Arroyo wants a retake of 'leaked' nursing tests 3 and 5
Arroyo wants a retake of 'leaked' nursing tests 3 and 5
Article posted September 27, 2006,
http://www.gmanews.tv/nation.php?sec=5&id=16428
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is inclined to subject all 42,006 examinees of the recent nursing board exams to a retake of two test subjects that were supposedly leaked in June, a GMANews.TV source disclosed Wednesday.
The source said Mrs Arroyo approved the retake of Tests 3 and 5 during a meeting Tuesday evening with Cabinet officials.
In that meeting, some Cabinet secretaries voiced opposition to the retake, but were supposedly overruled by the President.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, who was attending a budget hearing at the Senate, the source said, was designated to announce the nursing board exam retake but begged off as he wanted to inform officials of the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) first about the plans.
The announcement is expected to take place this week.
Some government officials, the source said, would supposedly discuss the plan along with a proposal to place the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) under Brion's Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Discussed by Cabinet
Brion confirmed that the nursing exam issue was indeed tackled during the Tuesday meeting at Malacañang, but refused to comment on what the attendees' sentiments were.
"That was one of the issues (nursing board leak) discussed at the Cabinet meeting last night and that is on the agenda on the meeting with the PRC at 3 p.m. Thursday," Brion said.
He also announced Wednesday before the Senate finance committee that the PRC was now indeed an attached agency of the DOLE as a result of an unnumbered executive order from the President.
The labor chief said he will finalize his position on the nursing leak issue after speaking with PRC officials.
Reacting to comments that the PRC had already made public its stance on the issue, Brion said: "That (PRC's stand) can change."
During her recent appearance before the Senate finance committee, PRC chair Leonor Tripon-Rosero was denied P14 million in additional agency funds earmarked for the possible retake of the nursing exam.
Senators struck out the amount from PRC's budget after Rosero, who had previously snubbed Senate hearings, said her agency's position was not to conduct a retake anyway.
December sked?
Sought for comment, Rene Tadle, president of the Faculty Association of the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) College of Nursing, said if the government is serious about a retake, this could take place before the end of the year.
"Board exams for nursing usually take two days, but if the retake would only be for Tests 3 and 5, perhaps the tests could be scheduled together with new nursing board exams scheduled this December," Tadle said.
A total of 17,821 out of the 42,006 examinees passed the test conducted by the Board of Nursing on June 11 and 12, 2006.
A statistician of PRC had estimated that about 1,000 examinees who passed the leakage-ridden exams could have failed, if not for the computation system that had been rendered flawed by the leakage.
Mrs Arroyo's decision came nearly a month after Malacañang said it would seek a retake of the exams, but only in areas where the leakage took place.
Att the time, Ermita had remarked: "Punish those who have to be punished."
Palace officials were then awaiting the final report of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on where the leak took place.
The exam, given in the cities of Manila, Baguio City, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga, covered five subjects, each with 100 questions.
Dante Ang, chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, had earlier expressed his desire to have all examinees retake the entire exam.
New examiners
The source reported that five persons, mostly academics from reputable Nursing colleges, have been shortlisted as nominees to the new Board of Examiners.
CHED, meanwhile, might be asked to conduct more stringent monitoring of nursing review centers, some of which are under Congress' investigation for purportedly facilitating the leak, the source added.
CHED's new role was also supposedly among the topics government officials would discuss with Brion.
Virginia Madeja, one of two board examiners supposedly responsible for the leak, was arrested Friday last week in Taguig over estafa and illegal recruitment charges.
Officials of the police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have insisted that the charges were "not related" to her alleged role in the nursing board leak.
The source was not able to say if the government planned on collecting test fees from the examinees, who had each shelled out P900 for the June exam.
On August 18, the Court of Appeals (CA) Third Division issued a 60-day restraining order against the oath-taking of this year's nursing board passers.
The appellate court directed the PRC and the Board of Nursing "to cease and desist from... proceeding with the oath-taking allegedly scheduled on Aug. 22, 2006."
Over 1,000 graduates, however, were able to take their oath as new nurses in Cebu and Iloilo shortly before the CA handed down its decision. - With a report from Joan Dairo, GMANews.TV
FROM: http://www.gmanews.tv/nation.php?sec=5&id=16428
Article posted September 27, 2006,
http://www.gmanews.tv/nation.php?sec=5&id=16428
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is inclined to subject all 42,006 examinees of the recent nursing board exams to a retake of two test subjects that were supposedly leaked in June, a GMANews.TV source disclosed Wednesday.
The source said Mrs Arroyo approved the retake of Tests 3 and 5 during a meeting Tuesday evening with Cabinet officials.
In that meeting, some Cabinet secretaries voiced opposition to the retake, but were supposedly overruled by the President.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, who was attending a budget hearing at the Senate, the source said, was designated to announce the nursing board exam retake but begged off as he wanted to inform officials of the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) first about the plans.
The announcement is expected to take place this week.
Some government officials, the source said, would supposedly discuss the plan along with a proposal to place the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) under Brion's Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Discussed by Cabinet
Brion confirmed that the nursing exam issue was indeed tackled during the Tuesday meeting at Malacañang, but refused to comment on what the attendees' sentiments were.
"That was one of the issues (nursing board leak) discussed at the Cabinet meeting last night and that is on the agenda on the meeting with the PRC at 3 p.m. Thursday," Brion said.
He also announced Wednesday before the Senate finance committee that the PRC was now indeed an attached agency of the DOLE as a result of an unnumbered executive order from the President.
The labor chief said he will finalize his position on the nursing leak issue after speaking with PRC officials.
Reacting to comments that the PRC had already made public its stance on the issue, Brion said: "That (PRC's stand) can change."
During her recent appearance before the Senate finance committee, PRC chair Leonor Tripon-Rosero was denied P14 million in additional agency funds earmarked for the possible retake of the nursing exam.
Senators struck out the amount from PRC's budget after Rosero, who had previously snubbed Senate hearings, said her agency's position was not to conduct a retake anyway.
December sked?
Sought for comment, Rene Tadle, president of the Faculty Association of the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) College of Nursing, said if the government is serious about a retake, this could take place before the end of the year.
"Board exams for nursing usually take two days, but if the retake would only be for Tests 3 and 5, perhaps the tests could be scheduled together with new nursing board exams scheduled this December," Tadle said.
A total of 17,821 out of the 42,006 examinees passed the test conducted by the Board of Nursing on June 11 and 12, 2006.
A statistician of PRC had estimated that about 1,000 examinees who passed the leakage-ridden exams could have failed, if not for the computation system that had been rendered flawed by the leakage.
Mrs Arroyo's decision came nearly a month after Malacañang said it would seek a retake of the exams, but only in areas where the leakage took place.
Att the time, Ermita had remarked: "Punish those who have to be punished."
Palace officials were then awaiting the final report of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on where the leak took place.
The exam, given in the cities of Manila, Baguio City, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga, covered five subjects, each with 100 questions.
Dante Ang, chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, had earlier expressed his desire to have all examinees retake the entire exam.
New examiners
The source reported that five persons, mostly academics from reputable Nursing colleges, have been shortlisted as nominees to the new Board of Examiners.
CHED, meanwhile, might be asked to conduct more stringent monitoring of nursing review centers, some of which are under Congress' investigation for purportedly facilitating the leak, the source added.
CHED's new role was also supposedly among the topics government officials would discuss with Brion.
Virginia Madeja, one of two board examiners supposedly responsible for the leak, was arrested Friday last week in Taguig over estafa and illegal recruitment charges.
Officials of the police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have insisted that the charges were "not related" to her alleged role in the nursing board leak.
The source was not able to say if the government planned on collecting test fees from the examinees, who had each shelled out P900 for the June exam.
On August 18, the Court of Appeals (CA) Third Division issued a 60-day restraining order against the oath-taking of this year's nursing board passers.
The appellate court directed the PRC and the Board of Nursing "to cease and desist from... proceeding with the oath-taking allegedly scheduled on Aug. 22, 2006."
Over 1,000 graduates, however, were able to take their oath as new nurses in Cebu and Iloilo shortly before the CA handed down its decision. - With a report from Joan Dairo, GMANews.TV
FROM: http://www.gmanews.tv/nation.php?sec=5&id=16428
Pag nag-retake ba, solve na ang perennial problem of cheating?
Saka, it is not a matter of asking 42,000 examinees to retake Tests 3 and 5. Kailangang i-sort out yung talagang bagsak sa ibang subjects na dapat magretake hindi lang ng Tests 3 and 5 kung hindi lahat ng Tests 1 to 5.
Otherwise, magdadalawang retake sila. Na kahit ipasa nila yung retake ng Tests 3 and 5, ay hindi pa rin sila pasado sa entire exam dahil bagsak rin sila sa Tests 1, 2, and 4. Kaya kailangang isabay na nila ang pag-retake nito.
Dapat ma-realize ito ng PRC, na kailangang himayan nila yung ang retake ay Tests 3 and 5 lamang sa ang retake ay dapat entire exam.
In fact, dapat yung Test 5 lang ang may retake, not Test 3. Kaya lang, talagang bobo yung mga gustong isali sa retake ang Test 3. Kaya dapat paratingin ang kasong ito hindi lang sa Court of Appeals kung hindi hanggang sa Supreme Court.
Sasabihin nila, punish the guilty but spare the innocent, eh bakit yung mga inosenteng passers sa Mindanao na malayo sa cheating ay kasali rin?
Kung ganyan din lang ang usapan, ay protect na rin ang integrity hindi lang ng nursing profession kung hindi buong bansa. Remove the doubt of cheating in the last national election--REELECTION na rin ng Presidente!!!!
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Anonymous |
9:59 PM
ALL BOARD PASSERS!
Let's gather tomorrow, Friday, 29 Sept in PRC. @ 8am...
Let's show our disgust to GMA's decision.
Bring your friends & family!!!
Let's be ONE!!!... NO RETAKE!
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:13 AM
HINDI NAMAN TAMA KUNG LAHAT NG 42,000 EH MAGRERETAKE!!!!!!! YUNG IBA KASI BAGSAK NAMAN TALAGA SA TEST 1,2,4, YUNG IBA PA NGA MAY GRADES AS LOW AS 60% SA TESTS 1,2,3...KUNG GANITO HINDI DAPAT SILA MAGRETAKE..IF THOSE WHO FAILED ONLY TEST 3 OR 5,AYAN PWEDE PA SILA RETAKE...KAYA PLS LANG SA MGA ALAM NILANG BAGSAK SILA WAG NG IPILIT NA GAWING RASON ANG LEAKAGE KASI KUNG TALAGA NAMANG BAGSAK.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:35 AM
Copy of Email from a concerned citizen to OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
AND OTHERS CONCERNED, copy furnished selected senators, congressmen, PRC Chairman, members of media, etc.:
ON 42,000-EXAMINEE EXAM RETAKE,
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATIC TENET: PUNISH THE GUILTY AND SPARE THE INNOCENT?
Pag nag-retake po ba ang 42,000 examinees, solved na ang perennial problem of cheating? Me foolproof system na ba na magsisiguro na ang retake mismo ay wala ng cheating? Ano ang mga steps na gagawin para in a short period of time ay mayroong foolproof system within the year?
Saka, it is not a matter of asking 42,000 examinees to retake Tests 3 and 5. Kailangang i-sort out yung examinees na talagang bagsak sa ibang subjects at dapat magretake hindi lang ng Tests 3 and 5 kung hindi lahat ng Tests 1 to 5. (Otherwise, magdadalawang retake sila, at hindi dapat ang pagtake ng entire exam in two installments—dahil mas madali yan at baka may umangal na naman.) Na kahit ipasa nila yung retake ng Tests 3 and 5, ay hindi pa rin sila pasado sa entire exam dahil bagsak rin sila sa Tests 1, 2, and 4 at ang average grade nila ay hindi passing. Kaya kailangang isabay na nila ang pag-retake ng Tests 1, 2, and 4.
Dapat ma-realize ito ng PRC at Malacanang, na kailangang HIMAYIN nila yung ang retake ay Tests 3 and 5 lamang at ihiwalay sa ang retake ay dapat entire exam! Kung ang retake ay SEPARATE sa regular exam in December, ay hindi 42,000 ang kasali dito, yun lang na kung maipapasa ang Tests 3 and 5 ay pasado na sa entire exam! Kung SABAY naman, dapat himayin at pagkatapos ay bigyan ng notice ang lahat ng examinees. Yung nag-meeting sa Malacanang na nagsabi ng retake ng 42,000, hindi siguro inisip ito kaya akala nila ay ganun kabilis ang magpa-retake ng 42,000. Kailangang mag-ingat sa paghimay dahil puedeng magkamali diyan kung hindi foolproof ang instructrions o programming sa computer.
In fact, worst case scenario, dapat yung Test 5 lang ang may retake, not Test 3. Kaya lang, talagang matigas yata ang ulo (bobo o tuso?) nung mga may gustong isali sa retake ang Test 3. The 17,000 PASSERS have earned VESTED RIGHTS on Test 3, na may natirang 80 or enough valid questions (more than the first 60 graded questions in NCLEX that if answered right enough, the examinee is immediately declared as PASSER of the entire exam with many subjects), kaya dapat walang retake nito.
Sa totoo lang, kaya gustong isama ang retake ng Test 3 sa Test 5 ay dahil kung Test 5 lang ang may retake at nakarating ang issue sa Supreme Court, eh di SIMILARLY SITUATED ito sa 2003 scandal-rocked bar exam na isang subject lang, Mercantile Law, ang may issue ng leakage kaya nagkaroon ng PRECEDENT na NO RETAKE, excluded na lang ang entire subject sa recomputation ng grades--at kung COVERED NG PRECEDENT eh di timbog ang retake proponents sa Supreme Court!!! Kala nyo di namin alam, he, he, he!
Pero, ang mahal na Pangulo, alam ba niya ito? Kung hindi, naisahan siya at ang mga 17,000 passers at pamilya nito nung nagpa-approve sa kanya ng retake without full disclosure of relevant facts—TANTAMOUNT TO MISREPRESENTATION! Di hindi pala sila bobo kung hindi tuso?
Walang sure passing sa board exams, kahit nga honor graduates may bumabagsak dito, tulad nung sa UST, kaya passers want to protect and preserve their hard-earned rights. Dahil may element of LUCK din ito, depende sa kung ang napag-aralang mabuti ng examinee ang siyang lalabas sa exam o hindi—kaya kayabangan o katangahan ang sabihing kung pumasa nung una ay pasado rin sa retake kaya dapat pumayag agad sa retake. Sabagay, hindi ito alam ng mga hindi nakaranas na kumuha ng mahirap na board exam sa buong buhay nila—tulad ni Dr. Dante Ang???
In fairness to the PASSERS, kung ang retake ay Test 5 lang, kung sakaling malasin sila at hindi pumasa sa retake ay posibleng CONDITIONED pa rin sila, hindi total flunker, at pag umulit uli ay Test 5 lang ang uulitin. So including Test 3 in the retake is not a simple matter. It INFRINGES on the VESTED RIGHTS of passers who have substantially passed the requirement for this test subject, especially if we consider the NCLEX system and the Supreme Court's handling of the 2003 scandal-rocked bar exams. Baka magkahiyaan pag nakarating ang isyung ito sa Supreme Court. Saka, hindi ba being bureaucratic lang ang hindi makakita ng validity ng Test 3 under the circumstances?
The PRC exam tests the examinees’ ability to pass at least 75% of whatever number of questions is given. If this is applied to Test 3 exclusive of leakage, the examinees should pass 75% of the 80 questions. However, because there are remaining 80 valid questions out of the total 100 questions for Test 3, it is still mathematically possible that there are legitimate and valid passers in Test 3 who will be jeopardized by the subjective and mindless order to retake Test 3—those who got at least 75 correct answers out of the 80 valid questions, which 75 correct answers still meet the required 75% not of the 80 remaining valid questions but of the original 100 questions for Test 3!!! Thus concluding that Test 3 needs retake is NOT ABSOLUTELY CORRECT and violates the rights of those who may have gotten at least 75 correct answers in that test, GET IT??? O where art thou, bakit hindi kayo kumikibo, mathematicians from UP, UE, and UST!!!! Bakit hinayaan ninyong magbigay sa Presidente ng hindi foolproof na recommendation on Test 3 ang mga retake proponents na hindi naman mathematicians???
Sa gobyerno, daming napakalaking KAWALANGHIYAAN ang ginawa ng maraming matatanda na (gaya ni Jocjoc Bolante, Gen. Garcia, etc.?), pero ang Malacanang, ang LUWAG sa kanila--walang ginawang vigorous pursuit of the cases against them, bakit sa mga 17,000 kabataang nursing passers, ang HIGPIT ng Malacanang?
O kaya si Gng. Imelda Marcos, bakit hindi nag-exert ng all-out effort ang Malacanang na ipakulong siya, and once she is in jail, that is the time to talk of compromise settlement on hidden wealth (assuming compromise is to be tried at all)--meaning NEGOTIATE from a POSITION OF STRENGTH, hindi yung parang si ABCEDE pa ang nanunuyo sa kanya. Kaya ba ayaw habulin si Imelda ay nanunuyo ang Malacanang dahil may clout pa rin siya at mga anak niya sa voters sa Ilocandia at sa Visayas? Kala nyo hindi rin namin alam, he, he, he!
The 2006 nursing scandal should not be taken in ISOLATION. It has to be related to what was done in the past, in the 2003 bar exam scandal, in the 1996 physical theraphy exam scandal, in the kid-glove treatment of suspected plunderers of the nation, and of murderers and kidnappers whose death penalty has been abolished, and so on. Being so EASY on them and so HARD on the 2006 passers is unfair and unjust to the latter. And please don't tell them that it is for their own good. Pure speculation lang yung sinasabing kasiraan nila. Iyon ay direct result lang ng paninira sa kanila, kaya na-conditioned tuloy ang minds ng public. Siyempre kung ano ang laging sinasabi tungkol dito, lalo na ng ABS-CBN at Manila Times, ay iyon ang magiging impression ng lahat. LIES repeated often enough will appear as TRUTH. But it is a fact of life that employers do not totally rely on PRC license, they also consider the transcript of record and the fact that the applicant is a nursing graduate--this is exactly what NCLEX is doing (it asks for diploma and transcript of record)--and it is the final nursing licensure exam process in the United States--eh bakit ayaw sabihin na incompetent din ang passers nito! May challenge na sa Pinoy BSN for Dr. Dante Ang and other retake apostles to denounce the very few questions in NCLEX exams for the sake of sick OFW’s and other Filipino patients in US hospitals, so let them heed the challenge kung talagang hindi sila believe sa remaining 80 questions ng Test 3 for one subject vs. first 60 graded questions in NCLEX for all subjects!!! Let them show to the President and to other cabinet officials present during the meeting in Malacanang their conviction of the validity of their retake advocacy by denouncing before the world the established NCLEX exam system with very few questions (75 to 265) compared to that of the 500-question PRC exams. (In the NCLEX exam, if the examinee passes the 60 graded questions out of the first 75 questions, he is automatically declared PASSED and the computerized checking of answers stops, otherwise he is given a second chance and the checking of answers proceeds up to the last and 265th question. If he passes the remaining questions, the examinee passes the exam.)
Kaya siguro dapat ay paratingin ang kasong ito hindi lang sa Court of Appeals kung hindi hanggang sa Supreme Court.
Saka, hindi ba't sinabi na ng maraming government officials, pati ng Presidente, pati ni DOJ Secretary Raul Gonzales sa TV, etc. noong una pa na PUNISH THE GUILTY and SPARE THE INNOCENT, ano na ang nangyari sa pronouncement na ito?
Bakit yung mga inosenteng passers sa Mindanao at iba pang lugar na malayo sa cheating ay kasali rin, kung 42,000 ang magre-retake? TALAGA PO BANG ANG PINAKAMATAAS NA OFFICIALS NG BANSA AY WALANG ISANG SALITA? Paano na maniniwala ang taong bayan sa kanila? Kaya tuloy yung sinasabi nila sa Cha-cha, maraming hindi believe--kaya hintayin na lang ang plebiscite kahit ito ay gastos lang.
Kung ganyan din lang ang usapan, baka mabuti ay protect na rin ang integrity and image hindi lang ng nursing profession kung hindi ng buong bansa before the world. REMOVE THE DOUBT OF CHEATING IN THE LAST NATIONAL ELECTIONS--BECAUSE THAT DOUBT IS REAL, AS ELOQUENTLY EXPRESSED BY THE ONGOING APPEAL BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL OF MS. LOREN LEGARDA IN THE PURSUIT OF WHICH SHE SPENDS MILLIONS IN PESOS, AND THE SUPPRESSED GARCI TAPES AND THE MAYUGA REPORT AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE--KAYA DAPAT AY REELECTION NA RIN NG PRESIDENTE AT IBA PA!!!!
In short, ang sagot sa RETAKE: REELECTIONNNNN!!!!
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Anonymous |
2:31 AM