For those ICAS English participants who will take the competition in the morning at Grace Christian College are advised to proceed immediately to their Room Assignment which can be downloaded by clicking this: 2010 icas eng room assignments

Please be informed that the 2010 International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) will go on as scheduled on August 21, 2010. However, since it is a holiday, the time has been moved to its original schedule which is 8:30 in the morning and NOT anymore at 2:00 in the afternoon. The change in time is due to the public request especially from the school administrators and teachers, parents and participants from distant places.

Furthermore, participants are advised to be at the contest venue before the competition starts at 8:30 in the morning. They are requested to remember of the following reminders:

1. Be in complete school uniform and ID;
2. Bring pencils preferably 2B or B (NOT pen)
3. Mobile phones, pagers, and other personal electronic devices are not permitted; and
4. Dictionaries are NOT permitted.

Please be advised of the changes for those participants who were assigned to the following rooms:

Room 306 please proceed to Room 401;

Room 307  to Room 402

Room 308 to Room 403

Room 309 to Room 404

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The ICAS Math will go on as scheduled on August 7 at designated contest venues across the country. However, those participants who have a conflict with the UPCAT which will also be administered on the same date and time as the ICAS Math, then a special consideration is given to them. Thus, all participants who cannot take the ICAS Math in the morning may take it at 2 PM August 7, 2010 at Arellano University.

For provincial participants, please coordinate with your center coordinators.

Furthermore, all ICAS Math participants are advised to pencils preferably  2B or B.

For those ICAS Math participants who will take the competition in the morning at Grace Christian College are advised to proceed immediately to their Room Assignment which can be downloaded by clicking this: ICAS Math Room Assignments

The University of New South Wales Educational Assessment Australia (EAA) through the MTG, Philippines will be conducting the 2010 International Competitions and Assessment for Schools (ICAS)-English on August 21, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in various venues across the country.

The ICAS – English assesses reading and language skills in a range of contexts. The following aspects of texts are assessed and reported: reading for meaning in literary texts, reading for meaning in factual texts, textual devices, syntax and vocabulary. The questions require students to locate, identify, interpret, infer and synthesize information in and about texts.

Students read a variety of texts which narrate, describe, explain, argue, persuade and review. The types of texts include extracts from novels, short stories, poems, play scripts, transcripts of interviews, letters, diary entries, advertisements, webpages, reports and explanations, opinion pieces and reviews. These texts may include tables, diagrams, maps and other visual information.

This year, a close to 1000 Filipino students from 44 schools nationwide will join the thousand other contestants in the world who will simultaneously take part in the said competition.

Please click the link to download the lists of official participants of 2010 ICAS-English and the names of schools which serve as the contest venues. Any registered participant whose name is not reflected in the list, please contact Mr. Joseph S. Wee at his mobile phone No. 0916-247-0777 or email at jsw_66@yahoo.com on or before August 10, 2010.

2010 ICAS – English official List: 2010 ICAS-English

Please be informed that the ICAS English will be conducted at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of August 21, 2010 to give way to majority of the participants who will be attending the first training of the 12-Saturday training sessions of the Mathematics Trainers’ Guild, Philippines.

All participants are reminded of the following important requirements:

1. Be in the contest venue at least one (1) hour before the contest time at 8:30 a.m. for the registration;
2. Be in complete school uniform and ID;
3. Bring pencils preferably 2B or B and eraser;
4. Mobile phones, pagers and other personal electronic devices are not permitted;
5. A ruler is allowed;
6. Papers A, B, C, D and E are not allowed a calculator;
7. Papers F, G, H, I and J require a permitted calculator;
Calculators that are not permitted are:

• Graphic calculators
• Programmable calculators – any calculators that can store a sequence of operations to be executed automatically.

Blank paper may be used for any working.

Participants of the following schools are to go to the designated contest venues in their area. For more details, please contact your respective MTG center coordinator.