SOCIAL SCIENCE

2015

1. This major division of economics is concerned with the analysis of the behavior of
individual decision making units within an economic system, from specific
household to specific business firms.
a. Macroeconomics
b. Microeconomics
c. Traditional economics
d. Political economy
2. A division of economics dealing with the analysis of aspects of the economy as a
whole.
a. Macroeconomics
b. Microeconomics
c. Traditional economics
d. Political economy
3. Which of the following is true about the law of demand?
a. As the price of the goods increases, demand tends to increase as well
b. Given all other factors constant, there is a direct proportion between prices
of goods and the demand of consumers
c. Given all other factors constant, prices of commodities are directly
proportional to the demand
d. None of the above
4. Which of the following is true about the law of supply?
a. Given all other factors constant, there is a direct proportion between prices
and supply
b. As the price of the goods decreases, supply tends to increase and vice-versa
c. Supply is dependent upon the production inputs
d. All of the above
5. What are some of the factors that determine the supply of a particular goods and
services?
a. income, taste, and preferences
b. income, labor, technology and capital
c. land, labor, capital, and technology
d. land, capital, and income
6. What are some of the factors that determine the demand of a particular goods and
services?
a. income, taste, and preferences
b. income, labor, technology and capital
c. land, labor, capital, and technology
d. land, capital, and income
7. Market economy is to capitalism while command economy is to _____________.
a. Communism
b. Centralized capitalism
c. Socialism
d. Mercantilism
8. Command economy is to public ownership: market economy is to ____________.
a. State ownership
b. Government ownership
c. Private ownership
d. Public ownership
9. Which economic system state that the consumer determine the goods and service
to produce?
a. Advance market economy
b. Pure command economy
c. Pure market economy
d. Mixed economy
10.
The following except one are roles of the government in a mixed economy.
Which is this?
a. Minimize market inefficiency
b. Promote exportation and importation
c. Promote low levels of inflation

d. Provision of public goods

11.
Which of the following approaches might suggest that forgetting to pick his
mother up at the airport was Henrys unconscious way of saying that he did not
welcome her visit?
a. Psychoanalytic
b. Behavioral
c. Humanistic
d. Cognitive
12.
Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human
nature?
a. Humanisn
b. Behaviorism
c. Psychoanalysis
d. Structuralism
13.
Which of the following historical events created a demand for clinicians that
was far greater than the supply?
a. World War I
b. The Depression
c. World War II
d. The Korean War
14.
_______________ psychology examines behavioral processes in terms of their
adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations.
a. Clinical
b. Cognitive
c. Evolutionary
d. Physiological
15.
Critical thinking skills:
a. are abstract abilities that cannot be identified.
b. usually develop spontaneously through norman content instruction.
c. usually develop spontaneously without any instruction.
d. need to be deliberately taught because they ofetn do not develop by
themselves with standard content instruction..
16.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of language?
a. It is generative.
b. It is nomothetic.
c. It is symbolic.
d. It has structure.
17.
Which of the following is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?
a. genome
b. morpheme
c. phoneme
d. phonogram
18.
Research suggest that bilingualism has a negative effect on:
a. language development
b. cognitive development
c. metalinguistic awareness.
d. none of the above.
19.
Chomsky proposed that children learn a language:
a. because they possess an innate language acquisition device.
b. through imitation, reinforcement, and shaping.
c. as the quality of their thought improves with age.
d. because they need to in order to get their increasingly complex needs met.
20.
The linguistic relativity hypothesis is the notion that:
a. ones language determines the nature of ones thought.
b. ones thought determines the nature of ones language.
c. language and thought are separate and independent processes.
d. language and thought interact, with each influencing the other.
21.
In a description of Sociology, we would not make reference to which of the
following?
a. Scientific study
b. Individual motivations

c. Human society
d. Social interactions
22.
As a field, sociology is most interested in:
a. mental processes
b. unconscious behavior
c. creating the perfect society
d.
social behavior
23.
Which of the following best describes the main goal of sociology?
a. To understand the social behavior
b. Unconscious behavior
c. To improve society
d. To help people with their problems
24.
Which of the following is an example of an issue a sociologist would study?
a. What is the interaction between chemicals and behavior?
b. Which political system is best?
c. Why is the unemployment rate rising?
d. How do police actions influence crowd behavior?
25.
In which of the following disciplines is most closely related to sociology?
a. Psychology
b. Cultural anthropology
c. Political Science
d. History
26.
Anthropologist are most likely to study?
a. Large post industrial societies
b. The culture of advanced civilization
c. Groups and institutions
d. The culture of small pre-industrial societies
27.
As a social psychologist would be most likely to study:
a. Racial segregation in the schools
b. Drug use in high school
c. The factors that produce conformity in a group situation
d. The role chemicals play in human behavior
28.
When sociologist study the political system they are most likely to be
interested in:
a. Political theory
b. How it affects other institutions in society
c. The actual operations of the government
d. Voting behavior
29.
Which of the following is NOT true about the concept of culture?
a. It includes behavioral patterns passed on through the genes
b. It taught learned through social interactions
c. All human groups have culture
d. Culture is a blueprint for living in a particular society
30.
The reaction people may have when encountering cultural tradition different
from their own is known as:
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Culture shock
c. Cultural relativism
d. Sheltered culturalism
31.
The document which provides the basic law of the state is the:
a. Republic Act
b. Executive Order
c. Constitution
d. Presidential Decree
32.
The civilian authority is supreme over the military
a. at all times
b. during peace time
c. during war time
d.
when the military consents it
33.
The Constitution states that we have a democratic and republican state and
all government authority emanates from the:

a. Congress
b. People
c. President
d.
Supreme court
34.
The right of a person to freely choose his place of residence is called:
a. Right of counsel
b. Right of bail
c. Right of abode
d. Guided democracy
35.
The Malolos Constitution of 1899 followed the political philosophy of:
a. Liberal democracy
b. Social democracy
c. National democracy
d. Guided democracy
36.
The Filipino citizenry should be made aware that the people, territory,
government and sovereignty are the elements of a:
a. Nation
b. Country
c. State
d. Society
37.
Even during the period of suspension of the Privilege of the habeas corpus, a
person arrested or detained should be released from such detention if he is not
judicially charged within:
a. Two days
b. Four days
c. Three days
d. Five days
38.
In the Constitution, political power is distributed among the people and in
the:
a. Society
b. Government
c. Schools
d. Church
39.
The constitution requires the congress to convene its regular session once
every:
a. Third Monday of July
b. Fourth Monday of July
c. Second Monday of July
d. First Monday of July
40.
All educational institution shall be include the study of the _____________ as
part of the curricula.
a. Bible
b. Koran
c. Constitution
d. All of these
41.
Which is the ultimate objective of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program?
a. The establishment of owner-cultivated farm
b. The cultivation of all idle lands
c. The abolition of shared tenancy in favor of lease tenancy
d. The distribution of arable lands in the country
42.
Which assumption underlines the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program?
a. Filipinos dependence on landlords is a cultural fact
b. Land as a natural resource is a public property
c. It is a sin to be rich and a virtue to be poor
d. Men always work harder when they work on that which is their
43.
Taxes imposed by the local government such as cities, municipalities, or
provinces.
a. Local tax
b. Excise tax
c. Property tax

d. Regressive tax
44.
Tax imposed on both employees and employers.
a. Local tax
b. Income tax
c. Property tax
d. Regressive tax
45.
Taxes imposed for special puposes, the process of which go to certain special
fund.
a. Special tax
b. General tax
c. Proportionate tax
d. Progressive tax
46.
Agrarian reform means remedying the defects in the distribution and
utilization of the land in the hope of increasing its productivity
a. To improve the economy of the country
b. To raise the standard of living of the people
c. To improve the traditional forms in agriculture
d. To improve the agriculture sector
47.
What system of taxation is provided in the Constitution?
a. Regressive
b. Uniform
c. Progressive
d. Incremental
48.
The rule of taxation shall be uniform and ______________.
a. Nonpartisan
b. Revocable
c. Equitable
d. Progressive
49.
What is the meaning of the Basic Principle of Taxation known as Fiscal
Adequacy?
a. Tax burden should be proportionate to the tax payers ability to pay
b. Tax laws should be capable and convenient, just and effective administration
c. Source of revenue should be sufficient to meet the demands of public
expenditures
d. The power of taxation in inherent
50.
All residential houses, regardless of their assessed value, may be considered
as belonging to one class-residential property and is made subject to the same tax
rate but different amounts of tax on the basis of their assessed value. This
situation illustrates what in taxation?
a. Uniformity in Taxation
b. Equality in Taxation
c. Progressive in Taxation
d. Equity in Taxation
51.
Direct and indirect taxes are kinds of taxes classified according to
a. subject matter of the tax
b. how the amount of tax due is determined
c. purpose of the tax
d. who shoulders the tax burden
52.
What holds true in progressive system of taxation?
a. The rate if tax increases as the income tax base or income bracket increases
b. The rate of tax increases as the income tax base decreases
c. The rate of tax decreases as the income tax base increases
d. The tax is equal regardless of class and place
53.
The BEC 2002 is designed to empower the Filipino learner so that he or she
can become the following except one. Which is the exception?
a. A self-developed person
b. A self-centered Filipino learner
c. An individual who has the skills of learning how to learn
d. A person who is Maka-Diyos, Makatao, Makabayan and Makakalikasan
54.
The most noble reason for coming up with the revised BEC 2002 is
a. to try-out modern ways of teaching.

b. to empower the learner for lifelong learning.

c. because the old curriculum was to crowded.
d. because the subjects content was no longer relevant.
55.
The five learning areas of the BEC 2002 are:
a. English, Filipino, Science, Music, and Physical Education
b. Makabayan, GMRC, Filipino, English, Science, Math
c. English, Filipino, Math, Science, Makabayan
d. Sibika/Hekasi, Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan, Musika, Sining at
Edukasyong Pangkatawan, GMRC
56.
Experiential learning is demonstrated when
a. the teacher shares her personal experiences with the children
b. the students are allowed to read stories about experiences of characters in a
story
c. the children reflect on and learn to learn from their own experiences
d. teachers gave the learners opportunity to experience failure and success
57.
Collaborative learning among children is demonstrated in the following
situation except in one.
a. Children learn to work in different situations in different contexts with
different teams
b. Learners known how to deal with their classmates, with their teachers and
with other people
c. Learners demonstrate leadership and teamwork and group work habits.
d. Learners do a lot of reflection and intelligent decision-making.
58.
Which of the following is not a good practice of a teacher in helping children
learn to read?
a. Encourage children to read by themselves silently, for increasingly longer
periods.
b. Teachers read to children and explain to them whats reading all about.
c. Expose children to a wide variety of story forms and good use of language.
d. Attention to correct oral reading has priority over understanding.
59.
Every Child a Reader Proram or ECARP aims to help each learner become a
reader ideally by the end of
a. grade six
b. grade four
c. grade three
d. grade one
60.
A learner is declared a reader at the beginning of grade 3 if he/she is able to
a. read at least a complete paragraph.
b. read at least one sentence with fluency.
c. read words and match each word with the correct picture.
d. read at least one paragraph and understand the meaning of what was read.

SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. It is also known as the behavioral sciences.
a. Natural Science
b. Humanities
c. Social Sciences
d.
Philosophy
2. An economist who argued that production depends on the ownership of the means
of production.
a. Adam Smith

b. Karl Marx
c. Alfred Marshall
d. W. Rostow
3. Which of the following best describes the nature of characteristics of human
needs?
a. Human needs are limited
b. All human needs are attainable
c. Human needs are unlimited
d. Human needs are unattainable
4. Which among the following best describes economic resources?
a. Resources are infinite
b. Resources are finite
c. Resources are unlimited
d. There is abundance of resources
5. In the process of production, which of the following factors are most important?
a. land, human, resource, inputs, technology
b. land, human resources, capital, entrepreneur
c. land, labor, capital, technology
d. land, labor, technology, manager
6. The following except one are basic question s addressed by any economic system.
a. what goods and services to produce
b. for whom and how much to produce
c. how to produce
d. what goods and services to trade
7. A basic economic principle in economics which refers to the process of ignoring
unimportant details is solving a particular economic problem.
a. economic theory
b. abstraction
c. economic model
d. rational decision
8. Which of the following is true about the state of the wolrds resources?
a. The worlds resources are naturally limited
b. There are no poor countries, only mismanaged economies
c. The worlds resources are not enough to sustain the needs of its population
d. The worlds resources are equitably distributed to the worlds entire
population
9. A basic principle in economics referring to the value of the next best alternative
that the decision forces the decision-maker to forgo.
a. rational decision
b. opportunity cost
c. abstraction
d. economic theory
10.
Which of the following shows an example of the opportunity cost of a
particular decision?
a. The government decides to allocate more budget to the military thus
reducing its budget to education
b. A student decides to save half of his/her allowance thereby cutting the
expenses
c. A group of student activists attends a rally and therefore missing their
classes
d. All of the above
11.
Adopted childrens similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed
to _____________; adopted childrens similarity to their adoptive parents is generally
attributed to _______________.
a. heredity; the environment
b. the environment; heredity
c. the environment; the environment
d. heredity; heredity
12.
Which of the following statements represents the most logical resolution of
the nature-nurture controversy?

a. Environment is most important, at least for those individuals who have a

normal genotype.
b. Heredity and environment interact to affect an individuals development.
c. Heredity is most important, but a high-quality environment can make up for
genetic defects.
d. The environment is like a rubber band that stretches to meet the needs of an
individuals genotype.
13.
In evolutionary theory, fitness refers to:
a. the ability to survive.
b. the ability to adapt to environment demands.
c. reproductive success.
d. the physical skills necessary for survival.
14.
Albert Bandura:
a. was the first to describe species-specific learning tendencies.
b. was the founder of behaviorism.
c. pioneered the study of classical conditioning.
d. pioneered the study of observational learning
15.
Getting information into memory is called ______________; getting information
out of memory is called ______________.
a. storage; retrieval
b. encoding; storage
c. encoding; retrieval
d. storage; encoding
16.
Which of the following approaches to explaining the origins of homosexuality
had received the most empirical support?
a. Behavioral
b. Biological
c. Psychoanalytic
d.
All of these approaches equally
17.
Harvey Hedonist has devoted his life to the search for physical pleasure and
immediate need gratification. Freud would say that Harvey is dominated by:
a. his ego.
b. his superego.
c. hid id.
d. Bacchus.
18.
Freud believe that most personality disturbances are due to:
a. the failure of parents to reinforce healthy behavior.
b. a poor self-concept resulting from excessive parental demands.
c. unconscious and unresolved sexual conflict rooted in childhood experiences.
d.
the exposure of children to unhealthy role models.
19.
Which of the following did Carl Rogers believe fosters a congruent selpconcept?
a. Conditional love
b. Appropriate role models
c. Immediate need gratification
d. Unconditional love
20.
What need was Abraham Maslow expressing when he said, What a man can
be, he must be?
a. The need for superiority
b. The need for unconditional love
c. The need for self-actualization
d.
The need to achieve
21.
The tendency to judge other culture in terms of ones own customs and
values is known as:
a. Normative culture
b. Material culture
c. Mores
d. Norms
22.
All the things human beings make, and use from small hand held tools to
skyscrapers are known as:
a. Normative culture

b. Material culture
c. Mores
d. Norms
23.
Hypotheses are:
a. testable statement about the relationship between two or more empirical
variables.
b. statements that everyone agrees are correct
c. neither provable nor disprovable
d. the results of theoretical testing
24.
In order for hypotheses to be useful they must be:
a. realistic
b. theoretically reliable and valid
c. formulated after a theoretical trial
d. provable or disprovable in terms of things or events that can be observed
directly or indirectly
25.
An operational definition is:
a. a statement that is obviously true
b. a statement of the features that describes the things that are being
investigated
c. the results of theoretical testing
d. the last step in a theoretical evaluation
26.
A variable is:
a. a testable statement about the relationship between two or more theories
b. anything that can change
c. a statement or causality
d. a statement o association
27.
In order to modify and explicit the environment human use:
a. Norms
b. Mores
c. Material culture
d. Non-material culture
28.
The totally of knoledge, beliefs, values, and rules for appropriate behavior
that specifies how people should interact and how they may solve their problems is
referred to as:
a. Material culture
b. Mores
c. Non-material culture
d. Normative culture
29.
Norms:
a. Comprise the totally of knowlegde, beliefs, values, and rules for appropriate
behavior that specifies how people should interact and how they solve their
problems
b. Are the specific rules of behavior that are agreed upon and shared within the
culture to prescribe the limits of acceptance behavior
c. Are the strongly held rules usually have a moral connotation and are based
in the central ideas of the culture
d. Are all things human make and use, from small hand-held tools to
skyscrapers
30.
Normative culture consists of:
a. The norms, mores, folkways people follow
b. The thinking component of culture consisting of what the world is like
c. Expectations of what people should do under perfect conditions
d. A cultures general orientation toward life
31.
The party-list representatives of the House of Representatives have been
envisioned to constitute:
a. 15% of the total number of representatives
b. 20% of the total number of representatives
c. 30% of the total number of representatives
d. 25% of the total number of representatives
32.
The Philippines renounces was as an instrument of national policy and
adopts as part of the law of the land generally accepted principles of:

a.
b.
c.
d.

Civil law
Penal law
International law
Administrative law
33.
Executive power is vested on the President of the Republic who is elected
directly by the people for a term of:
a. six years
b. four years
c. five years
d. three years
34.
As a democratic and republican state, sovereignty in the Philippines resides
in the __________ and all government authority emanates from them.
a. Barangay leaders
b. People
c. Appointed officials
d. Elected officials
35.
Which of the following is NOT the power of the datu during the Pre-Spanish
Philippines?
a. Budget officer
b. Judge
c. Chief executive
d. Legislator
36.
The term of office of a Senator is limited to a two consecutive terms of:
a. three years for each term
b. four years for each term
c. six years for each term
d. five years for each term
37.
The 1987 Constitution established a:
a. Unitary Government
b. Regional Government
c. Federal Government
d. Controlled Government
38.
The 1987 Constitution distributed governmental powers to the following,
except:
a. Judiciary Department
b. Legislative Department
c. Executive Department
d. Education Department
39.
The constitution provides that the prime duty of the Government is to serve
and protect the:
a. Supreme court
b. People
c. President
d. Congress
40.
What is the composition of the Supreme Court?
a. Chief Justice and 10 Associate Justices
b. Chief Justice and 14 Associate Justices
c. Chief Justice and 16 Associate Justices
d. Chief Justice and 12 Associate Justices
41.
If the taxpayer is married with 2 dependents, his personal tax exemption is:
a. 7, 500
b. 20,000
c. 32,000
d. 48,000
42.
The 1987 Constitution recognizes the power of the state to imposed taxes on
the people provided that the taxation system is:
a. regressive
b. minimal
c. progressive
d. comprehensive

43.

Which of the economic system is otherwise known as free enterprise?

a. Totalitarianism
b. Mixed Economy
c. Capitalism
d. Communism
44.
The following are elements that make nations produce goods and service,
except:
a. Natural Resources
b. Capital
c. Geographical
d. Labor Force
45.
Which inherent power of the government is exercised through laws,
ordinances and enactments for the promotion of the welfare of the people.
a. Police Power
b. Taxation
c. Executive Power
d. Eminent Domain
46.
The authority to make laws and to alter and repeal them is vested in:
a. The Cabinet
b. President
c. Congress
d. Supreme Court
47.
The public announcer of the promulgation of the new rules and regulations of
the Barangay.
a. Chieftain
b. Bultong
c. Umalohokan
d. Alaw
48.
The settlements composed of villages consisting of more or less 100 families.
a. Ciudad
b. Himaraw
c. Pueblo
d. Barangay
49.
One of the social classes in the Barangay composed of datu and his family.
a. Maharlika
b. Timawa
c. Saguiguilid
d. Namamahay
50.
Name of Malayan sailboats used in going to the Philippines.
a. Barangay
b. Balangay
c. Vinta
d. Sampan
51.
Makabayan as the laboratory of life means that it provides the
environment for
a. the development of a holistic personal and social well-being
b. the development of skills for computer technology
c. the practice of cultural and political values
d. the improvement of skills in tool subjects
52.
Content-based instruction in the language subjects such as Filipino and
English means that
a. the content for English and Filipino is based on learning competencies in the
BEC
b. the content for English is taken from Science and Filipino from Social Studies
c. instruction in English and Filipino is focused on content rather than
communication skills
d. the teachers of English and Filipino should be competent of their subject
content
53.
As a Facilitator of learning, the teacher of the BEC 2002 is expected to do the
following except one.
a. Manages the interactive process among the learners

b. Demonstrates a non-threatening learning atmosphere

c. Should do more of the talking so that the children will learn more from her
d. Encourages learners to become active in asking questions and expressing
themselves
54.
The teacher promotes interactive learning in the following situations except
one.
a. The children are allowed to talk among themselves about a lesson.
b. The learners are encouraged to learn from materials through information
technology
c. The instructional materials like textbooks and workbooks stimulate interest
of learners.
d. The learners are instructed to copy and memorize lessons from the book.
55.
The teacher practices integrative teaching in the following except one.
a. Teaches values incidentally in any of the subject ares or lessons.
b. Goes beyond her/his lesson content and includes related subject matter
whenever necessary
c. Conducts thematic teaching along with one or more teachers on a specific
theme for a set of related competencies
d. Conducts team teaching with other teachers in a specific subject area o
lesson.
56.
Which one of the following is more effective way in teaching beginning
reading?
a. Teach children how to read in English to facilitate reading in Filipino.
b. Teach reading in Filipino or dialect before teaching English.
c. Teach reading in English and Filipino at the same time.
d. Teach reading alternatively with English and Filipino.
57.
Remedial reading instruction should be done only before or after classes.
This is
a. true, because remedial reading is not part of the regular class period.
b. true, because pupils read better outside the regular period.
c. false, because the teacher should do this in all subject areas from grade 1-6.
d. False, because every learner may need remedial reading anytime.
58.
The teacher as a values education teacher is expected to
a. inculcate values as the need arises.
b. teach values only during homeroom period.
c. integrate values strictly in her lesson everyday.
d. teach values in EKAWP and integrate them in her lessons.
59.
EKAWP as separate subject is conducted through
a. a complete lesson aimed to develop a certain value.
b. extra-curricular activities.
c. girl or boy scouting.
d. modeling.
60.
The teacher is a model if value. This means
a. the teacher is religious.
b. values are learned only from model teachers.
c. the teacher demonstrates the values that he/she teaches.
d. values are better learned from the teacher than from anybody.