Hard Work Over Luck: 2025 LET Top 8 Studied by Answering 600 Questions a Day

 

MANILA, Philippines — For nearly six months, Davon Anthony Boyonas lived by a single, demanding routine: answering 600 practice questions every single day.

“Every day I would answer 600 questions. Prinactice ko talaga siya. I would make a file of everything I learned. That’s why when exam day came, it wasn’t that nerve-wracking,” Boyonas shared.

The relentless discipline paid off. Boyonas emerged as Top 8 in the September–November 2025 Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LET).

According to CDN Digital, Boyonas firmly believes that topping the boards is never a matter of luck. For him, excellence is built through deliberate, sustained effort.

Even before graduating, he had already begun reviewing, treating the board exam not as a distant hurdle but as an integral part of his academic journey. Each day, he documented his lessons, building a personal repository of notes and strategies that made the actual exam feel familiar rather than intimidating.

Months of repetition sharpened not only his mastery of content but also his mental endurance. By the time exam day arrived, anxiety had little room to take hold.

“I went in with one foot forward,” he said—convinced that full commitment breeds confidence.

Beyond the Boards

A Special Needs Education major, Boyonas is deeply aware of the challenges Filipino teachers face, including heavy workloads, limited compensation, and a fragile work-life balance. These realities eventually led him to seek opportunities abroad.

He now works as a resource teacher in the United States, conducting focused one-on-one sessions with students—an environment that allows both professional growth and personal balance.

Still, Boyonas hopes for meaningful reforms in the Philippine education system, believing that Filipino teachers deserve working conditions that truly value their expertise and dedication.

Advice to Future Examinees

His message to aspiring board passers is simple but demanding: study like a topnotcher.

According to Boyonas, success requires going beyond the minimum—more practice, more repetition, more sacrifice. Intelligence, he emphasized, matters less than discipline and consistency.

For him, hard work made all the difference.

Congratulations!