The Government maintains the structure, subjects and dates of the university entrance tests (PAU, EBAU or EVAU) as in previous years. There will be the same number of exams as before and students will be able to choose between history and philosophy. “Minimal changes” will be introduced since the students who will take these exams in June 2024 have already completed high school with the competency-based curriculum derived from the socialist educational law.
Likewise, the EVAU incorporates the science subject for students who have completed the general high school modality.
This morning the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training is meeting with the autonomous communities to inform them of the draft order that regulates the EBAU. Precisely, the regional councilors, among them, the Catalan councilor Quim Nadal, had requested that the changes in the Selectivity be postponed for one year since, since they were not regulated and the Government was in office, there was no time to prepare the students.
The minimum changes refer to the type of exam questions, of a more competency nature, so that they correspond to the way in which the students of this class have learned. It should be remembered that students in the 2nd year of high school have already studied with the curricula of the socialist Lomloe law, approved in 2020 and which introduces this approach.
Likewise, students from some autonomies, such as Catalonia, are already familiar with these approaches. For example, in biology, the student may be required to locate and use reliable sources, identifying, selecting and organizing certain information, evaluating it critically and contrasting its veracity.
Or in art history, questions to assess whether the student distinguishes and analyzes the religious, ideological, political, social, economic, expressive and aesthetic functions and dimensions of works of art, demonstrating a critical and well-founded understanding and judgment of the works. themselves.
In June, the Government prepared the draft of the royal decree with the new design of the tests (fewer subjects, shorter, with more time to respond and, above all, more competencies), and had previously postponed the so-called “maturity test “at the request of the autonomies. The objective of not advancing the aforementioned royal decree was to transfer to the government that came out of the polls the decision of how to regulate it, taking into account the discrepancies between political forces regarding the constitution of the test. The Popular Party wanted a single test.
The result of the elections has kept the government in office, making it impossible for it to approve the aforementioned royal decree.
Therefore, the Government decided, together with the autonomies, to extend the design characteristics and content of the tests for one year, minimally adapting them to the Lomloe curriculum. The document will be put on public display starting today in which interested groups will be able to send their considerations and contributions to it.
Therefore, the exams maintain the same number of subjects as in previous courses: the mandatory one of the modality and three common ones (four in the case of autonomous communities with a co-official language).
Students will be examined in Spanish language and literature, foreign language, co-official language, and the specific mandatory subject of the modality. And they will be able to choose between history of Spain or history of philosophy.
To raise your university admission grade, you can take two exams from the second year of Baccalaureate.
Likewise, students may take the exam in a second foreign language other than the one they had taken as a common subject and the grade may be taken into account by the universities in the admission process.
The draft order only includes the “minimal changes” necessary to adapt it to the Education Law and the new curricula. This means that the tests will evaluate the degree of acquisition of the “specific competencies” of the corresponding subjects of the new curricula through the application of the evaluation criteria included in the royal decree of organization of minimum baccalaureate education.
That is, introducing questions with competency approaches, as is already being done in some subjects.
Likewise, in this course, for the first time, students who have completed the new general baccalaureate modality, introduced by the Education Law approved in 2020, will take the test.
The text also includes the dates on which the autonomous communities must call the tests. In the case of the ordinary call, the exams must be taken before June 14 and the results must be published before the 28th of that same month.
In the case of the extraordinary exam, the communities that decide to do it in July must do so before the 12th and publish the results before the 19th. If they choose September, the deadlines will be the 13th and the 20th.
