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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY MOTE 
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment are the three main pillars of any 
education system. All three should be strongly linked and networked. The Curriculum 
should be well defined, and ladderized, with every curricular subject duly described and 
particularized in measurable units. Instructions are aimed and strategized for learners 
to attain required (as opposed to desired) preformulated minimum knowledge and 
competencies for every curricular subject in every grade and year of the education 
ladder. And, Assessment of learning outputs duly calibrated and assiduousiy measured 
in every ladder step all the way up, such that when a student graduates or is promoted 
to the next higher ladder gradelyear level, the learner is fully equipped with the 
Required Minimum Knowledge and Competencies (RMKC) and is learning-ready for the 
next level as hislher graduation certificate or diploma or report card should attest to. 
The proposed pre-formulated RMKC is designed to fully equip the students the 
RMKCs in order to improve the extraordinarily low survival rate in elemenlary and in 
high school. 
This bill seeks by a remedial system designed to improve the quality of Philippine 
Education. It prescribes what specific learning outputs the students are expected to 
have acquired and tests them on what they should have learned based on the RMKC. 
The immediate passage of this bill is requested. 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT PRESCRIBING REQUIRED ~~~~~U~ KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES 
(RMKC) FOR EVEXY CURRlCUkAR SUBJECT IN EVERY GRADE AND Y L i X  
LEVEL IN BASIC EDUCATION IN ALL PUEblC ELEMENTARY AND SE=-CO%PWRY 
SCHOOLS AND FOR OTHER 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the fhi/ippilJes in 
Corgress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the Required Minimum 
Knowledge and Compelencies in Easic Education, or the "RMMC Act." 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the Poiicy of the 
Government that Students in Basic Education in Public Schools have to acquire and/or 
be equipped with Required Minimum Knowledge and Competencies for every grade 
and year level before qualifying for promotion to the next higher grade or year. 
SECTION 3. Implementation of Policy. - In order to ensure that ii:e declared 
policy of this Act shall be implemented in an appropriate and efficient manner, 
(a) The Department of Education (DepEd) shall formulate the Required Minimum 
Knowledge and Competencies (RMMC) 
for every curricular subject for every grade and 
year level in the public elementary and high schools. 
(b) The DepEd shall also incorporate in the textbooks prescribed for every 
subject the RMKC and thereby make it mandatory for every teacher in a given subject 
to teach, and the students shall be tasked to learn the RMKC corresponding to the 
student's subject in the grade or year level to which the student belongs. 
(c) The DepEd furthermore, shall design and conduct a training program for 
public school teachers that will ensure the appropriate teaching method for teachers 
and the learning style for students that will ensure that the RMKC shall be absorbed. 
Accordingly, the necessary supporting tools and equipment for the teaching and 
learning interaction shall be provided. 
SECTION 4.. RMKC Design and Formulation. - The RMKC for every curricular 
subject in basic education as provided under this Act shall be formulated with specificity 
and particularity such that they are measurable as to be coefficient to the learning level 
prescribed for students in every curricular subject. 
That while students may be taught to acquire knowledge, skills, and 
competencies beyond the RMKC, the assessment and tests to be given students to 


determine whether or not a passing score has been achieved shall be on test items 
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within the relevant RM\<C. Thus, lessen, plans to be forniuiated 
be coi:Rnec! to items wilhiii i;ie RMKC beLore addi:iorizi componei>k ro; 
ski!ls, anti conipeiencios are inirodticed to siudeiiis. 
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Reference materials for supplementary instruction in ciassroon-is or as 
assignments to students for self-study shall also be designed, formulaied and 
implemented. 
SECTION 5. Diagnostic and Performance Examinations. - A naiional 
standardized test shall be adminisiered with such frequency within a school year for 
every curricular subject for evaluation and diagnostic purposes only, in order to 
determine and assess the learning progress of the students in order that rernedial 
measures can be introduced to students not meeting the learning rate for llie KMKC 
expected at the various phases and periods of the school year. 
SECTION 6. Honors and Rewards System. - While tests, quizzes and 
examinations based on items from the RMKC shall provide the benchmark passing 
scores or grades of students in basic education, supplernentary learning compekmies 
shall also be prescribed to further upgrade the quality of learning beyond the Ri\iil<C in 
order to reinforce and improve the learning curve .of students; to spur their spirit or 
competitiveness and drive for higher levels of performance, and to instill in students 
proper conduct, diligence, atid discipline to aspire for greater levels of achievement 
andlor for excellence. 
And, accordingly, the DepEd shall also formulate, develop and implement a 
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system of honors, rewards and recognition to students with exemplary perform- 
achievement. 
In addition, an acceleration policy of promoting students to the next higher grade 
or year within a school year shall also be adopted and thereby provide inspirational 
models for excellence. 
SECTION 7. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, 
rules and regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are 
hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
SECTION 8. Effectivity - This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval. 
Approved,