What Is the UPCAT Coverage?
Use this complete subject-and-topic guide to organize your UPCAT 2027 review across Language Proficiency, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Science.
View the Topic List Open My Student HubThe four official subtests
The University of the Philippines identifies four UPCAT subtests: Language Proficiency, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Science. Language Proficiency and Reading Comprehension include English and Filipino.
UP does not publish a permanent, detailed topic-by-topic syllabus. The list below is an evidence-informed preparation framework compiled from established school competencies, multiple UPCAT review materials, Teacher Abi diagnostics, and recurring UPCAT-style question patterns. It is a practical review guide—not an official prediction of the questions that will appear.
Language Proficiency Coverage
Language Proficiency measures accurate, clear, and appropriate use of English and Filipino. Review vocabulary through context and relationships, then practice grammar and organization through complete sentences and paragraphs.
English
Vocabulary
- Vocabulary in Context REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Synonyms REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Antonyms REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Idioms and Expressions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Word Analogy REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Word Precision and Diction REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Grammar
- Parts of Speech REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Subject-Verb Agreement REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Verb Tenses REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Modifiers REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Parallelism REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Prepositions and Idiomatic Constructions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Conjunctions and Logical Connectors REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Articles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sentence Structure REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Language Usage
- Error Identification REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sentence Improvement REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Formal Usage REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Diction
- Spelling REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Capitalization REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Punctuation REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Organization
- Paragraph Arrangement REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Logical Sequence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Cohesion and Coherence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Transition Devices COVERED IN LOGICAL CONNECTORS
Filipino
Talasalitaan
- Talasalitaan sa Konteksto REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Kasingkahulugan sa Konteksto REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Kasalungat sa Konteksto REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Tayutay REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sawikain at Idyoma REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Balarila at Paggamit
- Bahagi ng Pananalita REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pokus ng Pandiwa REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Panlapi at Pagbuo ng Salita REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Simuno at Panaguri REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Wastong Gamit ng Salita REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pagkilala sa Mali REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pag-aayos ng Talata REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pagkumpleto ng Pangungusap REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pag-unawa sa Binasa
Reading Comprehension Coverage
Reading questions measure what a passage states, implies, and accomplishes. The same skills may appear in English or Filipino and in prose, poetry, informational texts, or visual data.
English Reading Skills
- Main Idea and Best Summary REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Supporting Details and Textual Evidence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Inference and Drawing Conclusions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Vocabulary in Context REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Author's Purpose and Function REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Tone and Mood REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Fact and Opinion REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Cause and Effect REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Compare and Contrast REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sequence and Chronological Order REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Literary Analysis REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Filipino Reading Skills
- Pangunahing Ideya at Buod REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pantulong na Detalye at Ebidensiya REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Paghihinuha at Pagbuo ng Kongklusyon REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Talasalitaan sa Konteksto sa Pagbasa REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Layunin ng May-akda at Gamit ng Detalye REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Tono at Damdamin REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Katotohanan at Opinyon REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sanhi at Bunga REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Paghahambing at Pagkokontrast REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pagkakasunod-sunod at Kronolohikal na Ayos REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pagsusuring Pampanitikan REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Passage and Information Formats
- Poetry Reading and Analysis REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Figures of Speech REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Editorials and Argumentative Passages REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Scientific Articles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Historical Passages and Primary Sources REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Functional Reading REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Graphs, Charts, and Tables REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Infographics and Visual Information REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Advertisements and Promotional Materials REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Mixed English–Filipino Passages REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Mathematics Coverage
UPCAT-style Mathematics rewards efficient reasoning, representation, and application—not lengthy computation alone. Practice without a calculator and learn to translate words, graphs, tables, and diagrams into mathematics.
Number Sense
- Integers REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Fractions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Decimals REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Percent and Percent Change REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Ratio and Proportion REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Scientific Notation REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Number Theory, Divisibility, Factors, Multiples, and Remainders REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Consumer Math
- Discounts and Successive Discounts REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Profit, Loss, Markup, and Commission REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Simple Interest REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Algebra and Functions
- Algebraic Expressions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Linear Equations and Modeling REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Linear Functions from Two Points REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Linear Inequalities REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Systems of Linear Equations REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Absolute Value REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Exponent Rules REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Radicals REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Polynomial Operations and Reasoning REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Factoring REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Quadratic Equations REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Polynomial Roots and Discriminant REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Rational Expressions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Logarithms REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Function Evaluation and Notation REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Domain and Range REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Function Composition REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Piecewise Functions REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Function Transformations REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Direct, Inverse, and Joint Variation REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Geometry
- Lines, Angles, and Basic Triangles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Similar Triangles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Triangle Congruence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Quadrilaterals REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Circle Angles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Polygons REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Perimeter REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Area and Composite Figures REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Surface Area REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Volume REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Coordinate Geometry and Trigonometry
- Distance Formula REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Midpoint REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Slope REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Equation of a Line REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Right Triangle Trigonometry REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Special Angles REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Trigonometric Applications REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Statistics and Probability
- Mean, Median, Mode, and Weighted Mean REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Graph Interpretation, Statistical Graphs, and Data Displays REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Basic Probability REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Conditional Probability REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Counting Principle, Permutations, Combinations, and Restricted Counting REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Sequences, Rates, and Logic
- Arithmetic Sequences REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Geometric Sequence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pattern Recognition REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Work-Rate Problems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Distance-Rate-Time REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Pipe Problems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Mixture Problems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Age Problems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Average Problems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Sets and Venn Diagrams REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Deductive Reasoning REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Science Coverage
Science questions may ask for factual knowledge, but many require interpretation of experiments, graphs, diagrams, mechanisms, or evidence. Review why processes happen and how changing one condition affects the result.
57 standalone Science reviewers are now available across Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth and Space Science.
Biology
- Cell Structure and Function REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Cell Transport and Osmosis REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Photosynthesis REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Cellular Respiration REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Enzymes REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Cell Division REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Genetics and Punnett Squares REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Evolution and Natural Selection REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Evolutionary Trees and Cladograms REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Classification of Organisms REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Ecological Relationships REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Plant Biology REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Plant Transport and Transpiration REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Human Body Systems REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Microbiology REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Chemistry
- Matter, Mixtures, and Separation Techniques REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Atomic Structure and Electron Configuration REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Periodic Table and Trends REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Chemical Bonding REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Lewis Structures and Molecular Geometry REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Chemical Reactions and Balancing Equations REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Mole Concept REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Stoichiometric Mole Ratios REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Limiting Reactants and Percent Yield REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Solutions and Concentration REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Acids and Bases REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Gas Laws and Partial Pressure REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Thermochemistry REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Electrochemistry REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Organic Compounds and Functional Groups REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Physics
- Measurement and Experimental Uncertainty REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Motion and Motion Graphs REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Newton's Laws of Motion REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Work, Energy, and Power REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Momentum and Impulse REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Circular Motion and Gravitation REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Density, Pressure, and Buoyancy REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Heat and Thermodynamics REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Waves and Sound REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Light and Optics REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Electricity and Electric Circuits REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Magnetism and Electromagnetism REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Modern Physics and Radioactivity REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Earth and Space Science
- Earth Structure REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Rocks, Minerals, and the Rock Cycle REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Evidence REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Volcanoes REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Earthquakes REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Weathering and Erosion REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Relative and Radiometric Dating REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Weather, Atmosphere, and Climate REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Water Cycle and Oceans REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Solar System, Moon, and Seasons REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Stars and Galaxies REVIEWER AVAILABLE
- Tides REVIEWER AVAILABLE
Find out what to study first.
No diagnostic can assess every topic on this page. These tests sample important skills and save measured strengths and priority areas to the Student Hub.
Questions about UPCAT coverage
Does UP publish an official detailed UPCAT syllabus?
UP officially identifies the four subtests, but it does not publish a permanent topic-by-topic syllabus. Detailed reviewer lists should be treated as preparation frameworks rather than guaranteed coverage.
Will every topic on this page appear in UPCAT 2027?
Not necessarily. The real test samples from a broad range of secondary-school competencies. This guide helps you prepare broadly without claiming to predict individual questions.
Do the Teacher Abi diagnostics cover every topic?
No. A diagnostic has limited items and can measure only the competencies it samples. Unassessed topics should not be treated as mastered or weak.
What should I review first?
Begin with the diagnostics, then prioritize weak foundations that affect several later topics. Continue short maintenance practice in stronger subjects.
Where can I track the topics I have studied?
Use the Teacher Abi Student Hub. Its coverage tracker will let you record topics as not started, studying, reviewed, or confident while keeping diagnostic evidence separate.
Are Teacher Abi reviewers official UP materials?
No. Teacher Abi produces independent educational resources and original practice. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of the Philippines.
Verify admissions details with UP.
Schedules, requirements, permitted materials, and test-day instructions can change. Visit the official UP Office of Admissions UPCAT website for authoritative information.
Teacher Abi is an independent educational resource. This page organizes topics for preparation and does not reproduce or claim access to official test questions.
Turn the coverage list into a study plan.
Open the Student Hub to choose your test date, view saved diagnostic results, and track the topics you review.
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