Investigate Board Exam Leakage, Baguio-based Nursing
Hopefuls Urge PRC
Ninety-two Baguio
City-based examinees stressed that some of those who took the exam managed
to finish two sets of questions in just “more or less 30 minutes” because
they knew the questions beforehand. This is the reason for their complaint
before the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC).
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat
BAGUIO CITY —
Ninety-two examinees of the Nurses Licensure Examination here (246 kms
from Manila) filed a complaint in the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC)
demanding the creation of an independent committee to investigate the
leakage of two sets of examination materials during the examination on
June 11 to 12.
They accused members
of the Board of Nursing and the Ray
A. Gapuz Review Center (Gapuz) for
being involved in the leakage. “Many examinees who wore jacket marked with
Gapuz brought with them some papers in the examination room and finished
Set III of the exam held on June 11 and Set V held on June 12 in more or
less 30 minutes,” claimed one examinee.
The complaint filed
in the PRC on June 21 by 92 examinees claimed that several questions or
problems contained in the 18-page handwritten leakage notes were identical
to those that were asked in the recent examinations.
Leaking the questions
One of the
complainants narrated that an examinee from Gapuz told her that the
materials were given by the review center during the last hours of June
10.
“We read the
material. Many of the questions in Set V of our examination were in it.
What was more telling was that it used the same names and situations found
in the actual board exams,” she said in her affidavit.
Another complainant
said that a Gapuz reviewee handed her a material before the Set V exam was
to begin on June 12. The Gapuz reviewee allegedly wrote on the material
which read, “Basahin mo ‘yan. Baka sakaling reliable ‘yan kasi ‘yung sa
amin ng Gapuz para sa Set III, lumabas talaga kahapon.” (Read that. It
might be reliable because the one given to us by Gapuz for Set III really
came out yesterday.)
Initially scanning
the materials before the proctor announced the start of Set V exams, she
was amazed to see that the examination questions, including the
characters, were the same. With other examinees, they reviewed the Gapuz
review materials and noticed most came out in the Set V exam.
Northern Dispatch
learned that in the evening of
June 10, Gapuz representatives reproduced 2,800 of the18-page handwritten
materials on Bonifacio Street near the Saint Louis University. These
representatives allegedly requested that materials be ready by 9:00 p.m.
that same day.
In a press conference
it called this week, Gapuz denied the allegations.
Remedies
Lawyer Kissack Gabaen,
counsel for the complainants, claimed that the leakage is one of the worst
in the history of the nursing board exams nationwide. He added that his
clients are asking that Sets III and V of the board examination be
invalidated and the scores of the examinees be recomputed without these.
He added that the
complainants are asking the PRC to initiate proceedings to blacklist Gapuz
if found culpability and to revoke the professional licenses of those
involved in the leakage.
Meanwhile, the
Associations of the Deans of Nursing Schools of
Northern Luzon
joined the press conference held on June 24 by the complainants and their
lawyers at the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) office in this city.
The deans will join the complainants as intervenors of the petition.
Baguio City was one
of the testing centers in the country for the recent nursing board exam.
Bulatlat
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