Full-length simulation
Sit the whole thing before you sit the whole thing
A timed full-length paper at your level — 150 items in 190 minutes for Professional, 145 in 160 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 | 190 minutes | 160 minutes |
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
Under a minute a question, for two and a half to 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.
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 50-question diagnostic is free and needs no card. Full-length simulations are part of a paid plan — PHP 399 a year for Subprofessional, PHP 699 for Professional, with no automatic renewal.