total of 445 schools had a zero-passing rate.
And out of the 386,840 examinees, Villanueva said only 147,353 passed the test while 239,487 examinees failed.
“With all due respect, we want to be realistic, unbiased, and to look at the whole picture. Hindi po okay ang 30% p…
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