1. Test Administration Guidelines
2017 ELLNA
Test Administration Guidelines

2. Pre-Test

3. Test Materials Replica of the Name Grid and the Coverage of the Test
Two Test Booklets (TBs)
TB1 Green Cover- For English, Filipino and Filipino Numeracy
TB2 Yellow Cover- For Mother Tongue and Numeracy Mother Tongue
Listening Guide for the Examiner, test (English, Filipino and 18 Mother Tongue has a corresponding Listening Guide)

4. Board Work For Tagalog Mother Tongue Speakers only: Parts of the Test
General Directions
Part I (EDQ)
Part II (Test Proper)
Test Booklet 1
Listening Test in English
English
Listening Test in Filipino
Filipino
Filipino Numeracy
Total Time Allotment
Item Numbers
1- 23
1 – 12
13 – 45
1 - 20
Time Allotment
5 mins
25 mins
25 mins.
50 mins.
20 mins.
35 mins.
2 hrs. 45 mins.
Time Started
______
______ ______
Time
to End

5. Board Work For Mother Tongue Speakers other than the Tagalog only:
Parts of the Test
General Directions
Part I (EDQ)
Part II (Test Proper)
Test Booklet 1
Listening Test in English
English
Listening Test in Filipino
Filipino
Filipino Numeracy (For Tagalog Mother Tongue Speakers only)
Total Time Allotment
(Examinees who are done with Booklet 1 can be dismissed)
BREAK
Test Booklet 2
Listening Test in Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue Grammar
Mother Tongue Numeracy
Item Numbers
1- 23
1 – 12
13 – 45
1 - 20
1 – 20
Time Allotment
5 mins
25 mins
25 mins.
50 mins.
20 mins.
35 mins.
2 hrs. 45mins
15 mins.
1 hr. 25 mins
Time Started
______
______ ______
Time
to End

6. Entrance and Seating Arrangement
Inspect the seating arrangement before instructing the examinees to enter the testing room. There should be four rows of armchair. Check if the first and last rows are close to the walls.
Instruct the examinees to line up outside the room.
Call out the names of the examinees by alphabetical order of their surnames. Let the first four examinees occupy the front line first, then the second, until the last line as shown below.

7. Entrance and Seating Arrangement
In no case shall there be more than 30 examinees in a room.
Check again the seating arrangement by calling out the names of the examinees from the list in Form 1 prepared by the School Principal/Testing Coordinator.
Check the identities of the examinees inside each examination room by all means (e.g. ID, notebooks bearing the examinee’s name; etc.).

8. Testbooklets For Tagalog Mother Tongue Speakers only:
Pupils will only answer Test Booklet 1 with the following subtests:
English- 45 items
Filipino- 45 items
Filipino Numeracy- 20 items

9. Testbooklets For Mother Tongue Speakers other than Tagalog:
You will answer Test Booklet 1 with the following subtests:
English- 45 items
Filipino- 45 items
*Note: Don’t let the pupils answer the Filipino Numeracy Test
and Test Booklet 2 with the following subtests:
Mother Tongue- 45 items
Mother Tongue Numeracy- 20 items

10. Answer Sheet
In the distribution of the TBs and AS follow the numbering of examinees. Start with the examinee in Number 1, by giving him/her the TB/AS with the lowest serial number and end with examinee in Number 30, giving him/her the highest serial number.

11. Answer Sheet
Seats of late comers / absentees should be left vacant. Test Booklets and Answer Sheets allocated to the said examinees should be placed inside the original plastic bag by the Room Examiner pending their arrival. However, the Test Materials should not be distributed yet if there are only less than 10 examinees in the room.

12. Test Proper

13. For Booklet 1
The Examiner will read the English Listening Guide up to item 12 only. The examinees will continue answering from nos. 13 to 45. After the English test, Examiner gets the Filipino Listening Guide and reads up to item 12 only. The examinees will continue answering from nos. 13 to 45. After the Filipino Test, the examinees will continue answering the Filipino Numeracy Test from nos. 1 to 20 (for Tagalog Mother Tongue speakers only). Record on the board the time started and the time to end this test. Go around and see to it that the examinees shaded the correct part of the test. After the allotted time for TB1.

14. For Booklet 2
The Examiner will read the Mother Tongue Listening Guide up to item 12 only. The examinees will continue answering from nos. 13 to 45. After the Mother Tongue Test, the examinees will continue answering the Mother Tongue Numeracy Test from nos. 1 to 20. Go around and see to it that the examinees are recording their answers properly. Note on the board the item to end. The indicated time to end is from the time started, excluding the 15-minute snacks break.

15. Collect and count all used and unused test booklets and answer sheets and place these in the original plastic bags. Make sure that all materials have been retrieved. In case a Test Booklet is missing expend all means to find it. DISMISS EXAMINEES ONLY AFTER ACCOUNTING THESE TEST MATERIALS.

16. Post Test

17. Preparing the Reports and Sealing the ETRE
Do the following activities:
Accomplish Form 7, the Room Examiner’s Test Administration – Evaluation Report
Copy from the board the Time Record Report on Test Administration
Indicate in the ETRE the number of registrants and the number of
actual examinees.
Place the following inside the Room Examiner’s Transmittal Report Envelope (ETRE):
Time Record Report
Used Answer Sheets arranged consecutively by Examinee Number Placed in original plastic bag
One Copy of BEA Forms 1 and 2 (back to back) and Form 7
Seal the ETRE with the DepED-BEA paper seal while still inside the examination room.

18. Turning Over of Materials to the Chief Examiner
Turn over to the Chief Examiner the following materials:
Sealed ETRE with its contents
Used and unused Test Booklets assembled together and arranged
consecutively by Serial Numbers packed in their original plastic bags retaining the Batch Slip inside the plastic bag.
Examiner's Handbook