19 pass foreign service exams for 2008; Leyte woman tops

Only 19 out of 899 examinees passed the 2008 Foreign Service Officer (FSO) Examination, with a 29-year-old researcher from Leyte topping the exams. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Saturday the names of the 19 will be forwarded to President Arroyo for possible appointment as Foreign Service Officer Class IV. It said Luningning Camoying, from Tolosa, Leyte, topped the 2008 FSO Exam with a composite rating of 85.43%. "Ms. Camoying is a researcher at the Foreign Service Institute, and has the following degrees: BA Communication Arts from UP Visayas, MA International Studies from UP Diliman, and MS Affaires Internationales from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris," it noted. Other successful examinees included Sharon Johnnette Agduma; Kristine Bautista; Jan Kenneth Bolante; Leilanie Bernadette Cabras; Khrystina Corpuz; Nicole Therese De Castro; Andre Peter Estanislao; Cecille Joyce Lao; Andrea Leycano; Monika Kamille Limpo; Francis Maynard Maleon; Shirley Nuevo; Glenn Joseph Obach; Rowena Pangilinan; Robert Quintin; Ira Micheline Valdez; Jefrrey Valdez; and Jan Sherwin Wenceslao. Seven of the successful examinees graduated from UP Diliman, five from the Ateneo de Manila University, two from the University of San Carlos, and one each from Divine Word College (Capalan,Oriental Mindoro), Middlebury College (Virginia, USA), UP Baguio, UP Los Baños, and UP Visayas. The 2008 FSO Exam consisted of four parts, the first being the Qualifying Test held on May 4, 2008 in various testing centers throughout the country and in Dubai, Vienna, and Washington D.C. Second was the Written Test held from November 29 to December 1 in Pasay City and Cebu City. Third was the Oral Test held from May 27 to 29, 2009 in Pasay City. The last stage was the Psychological Test held from June 25 to July 8, 2009 in Quezon City. - GMANews.TV