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LET reviewee, don’t be discouraged by the long list of psychologists-theorists that have contributed to our understanding of the learning process and child and adolescent development. Just aim for the mastery of theorist-theory association and the basic terms and principles and items such as these will be no problem for you:

1. A teacher rewards a child for doing things correctly. This technique is called:

A. Reinforcement

B. Fading

C. Chaining

D. Conditioning

2. Based on Piaget’s theory, what should a teacher provide in the formal operational stage?

A. Games and other physical activities to develop motor skills

B. Learning activities that involve problems of classification and ordering

C. Stimulating environment with ample objects to play with

D. Activities for hypothesis formulation

3. Contrary to Freud’s concept that the primary motivation of human behavior is sexual in nature, Erikson’s is _________ in nature.

A. Biological

B. Cultural

C. Physical

D. Social

4. If one is asked to develop himself to the fullest, what need is s/he trying to satisfy according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

A. Safety needs

B. Physiological needs

C. Self-actualization

D. Belongingness

5. Teacher Wendell gives his students opportunities to be creative because of his conviction that much learning results from the need to express creativity. On which theory is Teacher Wendell’s conviction anchored?

A. Behaviorist

B. Humanist

C. Cognitivist

D. Associationist

Answers to DAY 8’s LET questions for principles of teaching:

1. A. Establish routines for all daily needs and tasks.

2. D. Reject a student’s response at once.

3. C. Use a microscope properly

4. D. Brainstorming

5. B. The higher the level of the question the longer the wait time.

Do you find doing  our drills helpful?  For this post, we’ll start with Professional Education.  But, before we do that, you may check your answers yesterday.

Of all parts of the Professional Education module, questions on the principles of teaching should be the easiest—they are mostly situations which ask for your appropriate response as a teacher. Try out these questions to see how prepared you are for the LET and for teaching:

1. Which is a sound classroom management practice?

A. Establish routines for all daily needs and tasks.

B. Avoid establishing routines; routines make your student robots.

C. Apply reactive approach to discipline.

D. Apply rules and policies on a case to case basis.

2. To encourage class participation, which should the teacher NEVER do?

A. Call on non-volunteers to recite.

B. Ask non-directed questions.

C. Pose high-level questions.

D. Reject a student’s response at once.

3. For which may you use the direct instruction method?

A. Become aware of the pollutants around us

B. Appreciate Milton’s Paradise Lost

C. Use a microscope properly

D. Distinguish war from aggression

4. Which activity should I use when I want to generate possible topics for panel discussion?

A. Task group

B. Forum

C. Debate

D. Brainstorming

5. Which statement on “wait time” is CORRECT?

A. Wait time turns off slow thinking students.

B. The higher the level of the question the longer the wait time.

C. Wait time discourages the brighter group of students.

D. For quality response, “what and why” questions require equal wait time.

Answers to DAY 7’s LET questions for social dimensions of education:

1. C. Emphasis on religious instruction

2. B. Existentialism

3. A. Confucius

4. A. No, only elementary education is compulsory.

5. D. teachers in the tertiary level.

It pays to start reviewing early for the LET (Licensure Examinations for Teachers) to be held on 11 March 2011.  Here are some items on Social Studies to start with.  We heard that in the September 2011 LET, there were much more test items in Social Studies than in nay other subject covered n GenEd.  Answer the following five (5) items and check your answers within 24 hours from the posting of this drill set.

1. Which countries pursue sovereignty claims to the Spratly Islands as a whole and not to specific parts alone?

A. Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia

B. China, Vietnam, Taiwan

C. Philippines, Vietnam, China

D. Taiwan, Malaysia, China

2. World: Nile River; Philippines: _____

A. Agno River

B. Cagayan River

C. Rio Grande de Pampanga

D. Rio Grande de Mindanao

3. Who is considered the founder of Philippine socialism?

A. Isabelo de los Reyes

B. Andres Bonifacio

C. Emilio Jacinto

D. Apolinario Mabini

4. Which of the following demonstrates ethnocentric behavior?

A. A United Nations volunteer participates in literacy programs in Mindanao

B. A student tutors an immigrant in English

C. A Hispanic community group demands that public forms also be published in Spanish

D. A tourist lectures his foreign hosts on the “uncivilized” nature of their marriage customs

5. Which characteristic applies to the kind of government during the Spanish period?

A. Decentralized

B. Democratic

C. Highly centralized

D. Between democratic and socialist

Expect more drills to be shared with you within the coming days.

Have you began reviewing?  It’s 102 days before the LET.

Here are some extra Math drills to work on from LET Top 1  in Math, 2005, Glenn Gilongos. Remember to work on these as quickly but as accurately as possible.  Use the calculator you intend to bring on LET day to do the calculations and save time.

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by Melane Manalo

Are you at the intimacy v. isolation stage yet? Have you been functioning well at the stage of formal operations or are you still needing to build up on concrete operations? Can’t tell or are wondering what these are?

It’s 82 days to go before the September 25 LET! We’ve found great online references for the confused, the cramming, the conscientious LET examinee (and any other education student) wanting to brush up on educational pscyhology..

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Here’s more for Math majors from Glenn Gilongos.  Other majors can learn by doing these drills, too.  Answers below.

1.  How many minutes after 2:07 pm will the hands of the clock form 126 degrees for the first time?

2.  A can do a job in 8 hrs while B can do the same in 10 hrs. A has already worked for 1 hr when B came and together they worked for another 40 mins. A left B, how many more minutes will B finish the remaining work?

3.  Find the equation of the line that passes thru pt (8,6) that will make the triangle (formed by the line and the positive x and y axes) with the minimum area.

4.  Find the domain and range: y = sqrt(12 + x – x^2)

5.  What is the area bounded by y = x^2 + 4 and y = 20?

Answers to September 18 drills:

1.  42
2.  117/125
3.  22
4.  (2x^4 – 3y^6 + 5x^2y^3)(2x^4 – 3y^6 – 5x^2y^3)
5.  4 2/3 days

Answers to the above drills:

1.  26 9/11 mins
2.  435 mins
3.  x/16 + y/12 = 1
4.  domain is [-3, 4] and range is [0, 7/2]
5.  256/3 sq units

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For Math majors, this should be easy.  Glenn compiled these for you.

1.  How many ways can you rearrange the letters of the word wizards if the consonants should be arranged alphabetically but not necessarily together?

2.  If sin x = 3/5 and x is in Q2, find the value of sin 3x

3.  What is the maximum possible number of regions of the circle formed by 6 intersecting lines in a circle?

4.  Factor: 4x^8 – 37x^4y^6 + 9y^12

5.  12 kgms of rice can be consumed by 4 persons in 2 days. At the start, there are 20 kgms of rice and 4 persons. After 1 day, 2 persons leave, how many more days will the remaining kgms or rice last?

Answers to September 17 drills:

1.   5/16
2.   (x^2 + 2 + 2x)(x^2 + 2 – 2x)
3.   y is not equal to -2/3
4.   15 + 5sqrt3 cm
5.   6 and 28

Here’s another set of Math questions to work with:

Here are Math items to practice on.  These were contributed by Glenn Gilongos.

1.  What is the smallest number that should be multiplied to 54 to make it a perfect cube number?

2.  There are 50 pigs and chickens in our farm. If I count the number of feet, there are 184. How many pigs are there?

3.  In a box, there are 4 red balls and 3 white balls
If I pick up 3 balls, what is the probability that 2 of them are red?

4.  Find the midpoint of the line segment whose endpoints are (-4,10 and (6, -6)

5.  The width of a square is increased by 20% and its length is decresed by 20%. By how many percent is the change in its area?

Check out your answers against Glenn’s solutions tomorrow.

How many minutes did it take you to complete answering these items?

Today, give some literature-related items a try. Here’s an easy starter.

1. “Nothing happens in this world by chance, it is all part of a grand design.” The author speaks of one’s _________.
A. ambition
B. luck
C. destiny
D. dream

2. The Master said:
“Only one who bursts with eagerness do I instruct. Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten.”

These lines give one the idea that true learning ________.

A. makes man a disciple of instruction
B. involves patience and a dash of lethargy
C. is capable of making man
D. comes with commitment and passion

3. Which of the following line is a simile?

A. “Holding wonder like a cup”
B. “Eyes that love you, arms that hold”
C. “Life has loneliness to sell”
D. “Buy it and never count the cost”

4. Read the following lines:

“Midnight, not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost its memory
She is smiling alone
In the lamp light the withered leaves
Collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan.

These lines means:

A. Confusion
B. Optimism
C. Eagerness
D. Loneliness

5. “Life is but a walking shadow, a pun player that struts and frets… And is heard no more.”

In this line, life is portrayed as:

A. Passing
B. Goes by stages
C. Has its end
D. eternal

Answers to yesterday’s (July 3) drills:
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. D
9. C
10. C

After the warm up drills in English, here’ s another round of multiple choice items to keep you going in your review for LET.

1. Wise people can _________ with frustrations.
A. cope up
B. cope on
C. cope in
D. cope

2. My grandpa had some “lucid moments” before he died. He was ____________.
A. thinking clearly
B. sad
C. confused
D. ambiguous

3. The measure of choosing well is whether or not a man likes what he __________.
A. has chosen
B. is choosing
D. choose
C. chose

4. All except this one word sounds like the “wh” in “when”?
A. While
B. Whole
D. Whiz
C. Whine

5. Which does not belong?
A. Foot
B. Kilometer
C. Centigrade
D. Mile

6. I saw a nasty _______ between two cars this morning.
A. happening
B. damage
C. accident
D. danger

7. What correction should be made to this sentence?

Most fire-related death’s result from household fires, yet many people do not have fire extinguishers in their homes.

A. Remove the comma after fires
B. Change result to results
C. Change have to has
D. Replace death’s with deaths

8. Which passage is expressed effectively and without structural error/s?
A. Having called the other students and they, the secretary went home.
B. Having called the other students and ourselves the secretary went home.
C. Having called the other students and we, the secretary went home.
D. Having called the other students and us, the secretary went home.

9. ________ not making the most of _____ opportunities.
A. You’re – you’re
B. You – your
C. You’re – your
D. You’re – you

10. The seatwork is difficult for Alfonso and _____
A. Myself
B. I
C. Me
D. Himself

Answers to yesterday’s (July 1) drills:
1. c
2. c
3. d
4. b
5. c