THE Department of Education (DepEd) is not keen on scrapping the National Achievement Test (NAT) despite allegations of massive cheatings or leakages as claimed by several groups.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro explained that school achievement tests cannot be abolished that easily as the agency uses this to gauge the mastery of lessons by public school students and to determine other school needs.

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