PERFORMANCE OF THE EXAMINEES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREER EXAMINATION IN READING COMPREHENSION AND OTHER SUBJECT

AREAS: BASIS FOR DESIGNING REVIEW MATERIAL

Abstract

This chapter deals with the introduction, the statement of the problem, the study's significance, and the study's scope and delimitation. The introduction gives the background information regarding the variables for investigation, and the statement of the problem provides the specific questions that were answered in this research. Meanwhile, the significance of the study presents this study's benefits to the people, and the scope and the delimitation serve as this research's boundaries.

Passing the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) licensure examinations can be one of the most outstanding achievements in a college graduate's life, as this type of examination seeks to demonstrate the graduates' knowledge, progress, skills, and qualifications in a specific profession. Furthermore, the performance of an institution's graduates who take the licensure examination determines the quality of education the school provides, which ultimately ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of its graduates' application of what they have learned in their chosen profession or career. It has been also suggested in one of the author's readings that a higher standard of performance in the instructional system and, consequently, the performance of the students in the licensure examinations reflects the institution's efficiency as well as the intellectual capacity of the students that the school has cultivated in the period that the students have remained in its portals.              Chappelow (2020) stated in his article that unemployment occurs when workers who want to work are unable to find jobs, which lowers economic output; however, they still require subsistence. Another reason is high rates of unemployment are a signal of economic distress, but extremely low rates of unemployment may signal an overheated economy. Accordingly, unemployment can be classified as frictional, cyclical, structural, or institutional and are collected and published by government agencies in a variety of ways.

               In addition, unemployment is a key economic indicator because it signals the ability (or inability) of workers to readily obtain gainful work to contribute to the productive output of the economy. More unemployed workers mean less total economic production will take place than

might have otherwise. Unlike idle capital, unemployed workers still need to maintain at least subsistence consumption during their period of unemployment. This means an economy with high unemployment has lower output without a proportional decline in the need for basic consumption. High persistent unemployment can signal serious distress in an economy and even lead to social and political upheaval (Chappelow, 2020).