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Letter regarding the nursing licensure leakage

Joel Banaken
Bauko, Mountain Province

July 24, 2006

What your paper printed about the controversy on the nursing board exam is very serious. The leakage scam has affected all other professional board exams like the Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET).

For me, I believe to finish a course gives one an edge. To finish a course is not just our personal achievements but our parents’ as well. Our parents are indeed very happy as we graduate. Otherwise, it could have been an extended anxiety for them and those who expect us to graduate.

Together with other graduates, I was able to survive the long years in school. So I felt glad as I was able to make it. Like the nursing graduates, we aim to pass the board and to have a decent job after.

I have been praying to pass the LET. Like the other reviewees, I believe anybody can pass as they had been trained by their respective schools. The leakage scam, however, affected all courses requiring professional licensure exams. In fact, we enrolled in a review center but the leakage already affected us. I am already thinking that it is also happening to the LET. And if this happens, it would be unfair for those who really reviewed as others would pass the exam because of leakage.

This leakage scam affected the conduct of board examinations in the country. I join the complainants against the latest nursing board scam in urging the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) to compose an independent fact finding-team that will investigate this and to file charges against those involved. The scam is degrading the whole licensure examination in our country. #

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