FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 1141 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
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) pre-formulated 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 assiduously measured 
in every ladder step all the way up, such that when a student graduates or is promoted 
to the next higher ladder grade/year level, the learner is fully equipped with the 
Required Minimum Knowledge and Competencies (RMKC) and is learning-ready for the 
next level as his/her 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 elementary 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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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
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First Regular Session 
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Senate Bill No. 1141 ' 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT PRESCRIBING REQUIRED MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES 
(RMKC) FOR EVERY CURRICULAR SUBJECT IN EVERY GRADE AND YEAR 
LEVEL IN BASIC EDUCATION IN ALL PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
SCHOOLS AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the Required Minimum 
Knowledge and Competencies in Basic Education, or the "RMKC Act." 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the Policy 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 le)lel before qualifying for promotion to the next higher grade or year. 
SECTION 3. Implementation of Policy. - In order to ensure that the declared 
policy ofthis Act shall be implemented in an appropriate and efficient manner, 
(a) The Department of Education (DepEd) shall formulate the Required Minimum 
Knowledge and Competencies (RMKC) 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 mandaiory 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. 
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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 
within the relevant RMKC. Thus, lesson plans to be formulated as teaching guides shall 
be confined to items within the RMKC before additional components for knowledge, 
skills, and competencies are introduced to students. 
Reference materials for supplementary instruction in classrooms or as 
assignments to students for self-study shall also be designed, formulated and 
implemented. 
SECTION 
5. 
Diagnostic and 
Performance Examinations. -
A national 
standardized test shall be administered 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 remedial 
measures can be introduced to students not meeting the learning rate for the RMKC 
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, supplementary learning competencies 
shall also be prescribed to further upgrade the quality of learning beyond the RMKC in 
order to reinforce and improve the learning curve .of students; to spur their spirit of 
competitiveness and drive for higher levels of performance, and to instill in students 
proper conduct, diligence, and discipline to aspire for greater levels of achievement 
and/or for excellence. 
And, accordingly, the DepEd shall also formulate, develop and implement a 
system of honors, rewards and recognition to students with exemplary performance or 
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, 
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