by pinoy_guy

DOJ indicts four in nursing exam leak

Friday, August 24, 2007

The Department of Justice filed criminal charges on Thursday against owners of two review centers in the case of the scandal-plagued 2006 nursing board exam.

Indicted were Ricarte Gapuz, Elena Gapuz-Altajeros and Jonna Bucud—all of the Gapuz Review Center. George Cordero of the Inress Review Center was also charged.

The owners violated Republic Act 8981, otherwise known as “An Act Modernizing the Professional Regulations Commission,” according to an 18-page resolution of the Justice panel of prosecutors headed by State Prosecutor Roseanne Balauag.

DOJ to file criminal raps vs erring nurse review centers

DOJ to file criminal raps vs erring nurse review centers

Friday, August 24, 2007

The DOJ said Cordero cannot deny his role in the leakage, considering the statement of a witness that he predicted 100 of the 500 questions in Test V will surely come out.

“Even the best seers in this country do not have the ability to foretell the test items verbatim that would be given in the actual examinations, as what happened in respondent George Cordero’s situation,” the DOJ said.

It is up to the PRC to decide whether to order the closure of the review centers or impose other disciplinary actions on them, Zuño said.

Re: DOJ indicts four in nursing exam leak

At last, something is finally happening. So, that's 2 review centers, namely Gapuz and Inress, while the other review center was cleared for lack of evidence based on publicly published reports.

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It is about time that they did something about these centers.

Wonder what the posters are going to say now that have been boasting about how wonderful the Gapuz center was in helping them pass the exams.

We knew that something had to be done, there was no way around it.

This is great news for the nursesa and nursing students in PI, means that they are finally going to get things cleaned up there, or at least start to.

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The indictments are good news indeed! Unfortunately, the bad news is that the trials will drag on for 2 years or more, allowing Gapuz and Inress review centers to remain open for business as usual until a final verdict is rendered.

Hopefully, the sunshine of publicity may encourage students to run fast and hard away from these review centers!!

I STILL don't understand why smart young students spend tens of thousands of pesos to review what they were hopefully taught in the 4 years of college they attended! During those 4 years, didn't students get together for peer reveiws and joint study sessions? Didn't the small groups of friends they studied with for exams, semester after semester, help them get the grades and knowledge as small study groups?

Why then, wouldn't that same effort of getting together with friends to study for NLE, NCLEX exams work as well? Why all of sudden did someone decide that small study groups working together before an exam would fail to work for the NLE or NCLEX and require some dis-interested, money making commercial group make you any smarter than you were when studying with friends for FREE all through your college years??

I urge the new grads to use your study skills once again to prepare for your big exams. Get with your "Barkada" and do what you so successfully did these past 4 years.....self study and hard work with a few interested and supportive classmates to get you through the stress of the NLE or NCLEX.

FORGET these crooked money grubbing review centers!! Stay smart and study hard for your future success.

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And perhaps the ones that went thru Gapuz' program will stop bragging about it. I do not find anything more irritating than that. It is well known in the US of the involvement of his centers with the cheating fiasco last summer among others, and for any to think that we are that dumb and do not know what goes on there, they have another thing to worry about.

Oh yes, and he has such wonderful strategies in helping someone pass.
Yes, cheating.

So anyone that thinks that they should follow what he is preaching, think again. But funnier, if his centers are permitted to remain open, then where is the justice? With the NCLEX starting up there, doubt if he will be able to remain open. And he should not be able to.

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I wonder why RP BON members and those from the PRC weren't included when it is they who have first-hand information(in other words, no leakage without their consent or if not through their carelessness)...

Re: DOJ indicts four in nursing exam leak

Originally Posted by john83

I wonder why RP BON members and those from the PRC weren't included when it is they who have first-hand information(in other words, no leakage without their consent or if not through their carelessness)...

Actually, the two members of the BON were already indicted and also with criminal charges. It just didn't receive much media coverage unlike this one when the DOJ coincided it with the opening of the NCLEX center.

No charges to the PRC, though.