942 pass PMA exams, to compete for 300 cadet slots
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – Nine hundred forty-two applicants passed the rigid Philippine Military Academy (PMA) entrance examinations given in 30 testing centers nationwide last Aug. 31.
The 942 successful examinees, however, will have to compete for only 300 slots for cadetship to become members of the PMA Class 2013.
PMA authorities said that should there be more than 300 qualifiers, the academy plans to ask the Armed Forces of the Philippines headquarters to allow additional 30 or 50 cadets to join the class of 2013.
Maj. Gen. Leopoldo Maligalig, PMA superintendent, reported that this year’s passing rate is 18 percent which is slightly higher than last year’s passing rate of 16 percent.
“We are happy that through the past four years, there has been a marked and continuing increase in the number of applicants for the cadetship,” Maligalig said.
Records showed that applicants from Baguio City garnered the highest passing percentage in the entrance exams with 27 percent or 133 qualifiers composed of 90 males and 43 males among the 487 applicants who took the exams in the city.
There were 8, 449 regulars and 1,834 walk-in applicants nationwide but only 5, 777 have qualified to take the tests and 5, 652 completed the battery of test in Mathematics, English and special PMA aptitude test.
Of the 942 qualifiers, 675 are male and 267 female.
The PMA entrance examination is the first step of a highly competitive process for cadet aspirants in the PMA, which is considered the premier military institution in Asia.
After the entrance exam, the qualifiers will undergo rigid and complete physical fitness test and medical examination which be will conducted starting early October.
Those who will qualify the second stage will be notified by the PMA by mail and the complete list of passers will be published in some major national newspapers and at the PMA website site.
PMA has been accepting 10,000 to 12, 000 applicants in the past years but the decrease in the number of aspiring cadets was a result of a more rigid screening by the PMA in ensuring a higher quality of cadets applicants and appointees, according to PMA information officer, Capt. Agnes Lynnette Flores.
Flores said the strategic move us consistent with the PMA Roadmap 2015 program.
The program aims to transform PMA into a premier leadership school in the country with graduates transformed into true leaders. It also aims to insulate PMA cadets from politics and to mold them into constitutional soldiers who must defend the fundamental law of the land at all costs.
I want to know if when and where will be the physical fitness test and medical examination.Please do inform me immediately.Thanks!!!!
i also want to know when we will be notify for our second screening test in Vluna? and what are the requirements we should bring there??
V Luna Medial Center..
Good pm. po ask ko po kung pumasa ako sa 2008 entrance exam?
i’m just asking if your entrance examination is still going on??please inform me immediately..thanks!
Tanong ko po kung kailan irelease ung list ng passers.