Baguio City SLU student tops CSC professional exam

BAGUIO CITY-- A college student from Baguio City topped the Career Service Professional level examination administered by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on Dec. 6, 2015.

Melrose Dela Cruz, a fourth year accounting student of Saint Louis University, leads the almost 5,000 successful examinees of the CS professional level with a rating of 89.07 percent.

Dela Cruz said that the she did not expect to be the topnotcher or even to pass the exams since she did not have enough time to review due to the very busy schedule.

Another Baguio student, Kenneth Ian Robles of the University of the Philippines – Baguio landed fourth overall with a rating of 88.35%.

For the sub professional level, Joshua Samuel Lavarias placed 10th overall with a rating of 86.45%.

A total of 5,982 or 10.92% out of 54,777 examinees passed the Career Service Professional and Sub Professional written examinations held last December 2015. The examinations cover affected areas of the country where the exams were suspended on October 18, 2015 due to Typhoon Lando.

Of the said figure, 4,899(10.78%) passed the Professional level while 1,083 (11.62%) passed the Sub Professional level.

In the Cordillera Region(CAR),  669 or 13.53%  out of  the  4,274 examinees  passed the professional level  while 143 or 13.70 % of the 1,044 examinees passed the Sub Professional level exams conducted  in four testing centers in the region: Baguio City, Bangued, Abra; Lagawe, Ifugao and Luna, Apayao.

CAR’s Top 10 passers for CSE-PPT (Professional) were Dela Cruz, Robles, Kennric A. Licang (88.29), Kimberly P. Paglingayen (88.03), Amiel Jae F. Sarmiento (87.48), Jedalyn S. Macwes (87.17), Angelica S. Melecio (87.12), Hazel F. Luy (86.81), Alodia Rei B. Leung (86.73), and Lovely Mae N. Padduyao (86.59).

Lavarias leads the top 10 passers in CAR for the CSE-PPT (Sub-professional) with Kritzelnyll G. Anga-angan (86.22), Ian Carlo G. Bulosan (85.96), Sherry Ann H. Manganip (85.67), John Russel G. Alejo (85.41), Faith K. Tungod (85.40), Demi Lynn C. Fianza (85.16), Lilia B. Wacangan (85.14), Bendix P. Daluyen (84.64), and Lloyd Ashley L. Lundang (84.43).

The passers will be conferred civil service eligibilities. The  Career Service Professional Eligibility , among other qualification requirements, shall be appropriate for permanent appointment to both first level (clerical) and second level (technical) positions in the career service that do not involve practice of profession and are not covered by other special laws. The Sub Professional eligibility shall be appropriate only to first level positions in the government that include clerical, trades, crafts, and custodial service positions.

The complete list of successful examinees of the Dec. 6, 2015 CSE-PPT is available at the CSC website www.csc.gov.ph.

Examinees may generate their individual test results using the Online Civil Service Examination Result Generation System (OCSERGS), which can be accessed also through the CSC website.

The next schedule of the Career Service written examinations will be on April 17, 2016. Filing of application is ongoing until February 26.

Applicants should personally file their applications at the CSC Regional Office or at any of the  CSC  field offices where they intend to take the examination. The test centers in CAR will be Baguio City; Bangued, Abra; Bontoc, Mt. Province and Tabuk City. -- Lauren Alimondo