MATHEMA TI CS PRACTICE PROBLEMS – PART 2 – 2017

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following 18. Three marksmen simultaneously shoot at and hit a rapidly spinning
questions. Mark ONLY ONE ANSWER for each item by shading the box spherical target. Determine the probability that the three points of
corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. impact are on the same hemisphere.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. A. 1/4 B. 1/6
C. 1/8 D. 1/10
1. Determine the value of b so that  x  2 and  x  5 are factors of 19. What is the radius of the circle circumscribing an isosceles right
triangle having an area of 162 cm2?
4x  6x  ax  b .
3 2
A. 15.46 cm B. 14.81 cm
A. 58 B. −58
C. 13.25 cm D. 12.73 cm
C. 60 D. −60
20. The electrical circuit analysis resulted in the following governing
2. Determine the eccentricity of an ellipse whose major axis is 10 and equations:
latus rectum is 32/5.
5  0.2I1  2(I1  I2 ) and 12  3.4I2  2(I1  I2 )
A. 0.40 B. 0.60
C. 0.75 D. 0.85 Find the value of I2.
3. In how many ways can five people sit in a car, two in the front seat A. 4.619 B. 6.472
and three in the back seat, if a particular two of the five are to avoid C. 1.946 D. 7.264
the driver’s position? 21. One bag contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls, and a second bag
A. 27 B. 120 contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls. One ball is drawn from the
C. 13 D. 72 first bag and placed unseen in the second bag. What is the probability
4. Two parallel chords of a circle lying on the same side of the center that a ball now drawn from the second bag is black?
subtend 72° and 144° at the center. If the radius of the circle is 12 m, A. 38/102 B. 38/63
find the distance between the chords. C. 54/85 D. 11/60
A. 6.708 m B. 6m 22. How many diagonals are there in an undecagon?
C. 5.627 m D. 5m A. 55 B. 44
5. Eight men can excavate 15 m3 of drainage open canal in 7 hours. C. 11 D. 22
Three men can backfill 10 m3 in 4 hours. How long will it take 10 men 23. Determine the acute angle formed between the asymptotes of the
to excavate and backfill a 20 m3 in the same project? conic x^2  3y^2  8x  14  0 .
A. 8.22 hours B. 9.15 hours A. 30° B. 45°
C. 9.87 hours D. 10.64 hours C. 55° D. 60°
6. A cylinder is inscribed in a cube of sides measuring 2 cm. Find the 24. A box with 100 bolts contains 26 iron bolts, 34 copper bolts, and 40
volume inside the cube but outside the cylinder. steel bolts. Two bolts are drawn in succession without replacement.
A. 1.27 cm3 B. 1.59 cm3 Find the probability that one is an iron bolt and the other is either a
C. 1.72 cm3 D. 1.95 cm3 copper bolt or a steel bolt.
7. A semiconductor will hire 7 men or 5 women. In how many ways can A. 0.4848 B. 0.4533
the company choose from 9 men and 6 women? C. 0.4412 D. 0.3887
A. 24 B. 216 25. Jewel begins counting backward from 2100 by 6, and, at the same
C. 162 D. 42 time, Dennis begins counting forward from 1200 by 3. If they count at
8. Maxine will not reveal her age but says she is 3 years younger than the same rate, what number will they say at the same time?
her sister Ally. Ninety years ago, Ally was twice as old as Maxine. A. 1072 B. 1256
How old is Ally now? C. 1500 D. 1626
A. 93 B. 94 26. The absolute value of the modulus of a complex number 5  yi is
C. 95 D. 96 equal to 6.403. Determine the value of y.
9. What is the volume of a pyramid whose altitude is 16 cm and whose A. 2 B. 3
base is a rhombus with side 6 cm and acute interior angle of 30°? C. 4 D. 5
A. 70 cm3 B. 84 cm3 27. A trough has triangle ends which lie in parallel planes. The top of the
3
C. 96 cm D. 105 cm3 trough is a horizontal rectangle 20 inches by 33 inches, and the depth
10. How many ways can a group of 3 or more girls be formed from a of the trough is 16 inches. How many gallons does it contain when the
group of 8 girls? depth of water is 10 inches? (one gallon = 231 cubic inches)
A. 255 B. 219 A. 5.29 gallons B. 8.93 gallons
C. 240 D. 210 C. 12.86 gallons D. 16.63 gallons
11. A central circle has a radius of 10 cm. Six circles of equal radius are 28. Divide 120 into two parts so that the product of one and the square of
to be arranged so that they are externally tangent to the central circle the other is maximum. Find the bigger number.
and each tangent to the adjacent circle. Determine the radius of each A. 20 B. 80
external circle. C. 40 D. 70
A. 5 cm B. 10 cm 29. A circle has its center on the line 2y  3x and tangent to the x-axis at
C. 7 cm D. 14 cm
(4, 0). Find the center of the circle.
12. Determine the constant of integration for the separable differential
A. (6, 4) B. (4, 6)
equation xdx  6y 5 dy  0 , where it is known that x  0 when y  2 . C. (−4, 6) D. (4, −6)
A. 12 B. 16 30. Given is the area bounded by the curve y  sqrt of (x) , the line x = 1,
C. 24 D. 64 the line x = 3, and the x-axis. If it is revolved about the x-axis,
13. From the digits 1 to 9, how many numbers of five different digits each determine the volume of the solid formed.
can be formed if each number involves 2 odd and 3 even digits? A.  B. 2
A. 4800 B. 480 C. 3 D. 4
C. 40 D. 15120 31. Each question in a multiple choice type of exam contains 4 possible
14. Peter and Pan belong to the same baseball team. After so many answers. The professor gave a short exam of 10 questions. In order
swings, Peter recorded 8 hits out of 20 times at bat, while Pan had 6 to pass the exam, a student must obtain a grade of 70% or higher.
hits out of 16 times at bat. Judging on their current performance, what Find the probability of a student in passing the exam if he relies on
is the probability that both will get a hit next at bat? guessing.
A. 0.40 B. 0.38 A. 0.0024 B. 0.0035
C. 0.15 D. 0.77 C. 0.0042 D. 0.0053
15. If 2x  7y  12 and 8x  3y  2 , what is the value of y  x ? 32. The centers of two intersecting circles with radii of 3 m and 5 m
A. −1 B. +1 respectively are 4 m apart. Determine the area of the portion of the
smaller circle outside the larger circle.
C. −2 D. +2
A. 5.63 m2 B. 5.36 m2
sin0  sin1  sin2  ...  sin90
16. Find the value of C. 10.05 m 2
D. 14.30 m2
cos0  cos1  cos2  ...  cos90 33. There were twice as many tickets sold to non-students than to
A. 2 B. 1 students for an BU-UNC basketball game. Student tickets were at
C. −2 D. −1 ₱60.00 while non-student tickets were at ₱110.00. If the total sales of
17. Express y3 = 4x 2 in its polar form. tickets for the game was₱15,400.00, how many tickets were sold to
students?
A. r = 4cot2csc B. r = 4cotcsc2 A. 55 B. 85
C. r = 4cot2csc2 D. r = 4cotcsc C. 110 D. 130

34. What is the simplified value of the expression:

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N  2i561  3i174  i1999 A. 3200 B. 6400

A. 2i – 1 B. 2i + 1 C. 12800 D. 51200
50. The perimeter of a triangle is 1566 m. Its interior angles measure 50°,
C. i+3 D. i–3
60°, and 70°. Find the shortest side of the triangle.
35. A closed conical tank has a base diameter of 3 m at the top and an
A. 329.48 m B. 401.58 m
altitude of 4 m. It is filled with water to a depth of 1.30 m. If the tank is
inverted, its base lying on the ground, which of the following most C. 466.46 m D. 495.16 m
nearly gives the new depth of water? x2 y2
A. 0.0145 m B. 0.0278 m 51. A rectangle is to be inscribed in the ellipse   1 . Determine
200 50
C. 0.0463 m D. 0.0875 m the maximum possible area of the rectangle.
36. The probability of a certain monkey in winning whenever he plays in a A. 50 sq. units B. 100 sq. units
“grab a banana game” is 1/3. If he plays four times, find the probability
C. 150 sq. units D. 200 sq. units
that he will win just twice.
52. A body at an unknown temperature is placed in a room which is held
A. 8/3 B. 4/3
at a constant temperature of 30° F. If after 10 minutes the
C. 8/27 D. 4/27 temperature of the body is 0° F and after 20 minutes the temperature
2x  3 of the body is 15° F, find the unknown initial temperature.
37. Resolve into partial fractions and what is the resulting first
 x  22 A. −35 °F B. −30 °F
C. −15 °F D. −25 °F
fraction?
53. The first cost of a machine is ₱1,800,000 with a salvage value of
7 5 ₱300,000 at the end of its life of 5 years. Determine the book value
A. B.
x2 x2 after 3 years using Double Declining Balance Method of Depreciation.
4 2 A. ₱388800 B. ₱483080
C. D.
x2 x2 C. ₱589560 D. ₱520000
38. If sin(u  v)  0.766 and sin(u  v)  0.1736 , find sinu  cos v . 54. Two observers 100 m apart are facing each other on a horizontal
plane, observe at the same time the angle of elevation of a balloon to
A. 0.9396 B. 0.7047
be 58° and 44°. Find the height of the balloon.
C. 0.4698 D. 0.2349
A. 60.23 m B. 59.34 m
39. A balloon is released from the ground 100 m from an observer. The
C. 61.31 m D. 58.17 m
balloon rises directly upward at the rate of 4 m/s. How fast is the
balloon receding from the observer 10 seconds later? 55. Three spheres made of lead have radius of z, 2z, and 4z, respectively
are melted to form a new sphere. Determine the radius “z” if the ratio
A. 1.49 m/s B. 1.58 m/s
of the volume to the surface area of the new sphere is equal to 4.18.
C. 1.66 m/s D. 1.75 m/s
A. 2 units B. 3 units
40. Determine the length of the latus rectum of the parabola whose axis is
C. 4 units D. 5 units
parallel to the y-axis, vertex is at (1, 3) and which passes through the
56. Determine the equation of the tangent to the conic 3x^2  2y^2  35
point (1, 1).
A. 0.5 B. 2 at point (1, 4).
C. 4 D. 8 A. 3x  2y  11  0 B. 6x  8y  26  0
41. Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the curve C. 6x  4y  22  0 D. 3x  8y  35  0
9x 2  4y 2  36 about the line 4x  3y  20 . 57. A man borrowed ₱300,000 from a lending institution which will be
paid after 10 years at an interest rate of 12% compounded annually. If
A. 236.87 cubic units B. 355.31 cubic units money is worth 7.72% compounded monthly, how much should he
C. 473.74 cubic units D. 532.97 cubic units deposit to a bank at the end of each month in order to discharge his
42. A certain equipment that costs ₱7000 has an economic life of “n” debt 10 years hence?
years and a salvage value of ₱350 at the end of “n” years. The book A. ₱9317 B. ₱7823
value at the end of 4 years is ₱2197.22. Using Sum of Years Digit C. ₱5173 D. ₱2910
Method, compute the economic life of the equipment.
58. Suppose that ln x  u and ln y  v , then write the expression
A. 10 years B. 8 years
C. 6 years D. 5 years ln(xy)1 2  ln(x e) in terms of u and v.
43. There were 104,830 people who attended a rock festival. If there were A. 1.5u  0.5v  1 B. 0.5u  0.5v  1
8,110 more boys than girls, and 24,810 fewer adults over 50 years of C. 1.5u  0.5v  1 D. 0.5u  0.5v  1
age than there were girls, how many boys attended the festival?
59. A curve has an equation: y  sinx . If the area bounded by the curve
A. 15,700 B. 48,620
and the x-axis from x = 0 to x =  is revolved about the y-axis,
C. 12,400 D. 40,510
determine the volume of the solid formed.
44. A 40 m high tower stands vertically on a hillside (sloping ground)
A. 19.74 cu. units B. 14.79 cu. units
which makes an angle of 18° with the horizontal. A tree also stands
vertically up the hill from the tower. An observer on top of the tower C. 7.49 cu. units D. 4.93 u. units
finds the angle of depression of the top of the tree to be 26° and the 60. The rate of population growth of a country is proportional to the
bottom of the tree to be 38°. Find the height of the tree. number of inhabitants. If a population of a country at present is 40
A. 11.33 m B. 10.61 m million and is expected to double in 25 years, in how many years will
the population be three times the present?
C. 9.36 m D. 8.79 m
A. 39.62 years B. 26.93 years
45. Given the equation of a circle: (x  a)2  (y  b)2  c . Determine the C. 51.34 years D. 15.43 years
location of its center and its radius. 61. From the following data of series of equal payments for equal interval
A. C(a, b) and R = c B. C(a, b) and R = c of time:
Periodic Payment = ₱30,000
C. C(a, b) and R = c D. C(a, b) and R = c Payment Interval = 6 months
46. Determine the area bounded by the curve x  8y  0 and its latus
2 Term = 10 years
rectum. Interest Rate = 12% compounded semi-annually
Compute the difference between the present values of an annuity due
A. 16/3 B. 32/3
and an ordinary annuity.
C. 22/3 D. 44/3
A. ₱25,623.10 B. ₱40,652.32
47. A machine costing ₱720,000 is estimated to have a life of 10 years. If
C. ₱30,541.62 D. ₱20,645.86
the annual rate of depreciation is 25%, determine the total
depreciation using a constant percentage of the declining balance 62. Two perpendicular chords both 5 m from the center of a circle divide
method. the circle into four parts. If the radius of the circle is 13 m, find the
area of the smallest part.
A. ₱40545.73 B. ₱43273.45
A. 30 m2 B. 31 m2
C. ₱679454.27 D. ₱764123.45 2
C. 32 m D. 33 m2
48. A rectangle has its width the diameter of the inscribed circle in a
triangle of sides x, y, z and its length the diameter of the 63. A company has x machines of equal capacity that can produce a total
circumscribing circle about the same triangle. Determine the area of of 180 pieces each work day. If 2 machines break down, the work
the rectangle. load of the remaining machines is increased by 3 pieces each per
work day to maintain the current production. Determine x.
A. xyz / (x  y  z) B. 2xyz / (x  y  z)
A. 7 B. 10
C. 4xyz / (x  y  z) D. (x  y  z) / xyz C. 12 D. 15
64. A triangular piece of land has vertices A, B, and C and is surveyed
producing the following data: A = 30°, C = 50°, and AC = 13 m. What
49. The population of germs in an open wound if left untreated doubles should be the length of side BC?
every two days. If there were 200 germs in the wound six days ago, A. 6.60 m B. 10.11 m
how many germs will there be in the same wound 4 days from now?
C. 13.20 m D. 20.22 m

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65. It is estimated that between the hours of 12:00PM and 7:00PM the 81. How many years are required for ₱2000 to increase to ₱5000 if
speed of a highway traffic flowing past the intersection of EDSA and interest rate is pegged at 12% compounded semi-annually?
Ortigas Avenue is approximately S  t3  9t2  15t  45 , in kph, A. 7.86 years B. 6.67 years
where t is the number of hours past noon. At what time between C. 13.34 years D. 15.73 years
12:00PM and 7:00PM is the traffic moving fastest? 82. A tank has the form of a frustum of a sphere of radius 20 m. Its upper
A. 1:00PM B. 3:00PM base is 8 m from the center of the sphere and its lower base is 14 m
C. 5:00PM D. 6:00PM from the center. Determine the capacity of the tank.
A. 24236.34 m3 B. 25744.67 m3
ln x  1
66. Determine the area bounded by the curve y  , the x-axis and C. 26123.89 m 3
D. 27863.52 m3
x
the maximum ordinate. 83. A particle rotates from rest according to the function   t3 / 50  t ,
A. e2 B. 1/ e2 where  is in radians and t in seconds. Calculate the angular speed
when t = 10 seconds.
C. 1/ 2 D. 1/ 3
A. 4 rad/s B. 5 rad/s
67. If a thermometer is taken outdoors where the temperature is 5°C from
a room where the temperature is 20°C, the reading drops to 10°C in C. 6 rad/s D. 7 rad/s
one minute. How long after its removal from the room will the reading 84. The circle x 2  y 2  8x  6y  11  0 is cut by the line
be 6°C? 3x – 8y – 22  0 . Find the area of the smaller segment.
A. 2.46 min B. 4.27 min
A. 33.41 square units B. 37.13 square units
C. 3.56 min D. 5.36 min
C. 44.39 square units D. 50.55 square units
68. A line with a slope of −2 passes through the point (4, −1) and through
85. Determine the effective rate of interest corresponding to 18%
another point P whose abscissa is 3. Find the ordinate of P.
compounded daily.
A. 1 B. 1.5
A. 17.35% B. 18.92%
C. 2.5 D. 3
C. 19.72% D. 21.53%
69. An individual makes five annual deposits of ₱2000 in a savings
86. If a man walks a distance of 3 m along a circular track and if this
account that pays interest at a rate of 4% per year. One year after
making the last deposit, the interest rate changes to 6% per year. Five track subtends a central angle of 45, find the radius of the circular
years after the last deposit, the accumulated money is withdrawn from track.
the account. How much is withdrawn? A. 10 m B. 12 m
A. ₱14,223 B. ₱10,480 C. 14 m D. 16 m
C. ₱15,550 D. ₱15,040 87. Two numbers differ by 40 and their arithmetic mean exceeds their
70. A polygon having 90 diagonals is inscribed in the circle geometric mean by 2. Determine the harmonic mean of the two
numbers.
x 2  y 2  2x  4y  20  0 . What is the area of the annulus formed by
A. 101/9801 B. 9801/101
this circle and the circle that can be inscribed in the polygon? C. 1010/11 D. 11/1010
A. 2.46 sq. units B. 1.87 sq. units
arcsin  3x  4y   1.4361
88. Find the value of x in the equations:
arccos  2x  5y   1.7544
C. 4.15 sq. units D. 3.40 sq. units
71. A rectangular box having a square base and open at the top is to
have a capacity of 16823 cm3. Find the height of the box to use the A. 0.1639 B. 0.1837
least amount of material. C. −0.1100 D. −0.1522
A. 12.42 cm B. 16.14 cm 89. The base diameters of a frustum of a cone measure 2.4 m and 1.8 m
C. 18.21 cm D. 19.47 cm and are 3 m apart. Determine its total surface area.
72. Find the equation of a line with an x-intercept of 2 and passes through A. 40.37 m2 B. 19.89 m2
the mid-point of the line segment connecting the points (3, 7) and (5, C. 68.64 m 2
D. 26.96 m2
0). 90. A man, 1.60 m tall, is walking directly away from a lamp-post at the
A. 7x  4y  14  0 B. 5x  2y  13  0 rate of 1.10 m/sec. If the lamp is 6 m above the ground, determine the
C. 4x  2y  23  0 D. 7x  4y  42  0 rate at which his shadow is lengthening.
A. 0.4 m/s B. 1.95 m/s
  x 
2 2y
73. Evaluate 2
 y 2 dxdy C. 0.65 m/s D. 1.5 m/s
1 0
91. Locate the centroid of the area bounded by the curve
A. 29/2 B. 31/2
2y 2  3x  18  0 in the 1st quadrant.
C. 33/2 D. 35/2
74. Radium decomposes approximately at a rate proportional to the A. (9/8, 12/5) B. (12/5, 9/8)
amount present. If 50 mg now will be 48 mg one century later, how C. (13/5, 7/8) D. (7/8, 13/5)
many centuries will elapse before the radium will weigh 45 mg? 92. Determine the differential equation of the family of lines passing
A. 1.65 B. 3.47 through the origin.
C. 2.58 D. 4.89 A. ydx  xdy  0 B. xdx  ydy  0
75. A business organization wishes to set up a Scholarship Foundation by C. ydx  xdy  0 D. xdx  ydy  0
making uniform end of period semi-annual deposits of ₱5000 for 20 93. An equipment which costs ₱40,000 is to be purchased through a
years. The fund is to provide the foundation 5 equal end of year series of 10 semi-annual payments, where the first payment is due 6
withdrawals starting at the end of the 16th year. At 8% compounded months after the equipment is released. The first six payments will be
semi-annually, find the uniform amount to be withdrawn? ₱6000 each, while the remaining four equal payments will liquidate
A. ₱67,003.8 B. ₱36,800.70 the remaining balance. What is the amount of the last four payments if
C. ₱80,730.60 D. ₱102,789.10 interest rate is 15% compounded semi-annually?
76. Which term in the expansion of (x^2  1/x)^9 is free of x? A. ₱5454.21 B. ₱4545.12
A. 5th B. 6th C. ₱1245.54 D. ₱2544.15
C. 7th D. 8th 94. A circle has an area of 1,017.88 cm2. It is divided into two parts by a
chord 7 cm from the center. Find the ratio of the smaller segment to
77. Determine the amplitude of y  3 sin(x 2) the larger segment.
A. 2 B. 3 A. 0.20 B. 0.35
C. 5 D. 6 C. 0.30 D. 0.45
78. The sides of the base of a pentagonal right prism measure 3 cm, 5 95. Mang Gagancho spent 10% of his salary on transportation expenses,
cm, 6 cm, 8 cm, and 9 cm, consecutively. Another prism similar to the 20% of his salary on food. He then spent 30% of the rest of his salary
first has its shortest side measuring 2 cm and a lateral area of 144 on rentals of his apartment. What percentage of his salary did he
cm2. Find the altitude of the larger prism. spend altogether?
A. 12.45 cm B. 10.45 cm A. 51% B. 46%
C. 9.45 cm D. 7.45 cm C. 42% D. 57%
ln x  1 96. A vertical pole was broken by the wind. The upper part still attached,
79. A curve has an equation: y  . Determine the relative reached a point on the level ground 15 ft from the base of the pole. If
x
the upper part is 9 ft longer than the lower part, find the height of the
maximum ordinate of the curve.
pole.
A. e2 B. 1/ e2 A. 17 ft B. 22 ft
C. 1/ 2 D. 1/ 3 C. 25 ft D. 30 ft
80. The area bounded by the curve y 2  12x  0 and the line x  3  0 is 97. The volume of a regular tetrahedron is 20.70 m3. Determine the
revolved about the line x  3  0 . Determine the volume generated. dimension of its lateral edge.
A. 5.2 m B. 5.4 m
A. 90.48 B. 180.96
C. 5.6 m D. 5.8 m
C. 135.72 D. 361.91

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 3x  2  Do This If You Want To Pass Your Engineering Licensure Exam

98. Find dy/dx of the function y  ln   (I wish I did this during my first take of the licensure exam)
 5x 
x 2 by Ninez Hernandez
A. B. 
x 1 3x  2x
2

C. x2  1 D. 2x  1
I was never the confident student in engineering school.
99. Evaluate the integral of cos6 x sin7 x dx with limits from 0 to /4. Every class I was in, I never really gave myself the chance to
A. 0.002256 B. 0.001867 stand out among my peers because I underestimated my
C. 0.005333 D. 0.003689 ability to absorb the lessons fast and answer the questions
100. A certain piece of dubious information about a bacterium in a certain asked correctly. I’ve never given myself the opportunity to
drinking water began to spread one day in a city with a population of learn more about the engineering program I was in. So I just
100,000. Within a week, 10,000 people had heard this rumor. Assume sat in every class and I was the mediocre student my
that the rate of increase of the number who have heard the rumor is
classmates looked down on. In short, I was the student who
proportional to the number who have not yet heard it. How long will it
be until half the population of the city had heard the rumor? never believed in herself and her capabilities to excel in
A. 34 days B. 46 days class.
C. 55 days D. 69 days
Fast forward to graduation day, I was relieved that
classes were over yet there was only one obstacle I had to go
through before I can finally consider myself free from
engineering: the licensure exam. Of course, if you want to
be really called an Engineer and get a really good job in the
industry, you must pass the licensure exam first.

So for five months, I studied. But at the back of my

mind, I told myself, can I really do this? Will I really make
it? I was such an awful student who didn’t engage in
different learning opportunities so I keep asking myself if I
can do it. Self-doubt has clouded my mind and there was
always this insecurity that bothered me. I didn’t really
believe in myself, so when the time came that I took the
licensure exam, I was filled with more panic, self-doubt and
self-loathing during the exam.

I felt discouraged as I answer one question after

another. I even remember preparing a speech to tell my
parents just in case I didn’t pass the exam. The sad thing
about it though is that the mind can really project your
thoughts into your reality. I failed the licensure exam. I
thought that I was going to fail, that I wasn’t going to make
and well, I did fail. So it really broke my heart, which led me
to disappear from everyone for quite some time.

When I finally got out of my hiatus, I decided to have a

change of heart. I knew I had to prepare again for my
second take so I needed to be more confident the second
time around. I needed to have more faith in myself and I
had to endure all the hardships. And I did. Every time I felt
like giving up because I started to lose faith in my abilities, I
reminded myself that I can do it. I needed to believe in
myself before I show to other people that I can be an
awesome licensure exam-passing person.

So when the days arrived that I took the second take, I

kept reminding myself that I can pass this exam. No matter
how hard the second take was for me, I persevered and
always told myself that I will pass. I got rid of all the
negative thoughts gave myself good reasons why I deserve to
pass this exam. So, on my second take, with the confidence
and faith I needed to pass, I did pass the licensure exam.

I’ve learned that in order for you to pass the exam, you
have to believe in yourself. You have to always remember
that you have the same chance of passing like everyone
else.

I urge you to start believing in yourself. Start thinking

positive thoughts as the licensure exam approaches you. It
can make a big difference. Whatever your mind thinks, it
will manifest. So good luck and just have confidence in
yourself as you take the exam. Hopefully, you’ll pass the
licensure exam as well.

UNIVERSITY OF NUEVA CACERES Engr. Mark Dennis S. Domingo ☺