UP1

• This reviewer is a property of the University of the Philippines. It aims to provide bonafide UPCAT applicants with a realistic UPCAT experience. Please note that this reviewer contains only a fraction of the real UPCAT, and that the items contained herein will not appear in the UPCAT2019.
• Terms and Conditions


  • The contents of this reviewer, including all items, images, and solutions will be kept strictly confidential and will not be made available for third party use
  • The contents of this reviewer, including all items, images and solutions may not be sold or used for commercial purposes
  • Taking the test together with another person is not allowed
  • Engaging in any dishonest activities that will affect your test results and/or the results of others is prohibited
• Violation of any of these terms will result in disqualification from admission to UP.
• UPCAT


  University of the Philippines College Admission Test
• Subject areas of the UPCAT

  • Language Proficiency
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Reading Comprehension
• Time allotment for each subtest

  • Language Proficiency: 12 min, 24 items
  • Science: 12 min, 12 items
  • Mathematics: 15 min, 12 items
  • Reading Comprehension: 18 min, 24 items
• If you finish a part before the given time is called, you may review your answers to the questions in THAT PART ONLY. You cannot use extra time for other subtests
• You should work as rapidly as you can without sacrificing accuracy. Do not stay too long on any one item. To make the best use of your time, answer the easier questions first and go back to the more difficult questions later.
• If you are not sure of the correct answer to a question but know enough to eliminate some of the options as wrong, you may decide to take your chance in answering the item. Otherwise, you may choose to leave the item blank. Guessing may not improve your score significantly because one fourth of your wrong answers will be deducted from your score. On the other hand, there are no deductions for items left blank.
• Make sure you shade only ONE option for each item number. MULTIPLE ANSWERS will be marked as WRONG ANSWERS and will be included in the fraction deducted from your score.
• Low amount of dissolved gases

  Type A
• High viscosity, high amount of dissolved gases

  Type B
• Low viscosity, high amount of dissolved gases

  Type C
• High viscosity, low amount of dissolved gases

  Type D
• Meycauayan River: Measuring rainfall and corresponding increase in river level

  1. Rainfall

  2. Water level increase
• The length of time of the rainfall and the length of time that an increase in water level is observed

  Both equal to 8 hours
• Peak of water level

  Occurs at the same time as that of the rainfall
• Lag time between the peak rainfall and the peak water level increase

  2 hours
• Increase in the water level

  Observed 3 hours after the rain has started
• Transpiration


  Most rapid in hot, dry weather
• Evolutionary tree of 5 species


  • Structure b shows that species 1, 2 and 3 are more closely related to each other than they are to species 4 and 5
• Producing marketable levels of a protein product in bacteria

  1. Gene for the protein product is inserted into a plasmid of the bacterial cells

  2. As the bacteria reproduce, they produce more of the protein product
• Homogenous solution


  KOH (aq)
• Molecule with a pi (π) bond

  C2H2
• Volumes of balloons filled with 10 mole of H2, He, O2 at 0°C and 1 atm

  O2 < He = H2
• Ball rolled with constant velocity up an inclined plane and dropped at the top

  Correct y vs. t graph is B
• Image formed by a thin convex lens when an upright object is placed between the focal point and the converging lens

  Real, inverted, magnified
• Configuration of bar magnet poles that will produce the strongest magnetic field at the center

  Configuration D
• The value of (3/4 + 10/4 - 18/10) / (5/4 - x) is 0.00053
• Archie and Jughead eating a meal together

  It will take them 20 minutes
• Equivalent expression for (1 + 1/x) / (2 + 1/x)

  3/(2+x)
• Cost to make 19 pieces of fishball in Beloy's fish ball factory

  It costs 32 pesos
• Roots of the function f(x) = (x^2 - 6)/(x - 4)

  The other two roots are real and unequal
• Measure of angle CBO

  90 - x degrees
• Value of x in the given figure

  75 degrees
• Area of square ABCD

  49 square units
• Comparison of total profit of Restaurants X and Y from April to May

  The total profit of Y is 10,000 greater than that of X
• The store will be able to display all sets of three products in less than 8 days
• Some mascots are clowns too
• The Filipino comfort women were plucked from the unprotected peripheries of an occupied Filipino society which did not expect to be treated well by the Japanese and was, indeed, content to simply sit out the occupation, waiting for the Caucasian "master" to come back and make things right again