Upcat Exam
Upcat Exam
x – y < 0
1. The average of 7 numbers is 24. The smallest of the numbers is 2 and the 9. At what point on the Cartesian plane do the following two lines intersect?
largest of the numbers is 31. What is the average of the middle 5 numbers?
y/3 – 7/3 = x and y/3 + 4/3 = x
A. 25
A. (4, 3)
B. 26
B. (6, 2)
C. 27
C. The lines do not intersect.
D. 28
D. (5, -2)
2. Two side lengths of a triangle are 5 and 6, which of the following
CANNOT be the length of the third side? 10. The slope of the line represented by the equation 2(x − 3) − 6y = 10 is
equal to what?
A. 3 A. – 1/2
B. 6 B. 1/3
C. 9 C. 1/2
D. 12 D. 2
3. Eric wishes to shift the graph of the function ƒ(x) = x² four places to the 11. Jenny’s house is 2 km away from her school. One day when going to
right and six places down from the origin (0,0). Which equation represents school, Jenny runs for 20 minutes and arrived 5 minutes late. How many
this translation? minutes earlier would Jenny be if she would use her bicycle at a rate of one-
A. ƒ(x) = x – 42 + 6 third kilometer per minute?
B. ƒ(x) = (x − 4)2 − 6
C. ƒ(x) = (x2 − 4)2 − 6 A. 5 minutes
D. ƒ(x) = x + 42 – 6
B. 6 minutes
4. What is the slope intercept form of (13x − 5x) + 12 − 2y = 6?
A. y = 3x – 9
C. 8 minutes
B. y = 4x + 3
D. 9 minutes
C. y = 6x + 2
12. The chart below shows the monthly profits of 3 companies. What is the
total profit generated by Store X and Store Z in the month of March?
D. y = -2x + 5
5. The coordinates (−3, 5) and (3, 5) designate the diameter of a circle, what
is its circumference?
A. 2π
B. 4π
C. 6π
D. 8π
A. { 5 }
B. { 12 } A. 120,000
C. { 5,12 } B. 140,000
D. { -5,12 } C. 180,000
7. A and B are reciprocals (when multiplied together their product is 1). D. 200,000
If A < −1, then B must be which of the following?
A. 0 < B < 1
13. Which of the following statements is true?
B. -1 < B < 0
A. The diagonals of a rhombus are congruent.
C. B < -1
B. All rectangles are similar.
D. B < 0
C. All rectangles are rhombuses.
8. Which of these is true for all real numbers x and y such that x > 0 and y <
D. Some rhombuses are rectangles.
0?
A. xy > 0
14. In order for the two triangles shown to be similar, what is one possible
value for x?
B. x + y > 0
C. x2 + y2 > 0
20. Which trigonometric function can equal or be greater than 1.000?
A. Sine
B. Cosine
C. Tangent
SCIENCE
A. 8 in.
Directions: This Science subtest will gauge your proficiency in basic
scientific concepts you learned in high school. Choose the letter that
B. 10 in. corresponds to your answer.
C. 16 in.
1. Boyle’s law states that “If the temperature remains constant, the volume
D. 20 in. of a gas varies inversely as the pressure.” The volume of the gas is 204 mL
at 840 mm pressure. Calculate the volume of the same gas at 765 mm if the
15. Which coordinates satisfy the inequality: y+ 3 > −3(x − 2) temperature is held constant.
A. (0,2) A. 112 mL
B. (1,0) B. 224 mL
D. 5X + 2 A. 6 feet
17. If -1 < a < b < 0, then which of the following has the greatest value? B. 5 feet
A. b – a C. 4 feet
B. a + b D. 3 feet
C. a – b
C. Carbon-date the fossils that are formed within the sedimentary rock
layers
A. 7 cm.
D. They are totally in the reverse order of oldest to youngest
B. 8 cm.
C. 9 cm.
4. The magnetic needle of a compass always points to the north because
D. 10 cm.
A. the needle touches the north pole.
19. Which of the following sets of interior angle measures would describe
an acute isosceles triangle?
B. the earth has a magnetic north pole.
A. 90°, 45°, 45°
C. compasses are used for finding direction.
B. 80°, 60°, 60°
D. the earth’s magnetic field is strongest at the south pole.
C. 60°, 60°, 60°
A. The air bubble interrupts the cohesive forces among the water molecules.
It cuts the continuous stream of water, making it unable to continually flow.
B. The air bubble interrupts the adhesive forces between the walls of the
xylem vessels and the water molecules.
C. The air bubble is less dense than water, therefore impeding the
continuous flow of water.
D. The air bubble creates a pocket of space that eventually kills the xylem
cells, thus preventing it from resuming water conduction.
C. The orbits of the planets are all ellipses. C. The nutrient agar with oil.
D. The orbits of the planets are nearly in the same plane. D. The number of days the bacteria grew.
8. A new vaccine was discovered as a treatment for a certain viral chicken 12. What is the dependent variable in the experiment above?
disease. What should a scientist do in order to test for the effectivity of the
vaccine? A. The number of days the bacteria grew.
A. Administer the vaccine to 50 chickens and expose all of them to the B. The nutrient agar.
disease.
C. The nutrient agar with the oil.
B. Administer the vaccine to 25 of 50 chickens and expose all 50 chickens
to the disease.
D. The amount of growth of the bacteria
C. Expose 25 of 50 chickens to the disease then vaccinate all 50 chickens.
B. The bacteria were able to mutate to tolerate a slightly oily environment of D. Plant cells will burst, causing the solution to reduce its color
5% oil, providing it had other nutrients available and the 20% had far too
much oil.
C. The 5% plate had conditions that are similar to the natural environment
they are accustomed to.
20. Air cools at the dry adiabatic rate of 10°C for each kilometer it rises. If a
D. The 5% plate allowed more oxygen to interface with the bacteria because parcel of dry air initially at 0°C expands adiabatically while flowing upward
less oil was present. alongside a mountain, what is its temperature when it has risen 8 km?
A. – 80°C
15. Why did the nutrient agar bacteria plateau and then drop in numbers as B. – 40°C
they approached Day 8?
C. 40°C
A. The bacteria died because they had reached their mature age.
D. 80°C
B. The bacteria ran out of nutrients and had reached the carrying capacity of
the plate.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
C. The bacteria always die after Day 6 in culture. Questions 1 – 6: Determine which of the following synonyms on the
given choices best corresponds to how the underlined word/s were used
D. There is no definitive reason why the bacteria died off after Day 6. on each sentence.
1. Terrie kept fumbling the materials, gathering a few and shuffling them as
16. An excellent way to demonstrate that the scientists have induced E.coli if they were cards.
to survive and metabolize oil would be to:
A. playing with
A. Repeat the experiment several times with 5% oil on a nutrient agar plate.
B. juggling
B. Induce the bacteria on the 5% oil plate to grow on nutrient agar.
C. groping for
C. Take the bacteria from the 5% oil plate and test them on a new 20% oil
plate. D. moving clumsily
D. new bacteria with the same experiment to see if that is the only bacteria
that can accomplish this.
2. Two police officers sprawled over a couch in Johanna’s living room, as if
they were in their own homes.
17. Why does semen have alkaline bases as part of its composition? A. creep awkwardly
A. To maintain a neutral environment for the sperm to “swim” in. B. lay down
B. To protect the sperm from the acidic environment in the vagina. C. jumped into
C. To speed up the transport of the sperm to the fallopian tube. D. sit with arms and legs spread out
3. The interviewer, dark, young and serious, turned his attention to us with
a cramped sort of face.
18. A forensic anthropologist would most likely use which bone to
determine the height of a corpse? A. paralyzed
A. phalanges B. cheerful
B. femur C. bothered
C. occipital D. expressionless
D. patella
4. The dog ambled to the door, which was slightly ajar, and slowly squeezed
out into the passage.
19. Professor Geller wanted to demonstrate the role of osmosis in plant
cells. He placed the cells in a solution that is hypertonic to the cells. The A. crept
solution contains red microscopic dye particles. Which of the following
could be a possible result of Professor Geller’s demonstration? B. ran
A. Plant cells decrease in size (flaccid), and the solution will have a lighter C. walked
color.
D. jumped
B. Plant cells increase in size (turgid), and the solution will remain the same
color.
5. Harold lumbered at him and clouted him across the head.
B. hit forcefully (1) An example of job sharing would be for one person to work mornings,
and the other to work afternoons.
C. stroke gently
(2) The people sharing the job might be two friends, a husband, and wife, or
D. kissed two employees who did not know each other before sharing a job.
(3) If the job were complex, the two sharers would have to spend some
overlap time discussing the job.
6. I thought they were likely to bundle him into a car but the policeman
simply led him back to the road and pointed him towards the town center. (4) Job sharing is a modified work schedule in which two people share the
same job, both usually working half-time.
A. wrap
A. 1-2-3-4
B. hustle
B. 4-2-1-3
C. a lot of things
C. 4-1-2-3
D. grouped together
D. 1-4-2-3
(1) To alleviate the struggle of keeping children from attending school, the
7. government, together with the parents, must work hand-in-hand to achieve
sustained learning.
(1) Dapat din makita ninuman ang ganda ng buhay para masilayan ang
ganda ng daigdig at saka sabihin kung karapat-dapat ba ito sa ating pag-ibig (2) Next, the government will have to devise schemes, apart from the cash
at pagpapakasakit. transfer, to assist parents in keeping children in school, possibly with the
assistance of the private sector and multilateral institutions.
(2) Sa taong punong-puno ng hinanakit at pagdurusa, masasabing hindi
maganda ang daigdig para sa kanya. (3) Adult literacy programs can also be promoted to inculcate the value of
continuing education among parents with limited formal schooling.
(3) Laging pakaisiping may mga nilikha na itinalaga na handang mabuhay
at marunong mabuhay nang di lamang dahil sa kanilang sarili. (4) Parents will also have to set aside their own funds for their children’s
kindergarten expenses, in addition to saving up for expenditures in higher
grades.
(4) Subalit hindi dapat doon matatapos ang lahat.
D. 1-6-4-2-5-3
8.
B. 2-4-1-3-5 (5) It is easy to notice its unmistakably Thai roof and gable which might
give one the first impression that it was an antique Thai house (if not for
C. 2-3-1-4-5 that signature Starbucks logo prominently placed on the facade).
D. 2-5-3-4-1 A. 4-5-1-2-3
B. 3-4-5-1-2 A. have borne
D. had born
12.
(1) Ang ilan sa mga ito ay sina Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar at Graciano 17. My sister ( ) to Zamboanga seven years ago.
Lopez-Jaena.
A. migrated
(2) Mababanggit dito si Francisco Baltazar na higit na kilala sa pangalang
Francisco Balagtas, si Jose Dela Cruz o Huseng Sisiw na nakilala sa B. migrating
larangan ng panitikan.
C. immigrated
(3) Noong ika-19 na dantaon, ang Kilusang Propaganda ay nakilala.
D. immigrating
(4) Kakaunti lamang sa mga Pilipino ang namumukadkad ang galing sa
sining sa panahon ng mga Espanyol.
B. reject
A. After the old brain is called the reptilian brain, it does not know passion,
but only stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.
C. recognize
B. The old brain, called the reptilian brain, does not know passion, but only
D. argue for stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.
C. The old brain is called the reptilian brain, whereupon it does not know
passion, but only stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.
14. Marc is far too sensible to have done a fatuous thing like that.
D. Unless the old brain, called the reptilian brain, does not know passion,
A. dangerous only stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.
B. risky
C. inate 20. There have been great strides in the practical application of quantum
physics in the last decade. We are no closer to actually understanding it than
D. foolish were the physicists of the 1920s.
D. lugubrious D. In the last few decades, if there have been great strides in the practical
application of quantum physics we are no closer to actually understanding it
than were the physicists of the 1920s.
Questions 16 – 18: Choose the best word/s that will complete the READING COMPREHENSION
sentence.
Directions: Read the paragraph/passage. Then read the questions that
follow it. Choose the letter that corresponds to your answer.
16. The children ( ) the ill effects of war “Ang Sasabitan ng Ating Bandera”
ni Roberto Anonuevo
ang aming bandilang karangal-rangalan, 3. Sino sa mga sumusunod ang nalalapit sa tinutukoy na kinamumuhian sa
ula?
at ikaw ang siyang puno ng kawayan.
A. Pilipinong walang kredibilidad
Kung ang taas naman nitong isip natin,
B. mga negosyanteng dayuhan
ang pagtatangkaan na iyong sukatin,
C. mapagbalatkayong pinuno ng pamahalaan
mga malaking kahoy, nguni’t walang lilim,
D. mga Amerikanong pilit na nanghihimasok sa buhay ng mga Pilipino
. . . . . . dapat mong basahin
. . . . . . iyang mangangamkam,
Princess of the
. . . . . . iyang salanggapang, Cebu-Manila Stars Linggo 10 n.u.
Princess of the
at kung mayro’n dapat alisi’t ilagay,
South Lunes 8 n.g.
ilagay sa amin ang sa aming bayan, Princess of the
Universe Martes 2 n.g.
at alisin dito ang mga militar.
Princess of the
Stars Miyerkules 8 n.g.
Cebu-
Tacloban Cebu Princess Huwebes 6 n.g.
9. Saang lugar may pinakamaraming byahe ang Sulpicio Lines?
Tacloban-
Cebu Cebu Princess Miyerkules 4 n.g.
A. Cebu
Lunes,
Cebu-Cagayan Princess of the Martes, B. Tacloban
de Oro Ocean Miyerkules 7 n.g.
C. Davao
Princess of the
South Huwebes 10 n.u. D. Butuan
Linggo, Hu
Cagayan de Princess of the webes,
Oro-Cebu Ocean Biyernes 7 n.g.
10. Anong barko ang may higit sa dalawang ruta?
Princess of the
South Lunes 10 n.u. A. Princess of the Universe
Linggo,
Princess of the Martes,
Butuan-Cebu Earth Biyernes 8 n.g.
Princess of the
Universe Biyernes 6 n.g.
Princess of the
Universe Linggo 2 n.g.
Tel. Nos: 232-5361 to 79 11. Which of the following could be another title for this pie chart?
7. Ilang barko ng Sulpicio Lines ang bumabyahe tuwing Linggo? A. The industry on semiconductor devices and other electronic components
employed the highest number of workers with 22,495 employees.
A. 2
B. Manufacturing establishments of women’s and girls’ and babies’
B. 5 garments rank third among the industries employing the most number of
workers.
C. 6
C. Industries on electric ignition or starting equipment for internal
D. 8 combustion engines rank last on the industries with the most number of
workers.
A. Finance magazine
B. Newspaper editorial 17. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph most likely suggest?
C. Business section of the newspaper A. The author is practicing a new form of reading, which is skimming.
D. On a government website B. The author is not reading online in the traditional sense.
B. Industries comprising the top slots in terms of employment generation 18. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?
accounted for 41.3% of the total workforce in all manufacturing
establishments. A. The internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on
cognition.
C. Total employment increased greatly in 2010 as compared with the past
five years. B. Internet promotes a new style of reading, a style that puts “efficiency”
and “immediacy above all else.
D. The manufacturing industry is a continually advancing business sector in
the country due to the increase in its workforce annually. C. The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in an
individual’s mental habits.
A. Refrain from buying semiconductor devices and other electronic 19. In the passage the word “conduit” means
components.
A. source
B. Invest more on the garments industry to promote growth in this business
field.
B. instrument
20. Which organizational schemes are used in the first and second paragraph
of the passage?
For me, as for the others, The Net is becoming a universal medium, the
conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and
into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an A. assertion followed by supporting evidence
incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely
described and dully applauded. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhab B. prediction followed by analysis
pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information.
They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. C. specific instace followed by generalizations
And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for
concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in D. personal reminiscenes followed by objective reporting
information the way the Net distributes it: in a swifty moving stream of
particles. Once I was a suba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the
surface like a guy on jetski.
Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. It’s not
etched into our genes the way speech is. We have to teach our minds how to
translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand.
And the media or other technologies we use in learning and practicing the
craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside
our brains. Experiments demostrate the readers of ideograms, such as
Chinese, develop a mental circuitry for reading that is very different from
the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an
alphabet. The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including
those trhat govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the
interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli. We can expect as well that
circuits woven by our use of the Net will be different from those woven by
our reading of books and other printed works.