‘Question: Sa taong gutom, masarap pati _____ (A hungry person finds what delicious?). Choices: a) panis (spoiled food) b) tutong (burnt rice) c) tinik (fish bones) d) buto (bones).’ I was stumped. I answered tutong (for the rhyme) but I still wonder what the correct answer is to this day.”—Carla Grepo, 24, law student, UP Diliman
eto laughtrip. HAHA! :
“There were noisy UP students talking loudly outside, saying things like, ‘If you don’t know the answer, letter C na lang!’ and ‘Madali lang yan, kami nga nakapasa eh!’ The use of Tagalog was only hard for the Math part. It was insane, solving a Math problem written in Tagalog.”—Margarete Hernandez, 24, architect, UP Diliman
eto pananaw ko during my junior year:
“I exemplify the UP-or-nothing case. I think I was one of the few handful who went out of UP smiling—most of the examinees I saw had their heads down, ready to be hanged. I was so confident I would pass, I never took any exam in any other school. Thank God I passed because I wouldn’t have gone to college if I didn’t.”—Mark Angelo Ching, 21, staff writer, UP Diliman
eto inspiring ( napa -"aww.." me while reading ) : “All I remember is not having enough time to pause and wear my jacket in the cold room at Abelardo (may aircon sa UP!). I was munching on chocolate to keep me up. I “threw darts” when it came to the Math part—I’m so bad at Math already, tinagalog pa—patay (It was in Tagalog)! And then I remember leaving the campus and for the first time really seeing how the trees frame the Academic Oval so beautifully, seeing the sea of people in every building and thinking, ‘Wow, I’m never going to get into UP with all these people taking this test in Diliman alone.”—Maureen Tanedo, 24, communications specialist, UP Diliman
“In the last section of my UPCAT exam, I was happily and steadily shading the little circles with my answers and was certain that I was going to finish the entire exam on time. Then I suddenly realized that I had missed a number in my shading so the rest of my answers after that were probably wrong! I broke out into a cold sweat, retraced my answers and tried to correct everything. I haphazardly answered the remaining questions, right-minus-wrong be damned, and spent the next few months praying.”—Dia Lacaba, 29, marketing manager, UP Diliman
**WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE UPCAT MEMORY? By Bianca Consunji, (AB Journ cum laude’07) Reprinted from The Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 1, 2009.
i wonder if i could have a testimony like these especially the latter...


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