PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT TEST

The 2023 Regular Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT) will be conducted on February 11, 2024, for Luzon testing centers, and on February 18, 2024, for Visayas and Mindanao testing centers, according to the Department of Education.

Through the Bureau of Education Assessment, the PEPT is a nationally administered assessment for learners in special circumstances.

The result of this assessment will allow these learners to access or resume schooling and/or obtain certification of completion by grade level in the DepEd formal system.

The target registrants for PEPT are learners from schools without a government permit; Learners from nonformal and informal education programs; Learners who have incomplete or no record of formal schooling; Learners with back subjects; Learners who need grade-level standards assessment; and Learners who are overage for their grade levels.

The DepEd said no test registration fees shall be collected from the test registrants. Pursuant to Section 6 (Grade Level Placement Assessment) of DepEd Order No. 55, s. 2016 titled Policy Guidelines on the National Assessment of Student Learning for the K to 12 Basic Education Program, the placement of the Regular PEPT qualifiers shall take effect in the next or subsequent school year, not duringnthe current school year when the test was administered.

Examinees whose test score in one subject is lower than 75% may be allowed to retake the failed subtest within six months from the date of examination. On the other hand, examinees whose test scores in two or three subjects are lower than 75% are required to retake all the subtests.

Meanwhile, a Certificate of Rating (COR) shall be issued to each test-taker. The testing centers shall be located in select SDOs, while some SDOs shall have more than one testing center.

-oOoThe author is a Teacher II at Porac National High School