MY COMMENT POSTED IN THE ARTICLE OF TOMASINOWEB RE FIRST YEAR ENROLMENT THIS 2012-2013: “This is with regard to your article above saying that the passing rate of UST “remains above 50%”. Please be informed that 1. UST Electrical Engineering posted 90% passing rate last September 2011 and UST WAS THE ONLY TOP PERFORMING SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. 2. The Average Passing Rate of UST Civil Engineering the past years is MORE THAN 80 % WITH A LOT OF TOPNOTCHERS every year. 3. Industrial Engineering has produced at AT LEAST 5 TOPNOTCHERS PER YEAR, THE PAST 3 YEARS and the passing rate for I.E. in said certification examinations given by the Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers las January 2012 was 90% 4. In the field of Electronics Engineering, UST has always been performing well all these years as TOP PERFORMING SCHOOL except in the controversial November 2010 Board Exams. UST bounced back in the May 2011 ECE Board and UST WAS THE ONLY TOP ECE PERFORMING SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. 5. 98 % (54 out of 55) students of ICS (Computer Science, Information System and Information Technology) passed the DB2 examinations given by IBM last year. We hope to have good results this school year 2012-2013, Mabuhay UST. Thanks a lot…. Dean Josefin de Alban, Jr of UST Faculty of Engineering.

How can it be that simple mathematics suffices to predict so much?