The Department of Education (DepEd) will administer the National Achievement Test for Grade 12 (NATG12) for School Year (SY) 2022-2023 on January 30 and 31, 2023, pursuant to DepEd Order (DO) No. 55 s. 2016 titled Policy Guidellnes on the lvational Assessment of Student Learning for the K to 12 Basic Educatioa Program.All currently enrolled Grade 12 learners in public and private schools will take the test through a paper-based modality. With these, students need to prepare through the use of these National Achievement Test Reviewer for Grade 12. In reference to DO 029, s. 2022 titled Adoptioa of the Basic EducatioD Monitoring aad Evaluation Framework, DepEd has to identify and articulate indicators and targets for measuring performance in the development of plans and policies.

These indicators will be used for the assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of education services. The results of system assessments will serve as evidence and proxy indicator for the improvement of the curriculum implementation, evidence-based decision-making, and results-based Monitoring and Evaluation.

What is National Achievement Test (NATG12)?

The National Achievement Test Reviewer for Grade 12 will be used to help teachers and students to prepare for one of the exit assessments under the national assessment framework of the K to 12 Basic Education Program. It is designed to determine if graduating learners are meeting the learning standards in the senior high school (SHS) curriculum. The result of the NATGl2 provides data on the percentage of Grade 12 Iearners attaining at least the minimum level of proficiency in the Stage 4 SHS core a.reas over the total number of Grade 12 learners. Each learner will be provided with a Certihcate of Rating (COR) with the learner's actual rating per core subject area for SY 20221023.

The test shall cover 21st-century skills and the core SHS learning areas of Languages, Humanities, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, and Philosophy. The test design is progressive in nature wherein test items measure varying levels of skills. The language of the assessment tool shall be English and Filipino while the test item format shall be multiple-choice. Download below.