USC ‘summas’, SWU grad land in nation’s top 10
Ray Hanoi Ngalot
They were buddies in college, competed for academic honors and finished on top of their class.
Now the three Cebu graduates of the University of San Carlos share the honor of being among the topnotchers of the recent licensure examination for Certified Public Accountants.
Ray Hamodi Ngalot, Jamaica Perez Englis and Thomas Zachary Sarigumba placed third, sixth and eighth respectively in the examination given by the Board of Accountancy of the Professional Regulations Commission in July.
A fourth examinee from Cebu – Lyndon Giganto Asis, who graduated from Southwestern University – shared 10th place with Adrian Gaguete Enriquez of San Beda College with a rating of 90.43 percent.
The results of the examinations were released three days after the last day of the examination, the PRC said in a statement Friday.
The four Cebu university graduates were among the 1,107 successful examinees out of 5,540 who took the examinations which was administered by the Board of Accountancy composed of chairman Joel Tan-Torres, vice chairman Betty Siy-Yap, and members Eliseo Aurellado and Gerard Sanvictores.
The PRC said the registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will be on August 8, 11 & 12.
Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), a passport size picture (colored with white background and nametag), two sets of metered documentary stamps, and a short brown envelope with name and profession written.
Registrants will also pay an initial registration fee of P600 and annual registration fee of P450, which will be valid for 2014-2017. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.
The date and venue for the oathtaking ceremony of the exam passers will be announced later.
Achievers
Jamaica Perez Englis
The three USC bets graduated summa cum laude in March.
Ngalot, who hails from Baybay, Leyte, placed third in the examinations with a rating of 92.43.
The 21 year old native of Baybay, Leyte said he was eyeing to pursue a degree in medicine, but a sudden change of plans led him to take the path to Accountancy.
“I tagged along with my classmates who took the entrance exams for Accountancy. I was planning to take up Biology as a pre-Med course,” he told Cebu Daily News.
Ngalot said he immediately plunged into a self-review after graduation, admitting that being a summa cum laude and a consistent academic achiever gave him tremendous pressure.
Ngalot was the class salutatorian in elementary at the Baybay North Central School and high school at the Visayas State University in Leyte. With such academic credentials, everybody was expecting him to top the board exams, he added.
“Dapat naay perseverance ang usa ka tawo and always pray to God. Bisag unsaon nato ug pugos kung dili ta mo-ampo wala gihapon. It will always be God’s will,” he told CDN.
Like her classmate, Jamaica Perez Englis had also wanted to pursue medicine. But her desire to immediately finish her studies and join the work force to help her family prompted the native of barangay Cambinocot in Cebu City to take up Accountancy instead.
Englis was the class valedictorian at Cambinocot Elementary School and was first honorable mention at the University of the Philippines- Cebu where she finished her secondary studies.
Self review
The 21 year old said she opted to go on a “self review” and was deep into her books everyday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
She said she and her friends, Ngalot and Thomas Zachary Sarigumba supported each other while reviewing for the board exams.
“Magtinabangay pa man gani me aron makasabot me sa ubang topics (We’d help each other out so we could better understand our subjects),” Englis added.
Cebu Daily News tried to contact Sarigumba and SWU’s Lyndon Giganto Asis, but they did not respond to calls until deadline time.
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