Its been a few hours qsince the result of the March 26, 2023 Civil Service Exam was released and I still can't believe that I passed! Praise the Lord!

Screen shot on the list of passers from thi site

Some other screen shots

Hello, fellow Filipino Hivers, do you know someone who took tha exam and passed too? Are they close/related to you? Congratulations to them too!

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Looking back

I started to file my application to take the exam online last December but the slots were always full. On the first day of January this year, I woke up early, and checked on the site and found hundreds of vacant slots and scheduled to appear on their office on January 12th.

I was missed the instruction to print the application form. I filled up online so I was not accepted on my first attempt on submitting my papers. Finding an internet cafe or a shop that I could pay to print my file was hard but I found a good man who did it and charged me only a few pesos.

On the day of the examination, it was very thrilling because I left home at 7:30 in the morning and the gates will close at 8:30 n the city takes amlost an hour of , that is if we don't get stick on a traffic. Upon arriving at the heart of the City 20 minutes before the deadline, I took a taxi to the school I was assigned and the lady guard almost did not let me in because I didn't have a copy of the stub with me.

On the exam, I only had water with me and the three-hour exam starved me. The exam was hard, the things I studied at home were different from the questions it had and I was thinking that I would not pass it.

Expectations and Emotions

75 days after the exam, the results were released. Actually I already had an idea ( I saw a Facebook post, I joined a lot of groups there) that the result will be released but I never waited. At 11:30 in June 8, I decided to sleep hoping that in the morning, I would wake up and read a message informing me that I passed. Haha

Honestly, I was expecting that my name won't be on the list, so when Paula messaged me asking if I already see the results, I told her I will check later today because it's too early to get disappointed.

I was preparing myself for the worst scenario; but I'm feeling positive and I had been praying for miracles from God. I finished the laundry and prepared my daughter to go to school before I left for work and did the usual routine I had.

I had no internet connection ony office PC and I ran out of available data and I felt like ooh, the things are alligned to make the results reveal even more suspense

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The good news!

At noon, the internet connection was restored and I've read that the results were not released yet, and I'm chill, I don't want to rush things and I surrendered it all to the Almighty. After I scrolled a few posts on Facebook, I saw another post about the links where the results will be seen then I thought to myself, this is it! It's now or never, seeing the list won't change it if I passed or not and juts in time, Bernie called telling me I was on the list! (Just like what I wanted, somebody will tell me I passed!)

I didn't believe him yetn it could be a prank or some mistake, but I got so excited, I asked if he too passed but he didn't make it. Paula was not on the list too and it was sad.

I went to the site and confirmed it. I shouted for joy and the tears went flooding my face; I hid to the pantry, and it took a while before it stopped and it felt so good.

This is me, #aliveandthriving

I texted my husband about it but he was too busy at the moment. My coworkers noticed my nostalgia and asked what happened and I told them. I received congratulations from my co-workers and I'm so happy.

Celebration

To celebrate, my husband bought pork barbecue for dinner and we enjoyed it. I thanked my husband for his support and encouragement and for believing that I could do it. He then encouraged me to take the Board exam related to the degree I had. It will be hard but I thinkk I'm going to try it.

After dinner, weird thoughts came what if it's just the same I had and the middle name is different? then I checked it agian and confirmed it was really mine. I felt so funny doing that.

Now I'm still drunk of happiness and I just could not let this day end before sharing. I still have no plans of doing anything yet, I won't be applying for government office yet, I still have many things to figure out yet and making decisions should be done meticulously.

Im just so happy I passed, I couldn't imagine what I would feel and do now if I failed, my heart would have been crushed to pieces and it would take me a loy of time to recover.

With this achievement, I felt some self improvement. Its not that I was not improving but most of the improvements I have in life are hard to distinguish; they seem to be transparent or I might have not been paying enough attention. At least now I felt so motivated to do things, and I hope it won't be gone until I would appreciate what I have done.

This will be all for now, thank you for joining me celebrate my victory.

Thank you, Lord.

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