Section 5Sec./Art. 5

Eligibility Requirements. - A graduate or graduating student shall be eligible for the waiver of college entrance examination fees and charges upon the satisfaction of the following qualification and requirements:

(a) The graduate or graduating student must be a natural-born Filipino citizen;

(b) The graduate or graduating student must belong to the top ten percent (10%) of his or her graduating class;

(c) The graduate or graduating student must belong to a family whose combined household income falls below the poverty threshold as defined by the National Economic and Development Authority or cannot afford in a sustained manner to provide for their minimum basic needs of food, health, education, housing and other essential amenities of life duly certified as such by the Department of Social Welfare and Development;

(d) The graduate or graduating student must apply for college entrance examination to any private HEI within the country; and

(e) The graduate or graduating students must satisfy all other requirements as specified by the private HEI concerned.