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2019DepEdEnglishProficiencyTest(EPT)Reviewer
1. DepEd Order No. 7, s. 2015 (Hiring Guidelines for Teacher I Positions)
2. DepEd Order No. 3, s. 2016 (Hiring Guidelines for Senior High School (SHS) Teachers)
3. 2019 DepEd English Proficiency Test (EPT) Reviewer with Answers
1. A. Sentence Completion
2. B. Synonyms
3. C. Antonyms
4. D. Analogy
5. E. Reading Comprehension
6. F. Idiomatic Expressions
7. A. Cloze Test (Part 1)
8. H. Cloze Test (Part 2)
DepEdOrderNo.7,s.2015(HiringGuidelinesforTeacherIPositions)
The total percentage score obtained by an applicant shall be multiplied by the weight of fifteen (15) points, as
follows:
Percentage Score = 98% or .098
Weighted Points = 15
Rating – .98 x 15 = 14.7 points
The Schools Division Office will set the date for the 2019 English Proficiency Test (EPT) to be taken by all Teacher
applicants as one of the components measured.

READ: 2019 DepEd Teacher 1 Hiring Guidelines

DepEdOrderNo.3,s.2016(HiringGuidelinesforSeniorHighSchool(SHS)Teachers)
English Communication Skills – 10 points for applicants of the ACADEMIC track and CORE SUBJECTS; and 5 points
for the TVL, ARTS and DESIGN, and SPORTS tracks subjects
English communication skills will be measured through the English Proficiency Test (EPT) which shall be
administered to applicants by the Bureau of Education Assessment (BEA). The respective Division Testing
Coordinators shall coordinate with BEA regarding the conduct and schedule of the exam in their division, which
should ideally be within December to January.

READ: 2019 DepEd Hiring Guidelines for Senior High School (SHS) Teachers
The total percentage score obtained by an applicant shall be multiplied by the weight points, as follows:
Example:
Percentage Score = 82% or 0.82
Weighted Points = 10 for Academic Track and Core
Subject applicants
= 5 for TVL, Arts and Design, and Sports track applicants
Rating = 0.82 x 10 = 8.2 points for Academic Track and Core subject applicants
= 0.82 x 5 = 4.1 points for TVL, Arts and Design, and Sports track applicants
Read: How to Pass the DepEd English Proficiency Test (EPT)
2019DepEdEnglishProficiencyTest(EPT)ReviewerwithAnswers
Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST _____1. She is well loved by the people for being
Directions: Read the sentences carefully. Choose ______________.
the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of a. slanderous
your answer on the space provided for. b. virtuous*
A. Sentence Completion
c. ambiguous a. conventional: encumbered
d. condescending b. pinioned: limited
_____2.Davidlee is an ____________ diver. He c. free: fettered*
always wins the gold medal. d. enthralled: tied
a. inept _____10.The conclusion of his argument, while
b. efficient _____, is far from ______.
c. adroit* a. germane: relevant
d. aggressive b. esoteric: obscure
_____3.The ____ student _____ going to school. c. stimulating: interesting
a. delinquent; abhors* d. abstruse: incomprehensible*
b. awkward; abhors B. Synonyms
c. industrious; dislikes _____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly
d. obedient; dislikes taken killed him in an instant.
_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of _____ a. effective
for spreading false accusations. b. expensive
a. calumny* c. sedative
b. rebellion d. toxic*
c. treachery _____12. Argentina is one of the world’s leading
d. mutiny honey-exporters. It maintains a large apiary.
_____5. Ewan played the violin with such _____, a. Place where birds are bred.
everyone was amazed. b. Place where apes are grown.
a. anxiety C. Place where bees are raised.*
b. inanity D. Place where honey is stored.
c. deity _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his teacher’s
d. virtuosity* deportment during class.
_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is a. demeanor*
_______; however, he died an outsider treated b. speech
with ___ by the scientific establishments. c. banishment
a. unsupported: approval d. intelligence
b. dismissed: contempt _____14. His recommendation was rejected
c. accepted: approbation because it might be inimical to the company.
d. unchallenged: disdain* a. insubstantial
_____7. The revolution I art has not lost its steam; b. useful
it _________ on as fiercely as ever. c. costly
a. trudges d. disadvantageous*
b. meanders _____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him to
c. rages* elucidate his proposal during the presentation.
d. ambles a. clarify*
_____8. Biological clocks are of such _____ b. extend
adaptive value to living organisms, that we would c. improve
expect most organisms to _____them. d. shorten
a. obvious: possess* C. Antonyms
b. ambivalent: develop _____16. The mother has been doleful every when
c. meager: evolve she lost her son.
d. significant: eschew a. miserable
_____9. The peasants were the least ______ of all b. cheerful*
people, bound by tradition and _____ by c. prayerful
superstitions. d. anxious
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his friends’ plan c. loquacious: taciturn
of going to Baguio comes February. d. peremptory: spontaneous
a. agreed _____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL
b. objected* a. exacerbate: problem
c. rejoiced b. modify: accent
d. abided c. dampen: enthusiasm*
_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley d. elongate: line
collection of furniture, including antiques, _____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME
woodcrafts and glasswares. a. religious: private
a. diverse b. expensive: profligate
b. attractive c. conservative: stoic
c. homogenous* d. mendacious: truthful*
d. expensive _____28. PENURY:: MONEY
_____19.Jeric Angel’s nervousness was palpable a. starvation: sustenance
despite the confident façade he was showing. b. independence: freedom*
a. evident c. infirmity: illness
b. increasing d. spontaneity: care
c. decreasing _____29. MASON:: STONE
d. hidden* a. soldier: weapon
_____20. He had learned that everything in life is b. lawyer: law
evanescent. c. carpenter: wood*
a. temporary d. teacher: pupil
b. permanent* _____30. REPEL:: LURE
c. extraordinary a. miscarry: succeed*
d. luminous b. dismount: devolve
D. Analogy c. abrogate: deny
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH d. abridge: shorten
a. predictable: event E. Reading Comprehension
b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought Passage 1
d. erratic: path Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is
_____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION simply an effort to destroy consciousness. If one
a. departure: arrival* started by asking, what is man? What are his
b. culmination: upshot needs? How can he best express himself? One
c. approach: return would discover that merely having the power to
d. escapade: punishment avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in
_____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not
a. erudite: wisdom a reason for doing so. Man needs warmth, society,
b. desultory: error leisure, comfort and security: he also needs
c. boisterous: calm* solitude, creative work and the sense of wonder. If
d. exalted: elevation he recognized this he could use the products of
_____24. SHARD: POTTERY science and industrialism eclectically, applying
a. seed: flower always the same test: does this make me more
b. smoke: fire human or less human? He would then learn that
c. chair: furniture* the highest happiness does not lie in relaxing,
d. mystify: enlightenment resting, playing poker, drinking and making love
_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE simultaneously.
a. obdurate: foolish* Adapted from an essay by George Orwell
b. ascetic: austere
_____31. The author implies that the answers to a. not obvious
the questions in sentence two would reveal that b. indirect
human beings ________. c. discriminating
a. are less human when they seek pleasure* d. surreptitious *
b. need to evaluate their purpose in life Passage 3
c. are being alienated from their true nature by There are not many places that I find it more
technology agreeable to revisit when in an idle mood, than
d. have needs beyond physical comforts some places to which I have never been. For, my
_____32. The author would apparently agree that acquaintance with those spots is of such long
playing poker is _____. standing, and has ripened into an intimacy of so
a. often an effort to avoid thinking affectionate a nature, that I take a particular
b. something that gives true pleasure interesting assuring myself that they are
c. an example of man’s need for society * unchanged. I never was in Robinson Crusoe’s
d. something that man must learn to avoid Island, yet I frequently return there. I was never in
Passage 2 the robbers’ cave, where Gil Blas lived, but I often
Examine the recently laid egg of some common go back there and find the trap-door just as heaven
animal, such as a salamander or newt. It is a to raise as it used to be. I was never in Don
minute spheroid – an apparently structure less sac, Quixote’s study, where he read his books of
enclosing a fluid, holding granules in suspension. chivalry until he rose and hacked at imaginary
But let a moderate supply of warmth reach its giants, yet you couldn’t move a book in it without
watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes my knowledge. So with Damascus, and Lilliput, and
changes so rapid, yet so steady and purposeful in the Nile, and Abyssinia, and the North Pole and
their succession, that one can only compare them many hundreds of places — I was never at them,
to those operated by a skilled modeler upon a yet it is an affair of my life to keep them intact, and
formless lump of clay. As with an invisible trowel, I am always going back to them.
the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and Passage 4
smaller portions. And, then, it is as if a delicate The books one reads in childhood create in one’s
finger traced out the line to be occupied by the mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of
spinal column, and molded the contour of the fabulous countries into which one can retreat at
body; pinching up the head at one end, the tail at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and
the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due which in some cases can even survive a visit to the
proportions, in so artistic a way, that, after real countries which they are supposed to
watching the process hour by hour, one is almost represent. The pampas, the Amazon, the coral
involuntarily possessed by the notion, that some islands of the Pacific, Russia, land of birch-tree and
more subtle aid to vision than a microscope, would samovar, Transylvania with its boyars and
show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, vampires, the China of Guy Boothby, the Paris of du
striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his Maurier—one could continue the list for a long
work. time. But one other imaginary country that I
Adapted from an essay by T H Huxley acquired early in life was called America. If I pause
_____33. The author makes his main point with the on the word “America”, and deliberately put aside
aid of _______. the existing reality, I can call up my childhood
a. logical paradox vision of it.
b. complex rationalization* Adapted from: The Uncommercial Traveller, C
c. scientific deductions Dickens (1860)
d. observations on the connection between art and _____35. The first sentence of Passage 3 contains
science an element of
_____34. In the context of the final sentence the a. paradox
word “subtle” most nearly means _____. b. legend
c. melancholy _____41. That lady should not have become a war
d. self-deprecation* correspondent. She is a “square peg in a round
_____36. By calling America an “imaginary hole”.
country” the author of passage two implies that a. A person who has been given an opportunity to
___. change her profession.
a. America has been the subject of numerous b. A person who has no interest in her job.
works for children c. A person who takes part in every event.
b. his current vision of that country is not related to d. A person who is not suitable to her work or
reality surroundings*
c. America has stimulated his imagination _____42.“It slipped my mind” that I will have with
d. his childhood vision of that country owed Davidlee tonight.
nothing to actual conditions* a. I determined, in spite of my schedule.
_____37. Both passages make the point that b. I forgot as a result of carelessness*
_____. c. I wished.
a. books read early in life can be revisited in the d. I planned delicately.
imagination many years later * _____43.The idea of expansionism “has not taken
b. imaginary travel is better than real journeys root” in the Philippines.
c. children’s books are largely fiction a. Has not become popular
d. the effects of childhood impressions are b. Has not been heard
inescapable c. has not established itself*
_____38. Both passages list a series of places, but d. has not been monitored
differ in that the author of passage three ___. _____44. Ewan Gregory does not mind how much
a. has been more influenced by his list of locations resistance he causes; he like “sailing against the
b. never expects to visit any of them in real life, wind”.
whereas the writer of passage two thinks it at least a. Being popular
possible that he might b. Interfering
c. is less specific in compiling his list* c. overcoming the opposition
d. wishes to preserve his locations in his mind d. opposing the popular view*
forever, whereas the author of passage two wishes _____45. Although Marvin Jay had only a minor
to modify all his visions in the light of reality. role in the play, he “stole the thunder from” the
F. Idiomatic Expressions lead actor.
_____39. We are affected as much as you are by a. Borrowed the role from
the rising prices of gasoline; we are all “in the same b. Diverted the attention to himself from*
boat”. c. succeeded in portraying
a. Suffering the same predicament* d. transformed the character of
b. Hindering the success _____46. I had a “heart to heart talk” with my
c. Empathizing with everyone on his suffering teacher on my plans to study Linguistics or
d. Acknowledging the suffering Microbiology at the university.
_____40. The members of the public are a. Sentimental meeting
demanding for better public infrastructure and b. Superficial talk
more public services, but at the same time they are c. serious discussion*
demanding for lower taxes. It is becoming a “Catch- d. successful arrangement
22 situation”. _____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his peace”
a. A challenging situation until he finished examining the situation.
b. A dilemma from which it is impossible to a. Not to talk*
escape* b. To be forthright
c.A problem that involves government efficiency c. to be relaxed
d. A condition of no great importance d. to be reserved
_____48. The company needs a couple of million a. staffs
pesos for its expansion. It is likely that the Php 100 b. staff*
000.00 the partner has offered is “a drop in the c. staffed
ocean”. d. staffing
a. Useful 53.
b. More than enough a. present
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed* b. presenting
d. useless until the amount is complete c. presents*
A. Cloze Test (Part 1) d. presented
Introduction: 54.
This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the East a. aims*
Central Elementary School, San Fabian District II, b. aim
Pangasinan II Division, was 50)________________ c. aimed
and 51)_______________ through the concerted d. aiming
efforts of the teaching 52)___________ with the 55.
other stakeholders of education headed by the a. serves
principal. It 53)_______________ the vision or b. serving
educational goals which 54)________ to uplift or c. servicing
improve the school performance in terms of the d. served*
following areas of development namely the pupil, 56.
staff, curriculum and physical facilities a. basis
development which will 55)__________ as the b. bases*
56)_________ for evaluating the performance of c. basing
the school. It presents the school and community d. based
profile and the expected activities of the school. 57.
Through the 57)_________ of this School a. implement
Improvement Plan, with the unwavering b. implementing
58)___________ of the officers and members of c. implementation*
the PTA as well as the School Governing Council d. implements
and other stakeholders of education, it is 58.
59)________________ that the goals vision and a. support*
mission of the East Central Elementary School will b. supporting
be 60)___________. c. supports
49. d. supported
a. improving 59.
b. improves a. expect
c. improved b. expects
d. improvement* c. expecting
50. d. expected*
a. conceptualized* 60.
b. conceptualizes a. realize
c. conceptualizing b. realized*
d. conceptualize c. realizing
51. d. realizes
a. evolving H. Cloze Test (Part 2)
b. evolves Madam 61) _____
c. evolved* I have the honor to request permission 62)_______
d. evolve you good office to 63)__________ an action
52. research in Science 64)_______, “Enhancing the
Performance of the Grade VI Pupils in Science and a. indorsment
Health through Counteractive Lecture “for the b. endorsment
Grade VI pupils of Greater Heights Elementary c. indorsement*
School for this school year 2014 – 2015. d. endorsement
Hoping for your 65)________ approval. 68.
66)________________ a. With date*
EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA b. No date
Teacher c. —–
1st 67)___________ d. —–
68)_______________________ 69.
Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the Schools a.to*
Division Superintendent, Pangasinan Division II, b. from
Binalonan, Pangasinan, recommending approval of c. with
this basic communication. d. for
70)_____________________________ 70.
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR. a. Truly yours,
Public Schools District Supervisor b. Very truly yours,
61. c. Sincerely yours,
a. ; d. No complementary Close*
b. : DepEdOrderNo.7,s.2015(HiringGuidelinesforTeacherIPositions)
c. , The total percentage score obtained by an
d. . applicant shall be multiplied by the weight of
62. fifteen (15) points, as follows:
a. to Percentage Score = 98% or .098
b. for Weighted Points = 15
c. your Rating – .98 x 15 = 14.7 points
d. from*
63.
a. conduct*
b. conducts
c. conducted
d. conducting
64.
a. entitle
b. entitles
c. entitled*
d. entitling
65.
a. kind*
b. kinder
c. kindest
d. modest
66.
a. yours,
b. sincerely yours,
c. Truly yours
d. Very truly yours,*
67.