The list of the October 2008 Philippine CPA Board Exam Topnotchers and list of the top-performing schools is now available here.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 2,442 out of 6,663 (36.65%) passed the Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination given by the Board of Accountancy in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo and Legazpi this October 2008.

The results were released in one (1) day after the last day of examination. The top 10 Examinees are:

1. Richie Jackson Taguinod Padilla Univ. of St. Louis Tuguegarao 92.71
2 Ziff Calvin Rigor Marabillo Silliman University 92.14
3 Joanes Albert Batalla De Vera Far Eastern University-Manila 92.00
4 Richellou Jamaica Ortega Lenon University Of The Philippines-Diliman 91.86
5 Hazel Angeline Quiapos Abenoja Bicol University-Legazpi 91.57
6 Mhark Almario Serato De La Salle University-Manila 91.43
7 Kristine Jennifer Discaya Chua University Of The Philippines-Diliman 91.29
8 Adrian Hizon Bajador University Of The Philippines-Diliman 91.14
9 Raymund Christian Sayco Ong Abrantes Ateneo De Davao University 91.00
Teejay Tamayo Banal Jose Rizal University (Jrc) 91.00
Apple Amatorio Canaya University Of The Philippines-Visayas-Iloilo City 91.00
Jessica Madriaga Delos Reyes Adamson University 91.00
Melody Jade Figueroa Quilana University Of Northern Philippines-Vigan 91.00
Leomar Gabon Velez Polytechnic University Of The Philippines-Main-Sta. Mesa 91.00
10 Edison Ramirez Bautista Wesleyan University Of The Philippines-Cabanatuan City 90.86
Mark Jerson Rodriguez Pulohanan University Of The Philippines-Visayas-Iloilo City 90.86

The Top performing schools in the October 2008 CPA Board Exams are the following: (Note: The first figure is the total number of examinees, then the number of passers and the passing percentage)

A. With 100 And More Examinees
1 University Of Santo Tomas 332 259 78.00%
2 Ateneo De Davao University 100 64 64.00%
3 Polytechnic University Of The Philippines – Main – Sta. Mesa 584 301 52.00%

B. With 51-99 Examinees
1 De La Salle University – Manila 51 38 75.00%
2 San Beda College 72 45 63.00%
3 Bicol University – Legazpi 59 35 59.00%

C. With 26-50 Examinees
1 University Of The Philippines – Diliman 40 40 100.00%
2 Ateneo De Zamboanga 37 26 70.00%
3 Siliman University 26 18 69.00%
D. With 10-25 Examinees
1 University Of Saint La Salle 23 22 96.00%
2 University Of The Philippines – Visayas – Tacloban City 25 23 92.00%
3 De La Salle University – Dasmariñas 15 13 87.00%

Congratulations to the October 2008 CPA Board Exam topnotchers and to the schools producing them. I don’t see any from the Cebu schools though they were consistently present in the past.

For those who are looking for the list of passers, please check it here: October 2008 CPA Board Exam Results

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The June 2008 Nursing Board Exam Results will be released anyday next week or in early August. That is approximately two months after the examinees took the nurses’ board exams. If you search on Google using the first five words in my title, what will you see? Blogs everywhere! Google Search produces 246,000 results for the first five words in my title. And for the first few pages in SERP, it’s the blogs that rule. Is this public service or SEO to the max?

There are possibly around 70,000 examinees and imagine the traffic to the leading blogs when 20 percent of the examinees scour the net daily. Add to that the friends and relatives. Huge traffic, big numbers, isn’t it?

But I will not post the complete results of the June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board Examination here. If you are looking for the results, go to the official PRC website, Nursing Board, PDI, Manila Bulletin and other leading news organization. I may, however, post the nursing topnotchers. Check the results sometime late July or early August. It will take the PRC around 2 months to check the papers, unlike the CPA board when a machine checks it and the results are released two to three days after the last exam day.

I don’t know how google will handle this post. I am sure it will not reach the first 3 pages of SERP because this site is relatively new and without a page rank. The others have optimized since June. And I don’t intend to ride on the trend. The main reason is that, I can’t take much traffic. Too much traffic can cause server crash.

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