15,000 EXAMINEES TAGUMPAY VS PRC

SA ATING munting pitak na ito unang lumabas ang reklamo ng mga civil engineering board examinee ukol sa late notice ng PRC na ipinagbaba­wal sa exam ang mga calculator na kanilang karaniwang gamit sa paaralan hanggang sa board review.

Nagpasalamat ang kanilang grupo sa MASAlamin at PILIPINO Mirror, sa pa­ngunguna ni Atty. Butch Danao na kanilang abogado na kasama nilang nakibaka para sa tama.

Naging matagumpay nga at ngayon ay pinapayagan na ng PRC ang mga calculator at hindi na ipipilit ang mga jurassic na mo­delo na kanilang ipinag-uutos na gamitin sa kanilang late notice sa mga board examinee.

Maaalalang ang usapin ay nagsimulang pumailanlang sa publiko matapos na ilathala sa MASAlamin ang oposisyon ng halos 30,000 na mga magu-lang at 15,000 exa­minees sa darating na board exams para sa civil engineering. Ang oposisyon ay nakadirekta kay Teofilo Pilando, Jr, chairman ng PRC:

“We, the undersigned (members of the academic community and professional organizations, reviewers, reviewees, parents) would like to voice out our opposition to DISALLOWING THE USE OF CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES, FX-991 ES PLUS and FX-570 ES PLUS in the Licensure examinations for the following reasons:

1. The scientific calculator (CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES, FX-991 ES PLUS and FX 570 ES PLUS) have been in use since 2009 by all en-gineering students in their respective licensure examinations.
2. Engineering board exam is the most difficult board exam in all licensure examinations except Bar Exams and Physician Licensure Exam. Review-ees need to review 6 months or more in order to pass the said examination. The job of an engineer is to formulate the equations. He only uses the CACULATOR to facilitate mechanical and civil calculations.
3. CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES, FX-991 ES PLUS and FX 570 ES PLUS are not programmable calculators according to the technical ex-perts of CASIO International. Calculators are only tools and they facilitate manual calculations. Calculators can never help the examinees formulate the required equations needed in the problems.
4. CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES, FX-991 ES PLUS and FX 570 ES PLUS are accepted calculator brand for the engineering licensure ex-ams in the United States, Germany and other advanced countries. Are we better than them?
5. The examinee should acquire strong foundations on basic concepts and must understand the concepts needed to use the calculator as a tool. Even though the modern calculators had advanced features like Matrices, Vectors and Calculus, still calculators are only tools.
6. The students had already bought calculators CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES or FX-991 ES PLUS or FX 570 ES PLUS with their parents’ hard earned money hoping that their sons/daughters pass the exam and hopefully would find jobs and help their parents soon.
7. Engr. Praxedes Bernardo, Engr. Romeo Estañero, and Engr. Pericles Dakay instead of motivating the examinees to study well and pass the CE board exam this coming November 9 and 10, 2019, is creating confusion and havoc among the hapless examinees. Some students are now in a state of panic due to a very short notice, without consultations to the examinees
8. On the document issued by PRC Dated October 1, 2019 signed by the CHAIRMAN of the Professional Regulatory Board of CIVIL ENGI-NEERING, Engr. Praxedes Bernardo, in the General Instructions No. 5 b 2nd sentence- “SEE LIST OF ALLOWED CALCULATORS”, the availabil-ity of the said models shown are not available in the market in Bacolod, Iloilo, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Palawan -Puerto Prinsesa, and ETC. Further-more, the issued document does not bear the signature and approval of the PRC COMMISSIONER.
9. Whose order are we going to follow? The one Memorandum Circular No. 2018-01 issued by THE CHAIRMAN OF PRC, HON. TEOFILO S. PILANDO, JR., the highest authority in PRC OR the LOWER RANKED CHAIRMAN of the Professional Regulatory Board of CIVIL ENGINEER-ING, Engr. Praxedes Bernardo.

IF WE ARE GOING TO FOLLOW the PRC CHAIRMAN, the use of CASIO CALCULATOR FX-991 ES and FX-991 ES PLUS should BE ALLOWED to use in the November 09 and 10, 2019, Civil Engineering Licensure exam.”

Salamat naman at nagising ang PRC. Good luck sa mga exa­minee. Mabuhay!