Comments on my previous post: "Agricultural Engineering Board Exam 2007"

I seem to have ignored 2 anonymous yet very cool comments on one of my previous posts: "Agricultural Engineering Board Exam 2007". I am very sorry about that. In fact, I very well appreciate comments that I am reposting it here so it would be a lot easier for every body to read it. Here it goes:

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Anonymous said...
Eto lang ang masasabi ko...Compared sa number of examinees (between xavier and UP), that is 13 and 40,respectively, super laki ang difference. Considering that condition and statistically speaking, malamang mas may magfafail na examinee sa UP. I don't feel na dahil sa UP education deterioration kaya 88% lang ang pumasa. Sa tingin ko, there must be wrong with the examination coverage at sa type ng exam. Ibang-iba to what i've expected. Regarding sa issue kung sino ba ang best university for AgEng course, of course UP pa din. You're comparing Xavier and UP in terms of passing rate. Can you please compare also the list of top 10 examinees? Eight spots were from UPLB, and Xavier? I think, there should be another category for classifying top performing schools like >10, >20, >30 examinees.

November 21, 2007 1:00 AM


Anonymous said...
You see, the content of this article does not fit the title. The title should be "XU dethroned UPLB in the 2007 AE Board Exam" since it's what this article was all about.

BTW, although there was a "ranking", we all know it's not absolutely a "No.1", "No.2" or whatever rank it is. The passing rate of UPLB and XU are incomparable because of the very large difference of the number of examinees (sample size, stat) from these institutions. So I just wonder why give so much emphasis on it in this article. However, if we are truly to compare the UP Education with other schools, you should have considered into your comparison the result of the Top 10 performing examinees where 8 out 13 examinees came from UPLB. If there's a "probable deterioration" in the UP Education, how come after 15 years, UP got the top 1 spot again? It's like saying we're good because the rest are incompetent. Come on. A lot of people especially the AE community of different schools would get hurt with your opinion.

Anyway, thanks for congratulating and saluting us although it seems like its only for XU. Hehehe..

November 22, 2007 9:22 AM

Thank you for these comments. I could not agree more when you say that UP still is the the best university, in fact, not only in agricultural engineering, but perhaps, in any academic field. I would, however, admit that this is a "motherhood" statement. All of us would say that our universities or schools is the best the same way a mother would praise her son. Based on the number of examinees, it is the PRC and the Board who categorized which universities or schools should be included in the ranking. As far as I know, XU qualified to be included in the ranking since they have more than 10 examinees. We can make new categories, say, above 30 examinees or number of examinees who made it to the top 10, and make UPLB still no. 1 for 2007. But with respect to the PRC and the Board, despite of the series of controversies that it faced, I could only base my humble opinions on what they have published, no more no less.