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Nursing hopefuls urge leakage scam probe

BAGUIO CITY (June 22) — Examinees of the nursing board examination here filed a class suit to the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) for the creation of an independent committee to investigate the leakage of two sets of examination materials during the Nursing Board Examination on June 11 to 12 here.

The case filed by 92 examinees named the members of the Board of Nursing and the Ray A. Gapuz Review Center (Gapuz) respondents on the case for their alleged involvement in the leakage scam.

“Many examinees who wore jacket marked with. Gapuz brought with them some papers in the examination room and finished Set 111 of exam held on June 11 and Set V held on June 12 for more or less than 30 minutes,” claimed one examinee who filed the case in his sworn statement.

The complaint filed before the PRC on Wednesday, June 21, claimed that several questions or problems contained in the 18 pages handwritten leakage notes were identical to those that were asked in the recent board examinations.

The leakage

One of the complainants narrated that she had asked an examinee from the Gapuz about the materials, they claimed emergency drills were given by the center during the last hours of June 10.

“We read the material. Many of the questions in Set V of our examination were in it. What was more telling was that it used the same names and situations found in the actual board exams,” she states in her affidavit.

Another complainant narrated that a Gapuz reviewee handed her a material before the Set V exam started on June 12. The Gapuz reviewee allegedly wrote on the material which reads: “Basahin mo ‘yan. Baka sakaling reliable ‘yan kasi ‘yung binigay sa amin ng Gapuz para sa Set III, lumabas talaga kahapon. (Read that. It might be reliable because the one given to us by Gapuz for Set III really came out yesterday.)

Initially scanning the materials before the proctor announced the start of Set V exams, she was amazed to see that the questionnaires of the exam, including the characters, were the same. With other examinees, they reviewed the Gapuz review materials after the exams and noticed most came out in the Set V.

Nordis found out that on the night of June 10, representatives of the Gapuz reproduced 2,800 of the18-page handwritten materials in Bonifacio Street near the Saint Luis University. These representatives allegedly requested that materials be ready by 9:00 P.M. that same day.

In a press conference it called this week, Gapuz denied the allegations.

Remedies

Lawyer Kissack Gabaen, counsel for the complainants, claimed that the leakage scam is one of the worst in the history of the nursing board exams nationwide. He added that his clients are asking that Sets III and V of the board examination be invalidated and the scores of the examinees be recomputed without these.

He added that the complainants are asking the PRC to initiate proceedings to blacklist Gapuz if found guilty and revoke the professional licenses of those involved in the perpetration of the leakage scam.

Meanwhile the Associations of the Deans of Nursing Schools of Northern Luzon joined the press conference held on Saturday, June 24 by the complainants and their lawyers at the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) office in this city. The deans will join the complainants as intervenors of the petition.

Baguio City was one of the testing centers in the country for the latest nursing board exam. # Arthur L. Allad-iw for NORDIS

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