- 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) Don't cry, 90% is a passing grade.
B) You are in the bottom 10% of the class.
C) P90 means you only answered 10% correctly.
D) It means you performed better than 90% of the students.
- 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 increase.
B) It should remain constant.
C) It should decrease.
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 has smarter students.
C) Section B is more homogeneous.
D) Section B is more heterogeneous.
- 4. In a 100-item test, obtaining a raw score of 80 does not necessarily mean being at the 80th percentile. Why?
A) Because the test was too hard.
B) Because percentiles are always lower than raw scores.
C) Because percentile is relative to others' performance.
D) Because 80 is a failing grade.
- 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) Yes, to teach the student a lesson.
B) No, she should give a special test.
C) No, she should give a perfect score.
D) Yes, no test means no 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) 1 Standard Deviation above the mean.
B) At the mean.
C) 2 Standard Deviations 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 too hard to compute.
B) It describes the center, not the spread.
C) It is always a decimal number.
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) Students' answers varied greatly.
B) The item was not valid.
C) Students were very consistent in their answers.
D) The item was definitely easy.
- 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 class is very competitive and varied.
B) The students are performing the same level.
C) The teacher is strict.
D) The students are all failing.
- 11. Teacher R is computing grades for 'Introduction to Philosophy' (Core Subject) in Senior High School. Which weight distribution should he use?
A) WW 25%, PT 50%, QA 25%
B) WW 20%, PT 60%, QA 20%
C) WW 40%, PT 40%, QA 20%
D) WW 30%, PT 50%, 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) First Quartile (Q1)
B) 90th Percentile
C) Second Quartile (Q2)
D) Third Quartile (Q3)
- 13. If a student in Senior High School fails a prerequisite subject (e.g., Pre-Calculus), what happens?
A) He cannot enroll in the subsequent subject.
B) He can proceed to Basic Calculus.
C) He is retained in Grade 11.
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) Take the highest of the 4.
D) Average the 4 component grades.
- 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) Z-scores
C) Deciles
D) Quartiles
- 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) Quartile Deviation
B) Range
C) Percentile
D) Standard Deviation
- 17. If a set of test scores has a Standard Deviation of 0, which of the following statements must be true?
A) There are 0 students.
B) The Mean is 0.
C) The scores are normally distributed.
D) The Range is 0.
- 18. The Interquartile Range (IQR) represents the performance of which group of students?
A) The bottom 25%.
B) The top 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) 75% of them.
B) Exactly 50% of them.
C) None 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, because the data is categorical
B) No, he should use the Median.
C) Yes, by assigning numbers to letters.
D) Yes, the formula applies to all data.
- 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 positively skewed
B) The test was too easy.
C) The distribution is negatively skewed
D) The distribution is normal.
- 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) Some subjects have more units.
B) It is a DepEd rule for no reason.
C) It is easier to compute.
D) It makes the grade higher.
- 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) Mean
B) Range
C) Mode
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) Mean
C) Range
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) Most occurring score.
B) Middlemost score of the school.
C) Difference between highest and lowest.
D) Arithmetic average of all scores.
- 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) Mode
C) Range
D) Median
- 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) Median
B) Mean
C) Rangking
D) Mode
- 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 remains the same.
B) The mean increases by 5.
C) The mean becomes zero.
D) The mean multiplies by 5.
- 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 increases by 5.
B) It becomes zero.
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) Attendance
B) Written Work
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, because Science is a core subject.
B) No, she must add 10 points.
C) Yes, 85 is the final grade.
D) No, the 85 must be transmuted.
- 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) Sending the grade to the principal.
B) Ranking the students.
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) Standard Deviation
C) Mean Deviation
D) Range
- 35. Which descriptor corresponds to a grade of 90- 100?
A) Outstanding
B) Very Satisfactory
C) Excellent
D) Satisfactory
- 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) P1
B) P100
C) Q1
D) P50
- 38. For 'With Honors' selection, a student must have no grade lower than____in any quarter.
A) 75
B) 80
C) 85
D) 90
- 39. Which quartile is equivalent to the Median?
A) Q1
B) Q3
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) Equivalent to 60 on the card.
B) Evidence for dropping out.
C) Transmuted to 75.
D) A failing grade.
- 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 the same as the mode.
B) The mean will be pulled up by the outliers.
C) The mean will be lower than the median.
D) The mean will be unaffected.
- 42. A class has a bimodal distribution of scores in Science. What does this tell the teacher about the students' performance?
A) The average score is zero.
B) There are two groups of performances
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) Mean is highest, Mode is lowest.
B) At the same point in the center.
C) At the tail of the distribution.
D) At different points.
- 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) Mean > Median
B) Mean < Median
C) Mean = Median
D) No relationship
- 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) Median
B) Variance
C) Mean
D) Mode
- 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 Central Tendency.
B) High Standard Deviation.
C) Low Standard Deviation.
D) Zero Variance.
- 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) Middle 68% (Average/Typical).
B) Top 1% (Genius).
C) Bottom 1% (Intellectually disabled).
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) Median
B) Mode
C) Mean
D) Standard deviation
- 49. Student T got a Final Grade of 73 in Math. What is the immediate consequence according to DepEd policy?
A) Needs to attend Remedial Classes.
B) Expelled.
C) Retained in the same grade level.
D) Promoted to the next grade.
- 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 X
B) Cannot be determined.
C) Both are equal.
D) School Y
- 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) Mean
B) Mode
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) Quartile
B) Mode
C) Median
D) Mean
- 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) Median
C) Mean
D) Range
- 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) Mean
B) Mode
C) Standard deviation
D) Median
- 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 the same score.
B) No one took the test.
C) The average is 0.
D) Everyone got a score of 0.
- 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) Zero variability.
B) High 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) Range
B) Standard Deviation
C) Variance
D) Interquartile Range (IQR)
- 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 sum of the 4 Quarterly Grades.
C) The average of the Written Works.
D) The average 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) Standard Deviation
B) Mean
C) Mode
D) Median
- 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 Reliability.
B) Central Tendency.
C) Item Validity.
D) Item Discrimination.
- 61. Teacher H calculates the variance of her test scores and gets a negative number (e.g., -5). What does this imply?
A) The data is skewed.
B) The students performed poorly.
C) She made a computation error.
D) The test was too hard.
- 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) Memorization
B) Performance standards
C) One-shot testing
D) Attendance
- 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 average.
B) They are below average.
C) They are in the bottom quartile.
D) They are above average.
- 64. Teacher Y uses a rubric to grade a role-play. This score will be recorded under:
A) Character Building
B) Performance Tasks
C) Quarterly Assessment
D) Written Work
- 65. A student scored +2 Standard Deviations (z-score = +2) above the mean. This implies the student:
A) Scored below average.
B) Answered 2 questions correctly.
C) Scored exactly average.
D) Scored significantly higher than the average.
- 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) Standard Deviation
B) Variance
C) Range
D) Coefficient of Variation
- 67. Teacher J is worried because her class is 'very heterogeneous'. She validated this by seeing a:
A) Large Measure of Variation.
B) Small Measure of Variation.
C) High Mean.
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) Below average.
B) Exempted from the test.
C) The top notcher.
D) Above average.
- 69. If a student falls in the 1st Decile (D1), teachers should consider this student for:
A) Graduation honors.
B) Student leadership.
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) P90 up
B) P10
C) Q1
D) P50
- 71. Student X has a decile rank of 4 (D4). Student Y has a percentile rank of 40 (P40). Who performed better?
A) Student Y
B) Student X
C) Cannot be determined.
D) They performed equally.
- 72. Which measure of position divides the distribution into 100 equal parts, often used for national ranking?
A) Stanines
B) Percentiles
C) Deciles
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) D1
B) Q1
C) Q3
D) Median
- 74. When a researcher says 'The 75th percentile of the salary is P30,000', it means:
A) The average salary is P30,000.
B) Only 25% of people earn P30,000 or less.
C) 75% of the people earn P30,000 or less.
D) 75% of the people earn more than P30,000.
- 75. Why did DepEd move to a standard-based grading system?
A) To ensure grades reflect the attainment of specific content and performance standards.
B) To make it harder for students.
C) To rely solely on multiple-choice tests.
D) To confuse parents.
- 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 is rounded down to 85.
B) It is rounded up to 90.
C) It remains 89.
D) It is reported to 3 decimal places.
- 77. The median score of the class is 25. Which of the following is definitely true?
A) The highest score is 50.
B) Most students scored 25.
C) The average score is 25.
D) 50% of the students scored 25 or below.
- 78. Can a student with a General Average of 74 be promoted?
A) Yes, if the parents appeal.
B) Yes, on probation.
C) No, he is retained in the grade level.
D) Yes, if he passes the removal exam.
- 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) 50
D) 0
- 80. A grade of 75-79 falls under which descriptor?
A) Poor
B) Fairly satisfactory
C) Satisfactory
D) Did not meet expectation
- 81. Teacher W teaches English (Lar age). She knows that in Grades 1-10, the weight for Written Work in languages is:
A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 30%
D) 50%
- 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) Attendance
B) Performance Tasks
C) Quarterly assessment
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 can take both subjects simultaneously.
D) He is retained in Grade 11.
- 84. Student T got a Final Grade of 73 in M What is the immediate consequence according to DepEd policy?
A) Expelled
B) Promoted to the next grade.
C) Needs to attend Remedial Classes.
D) Retained in the same grade level.
- 85. Why did DepEd move to a standard used grading system?
A) To confuse parents
B) To make it harder for students.
C) To rely solely on multiple-choice tests.
D) To ensure grades reflect the attainment of specific content and performance standards.
- 86. Teacher Y uses a rubric to grade a 1. -play. This score will be recorded under:
A) Character building
B) Quarterly assessment
C) Written works
D) Performance tasks
- 87. What is the floor grade (lowest possible grade) that can appear in the report card for a quarter?
A) 60
B) 50
C) 0
D) 65
- 88. Can a student with a General Aver of 74 be promoted?
A) Yes, on probation.
B) No, he is retained in the grade level.
C) Yes, if the parents appeal.
D) Yes, if he passes the removal exam.
- 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) Pie chart
B) Frequency Polygon
C) Bar graph
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) Bar graph
B) Histogram
C) Line graph
D) Pie chart
- 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) Pie chart
B) Scatterplot
C) Line graph
D) Bar 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) Bar graph
B) Pie chart
C) Box plot
D) Line graph
- 93. Which of the following scenarios represents a Ratio level of measurement?
A) A teacher checking the body temperature of students.
B) A teacher ranking students as Top 1, Top 2, Top 3.
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) Pictograph
C) Pie chart
D) Line graph
- 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) Interval
B) Ratio
C) Nominal
D) Ordinal
- 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) Line graph
B) Pie chart
C) Ogive
D) Bar 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) Scatterplot
B) Bar graph
C) Pie chart
D) Line graph
- 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) Double/Grouped Bar Graph
B) Cumulative Frequency Graph
C) Very satisfactory
D) Exploded Pie Chart
E) Single Line 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) Line graph
C) Bar graph
D) Pie chart
- 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) Nominal (Labeling)
B) Ratio
C) Ordinal (Ranking)
D) Interval
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