Civil Service Simulation Exam

Directions: The following sentences test your knowledge of grammar, usage, diction (choice of words), and idiom. Select the underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If there is no error, select E.

Sixty miles are a good distance. No Error.

When the dentist came in my tooth was stopping aching out of fear that I might lose my tooth. No error.

I hope this centuries will be of use to all of you. No error.

You must remember me to post this letter. No error.

On the busy Ring Road we witnessed a collusion between a truck and an auto. No error.

If anything goes wrong in the city, it will be the university who will be responsible not the police. No error.

May I know who you want to see No error.

Each student were given a chance to prove his talent. No error.

There is usually an atmosphere of heated competition surrounding Jesse and I, especially when we compete in the Cosmic Bowling Night at the Bowladrome. No error.

The teacher asked the student to speak No error.

Her and her family like to stay in their hotel room and play cards whenever they take a trip. No error.

He took morally responsibility and had resigned from the post of family welfare minister. No error.

When one first begins to play tennis, it’s important to work on your serve, and to wield your racket well. No error.

Even though Esther created a petition to protest the crowning of a Prom Queen, there is many people who refused to sign, saying they support the 1950s-era tradition. No error.

His father left him while he was five-year old. No error.

That Japanese dish which you just cooked tastes No error.

Neither rummy nor solitaire measure up to No error.

Nobody, not even I, are excited about the weekend. No error.

If I was queen, I would never have to study for a standardize test. No error.

Porter never liked drinking wine, eating cheese, or to go to a cocktail No error.

This paper’s going pretty good, although I’m not sure I’ll be done on time. No error.

The fascinating TV special shows how quick the hungry tiger can devour her prey. No error.

Of the two cars I drive, I like the Ferrari Testarossa best. No error.

Three years ago, an earthquake had destroyed the lives. No error.

By the time Samantha finishes her university courses, she will type more than 40 term papers. No Error

That is so sweetly of you to come and visit us despite your hectic schedule. No error.

Did the sorcerer and him agreed to meet before keeping the stone? No error.

He can put the pieces together, and he can’t paint the model by himself. He needs me to help him. No error.

Maari mo bang pahirin ang dumi sa may bintana? Walang mali.

Si Juan ay lubos na nabighani ng kanyang makita si Alberta. Walang mali.

Directions: The following phrases or sentences may not be in their logical order. Determine their correct order so that they can convey a complete, logical thought. Then, answer the questions that follow.

1. If you want to maintain the youth and health of your brain, do your best to get rid of the stressors in your life.
2. When there’s too much cortisol rushng to the hippocampus, brain cells may die and result to poor learning and memory function.
3. Stress is the number one cause of diseases and disorders in the bodily organs.
4. When you are under severe stress, hormones call cortisol rush to the hippocampus, the part of your brain that stores short term memory.

(excerpt from ‘Habits to Keep the Brain Healthy,’ published in medsavailable.com)

1. For example, a conference on child care in industry that costs Php 5, 000 to attend may be inaccessible to child care workers who earn lesss than that weekly.
2. Accessibility means more than being able to get in the front door.
3. The structure of an event, the language used, the attitudes represented by the service providers, and the cost also may make an event more or less accessible.
4. Further, non-availabilty of child care at an event may prevent mothers of small children from attending.

1. When a historian interprets these records, they reveal much more than simply facts and figures.
2. To discover how ordinary people lived in a community, historians must go beyond the obvious sources and sift through a variety of documents and objects.
3. Social historians today are more concerned with the lives of ordinary people than those of the famous, rich, or powerful.
4. Marriage and bith certificates, deeds, contracts, company logs, military enlistment records, and photographs all can tell a historian a great deal about day-to-day life.

1. In spite of this overkill capability, world leaders continue to insist that more weapons are needed.
2. According to recent estimates, there are 40,000 to 50,000 nuclear weapons existing in the world today.
3. To put it differently, it is the equivalent of 13 billion tons of TNT, which is more than three tons for every person on the earth.
4. The combined explosive power of these weapons is equivalent to one million bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima.

1. Western culture has not sufficiently distinguished between assertiveness and agression.
2. Any show of assertive firmness or anger is often equated with aggression.
3. Women, in particular, are told that their natural, assertive behavior is aggressive and masculine.
4. Thus, many mislabel their own naturally assertive impulses as negative, even disturbed, urges that should be controlled.

1. New medical research appears to strongly support this claim.
2. These products include such items as bread that is partly made of sawdust, and breakfast cereals that are 85% sugar.
3. Yet people persist in putting every imaginable type of “food product” into their bodies.
4. Anthropologists have found that the phrase “you are what you eat” has existed for years in many cultures around the globe.

• It is the daydream- like state of mind where one is so absorbed in something that one blocks a lot of what is going on around him.
• A hypnotic trance is a very normal and natural state of mind. Most people slip into a trance serveral times every day.
• A person may, for example, try and talk to someone, but he doesn’t hear the other person because he was ‘miley away’.
• They may achieve this state of mind when relaxing to music, or when deeply engrossed in a good book or movie.

(excerpt from ‘ How Hypnosis Works,; published in medsavailable.com)

1. They may indeed be afraid,
2. like we’re supposed to feel sorry for them and not hold them responsible for their abusive actions.
3. the public perception of bullying is that bullies are acting out to cover their own fears.
4. but accepting this as a reason makes bullies sound like victims of their fears.

1. Kicking this harmful habit, allows you to get healthier and to save money that you would normally use for smoking for a better life and future.
2. It is an easy way for local goverments to raise money, because the majority of people have no problem penalizing smokers.
3. Besides the actual costs of cigarettes themselves, impulse purchases and the cost associated with smoking related ailments, makes smoking very expensive.
4. The high taxes tacked on to cigarettes make them quite expensive. This “sin” tax shows no signs of slowing down.
5. Quitting smoking, while extremely beneficial to your health, can also save you a ton of money.

(excerpt from “Quit Smoking and Save A Fortune,’ published in medsavailable.com)

1. Hindi rin mapalalampas ang mga kwento tungkol sa mga bata at mga gurong naglalakad ng higit dalwang oras makarating lamang sa kanilang eskwelahan.
2. Walang mali sa pagpapakita ng mga ito, subalit nakapagtataka lamang na sa tuwing darating ang buwan ng Hunyo ay pare-parehong isyu na lamang ang tinatalakay na tila walang pagbabagong nangyari.
3. Taun-taon na lamang ay mapapansing tampok sa balita ang mga pampublikong paaralan, lalo na’t magsisimula na ang klase.
4. Palaging ipinakikita kung gaano karami ang mga estudyante kumpara sa bilang ng mga guro.
5. Marami na ang nasabi tungkol sa edukasyon dito sa ating bansa, ngunit kakaunti pa lamang ang nagagawa tungkol dito.

Directions: For each of the question, three of the words will be in the same classification; the remaining one will not be. Encircle the word that does not belong to the same classification as the others.

LIGHT : BLIND

PAIN : SEDATIVE

PORK : PIG

AFTER : BEFORE

DISTANCE : MILE

MUNDANE : SPIRITUAL

ARMY : LOGISTICS

GRAVITY : PULL

SYMPHONY : COMPOSER

FILAMENT : LIGHTBULB

CARNIVAL : ENTERTAINMENT

EXHAUSTING : REJUVENATING

LAMENTATION : SORROW

PRIEST : ORDAINED

NEIGHBORHOOD : CITY

PICCOLO : INSTRUMENT

STORY is to BUILDING as STANZA is to ______.

WHEEL : CAR

WHEAT : GRAIN

POSSIBLE : PROBABLE

DECIBEL : SOUND

CATHEDRAL : CHURCH

PERJURY is to LIE as LARCENY is to ____.

MUSEUM is EXHIBIT as THEATER is to _____________.

Window is to pane as book is to

The scientific community was ____________ when a living specimen of a bacteria, long thought to be _____________, was discovered by a Scientist.

Surrounded by their enemies and unable to ______ their supplies, the defenders of the city feared their food would soon be ______.

My chronic back pain was only ______ by the whiplash I experienced in the car crash.

The usual solution proposed for the chronic ______________of affordable housing in the Philippines is to build new houses, often with government subsidies to _____________the cost to the buyer.

The famous Dr. C.Drew’s technique for preserving and storing blood plasma for emergency use proved so________ that it became the _____________for the present bloodbank system by the Red Cross.

As environmentalists recently ____________studying the effects of natural caused forest fires, some phenomena that appeared on the surface to be destructive, often have a hidden _______ effect on the balance of nature.

Certain animal behaviors, such as mating rituals seem to be ____________ and therefore, external factors such as climate changes, food supply or presence of other animals of the same species.

It is ___________ to try to destroy pest completely with pesticides, for as each new chemical pesticide is introduced the pests, gradually become _______________ to it.

The three-legged race is ______ teambuilding activity: when two people are ______ together, they must communicate effectively in order to move forward.

The two rich cousins were very similar to each other in their ______ lifestyles: both spent money freely and ostentatiously displayed the ______ of their homes to their less wealthy neighbors.

Directions: Each sentence below has an underlined word or phrase. Choose the word or phrase that is  most nearly similar in meaning to the underlined word.

Indulgent parents spoil their children by giving in to their every demands and whims.

His diffidence caused him to miss many opportunities.

The recommendation of the wage council is repugnant to the manpower sector.

Teresa was frightened by the amorphous mass which had floated in from the sea.

Recklessness always entails

They resent his hypocritical posing as a friend for they know he is interested only on his own advancement.

Let him drink the juice. It is innocuous and will have no effect.

Although the artist uses various materials for her artworks, she has the predilection for indigenous materials.

A special group in the police force is believed to be engaged in furtive

The Defense presented its case to the jury in a trenchant manner.

Ang pagal na guro ay sandaling tumigil bago muling nagpatuloy sa pagsasalita.

Sanctuaries for wildlife have dwindled alarmingly in the last decade.

Business, like life, is much too extensive and lequescent to be wholly contained by any checklist, formula or theory.

Pilo’s insensitivity has created animosity to the worker’s demands.

Ang mga magbubukid ay nabihasa sa paggamit ng kalabaw bilang katulong nila sa pagsasaka.

Directions: Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Read each passage carefully and answer the questions and/or complete the statements given under each item.

Passage 1

Mercury, is the only metal which keeps its liquid form at normal temperature. It can be poured from one vessel into another exactly as water is poured. Consequently, scientists were not certain that it was a metal until a chemist named Braune was able to freeze it into solid in 1759. Mercury was certainly known, however, as early as 300 B.C., when it was described by a Greek writer as “liquid silver.” It is also called quicksilver, and most people know it by that name.

Mercury is an extremely valuable metal. It is an essential part of many of our most useful drugs and medicines, and it would be almost impossible to get along without it. Large quantities of it are used in the mixing of paints, in making of explosives, and in the manufacture of electrical and scientific apparatus. Mercury is perhaps most commonly known in the making of thermometers.

Mercury is sometimes found in its free state among rocks, but most of it comes from a beautiful red Ore called cinnabar, which is mercury mixed with sulfur.

Which question does this article as a whole answer best?

Which of the following is not directly stated in the article, but is a reasonable conclusion from reading the passage?

Passage 2

A saleslady, working on the cash register at a fast-food restaurant was about to ring up a purchase when the lights-went out.

“Oh no!” she said, knowing that the computerized machine would not function. “Well, I guess we’ll do it the old-fashioned way,” she said, pulling a calculator from the drawer.

Which of the following sentences best describes the saleslady?

A calculator and a computerized machine are different in the sense that a

Passage 3

Onions make us cry. Yet they spice up our appetites. Beef stew without onions is like bread without butter. Onions are frequently used in the preparation of soups, noodles, fried rice, and roast beef among others. This aromatic herb is typical of the allium group of plants. It is strongly flavored and has a sharp odor. This is due to the pungent oil that contains sulfur. But onions not only satisfy our stomachs. They also possess medical uses. They can stimulate bile production, lower the blood sugar levels, cure hypertension, speed the healing of gunshot wounds, and cure scorpion bites.

The word sharp as used in the selection means

The selection as a whole is about

The word sharp as used in the selection means

The selection as a whole is about

Which two statements are not true?

Talata 1

Bagama’t napalaki na ang isinulong nitong huling mga dekadang kilusan sa sining at edukasyon na naglalayong itanghal ang kakanyahang pangkulturang Pilipino, marami pa ring bagay ang humahadlang sa ganap na pamumulaklak ng kakanyahang ito sa kasalukuyan. Sa panitikan, matutukoy ang kadahupan ng pananaliksik at publikasyon tungkol sa iba’t ibang panitikan ng Pilipinas. Una, kulang na kulang pa rin ang ginagawang pananaliksik sa mga literature ng mga grupong etno-lingguwistiko sa bansa. Pangalawa, ang pananaliksik na nagawa na ay bihirang malimbag, at malimbag man ay sa Ingles at sa edisyong di kayang bilhin ng mga guro at mag-aaral. Pangatlo, marami sa mga akdang itinuturing na klasiko ng mga kritiko ay wala nang kopya, o dili kaya’y makikita na lamang ngayon sa mga pribadong aklatan ng mga piling iskolar.

Ano ang itinuturing sa talata na hadlang sa ganap na pag-unlad ng panitikang Pilipino?

Ang mga sumusunod ang itinuturing na dahilan ng hindi pagsulong ng panitikang Pilipino maliban sa:

Ano ang kahulugan ng salitang “kadahupan” sa ikalawang pangungusap:

Directions:  For each of the problems below, choose the correct answer from the choices given.  On your answer sheet, shade the box that corresponds to your answer.

8 is to   as 27 is to ________

Of the following, which is the greatest?

Choose the decimal that may be rounded to 3.

2 is what percent of 5?

subtracted from its reciprocal is

75 is to as 0.8 is to _________

P25 is 20% of what?

14, 15, 19, 20, 25, 26, 32, 33,

What is the ratio of to

If of a number is 45, what is of the same number?

If there are three microscopes for every four medical students, how many microscopes are needed for 44 students?

What part of an hour elapses between 11.50 am and 12.14 pm?

A motion was passed by a vote of 6 is to 4. What part of votes cast were in favor of the motion?

Randy sold 66 shirts today. This was 7 fewer than half of yesterday’s sales. How many did he sell yesterday?” If x = number of shirts he sold yesterday, then which is the correct equation to solve the problem?

In a group of 60 people, of them are adults. 25% of the adults wear glasses. How many adults do not wear glasses?

Each box of ballpen contains 24 pieces. Each employee in an office is given three ballpens. How many boxes will be needed for 168 employees?

The United Arab Emirates has reduced its daily oil production by 80,000 barrels from 1.7 million barrels. Find its daily production in million barrels.

A motorcycle covers 225km in How far can he go in hours?

There are two numbers whose sum is 48. One of the numbers is greater by 6. What are the numbers?

Fatima is 15 years old. Bernice is one-third older. How many years ago was Bernice twice as old as Fatima?

There are 36 reams of bond paper in a drawer. If 1 ¼ dozens of reams of paper were to be used in printing, how many reams should be left in the drawer?

When 4 times a number   is increased by 9, the result is 21.Which of the following equation represents the statement above?

What is the difference in elevation between the top of a mountain 8,520 feet above sea level and a point in a valley 253 feet below sea level?

Look at this series: 42, 40, 38, 35, 32, 28, 24 … what number should come next?

Susan has 96 minutes to complete a test in school. The test begins at 2:00 pm and Susan has volleyball practice at 4:00 pm. How much time will Susan have between the end of the test and the beginning of her volleyball practice?

A painter can finish painting 25 desks in 6hrs. How many desks can be painted from 6am to 9pm?

One million is to be divided among the 3 children of a widower in the ratio of 10:12:18. By how much is the largest share greater than the smallest share?

An airplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 km per hour in 5 hours. To cover the same distance in 1 hours, it must travel at a speed of:

If the management of a parking lot charges its customer P10.00 for the first two hours and P5.00 for each additional hour or a part thereof; then the cost for parking for 4 hours and 45 minutes is __________.

An employee spends about P1,330.00 a month. This sum is 70% of his monthly salary. How much does he receive a month?

Jason bought a jacket on sale for 50% off the original price and another 25% off the discounted price. If the jacket originally cost Php 8,800, what was the final sale price that Jason paid for the jacket?

An amount of P18,400 was requested for the purchase of office supplies. How much was released if 15% of the amount requested was not granted?

At San Antonio’s Town Plaza, the number of trees planted by a group of students increased from 1,350 in 2012 to 2,175 in 2013. What was the rate of increase in the number of trees planted?

If Caloy was r years old two years ago, what will his age be three years from now?

For which of the following pairs of years the total exports from the three Companies together are equal?

In which year was the difference between the exports from Companies X and Y the minimum?

Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?