Full-length simulation
Sit the whole thing before you sit the whole thing
A timed full-length paper at your level — 150 items in 168 minutes for Professional, 145 in 141 for Subprofessional — assembled fresh every time you start one, so it measures you rather than your memory of it.
Take it on screen, or print the booklet with a real shading answer sheet, work it in pencil under time, and photograph the sheet to have it marked.
Why a fresh paper each time
Almost every free mock exam is one PDF. You take it, you learn it, and the second attempt tells you nothing except that you remember the first — usually as a score twenty points higher, which is the worst possible thing to be told a fortnight before an examination.
Ours is assembled at the moment you start it, from a published blueprint and a versioned bank. Two people sitting on the same day get different papers of equivalent difficulty, and your own next paper will not repeat a question from your last. A second score means something because it was measured on new material.
What is in the paper
Our blueprint, published so you can judge its balance rather than take it on trust. The proportions are our reading of the published scope; the Commission does not release a weighting.
| Section | Professional | Subprofessional |
|---|---|---|
| Verbal ability, English | 36 | 35 |
| Verbal ability, Filipino | 20 | 19 |
| Numerical ability | 36 | 35 |
| Analytical ability | 30 | Not tested |
| Clerical ability | Not tested | 29 |
| General information | 28 | 27 |
| Total scored items | 150 | 145 |
| Time allowed | 168 minutes | 141 minutes |
Why not 190 minutes? Because our paper is not 170 items. The CSC set 170 in 3 hours 10 minutes, which is about 67 seconds a question; our 150 get the same 67 seconds each, so 168 minutes. Giving 150 items the full 190 would hand you thirteen per cent more time per question than the examination does, and pace is the thing a full sitting exists to test.
More on what each section contains, and what the Commission requires to pass, on the coverage and passing grade page.
The clock is half the test
Sixty-seven seconds a question for Professional, fifty-eight for Subprofessional, for the better part of three hours with no feedback along the way. Most people who run out of time knew the answers — they spent four minutes on a question worth the same mark as one that would have taken forty seconds.
A full-length sitting is the only way to find out where your pace collapses, and it is usually somewhere specific rather than everywhere: a section you slow down in, or the last thirty items where concentration goes. You get that breakdown afterwards alongside the score, per section and per skill.
It notices when you leave the paper
In the examination room you cannot open a tab. The habit that costs people marks is almost never dishonesty — it is answering practice questions with a search open, for months, and arriving on the day having never once worked without it.
So a simulation counts the times the paper stops being what is on your screen, and tells you afterwards: the paper left the screen nine times, for about four minutes in total. That is all it does. Nothing is blocked, nothing is prevented, nobody is told, and there is no accusation in it — you are the only person who ever sees the number.
It is a fact about conditions rather than conduct. A paper sat with a phone in your hand is a gentler test than the real one, and it is worth knowing that before the day rather than discovering it on the day. Most people who see the number are surprised by it, and the next paper they sit is a real rehearsal.
A glance under a second is not counted, and a phone that flickers during a notification is not either. It is a habit signal, not an accounting record.
What you get back
A per-skill breakdown
Not one number. Two people scoring the same need different months of work, and the number on its own cannot tell you which of the two you are.
Every wrong option explained
Including the ones you did not pick. Knowing why a distractor was tempting is most of the learning, and it is the part a bare answer key leaves out.
A plan that changes
What the paper found goes straight into your study plan, so the next weeks weight towards what actually cost you marks.
The conditions you sat it in
How many times the paper left your screen, and for how long. Only you see it. A score earned with a tab open is not the score you will get on the day.
The 50-question diagnostic is free and needs no card. Full-length simulations are part of a paid plan — PHP 299 for a year, either level, with no automatic renewal.