ABOUT seven Cebu education graduates landed in the top 10 of the March 2012 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) in the elementary and secondary level.
Diana Rose Bucar Zamoras of the Talisay City College ranked number 7 in the national elementary level with an 85.40 average. The school also topped other schools in the country with a passing rate of 87.65 percent.
Rep. Eduardo Gullas, who initiated the establishment of the school during his tenure as mayor, said he was proud of their achievement. The exam results were released last Tuesday.
Other ranking education board examinees were fifth-placer Ana Mae Fantonial Villamor of the University of the Visayas 85.80 percent and eighth-placer Gengen Giolen Padillo from the CIT-University with 85 percent.
Jan Frelyn Ocso Paalisbo of the University of Cebu ranked 10th with 84.60 percent.
In the secondary level, Rogelio dela Cerna Rondina Jr. of Cebu Normal University ranked fourth with 86 percent.
He was followed by sixth-placer Jhen Louie Bandiola Dignos of the Cebu Normal University with 85.60 percent and 10th placer Roxanne Patiga Suarez of the University of the Philippines Visayas in Cebu City with 84.80 percent.
Carlos A. Hilado Memorial State College in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, had a passing rate of 85.07 percent followed by Sorsogon State College with 84.51 percent and Pampanga Agricultural College with 83.33 percent.
The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the Board for Professional Teachers (BPT) announced last Tuesday that 13,925 elementary teachers out of 32,798 examinees passed the licensure exam in the country.
Zamoras, a 20-year-old native of Gampis, Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte, said she credited her success to God, her school, friends and her parents.
The eldest of two siblings, Dianne stayed in the house of her aunt in Cansojong, Talisay.
Her father Victorino worked as security personnel for the Talisay City National high school while her mother Jheanie worked as domestic helper in Kuwait.
Zamoras said she wanted to handle special children.
“Because I believe I can also learn from them, especially how to be patient in dealing with them,” she said.
Zamoras’s tuition will be refunded along with a P10,000 cash incentive from the school president and a free trip to Boracay for two days from Prof. Nancy Jadulco, the school’s program director for Education.
Jadulco said she will bring Zamoras and last year’s 8th-placer Mary Kaye Misa to Boracay.
Former Cebu City councilor Arsenio Pacaña, dean of the College of Education in CIT-University, congratulated Gengen Padillo who ranked eighth in the elementary level, saying it was the first time the school produced a ranking graduate.
The Talisay City College was founded last 2004 and has around 1,700 students.
It has 20 rooms with three buildings including the old Talisay City Hall, which they use in the school.