- 1. A student receives a report saying he is at the 90th percentile (P90) in the National Career Assessment Exam. He cries because he thinks he got a 90%. How should the guidance counselor correct him?
A) It means you performed better than 90% of the students.
B) P90 means you only answered 10% correctly.
C) Don't cry, 90% is a passing grade.
D) You are in the bottom 10% of the class.
- 2. In a Mastery Learning class, the goal is for all students to master the lesson. Ideally, as instruction improves, what should happen to the Standard Deviation of the post-test scores?
A) It should decrease.
B) It should increase.
C) It should remain constant.
D) It becomes negative.
- 3. Principal Cruz observes that in Section A, the grades range from 75 to 98. In Section B, the grades range from 85 to 88. What can he conclude about Section B?
A) Section B has a higher mean.
B) Section B is more heterogeneous.
C) Section B has smarter students.
D) Section B is more homogeneous.
- 4. In a 100-item test, obtaining a raw score of 80 does not necessarily mean being at the 80th percentile. Why?
A) Because percentile is relative to others' performance.
B) Because the test was too hard.
C) Because 80 is a failing grade.
D) Because percentiles are always lower than raw scores.
- 5. Teacher U has a student who missed the Quarterly Assessment due to sickness. Can she give a grade of '0' for that component?
A) No, she should give a special test.
B) Yes, no test means no score.
C) Yes, to teach the student a lesson.
D) No, she should give a perfect score.
- 6. A T-score is a standard score with a Mean of 50 and SD of 10. If a student gets a T-score of 60, where are they located relative to the mean?
A) 2 Standard Deviations above the mean.
B) At the mean.
C) 1 Standard Deviation above the mean.
D) 1 Standard Deviation below the mean.
- 7. Why is the Range often considered an unreliable measure of variability for classroom assessment?
A) It is always a decimal number.
B) It describes the center, not the spread.
C) It is too hard to compute.
D) It depends only on the two scores.
- 8. A test item analysis shows that the scores for Item #10 have a very large variance. This suggests that:
A) The item was not valid.
B) Students' answers varied greatly.
C) The item was definitely easy.
D) Students were very consistent in their answers.
- 9. Why might a teacher be concerned if the Standard Deviation of a final exam is extremely small (e.g., 0.5) but the Mean is only 75?
A) It means everyone failed.
B) It means the test was too easy.
C) It means the teaching was perfect.
D) It means everyone consistently got 75.
- 10. When reporting to parents, a teacher explains that a small standard deviation in the class grades means:
A) The students are performing the same level.
B) The students are all failing.
C) The teacher is strict.
D) The class is very competitive and varied.
- 11. Teacher R is computing grades for 'Introduction to Philosophy' (Core Subject) in Senior High School. Which weight distribution should he use?
A) WW 20%, PT 60%, QA 20%
B) WW 25%, PT 50%, QA 25%
C) WW 30%, PT 50%, QA 20%
D) WW 40%, PT 40%, QA 20%
- 12. Teacher K ranks her students. She identifies the student who separates the bottom 25% from the top 75%. This student's score corresponds to:
A) Third Quartile (Q3)
B) Second Quartile (Q2)
C) 90th Percentile
D) First Quartile (Q1)
- 13. If a student in Senior High School fails a prerequisite subject (e.g., Pre-Calculus), what happens?
A) He is retained in Grade 11.
B) He can proceed to Basic Calculus.
C) He cannot enroll in the subsequent subject.
D) He can take both subjects simultaneously.
- 14. Teacher Z is teaching MAPEH. She computes the grades for Music, Arts, PE, and Health separately. How does she get the grade for MAPEH?
A) Let the students choose.
B) MAPEH is not graded.
C) Average the 4 component grades.
D) Take the highest of the 4.
- 15. Teacher L wants to group her students into 10 ability groups for differentiated instruction. Which statistical measure divides the distribution into 10 equal parts?
A) Percentiles
B) Deciles
C) Quartiles
D) Z-scores
- 16. Teacher G wants to know the 'average distance' of his students' scores from the mean score to see how clustered they are. He should compute the:
A) Standard Deviation
B) Percentile
C) Quartile Deviation
D) Range
- 17. If a set of test scores has a Standard Deviation of 0, which of the following statements must be true?
A) The Mean is 0.
B) The Range is 0.
C) The scores are normally distributed.
D) There are 0 students.
- 18. The Interquartile Range (IQR) represents the performance of which group of students?
A) The top 25%.
B) The bottom 25%.
C) The lowest and highest students.
D) The middle 50%.
- 19. If the passing mark is set at the median, how many students will pass?
A) None of them.
B) Exactly 50% of them.
C) 75% of them.
D) All of them.
- 20. Teacher W teaches English (Language). She knows that in Grades 1-10, the weight for Written Work in languages is:
A) 30%
B) 50%
C) 20%
D) 40%
- 21. A PE teacher is recording the shirt sizes of students (S, M, L, XL) for the sports fest. He needs to order the most popular size. Can he calculate the Mean of these sizes?
A) No, he should use the Median.
B) Yes, the formula applies to all data.
C) Yes, by assigning numbers to letters.
D) No, because the data is categorical
- 22. In a parent-teacher conference, a parent claims, 'My son is below average!' The teacher explains that while his score is below the Mean, it is above the Median. This implies:
A) The distribution is normal.
B) The distribution is negatively skewed
C) The distribution is positively skewed
D) The test was too easy.
- 23. Student A asks why the 'Average' in his report card is different from his classmate's calculation. It turns out the teacher used a 'Weighted Mean' (based on units) instead of a simple mean. This is appropriate because:
A) It is easier to compute.
B) It makes the grade higher.
C) It is a DepEd rule for no reason.
D) Some subjects have more units.
- 24. A statistician in the division office is looking for a measure of central tendency that is most stable for sampling (i.e., varies least from sample to sample). Which should she choose?
A) Mode
B) Range
C) Mean
D) Median
- 25. In a class of 50 students, Teacher Ben ranks the scores from lowest to highest. He wants to identify the score that divides the class exactly in half. What statistical measure is he looking for?
A) Mode
B) Range
C) Mean
D) Median
- 26. When interpreting the 'Mean Percentage Score' (MPS) of a school in the National Achievement Test, the school head is looking at the:
A) Difference between highest and lowest.
B) Most occurring score.
C) Arithmetic average of all scores.
D) Middlemost score of the school.
- 27. A researcher is analyzing salary data of teachers. Since the Principal's salary is an extreme outlier compared to the entry-level teachers, which measure of central tendency gives the most representative 'typical' salary?
A) Mean
B) Range
C) Median
D) Mode
- 28. In computing the final grade of a student, Teacher A adds all the weighted scores and divides them (effectively) to get the average. This process uses the concept of:
A) Mean
B) Median
C) Mode
D) Rangking
- 29. A student asks, 'Ma'am, if I add 5 bonus points to everyone's score, what happens to the class mean?' The correct answer is:
A) The mean multiplies by 5.
B) The mean increases by 5.
C) The mean becomes zero.
D) The mean remains the same.
- 30. If a teacher adds 5 bonus points to every student's score, what happens to the Standard Deviation of the class scores?
A) It becomes zero.
B) It increases by 5.
C) It decreases by 5.
D) It remains the same.
- 31. In a TLE class (Skill-based), Teacher S emphasizes that students must demonstrate their skills (cooking, carpentry). Consequently, the highest weight (60%) in the grading system is given to:
A) Written Work
B) Attendance
C) Quarterly Assessment
D) Performance Tasks
- 32. Teacher O computes the raw scores of her Grade 8 Science class. Student P got a total weighted score of 85. Is this the grade that goes into the Report Card?
A) Yes, 85 is the final grade.
B) No, the 85 must be transmuted.
C) Yes, because Science is a core subject.
D) No, she must add 10 points.
- 33. In the E-Class Record, the 'Initial Grade' is derived from the sum of weighted scores. What is the next automatic step in the spreadsheet?
A) Ranking the students.
B) Sending the grade to the principal.
C) Transmuting the Initial Grade.
D) Printing the card.
- 34. Which measure of variation is the square root of the variance?
A) Quartile Deviation
B) Mean Deviation
C) Standard Deviation
D) Range
- 35. Which descriptor corresponds to a grade of 90- 100?
A) Satisfactory
B) Outstanding
C) Very Satisfactory
D) Excellent
- 36. If a student's score corresponds to the 3rd Quartile (Q3), what percent of the class scored higher than him/her?
A) 75%
B) 100%
C) 25%
D) 50%
- 37. A student's rank is 1 (highest) in a class of 50. What is his percentile rank?
A) Q1
B) P1
C) P50
D) P100
- 38. For 'With Honors' selection, a student must have no grade lower than____in any quarter.
A) 90
B) 85
C) 80
D) 75
- 39. Which quartile is equivalent to the Median?
A) Q3
B) Q1
C) Q4
D) Q2
- 40. A parent complains that her son in Grade 4 failed because his raw score was only 60. Teacher Q explains that under the K to 12 system, a raw score of 60 is:
A) Evidence for dropping out.
B) Transmuted to 75.
C) A failing grade.
D) Equivalent to 60 on the card.
- 41. Teacher Sarah administered a test. Most students scored very low, but one student, a math wizard, got a perfect score. If she uses the Mean to report the 'average', what will happen?
A) The mean will be pulled up by the outliers.
B) The mean will be unaffected.
C) The mean will be the same as the mode.
D) The mean will be lower than the median.
- 42. A class has a bimodal distribution of scores in Science. What does this tell the teacher about the students' performance?
A) There are two groups of performances
B) The average score is zero.
C) The students performed uniformly well.
D) The test was perfectly constructed.
- 43. If a distribution of scores is perfectly bell-shaped (Normal Curve), where will the Mean, Median, and Mode be located?
A) At different points.
B) At the tail of the distribution.
C) Mean is highest, Mode is lowest.
D) At the same point in the center.
- 44. Teacher X notices that the distribution of scores in her periodic test is negatively skewed (most students scored high). Which statement is likely true about the relationship of the Mean and Median?
A) No relationship
B) Mean > Median
C) Mean < Median
D) Mean = Median
- 45. Teacher Ryan is analyzing ordinal data (Likert Scale: Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree). To find the 'center' of opinion without assuming equal intervals, he should ideally use the:
A) Mode
B) Median
C) Mean
D) Variance
- 46. Teacher V notices that her students' scores on a test are very spread out-some got 10/50, others 48/50, and scores are scattered everywhere. This indicates:
A) High Standard Deviation.
B) Zero Variance.
C) High Central Tendency.
D) Low Standard Deviation.
- 47. In a normal distribution of intelligence test scores, a psychologist says a student is 'within one standard deviation of the mean'. This places the student in the:
A) Top 1% (Genius).
B) Bottom 1% (Intellectually disabled).
C) Middle 68% (Average/Typical).
D) Top 5%.
- 48. During an election for Classroom President, the teacher wants to determine the winner based on who got the 'most frequent' votes. Which measure of central tendency is applied here?
A) Mean
B) Standard deviation
C) Mode
D) Median
- 49. Student T got a Final Grade of 73 in Math. What is the immediate consequence according to DepEd policy?
A) Expelled.
B) Retained in the same grade level.
C) Promoted to the next grade.
D) Needs to attend Remedial Classes.
- 50. A District Supervisor compares two schools. School X has an SD of 2.5 on the NAT. School Y has an SD of 8.0. Which school has a more diverse population of learners in terms of ability?
A) School Y
B) Both are equal.
C) School X
D) Cannot be determined.
- 51. Ms. Lopez is checking the papers of her Grade 1 pupils. She notices that the scores are 5, 5, 5, 8, and 9. She decides to report the 'most common' performance. Which measure is she using?
A) Mode
B) Mean
C) Variance
D) Median
- 52. The principal asks for the 'average daily attendance'. The clerk sums up the attendance for the month and divides by the number of school days. This is an application of:
A) Median
B) Quartile
C) Mean
D) Mode
- 53. If Teacher Clara wants to know the 'average' performance of the class but wants to ensure that the result is not distorted by the two students who got zero, she should prefer the:
A) Mode
B) Range
C) Median
D) Mean
- 54. For a remedial reading class, the teacher selects the students whose scores fall in the bottom half of the class. Which measure serves as the cut-off point?
A) Standard deviation
B) Mode
C) Median
D) Mean
- 55. After teaching a lesson, Teacher Faye gives a formative test. She finds that the Range is 0. What does this literally mean?
A) Everyone got a score of 0.
B) The average is 0.
C) No one took the test.
D) Everyone got the same score.
- 56. Teacher Lita has a set of scores: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10. She realizes the Mean, Median, and Mode are all 10. This indicates:
A) High variability.
B) Zero variability.
C) An invalid test.
D) A normal curve.
- 57. Which measure of variability uses the middle 50% of scores, effectively ignoring the outliers?
A) Variance
B) Interquartile Range (IQR)
C) Range
D) Standard Deviation
- 58. At the end of the school year, the Final Grade for a learning area is computed as:
A) The last Quarterly Grade only.
B) The average of the Written Works.
C) The average of the 4 Quarterly Grades.
D) The sum of the 4 Quarterly Grades.
- 59. Two students, John and Mark, have the same average grade of 85. However, John's grades fluctuate wildly (75, 95, 80, 90), while Mark's are steady (84, 86, 85, 85). Which statistical measure would confirm that Mark is the more consistent student?
A) Mean
B) Mode
C) Median
D) Standard Deviation
- 60. In analyzing the 'difficulty' of a test item using quartiles, Teacher N looks at how the Upper Group (top 27% or Q4) performed vs. the Lower Group. This uses the concept of position to determine:
A) Item Discrimination.
B) Central Tendency.
C) Item Reliability.
D) Item Validity.
- 61. Teacher H calculates the variance of her test scores and gets a negative number (e.g., -5). What does this imply?
A) She made a computation error.
B) The test was too hard.
C) The students performed poorly.
D) The data is skewed.
- 62. A student asks, 'Ma'am, why is our Quarterly Assessment only 20%? It's a major exam!' Teacher X explains that K to 12 Assessment focuses more on:
A) Attendance
B) Performance standards
C) One-shot testing
D) Memorization
- 63. A university admissions office accepts only students with a Stanine score of 7, 8, or 9. What does this imply about the accepted students?
A) They are in the bottom quartile.
B) They are above average.
C) They are average.
D) They are below average.
- 64. Teacher Y uses a rubric to grade a role-play. This score will be recorded under:
A) Performance Tasks
B) Character Building
C) Written Work
D) Quarterly Assessment
- 65. A student scored +2 Standard Deviations (z-score = +2) above the mean. This implies the student:
A) Scored below average.
B) Scored exactly average.
C) Scored significantly higher than the average.
D) Answered 2 questions correctly.
- 66. To compare the variability of heights (in cm) and weights (in kg) of students, which measure should the PE teacher use to remove the unit difference?
A) Variance
B) Standard Deviation
C) Range
D) Coefficient of Variation
- 67. Teacher J is worried because her class is 'very heterogeneous'. She validated this by seeing a:
A) High Mean.
B) Small Measure of Variation.
C) Large Measure of Variation.
D) Low Mean.
- 68. Teacher M calculates the z-scores of her students. She tells a parent that their child has a z-score of -1.5. This indicates the child is:
A) The top notcher.
B) Below average.
C) Above average.
D) Exempted from the test.
- 69. If a student falls in the 1st Decile (D1), teachers should consider this student for:
A) Student leadership.
B) Graduation honors.
C) Enrichment / Advanced classes.
D) Remediation / Intervention.
- 70. To say that a student is in the 'Top 10' of the graduating batch usually refers to rank. To express this in percentiles, the cutoff is usually:
A) P10
B) P50
C) Q1
D) P90 up
- 71. Student X has a decile rank of 4 (D4). Student Y has a percentile rank of 40 (P40). Who performed better?
A) Student X
B) Cannot be determined.
C) Student Y
D) They performed equally.
- 72. Which measure of position divides the distribution into 100 equal parts, often used for national ranking?
A) Deciles
B) Stanines
C) Percentiles
D) Quartiles
- 73. During a scholarship selection, the requirement is to be in the 'Top 25%' of the batch. Which measure of position serves as the cut-off score?
A) Q3
B) Q1
C) D1
D) Median
- 74. When a researcher says 'The 75th percentile of the salary is P30,000', it means:
A) 75% of the people earn P30,000 or less.
B) The average salary is P30,000.
C) 75% of the people earn more than P30,000.
D) Only 25% of people earn P30,000 or less.
- 75. Why did DepEd move to a standard-based grading system?
A) To make it harder for students.
B) To confuse parents.
C) To ensure grades reflect the attainment of specific content and performance standards.
D) To rely solely on multiple-choice tests.
- 76. The General Average of Student V is 89.45. When reporting this on the card (if policy allows rounding), or for honors ranking, how is it typically treated?
A) It remains 89.
B) It is reported to 3 decimal places.
C) It is rounded down to 85.
D) It is rounded up to 90.
- 77. The median score of the class is 25. Which of the following is definitely true?
A) 50% of the students scored 25 or below.
B) Most students scored 25.
C) The average score is 25.
D) The highest score is 50.
- 78. Can a student with a General Average of 74 be promoted?
A) Yes, if he passes the removal exam.
B) Yes, on probation.
C) No, he is retained in the grade level.
D) Yes, if the parents appeal.
- 79. What is the floor grade (lowest possible grade) that can appear in the report card for a quarter? rotate for options 65
A) 65
B) 60
C) 0
D) 50
- 80. A grade of 75-79 falls under which descriptor?
A) Fairly satisfactory
B) Poor
C) Did not meet expectation
D) Satisfactory
- 81. Teacher W teaches English (Lar age). She knows that in Grades 1-10, the weight for Written Work in languages is:
A) 50%
B) 40%
C) 30%
D) 20%
- 82. In a TLE class (Skill-based), Teacher S emphasizes that students must demonstrate their skills (cooking, carpentry). Consuently, the highest weight (60%) in the grading system is given to:
A) Performance Tasks
B) Quarterly assessment
C) Attendance
D) Written work
- 83. If a student in Senior High Sche ails a prerequisite subject (e.g., Pre-Cuculus), what happens?
A) He can proceed to Basic Calculus.
B) He cannot enroll in the subsequent subject.
C) He is retained in Grade 11.
D) He can take both subjects simultaneously.
- 84. Student T got a Final Grade of 73 in M What is the immediate consequence according to DepEd policy?
A) Retained in the same grade level.
B) Needs to attend Remedial Classes.
C) Expelled
D) Promoted to the next grade.
- 85. Why did DepEd move to a standard used grading system?
A) To confuse parents
B) To ensure grades reflect the attainment of specific content and performance standards.
C) To make it harder for students.
D) To rely solely on multiple-choice tests.
- 86. Teacher Y uses a rubric to grade a 1. -play. This score will be recorded under:
A) Quarterly assessment
B) Performance tasks
C) Character building
D) Written works
- 87. What is the floor grade (lowest possible grade) that can appear in the report card for a quarter?
A) 0
B) 65
C) 50
D) 60
- 88. Can a student with a General Aver of 74 be promoted?
A) Yes, if the parents appeal.
B) Yes, if he passes the removal exam.
C) No, he is retained in the grade level.
D) Yes, on probation.
- 89. A guidance counselor is analyzing the results of a career interest survey. She wants to display the distinct count of students preferring 'Engineering', 'Arts', 'Medicine', and 'Education'. Which graph is best for comparing these categorical counts?
A) Frequency Polygon
B) Bar graph
C) Pie chart
D) Line graph
- 90. The Science coordinator wants to track the daily temperature changes in the science garden at 12:00 PM over the course of a month to study patterns. Which graph is appropriate for this continuous time-series data?
A) Histogram
B) Pie chart
C) Bar graph
D) Line graph
- 91. A researcher wants to present the demographic profile of the faculty by educational attainment (Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate) as portions of the entire teaching force. Which graph best emphasizes the 'part-to-whole' relationship?
A) Bar graph
B) Scatterplot
C) Pie chart
D) Line graph
- 92. Teacher Anna notices her student, Mark, has erratic quiz scores. She wants to plot his scores from Quiz 1 to Quiz 10 to help him visualize his progress and inconsistency. Which graph fits this purpose?
A) Pie chart
B) Line graph
C) Bar graph
D) Box plot
- 93. Which of the following scenarios represents a Ratio level of measurement?
A) A teacher ranking students as Top 1, Top 2, Top 3.
B) A teacher checking the body temperature of students.
C) A teacher recording the IQ scores of students.
D) A teacher measuring the weight of pupils in kilograms.
- 94. The canteen manager wants to show the School Head the budget allocation for the feeding program (e.g., 40% Food, 10% Logistics, 20% Labor, 30% Utensils). Which graph effectively shows these budget shares?
A) Bar graph
B) Pie chart
C) Line graph
D) Pictograph
- 95. Teacher Ben asks his students to rate their enjoyment of the lesson using a scale: 4- Strongly Agree, 3-Agree, 2-Disagree, 1- Strongly Disagree. This data is best classified as:
A) Ordinal
B) Interval
C) Nominal
D) Ratio
- 96. Mr. Santos wants to compare the average final grades of the four sections of Grade 10 Mathematics. He wants the parents to easily see which section performed the highest and lowest side-by-side. What should he use?
A) Bar Graph
B) Pie chart
C) Ogive
D) Line graph
- 97. During a PTA meeting, the Principal wants to present the trend of enrollment in the school over the last 5 years to show if it is increasing or decreasing. Which graphical representation is most appropriate?
A) Bar graph
B) Pie chart
C) Line graph
D) Scatterplot
- 98. At the end of the quarter, Mrs. Cruz wants to compare the number of male vs. female passers across Grade Levels 7, 8, 9, and 10. She needs a graph that can show two distinct bars for each grade level. What is this called?
A) Single Line Graph
B) Very satisfactory
C) Double/Grouped Bar Graph
D) Exploded Pie Chart
E) Cumulative Frequency Graph
- 99. Teacher Elena wants to show the percentage of her Grade 6 class belonging to different learning modalities (Modular, Online, Blended). Which graph would best visualize how these parts make up the whole class?
A) Histogram
B) Bar graph
C) Pie chart
D) Line graph
- 100. During the flag ceremony, the students are lined up by height (from shortest to tallest) to ensure everyone can see the stage. The teacher is using the data primarily as:
A) Interval
B) Ratio
C) Ordinal (Ranking)
D) Nominal (Labeling)
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