What the LET is
The Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers, still widely called the LET, is the national board examination a person must pass to practise as a professional teacher in the Philippines. It is conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission through the Board for Professional Teachers, under Republic Act 7836 (the Philippine Teachers Professionalisation Act) as amended by Republic Act 9293. The formal current name is the Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers, and the PRC’s own recent releases use the shorter LEPT.
Passing the LET is what a school, public or private, is required to verify before a person can be permanently appointed as a classroom teacher. It is a license to teach, not a placement in a specific school. Public school hiring on top of the license runs through the Department of Education’s own selection process.
Who conducts it, and when
The examination is administered by the PRC twice a year to accommodate the volume of candidates. Recent cycles were held on 21 September 2025 and 30 November 2025, and the results for both were released together by the PRC on 22 December 2025. Candidates sit for either the Elementary level, which qualifies a passer to teach in kindergarten and grades one to six, or the Secondary level, which qualifies a passer to teach in junior and senior high school in the area of specialisation declared during registration.
Who can apply
An applicant must be a Filipino citizen, or a foreign national qualified under a reciprocity arrangement recognised by the PRC, and of good moral character. The academic requirement depends on the level. For the Elementary level, a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education or its equivalent from a recognised institution is required. For the Secondary level, the PRC accepts a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education with a major and minor, or a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences with at least eighteen units of professional education. Graduates of non-education bachelor’s programmes can qualify through the pathway introduced by CHED Memorandum Order 75, which requires a defined package of professional education units and a supervised teaching internship before they are eligible to sit the exam.
How the exam runs
The LET is an objective, machine-scored pen and paper test. The Elementary level has two components, weighted 40 percent General Education and 60 percent Professional Education. The Secondary level has three components, weighted 20 percent General Education, 40 percent Professional Education, and 40 percent Area of Specialisation, with the specialisation paper set to the field the candidate declared at registration. The PRC and the Commission on Higher Education revised the curriculum coverage beginning with the September 2025 examination, so candidates preparing from older reviewers should confirm topic coverage against the current PRC syllabus.
Passing the LET
The passing rule is a general average of at least 75.00 percent with no component score below 50.00 percent. A candidate who averages above 75 but falls below 50 on any one paper is rated failed, which is a common outcome and worth planning for. The September and November 2025 cycles together certified 21,967 elementary teachers out of 43,035 examinees, a 51.04 percent passing rate at the elementary level, and 57,729 secondary teachers out of 79,493 examinees, a 72.62 percent passing rate at the secondary level, per the PRC’s release of 22 December 2025.
Applying
Registration is done through the PRC’s Licensure Examination and Registration Information System, or LERIS, on prc.gov.ph. Applicants create an online account, choose the examination and testing venue, upload the required documents including the transcript of records and proof of the required units, and pay the examination fee before the posted deadline. The exact fee, deadlines, and testing venues are posted with each cycle’s PRC advisory.
On exam day
Bring the printed Notice of Admission, a valid government photo identification whose name matches the notice, a black ballpoint pen, and any other item the current PRC advisory specifies, such as a metered-stamped window mailing envelope. Mobile phones, smartwatches, calculators, and any electronic device are not allowed inside the testing room. Arrive well before the reporting time on the notice because latecomers are not admitted.
After passing
A passer must appear for the oath-taking scheduled by the Board for Professional Teachers and register with the PRC to receive the Professional Identification Card and Certificate of Registration. Beyond that, professional teachers are required to comply with the continuing professional development framework the PRC administers when renewing the licence.
Some figures on this page were verified against secondary reporting because the primary PRC pages were not directly reachable from the build environment on the last-verified date. Every fact carries its source and should be re-checked against prc.gov.ph before it is quoted publicly.