QuestionsQuestions (PRC BOARD OF GEODETIC ENGINEERING Resolution NO. 4)
The Resolution cites the Board’s quasi-legislative (rule-making) power under Section 10 of R.A. No. 4374, together with Section 17 of R.A. No. 4374 which provides for the subjects in the Geodetic Engineering licensure examinations and empowers the Board to prescribe other subjects.
Section 17 of R.A. No. 4374, “The Geodetic Engineering Law.”
A syllabus is meant to avoid overlapping of subjects and to guide Board members, examinees, and reviewers.
The Board stated that it consulted the academe before prescribing and adopting the syllabi for the examination subjects.
Memorandum Circular No. 8 (Series of 1992); Res. No. 265 (Series of 1993); Memorandum Circular No. 93-03 (Series of 1993); and Memorandum Circular No. 93-04 (Series of 1993).
It becomes effective fifteen (15) days after publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation, and it must be within three (3) months prior to the examination.
Under its quasi-legislative (rule-making) power under Section 10 of R.A. No. 4374.
Adopted by the PRC Board Chairman and members (e.g., Rogelio P. De la Rosa, Chairman; Restituto H. Bautista, Member; Herminio S. Pada, Member) and approved by Commission members including Hermogenes P. Pobre and Mariano A. Mendi eta/Ar mando C. Pascual (as shown in the text).
Each major subject area is weighted at 20%: Mathematics, Theory and Practice of Surveying, Laws and Regulations, Geodesy, and Cartography.
Laws and Regulations.
Geodetic Surveying, Geodetic Astronomy, Geodetic Triangulation, Geodetic Leveling, Gravity Measurements, and derivation of formula on Map projection.
Plotting and mapping of Isolated, Mineral, Cadastral, Hydrographic, Topographic and Photogrammetric Surveying; Map Projections; profile and cross section; railroad curves and earthworks.
Theory and Practice of Surveying (30%), Mathematics (20%), Public Land and Land Registration Laws/Laws on Property/Laws on Natural Resources and Land Reform Law/CARL (15%), Practical Problems in Surveying (20%), and Plotting and Mapping (15%).
Geometry, Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Principles of Physics, and Theory of Lenses.
Public Land and Land Registration Laws, Laws on Property, Laws on Natural Resources and Land Reform Law, and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law.
100%.