Tacurong City hosts PMA entrance exam for SOCCSKSARGEN region on August 3

From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 27): Tacurong City hosts PMA entrance exam for SOCCSKSARGEN region on August 3

All is set for the entrance examination of Philippine Military Academy (PMA) for examinees coming from the SOCCSKSARGEN region on August 3.

Major Raul Verceles, PMA acting director of the Office of Cadet Admission, said the examinees will come from the provinces of North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Saranggani and the cities of Cotabato, Kidapawan, Tacurong, Koronadal and Gen. Santos.

Mayor Lina Montilla lauded the PMA leadership for choosing her city as examination center for the region along with 29 other PMA examination centers in the country.

Montilla said the event would showcase Tacurong City as possible tourist destination from local tourists. It will also show the country that Tacurong is peaceful and progressive, emerging as the region’s economic hub.

Montilla said this is the third time that Tacurong City is hosting the annual entrance examination for the country’s premier military academy.

She expressed confidence a good number of examinees from Tacurong City and the region will make it to the country’s premier education institution for future military leaders.

In a statement, Verceles said the PMA entrance examination will measure the aspirants’ mental ability in the areas of Math, including algebra and geometry, English grammar, English composition, and Reading and Comprehension and their abstract reasoning ability, to include verbal, numerical reasoning and pattern analysis.

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