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The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has announced the schedule of civil service examinations to be conducted in 2019 via the Pen and Paper mode.

The CSC, through its regional offices nationwide, will administer four types of eligibility examinations with the following schedule—Career Service Examination for Foreign Service Officer (CSE-FSO)–Jan. 27; Career Service Examination, Pen and Paper Test (CSE-PPT) for Professional and Subprofessional levels–Mar. 17 and Aug. 4; and Basic Competency on Local Treasury Examination (BCLTE)–June 23.

Non-eligibility examinations will also be conducted namely, Intermediate Competency on Local Treasury Examination (ICLTE)–Oct. 13; and Pre-Employment Test, Promotional Test, and Ethics Oriented Personality Test (EOPT)–June 23 and Oct. 13.

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has disclosed that of the 181,985 examinees of the Career Service Professional and Subprofessional examinations held nationwide on August 12, 2018, a total of 22,087 or 12.14 percent passed the government test.

These figures, however, do not include examinees from National Capital Region (NCR) and Morong, Rizal where examinations were suspended last August 12 due to torrential rains brought by the southwest monsoon (Habagat). The suspended August 12 examinations in NCR and Morong, Rizal have been reset to November 11, 2018.

Salveregina Samuelle Sarnillo from Central Visayas, with a rating of 92.35, bested 159,283 examinees of the Career Service Professional level, while Sophia Isabelle Olalia, with a 90.78 rating and from the Southern Tagalog region, placed first among the 22,702 hopefuls for the Subprofessional level. The Professional level posted a 12.25 percent passing rate while the Subprofessional level had 11.35 percent, comprising 19,510 and 2,577 passers, respectively. 

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will confer the Outstanding Government Workers Award to 27 individuals and three groups during the awards rites on 27 September 2018 in Malacañang.

Leading this year’s awardees are teachers determined to create an engaging, interactive, and supportive learning environment despite challenges of mobile education in far-flung communities. These educators brave steep and narrow mountain trails, neck-deep rivers, and the danger of being caught in the crossfire of armed groups; they also use their personal resources to bring education to remote areas in the country.

Scientists who are determined to address the crisis on the country’s rice industry through their inventions and research work on developing heat-tolerant, good eating quality, high yield, and early maturity rice varieties also made it to the list.

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) will simultaneously conduct seven (7) examinations on October 14, 2018 namely, the Special Career Service Examination-Pen and Paper Test (CSE-PPT) for Professional and SubProfessional levels, Basic Competency on Local Treasury Examination (BCLTE), Intermediate Competency on Local Treasury Examination (ICLTE), Pre-Employment Test, Promotional Test, and the Ethics Oriented Personality Test (EOPT).

The Special CSE-PPT is different from the suspended August 12 CSE-PPT in NCR and Morong, Rizal, which has been reset to November 11, 2018, the CSC clarified. The former is intended for examinees who are under contract of service, job order, as well as outsourced staff in the government.

The BCLTE and ICLTE are part of the Standardized Examination and Assessment for Local Treasury Service (SEAL) Program of the Department of Finance.  

The Pre-Employment Test, Promotional Test, and the EOPT are used as human resource tools to help agencies assess candidates/applicants vying for vacant positions.

The Bayugan City Educators Chorale emerged as the grand champion of the 2018 Government Choral Competition held September 18, 2018 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

The choir bested seven (7) finalists, earning them a cash prize of PHP200,000 and a plaque from the Civil Service Commission (CSC). They also won the Best Conductor (Prim Ross L. Eng) and Best Arrangement of Competition Song (Saunder Choi).

Other finalists were the City Government of Makati Employees Chorale who placed 1st runner-up; Dasmariñas City Teachers' Chorale, 2nd runner-up; DepEd Catanduanes Division Choral, 3rd runner-up; NSU Chorale, Best regional entry from Visayas; COA CO/NCR Choir; National Power Chorale; and DepEd Division of Agusan Del Sur Teacher's Chorale.