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What Changed: Updated Laws and Institutions

The reviewer stops in 2022. Learn which bodies and rules later laws renamed or changed, read every dated fact with its date, and tell R.A. 3019 from R.A. 6713.

20 min read · Professional and Sub-Professional

What it is

The General Information reviewer was written around 2022, and the Constitution's text dates from 1987. Since then, Congress and agencies have renamed offices, amended laws and taken new actions. This lesson collects those updates. It follows owner decision DEC-05: the current law wins; the constitutional text is taught as written and followed by a "Now" note; and time-bound facts (rankings, ongoing matters) always carry a date.

Why it matters on the exam

Exam choices may use either the old name or the new one. If you know only the old reviewer, a correct new name (DEPDev, BSP, BARMM, BMB) can look wrong to you. Knowing both, and knowing which law made the change, lets you answer either way.

At work, letters and reports must use current agency names.

Rule 1 of 7Reading an update item: text, then Now
First decide what the item asks about: the constitutional or original text, or the current law. Answer the text question with the text, and the current question with the later law; for time-bound facts, answer as of the date given.
Worked example 1 of 3Text or Now?
Item A: "Under Art. XII, Sec. 9, which agency serves as the planning agency until Congress provides otherwise?" Item B: "Under R.A. 12145 (2025), the planning agency was reorganized into which department?" Which pair of answers is correct?
  1. A: DEPDev; B: NEDA
  2. A: NEDA; B: DEPDev
  3. A: NEDA; B: BSP
  4. A: BSP; B: DEPDev
Step 1 · Item A's time frameIt quotes the constitutional text ("until Congress provides otherwise"): answer with the text.
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  • How to recognize it on the test
  • What to look for (5 checks)
  • All 7 rules and tools
  • 3 worked examples, every step explained
  • 6 common mistakes and how to fix them
  • 2 exam techniques
  • Remember: 5 key points
  • Practice questions with explanations, and your progress saved
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