1. NEAT, NSAT School
Calendar, Congressio
nal Commission on
Education (Ed.Com)
Prepared by:
Abraham Jerome M. Segundo

2. What is NEAT and NSAT?
Or National Elementary and Secondary
Achievement Test?
The National Achievement Test (NAT)
is a Philippine made standardized test
designed to determine pupils/students’
achievement
level,
strengths
and
weaknesses in five key curricular subject
areas at the end of the school year.

3. Who can take the Achievement or
Aptitude Test?

5. What is the purpose of NAT?
The NAT was developed to measure what
pupils/students in Grade Three, Grade Six
and Second and Fourth Year Student know
and can do in five subject areas: Science,
Mathematics, English, Filipino, and HeKaSi
(Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika) in
elementary and Araling Panlipunan in
secondary level.

6. Aims of National Achievement Test
(NAT)
1.Provide empirical information on the achievement level of pupils/students
in Grade Three, Grade Six and Second Year to serve as guide for policy
makers, administrators, curriculum planners, supervisors, principals and
teachers in their respective courses of action.
2.Identify and analyze variations on achievement levels across the years by
region, division, school and other variables.
3. Determine the rate of improvement in basic education with respect to
individual schools within certain time frames.

7. School Calendar
SY. 2013-2014

8. January 26, 2013
Early Registration
May 20-24, 2013
National Schools Maintenance
Week (Brigada Eskwela)
June 3, 2013
Opening of Classes
August 1-2, 2013
August 27, 2013
School Calendar
First Quarter
SY. 2013-201
Examination
August 28, 2013
National Career Assessment
Examination (NCAE) for K to 12 –
G8
NCAE for BEC – Y3
October 10-11, 2013
Second Quarter Examination
October 28-31, 2013
Mid-Year Assessment and
INSET/Semestral Break

9. November 11-15,
2013
Philippine Education
Placement Test
(PEPT)
March 13-14, 2014
Final Examinations for
Grade VI and Year IV
December 21, 2013,
Saturday
Start of Christmas
Break
March 20-21, 2014
Final Examinations for
Grades I-V and Years I-III
January 6, 2014,
Monday
Resumption of
Classes
March 27-28, 2014
January 9-10, 2014
Third Quarter
Examinations
Recognition/Graduation
Ceremonies
March 31, 2014
Last Day of Classes
January 25, 2014
Early Registration
Day (for SY 20142015)
March 5, 2014
National
Achievement Test
(NAT), Secondary –
Fourth Year
March 11, 2014
NAT, Elementary –
Grade III
March 13, 2014
NAT, Elementary –
Grade VI

10. School Holidays for SY 2013-2014
June 12, 2013, Wednesday
Philippine Independence Day, Regular
Holiday
August 9, 2013, Friday (Tentative)
Eid-ul Fitr (End of Ramadhan), Legal
Holiday
August 21, 2013, Wednesday
Ninoy Aquino Day, Special Nonworking Holiday
August 26, 2013, Monday
National Heroes Day, Regular Holiday
October 15, 2013, Tuesday (Tentative)
Eid-ul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice), Special
Holiday
November 1, 2013, Friday
All Saints Day, Special Holiday
November 30, 2013, Saturday
Bonifacio Day, Legal Holiday
December 30, 2013, Monday
Rizal Day, Regular Holiday
February 25, 2014, Tuesday
EDSA Revolution Anniversary, Special
Holiday for All Schools