The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and UP Visayas - Iloilo City garnered perfect passing scores in the October 2022 Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LEPT) secondary level.
All 90 and 51 LEPT examinees from UPLB and UPV, respectively, passed the board exams conducted last Oct. 2 as per an advisory from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
Jessiree Flores Pantilgan from the University of Mindanao - Panabo was hailed as the licensure exam's top notcher with a rating of 94.60 percent.
Meanwhile, PRC declared Philippine Normal University - Manila as the top performing school for LEPT elementary level.
Seventy-eight out of 82 takers passed the exam resulting in an overall passing rate of 95.12 percent.
Baby Patricia Tabamo Bensi and Maria Catherine Cauba from Cebu Normal University were the top notchers for LEPT elementary level, said PRC.
They both earned an average of 94.60 percent.
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On Friday, Dec. 16, PRC announced that 49,783 elementary teachers out of 91,468 examinees (54.43%) and 71,080 secondary teachers out of 139,534 examinees (50.94%) passed the board exams held in 34 testing centers nationwide and in Bangkok, Thailand.
"It is further announced that of the 49,783 elementary teacher passers, 29,183 are first timers and 20,600 are repeaters. For the secondary teachers, 50,549 passers are first timers and 20,531 are repeaters," PRC added.