PMA entrance exam slated August 25

From the Leyte Samar Daily Express (Aug 20): PMA entrance exam slated August 25

About 300 young men and women are to take their chances to enter the country’s most prestigious military academy, the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).

Captain Ross Mar Villareal, officer-in-charge of the plan and program officer of academic group of the PMA, said that the entrance examination would be held this Sunday, August 25.

“That will be a whole day (event). We will be processing the applications in the morning but the examination proper will be in the afternoon,” Villareal, who visited the Leyte Samar Daily Express office, said.

The examination will cover three areas, namely, abstract reasoning, mathematics and English with 200 test items.

The testing center for Tacloban is at the Leyte Normal University.

Villareal said that walk-in applicants will be accepted on the examination day.
  
Villareal, who previously worked at the office of Mayor Alfred Romualdez, said that he is encouraging young men and women from the region to take the qualifying examinations.

He noted that among the three Visayas region, Eastern Visayas lagged behind in terms of number of examinees and graduates at the PMA.

In fact, Villareal said, no one from the region made it to the graduating batch last year.
He added that the most the region could produce a PMA graduate was three.

But Villareal was quick to say that there were already quite a number of PMAers from the region who made in the honor list.

As a PMA scholar, one can enjoy perks like full academic scholarship, free board and lodging and a monthly allowance of P27,000.

A graduate is already considered to be employed as he or she has only to choose which among the branches of the armed forces he/she want to belong, Villareal said.

For one to qualify, the examinee must be a high school graduate with a general average of 85, stands five feet and aged 17 to 21 years old.

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