Now is the best time to prepare for UPCAT

The other day, Pag-asa officially declared the start of summer. Hot days  from hereon.  Final exams in mid-March. The school year ends. Lent on the first week of April. Vacation time!

Who wouldn't want to trek to Baguio to escape Manila’s oppressive heat?

Or  schedule beach holidays in Boracay?  When the semester ends, the fun begins for many students.

But for some, summertime is the time to get serious. Serious preparation for the tough UPCAT. While others are jumping into the waters of Matabungkay or Nasugbu, or mountaineering in Mindanao, others are deep into algebra, English language, trigonometry, and arithmetic.

Those are the guys planning to enter UP in school year 2013-14. For them, now is the best time to start preparing for UPCAT, and not when school term starts again in June. Without homework and the distraction of daily classes, serious students can devote a few hours a day to reviewing their algebra, geometry, and arithmetic.

UPCAT test dates are on August 4 and 5 this year. That  leaves only 5 months to prepare.

Those who have nothing but fun in mind this summer will find that when they begin their preparation in June, they will have barely two months left  before the test dates.  Believe me, two months won't be enough.

So look far ahead. Unless you have been passing your math and English subjects with great grades, 5 months may even be too short!  OK, go to Bora and enjoy. Have fun.

But come back  after a week and get real serious…… if you’re serious about going to the country’s premier university.

And just so you’ll have some idea how the UPCAT looks like, check out www.prep4college.net , the best online test preparation available. Try it  for 15 days, and have a feel of what it would take to pass the UPCAT and qualify for admission into UP.