Readiness of Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) Students in College: Ex-post Facto on Performance, Career-Goal and Potential Challenges

AUTHOR(S)

Rowenna B. Santiago

ABSTRACT

The study was conducted to assess the readiness of Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMMS) Students in college: Ex-post Facto on Performance, Career-Goal and Potential Challenges. Specifically, it attempted to scrutinize the academic performance of the respondents for the first quarter of SY 2021- 2022; construct the respondents’ profile in their career goals; inquire from the respondents their potential challenges/ problems when they go to college; and come up with a proposed career plan for the respondents based on the findings of the study. Results revealed that 9.87, 24.69, 39.50, 23.45, and 2.47 percent of the respondents belonged to the 90-100, 85-89, 80-84, 75 to 79 and below 75 grade scales, respectively. The most favored chosen career/ profession was ‘Professional Teacher’, with 22.2 percent of the class opted for it, followed by ‘Criminologist’ with 14.28 percent. ‘Computer Programmer’, ‘Agriculturist’, ‘Musician’, and ‘Police officer’ were the least chosen career/ profession. In the first ranking category of unknown/ potential challenges twelve were enumerated, topped by ‘Financial difficulties’ and ‘Might find much difficulty in Math and Science’, each obtaining a score of 18.5 percent. This was followed by ‘Prolonged sickness in the family and Might not pass the college admission test’, with a score of 11.1 percent each.
In the proposed career plan the following were suggested: (a) Only nine to ten percent of the respondents would take up any engineering degrees and computer science. (b) Twenty-four to twenty-five percent of the class may be advised to take up science-laden courses, (c) Thirty-nine to forty percent of the respondents may be encouraged to become a professional teacher, seaman, criminologist, police officer, or related college degree that do not deal so much mathematics and sciences. (d) Twenty-three to twenty four percent of the class may be persuaded to go for entrepreneurship or TESDA-certified livelihood course, and (e) Two to three percent of the class may be convinced to change their curriculum exit to employment.