PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN ALGEBRA ACROSS COLLEGES AT THE NAVAL STATE UNIVERSITY

There had been many studies conducted about algebra across colleges and its implication on the student’s academic performance. However, results vary in different research findings and surveys evidently attest to the veracity of students’ poor performance and low achievements in most entrance examinations in the national, regional, and local levels. Mathematics, constituting a high percentage against other subjects, is one of the major components of the examinations. The students are given different topics under mathematics to give an assessment prior to their knowledge and comprehension on the subject. The given topics are as follows: Sets and Operation, Real Numbers, Algebraic Expressions, Fractions, Special Products and Factoring, Radicals and Exponents, Linear Equations, Quadratic Equations, and Inequalities and Equations. The study utilized the descriptive research approach. Different achievement test was distributed to 250 students and interpreted the results. There are no significance difference in the level of performance in the overall scores in algebra among students across