What is the LET?
The Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LEPT), usually called the LET, is the board exam every teacher must pass to be licensed in the Philippines. It is run by the PRC Board for Professional Teachers under RA 7836, the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994. Elementary and secondary teachers take separate examinations.
The exam format
| Elementary level | Two parts: General Education and Professional Education (RA 7836, Section 14). The current PRC programme also offers an elementary track with a specialization. |
|---|---|
| Secondary level | Three parts: General Education 20%, Professional Education 40% and Specialization (your major) 40% |
| Difficulty mix | About 30% easy, 50% moderate and 20% difficult items, under the PRC table of specifications |
| Table of specifications | Board for Professional Teachers Resolution No. 11, s. 2022 (enhanced TOS used since 2023), amended in 2025 |
| Who sits it | 94,357 examinees in March 2026: 32,796 elementary and 61,561 secondary |
| Passing | A general average of 75% is commonly reported. Check the PRC notice for your sitting. |
What the exam covers
- General Education: English and Filipino (grammar, vocabulary, literature), mathematics, science, and social science, including Philippine history, the Constitution and the life and works of Rizal.
- Professional Education: child and adolescent development and learning theories (Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Kohlberg, Bandura), principles and strategies of teaching, assessment of learning, curriculum development, technology for teaching, and the teaching profession, including RA 7836, the PPST and the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers.
This pack covers General Education and Professional Education, the parts every examinee sits. Specialization majors are not included.
Free official resources, and what we add
PRC publishes the table of specifications for each part of the LEPT, and the laws and DepEd orders behind the ProfEd questions are free to read online. PRC does not publish a question bank. We add 112 original practice questions organised by topic, timed mock exams, and an explanation for every answer that names the law, DepEd order or theory it comes from.
How to prepare
- Download the PRC table of specifications and list the competencies for GenEd and ProfEd.
- Learn the major learning theories side by side: stage, age range and one classroom example each.
- Practise item analysis and basic statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, difficulty and discrimination indices) until the formulas are automatic.
- Read the key laws and orders yourself: RA 7836, RA 10533 Sections 4 and 5, the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers and DepEd Order No. 42, s. 2017 (PPST).
- Take timed mock exams, then review every wrong answer and its explanation.
Practice questions with answers
Tap a question to see the correct answer and explanation.
Identify the figure of speech: 'After recess, the classroom was a zoo.'
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Personification
- Simile
Answer: A, Metaphor. A metaphor compares two unlike things directly, without 'like' or 'as'. The classroom is called a zoo. A simile would say 'like a zoo'. Personification gives human traits to non-human things. Source: figures of speech, GE Purposive Communication and literature courses (CMO No. 20, s. 2013).
In a class of 40 pupils, 85% passed the quarterly examination. How many pupils did not pass?
- 6
- 15
- 34
- 8
Answer: A, 6. 85% of 40 = 0.85 × 40 = 34 pupils passed. 40 − 34 = 6 did not pass. 34 is the number who passed and 15 confuses the 15% with a head count. Source: percent problems (GE Mathematics in the Modern World, CMO No. 20, s. 2013).
Where was Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere first published in 1887?
- London, England
- Berlin, Germany
- Ghent, Belgium
- Madrid, Spain
Answer: B, Berlin, Germany. Noli Me Tangere was printed in Berlin in 1887. El Filibusterismo was printed in Ghent, Belgium in 1891, which is why Ghent is a common wrong answer. Source: Rizal's life and works, the course required by RA 1425 (Rizal Law).