PART III: The Written exam

The written exam was scheduled only one day part from the Preliminary interview. The interview was scheduled April 14 and then the written exam was scheduled April 16-18.
I asked for a leave but my boss did not approve, to compromise I need to work on half day outside my working shift just to show them that I am sincere or else they will terminate me haha.
So I work at 2am until 6am then went straight ahead to DFA to take the 8am- 5pm exam.


Ang hirap ng exam!


109 passed the Qualifying exam but we were only 81 on the first day of exam. They said that some people were unable to attend the preliminary interview. On the second day we were down to 80 as one person withdrew.. nahirapan yata sa first set ng exam.




Mahirap talaga ang exam.. one has to really prepare for it. Read world history, topics abount United Nations, current Philippine events and prepare for question that if you are going to be an ambassador, what would you do...(situation).


For foreign language, I thought it might be easy as telling the gender of the word or fil in the blanks or tell the meaning of the word. hell, they asked us to do an essay about which country would you want to be assigned to and why? Explain much.
I was not prepared for I know basic french only so hindi ko na articulate.


Dumugo ang utak ko sa Filipino, there was a poem na iddedescribe mo ung form ng poem.
anong ibig sabihin ng may akda..


Questions mostly are knowing your opinion on certain topics, I think there is no right or wrong answer. Hindi nmn exact science kind of questions so out of 80, 30 lang pumasa..


Unfortunately, hindi ako pinalad makasama.. pero try again next time. Siguro pag hahandaan ko pa magbasa ng mga current events and mag practice gumawa ng essay para mas ma explain ko articulately ang mga sagot ko.

Sabi nga ng asawa ko, success is falling several times but getting up without loosing enthusiasm.

I will try again next year since hindi na ko uulit ng Qualifying, not sure if uulitin ko pa ang Preliminary  interview though..


Sa mga hopefuls, try lang ntin..wala nmn mawawala.. di man makapasa at least yu learn something from reviewing.


Have a great day!!