I am one of the lucky LAE passers (without interview) qualified to enroll next academic year.

This is really
a blessing because UP is really my dream school. Some years ago, when I was only 16, I took UPCAT but
failed. It made me depressed but challenged myself to study harder. So last November, I went back to
UP Diliman to take another entrance exam. This time, it was UP Law Aptitude Exam. And finally, I
passed.

I was only a PX reader before. But since I passed LAE, I felt obliged to share to others what I know about
LAE so that they too will make their dreams come true.

Abstract:
I had thought it was the easiest of all the sections but during the examination day it made me realize
that patterns were quite difficult to identify.

Vocabulary:
Words are really unfamiliar since I don’ t usually use many of them everyday even though my first
language is already English. Words that I remember are impinge, sacrosanct, etc. So better read a lot
and get yourself familiar with new words!

Language Proficiency:
We were asked to pick out the best sentence among the four choices and the sentences were very long.

Logical Reasoning:
We were asked to find the relationship of words to each other. Better study tautologies.

Math.
This I hate the most. I really resorted to guessing a lot of items. To those planning to take LAE, better
practice solving math problems under time pressure. Most of the problems are answerable. But the
limited time is the challenge. We were asked to answer simple questions like percentages, charts,
money conversions. But the time pressure made the questions a lot more difficult.

Reading Comprehension:
This is very easy for me since I've trained myself to read long passages. You will encounter long to very
long passages on this section. The challenge is the time pressure. I remember that there was a poem
included on this section which we had to interpret.

General Knowledge:
Lots of history questions and personality questions as well.

I suggest that as early as now, you really have to plan your preparation. I consider myself as an average
person so I really planned my review to compete with the best students of UP and other well-known
universities. I had 6-month preparation. Part of my preparation are the following:
1. Visit library more often, read books and current events
2. Invest in review materials or books
3. I took additional unit in Math since it is really my weakness
4. Always positive. “I can pass LAE” was my daily mantra.
5. I went to spa a day before the exam. This helped me endure the long hours of exam the following day
since I’ d had a time to reenergize myself.