What GEAS covers in the Electronics Engineering (ECE) board exam, from PRC's TOS: 11 topics, 100 items, the item count per subtopic, and where to start.
Mariano Luiz King
Published November 6, 2026 ยท Updated November 9, 2026
GEAS (General Engineering and Applied Sciences) is one of the four subjects in the Electronics Engineering (ECE) Board Exam, officially the Electronics Engineers Licensure Examination. It's 100 items spread across 11 topics, from physics and chemistry to engineering economics, programming, and ECE laws. This post breaks GEAS down to the subtopic, with PRC's own item counts, so you know where its 100 points are.
After reading this, you can plan your GEAS review around the topics that carry the most items.
Where this coverage comes from: Everything here comes from PRC's own documents, not forum posts. The topics and item counts are from the Board of Electronics Engineering's Enhanced Table of Specifications (Board Resolution No. 10, s. 2022, Annex A), which applies from the October 2022 exam onward. The schedule is from PRC's program for the October 2026 exam. The passing rule is from RA 9292. I checked all of it in November 2026.
A Table of Specifications (TOS) is the blueprint the Board writes questions from. If a topic isn't in it, it shouldn't be on the exam.
| Detail | What PRC says |
|---|---|
| Items | 100, multiple choice |
| Weight | 20% of the ECE board exam |
| When | Day 2, 8:00 AM to 12:00 NN (October 2026 program) |
| To pass | 70% in GEAS itself, since ECE needs 70% in each subject (RA 9292) |
| Calculator | One non-programmable calculator from PRC's approved list |
That passing rule is why GEAS matters. In most engineering boards, a strong subject can carry a weak one. In the ECE board exam, it can't. You need 70 of 100 in GEAS, no matter how well you do in Electronics.
| Topic | Items |
|---|---|
| Physics for Engineers | 15 |
| Chemistry for Engineers | 10 |
| Technopreneurship 101 | 10 |
| Physics 2 | 10 |
| Computer Programming | 10 |
| Environmental Science and Engineering | 10 |
| ECE Laws, Contracts, Ethics, Standards and Safety | 10 |
| Engineering Management | 9 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | 8 |
| Engineering Economics | 6 |
| CAD | 2 |
| Total | 100 |
Two things stand out:
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Work, energy, power, impulse and momentum, kinematics, dynamics, rotation | 5 |
| Dynamics of rotation, elasticity, oscillations and waves | 4 |
| Electrostatics, electricity, magnetism, optics | 4 |
| Fluids, heat transfer | 2 |
This is the classic first-year physics course. Mechanics alone is about 9 items.
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Thermodynamics, condensed matter, atomic and nuclear physics | 4 |
| Electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetic induction | 3 |
| Inductance and AC | 2 |
| Optics | 1 |
Electricity and magnetism show up in both physics topics. It's also the base of your Electronics Engineering subject, so reviewing it once helps twice.
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Energy | 3 |
| Chemistry of engineering materials | 3 |
| Chemistry of nanomaterials | 2 |
| Chemistry of the environment, and special topics for the field | 2 |
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Introduction, customers, value proposition, ethics, social responsibility, globalization | 3 |
| Execution and business plan, financial analysis, accounting basics, raising capital | 3 |
| Market identification and analysis, competitive advantage | 2 |
| Business models, introduction to intellectual property | 2 |
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Object-oriented programming, UML, object-oriented analysis and design | 4 |
| Programming language fundamentals (basic and advanced) | 3 |
| Graphical user interface programming | 2 |
| Exception handling | 1 |
Notice the focus: object-oriented concepts are the biggest chunk, not writing long programs. Know what classes, objects, inheritance, and UML diagrams are.
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Nature and ecology, natural systems and resources | 4 |
| Environmental concerns and crisis | 2 |
| Environmental impact assessment | 2 |
| Sustainable development | 2 |
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| ECE pledge and CSC guidelines, the board exam, how PRC regulates the profession | 3 |
| Other ECE-related statutes, safety standards, and the Philippine Electrical Code | 4 |
| Laws, obligations, and contracts | 2 |
| Practicing the ECE profession | 1 |
One honest note: the TOS isn't fully consistent here. It lists the "other statutes" subtopic at 4 items but gives it the same 0.4% weight as the 2-item subtopics. The counts only add up to 10 with 4, so I'd plan on 4. Read RA 9292 itself too, since it's the profession's own law.
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Planning, leading, organizing, controlling | 4 |
| Evolution of management theory, management and its functions | 2 |
| Managing the marketing and finance functions | 2 |
| Managing product and service operations | 1 |
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Atomic structure, bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline materials | 2 |
| Imperfections, diffusion, mechanical properties, metal alloys | 2 |
| Ceramics, polymers, composites | 2 |
| Electrical, dielectric, magnetic, optical, and thermal properties | 2 |
| Subtopic | Items |
|---|---|
| Money-time relationship, equivalence, basic economy study methods | 2 |
| Decisions recognizing risk and admitting uncertainty | 2 |
| Introduction and terms | 1 |
| Decisions under certainty | 1 |
Only 6 items, but the formulas (present worth, future worth, annuities) are quick points if you practice them on your calculator.
CAD software basics: the environment, snapping and construction elements, dimensioning, plotting, and inputting images.
This is my suggestion based on the item counts, not an official guide. If you have 20 hours for GEAS:
| Block | Topics | Items | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | Physics for Engineers, Physics 2 | 25 | 5 |
| Reading topics | Technopreneurship, Management, Environment, Laws | 39 | 7 |
| Science and materials | Chemistry, Materials Science | 18 | 4 |
| Programming | Computer Programming | 10 | 2 |
| Formulas | Engineering Economics, CAD | 8 | 2 |
The idea is simple: time follows items. Physics and the reading topics get the most hours because they hold the most points. Shift hours toward whatever your diagnostic test shows you're weakest in.
GEAS is wide, not deep. You won't need advanced math here, but you need to cover 11 topics well enough to get 70 of 100. Start with physics, don't leave the reading topics for last, and use the TOS as your checklist. The full ECE breakdown, with the other three subjects, is in Electronics Engineering (ECE) board exam coverage.
I built prepPH, so I'm biased, but the ECE reviewer groups its GEAS questions by these TOS topics, so you can drill one topic at a time.
General Engineering and Applied Sciences. It's one of the four subjects in the Electronics Engineering (ECE) board exam.
100 items, worth 20% of the exam, according to PRC's Table of Specifications.
70%. RA 9292 requires 70% in each ECE subject, not just a 70% average.
Physics for Engineers, Physics 2, Chemistry for Engineers, Technopreneurship, Computer Programming, Environmental Science, ECE Laws and Ethics, Engineering Management, Materials Science, Engineering Economics, and CAD.
Physics for Engineers, with 15 items. Together with Physics 2, physics is 25 of the 100 items.
