UP Diliman examinees top licensure exams for interior designers and landscape architects

| Written by Fred Dabu

Three examinees from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman topped the Licensure Examination for Interior Designers given by the Board of Interior Design in the National Capital Region (NCR), Cebu, and Davao this July 2023.

With a rating of 87%, Jena Carla Edquila De Guzman was board topnotcher. Andrea Ruth Tan Lim, with a rating of 82.80%, and Mark Laurenz Catli Garcia, with a rating of 82.55%, placed ninth and tenth in the list of top ten passers, respectively. A total of 202 examinees passed this exam.

UP Diliman is also the top performing school in the July 2023 Licensure Examination for Landscape Architects as per Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Resolution No. 2017-1058(C) series of 2017. This means that UP Diliman’s examinees met the PRC requirements of “15 or more examinees and with at least 80% passing percentage.”

The board topnotcher was UP Diliman’s Albertene Manabat Aloc, with a rating of 80.75%, who outranked 63 other passers. Meanwhile, a total of 17, including Aloc, or 100% of the examinees from UP Diliman, passed the exam given by the Board of Landscape Architecture in NCR and Cebu this July 2023.