THINGS THAT YOU DO FOR YOURSELF FOR THE BOARD EXAM

EDUCATION

1. October 23, 2023

5. October 23, 2023

7. 1. The “Rubaiyat” a loosely joined series of 280
stanzas, has this general theme. Which one?
A. Always look forward to a new day.
B. Grasp pleasure while you can.
C. Never give in to death easily.
D. Create your own world and beautify it.
Rubáiyátof Omar Khayyám, translated from Persian to
English by Edward FitzGerald

8. 2. The altitude of a triangle is 5 metersand the
base is 20 meters. What is the area of the triangle?
A. 50 square meters
B. 60 square meters
C. 20 square meters
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9. 3. He wrote Annabel Lee.
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Samuel Clemens
The Canterbury Tales
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
aka Mark Twain; Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

10. 4. Haiku is a Japanese poem that consists of:
A. 17 lines
B. 17 syllables
C. 3 syllables
D. 3 paragraphs

11. 5. What are the thin structure essential for
cytokinesis, amoeboid movement and changes in
cell shape?
A. Myosin filaments
B. Monofilaments
C. Pseudofilaments
D. Microfilaments

12. 6. The molecules that contain an organism’s
genetic make-up is called _______________.
A. Genetic membrane
B. Nucleolus
C. Nucleic acid
D. Cytosol
- inside the nucleus, makes ribosomes (which
makes proteins)
- liquid component of the cytoplasm

13. 7. What is a collection of Indian sacred hymns?
A. Rig Veda
B. Upanishad
C. Mahabharata
D. Ramayana
-collection of Indian religious text
-longest epic (Sanskrit)

14. 8. What is 5/8 written as a decimal rounded to the
hundredths place?
A. 0.33
B. 0.54
C. 0.63
D. 0.625

15. 9. What is 0.64 written as a fraction in simplest
form?A. 16/25
B. 32/50
C. 11/50
D. 64/100
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16. 10. Damage to DNA that is not repaired and then
replicated can result in genetic disorders.
A. Mutation
B. Embryology
C. Pathology
D. Speciation
- study of embryos
- study of diseases
- evolutionary process that leads to
the formation of a new species

17. 11. One angle of a parallelogram is 35. What are
the measures of the three other angles?
A. 145 °, 35°, 145°
B. 85°,135°,140°
C. 45°,65°, 170°
D. 35°, 65°, 65°
A parallelogram is a flat 2d shape
which hasfour angles. The opposite
interior angles are equal. The sum of
the interior angles of a parallelogram
is 360 degrees.
2(35)+2(145)
70+290 = 360
2(35)+2(65)
70+130 = 200

18. 12. Select the most appropriate heading for the
paragraph: “Stephen Crane was born in 1971 in
New Jersey, but his family settled in New York. His
father, a Methodist minister, died when Stephen
was nine years old. He came to know New York
through its slum and street life, particularly in
Bowery.”
A. Stephen’s family and boyhood
B. Stephen as an orphan
C. Stephen’s genealogy
D. The New York slums

19. 13. What emotion or feeling is expressed in the
following line? To be or not to be, that is the
question. Whether this nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to
take arms against a sea of troubles, and by
opposing end them?
A. Sadness
B. Joy
C. Anger
D. Indecision

20. 14. The legs of one right triangle are 9 and 12,
while those of another right triangle are 12 and
16. How much longer is the perimeter of the
larger triangle than the perimeter of the smaller
triangle?
A. 84
B. 12
C. 7
D. 14
c = √a2+b2
c = √92+122
c = √81+144
c = √225
c = 15
P = 9+12+15=36
c = √a2+b2
c = √122+162
c = √144+256
c = √400
c = 20
c = 12+16+20=48
P = 48 – 36 = 12

21. 14. The legs of one right triangle are 9 and 12,
while those of another right triangle are 12 and
16. How much longer is the perimeter of the
larger triangle than the perimeter of the smaller
triangle?
A. 84
B. 12
C. 7
D. 14
P = a+b+√a2+b2
P = 9+12+√92+122
P = 9+12+√81+144
P = 21+√225
P = 21+15
P = 36
P = a+b+√a2+b2
P = 12+16+√122+162
P = 28+√144+256
P = 28+√400
P = 28+20
P = 48
P = 48 – 36 = 12

22. 15. Manolo approached the platform with his
speech. His palms were sweatyand his hands
were shaking. He felt the palpitations of his chest
and perspiration began to appear at his forehead.
Manolo is experiencing ___________.
A. Heart attack
B. Stage fright
C. Nausea
D. Epilepsy

23. 16. If a student has an average of 76% on his first
two tests and has an average of 85% on the next
four tests, what is the final average on all six tests?
A. 82.0 %
B. 80.5 %
C. 82. 5 %
D. 81. 3 %
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24. 17. “My concept of inner peace came from my
mother’s daily activities which I now recall with
fondness and awe. She was a full-time housewife,
wholly dependent on my father’s monthly salary. How
she made both ends meet, guided us in our studies
and did small acts of charity on the side was beyond
me.” The mother’s financial resources are _____.
A. More than enough
B. Miserable
C. Abundant
D. Limited

25. 18. Which of the following is a measure of
pressure, defined as one newton per square
meter?
A. Pascal
B. Milliliter
C. Atomic Units
D. Poise
= volume
= atoms
= viscosity

26. 19. Simplify: [(3x –12) / (3x)] divided by (x –4)
A. 3x
B. x
C. x –4
D. 1/x
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27. 20. A metric carat is a unit of mass for measuring
gemstones. It is equivalent to ________.
A. 1,000 mg
B. 2 kg
C. 200 mg
D. 100 mg

28. 21. Simplify: 6 –[3 –(-4) + 11 + 8]
A. -26
B. 26
C. 20
D. -20
PEMDAS
6 –[3 –(-4) + 11 + 8]
6 –[3 + 4 + 11 + 8]
6 –[3 + 4 + 11 + 8]
6 –26

29. 22. When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun,
it is summer and when the sun shines all the time
both day and night, what is this called?
A. Twilight Sun
B. Summer Light
C. Northern Light
D. Midnight Sun

30. 23. Simplify (3x –9) / (x2–9)
A. 3 / (x –3)
B. 3 / (x + 1)
C. 3 / (x + 3)
D. 3 / (x –1)
3"−9
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3 ($−3)
($+3)($−3)

31. 24. Which of the following has the smallest mass
when measured in an equal arm balance?
A. ½ sheet of pad paper
B. ¼ sheet of pad paper
C. 1/8 sheet of pad paper
D. 1/3 sheet of pad paper

32. 25. Which is the largest country in Asia?
A. China
B. Japan
C. Philippines
D. Thailand

33. 26. The acronym HTML means Hypertext Markup
_____________.
A. Line
B. Language
C. Letter
D. Label
usedto create Web pages and tells the
browser how to display them

34. 27. What are the small hair-like structures that
serve a sensory function in eukaryotic cells?
A. Cilia
B. Actin filaments
C. Centromere
D. Plasma membrane
- in cytoskeleton and muscle fibers
- midpart of a chromosome
- aka cell membrane

35. 28. In the example of 10 to the 5th power + 6x the
exponent is ____________________.
A. x
B. 6
C. 5
D. 10

36. 29. “Sturdy and strong, the Filipinos are like the
molave” is ______.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Irony
D. Hyperbole

37. 30. Some preachers suggest the _____________
that the end of the world is near.
A. Proposal
B. Prophecy
C. Prophetic
D. Prophet