High school students who will face the university entrance exams in June 2025 will not have mandatory readings as in previous editions and the one that will take place in a few weeks. The Government has agreed to eliminate from the Selectivity exams for the next year the obligation to read certain book titles to pass the Spanish Language and Literature test, and Catalan Language and Literature, common subjects for all students of any type of high school.
With the new competency curriculum, implemented by the socialist education law (Lomloe), which is already being applied in the 1st year of high school, students will receive “literary education” with the readings set by the language and literature teachers.
This literary education must necessarily include diverse readings to consolidate the required skills. Therefore, the objective is not for reading books to disappear, but rather for the obligation to read certain titles.
On the other hand, those students who choose literature as an elective subject will have a list of specific books.
This concerns 1st year baccalaureate students who will begin the last year of this stage next year and will take the EBAU exam in 2025.
Therefore, the students who are now in their 2nd year of high school and who are about to appear at the PAU, on June 4, 5 and 6, will be the last to be assessed for compulsory reading. Entering this year, Enchanted Waters (Joan Puig i Ferrater) and La plaça del Diamant (Mercè Rodoreda) in Catalan. In Spanish, Nada (Carmen Laforet) and La Fundación (Buero Vallejo) are mandatory.
What will the language exam be like in 2025?
Exam models are now being tested. According to Education, literary competence will be assessed with questions on themes, genre and literary resources, based on fragments of classic works.
“They will not necessarily be the same ones that the students will have read, but they will serve to connect with the knowledge learned and the readings carried out during the stage, evaluating critical judgment and reading comprehension,” indicates the department.
Educació has developed a series of proposals for centers, regarding guided readings and literary itineraries.
What do we know about what selectivity will be like from 2025?
So far, some data is known. The exercises will have a competency design. This means that students are able to apply knowledge, not just memorize it. Specific competencies of the subjects established by the new Lomloe curricula are evaluated.
The exercises will require students’ creativity and capacity for critical thinking, reflection and maturity in solving in writing a series of questions or tasks appropriate to the competencies examined.
The questions or tasks will be contextualized in artistic, scientific, humanistic and technological environments and, preferably, in environments close to the students’ lives.
Each exercise will last ninety minutes.
The exercises may be structured into different sections, which, in turn, may contain one or more questions or tasks. These may require closed, semi-constructed or open responses, provided that in each of the exercises the score assigned to the total number of open and semi-constructed response questions or tasks reaches at least 70%.
In each subject, a single exercise model will be delivered. However, if it is deemed appropriate, in some sections, the possibility of choosing between several questions or tasks may be included. This choice may not imply in any case a reduction in the number of specific competencies subject to evaluation.
The exercises in Spanish Language and Literature II, Co-Official Language and Literature II and Foreign Language II must be offered and answered in the corresponding language. For the rest, educational administrations will ensure students the possibility of choosing between the official languages ??of their territories.
If the questions or tasks require it, to carry out the exercises of the different subjects, students may use documents or auxiliary tools, such as dictionaries, calculators, forms or tables.
Information on the correction and grading criteria will be included in all exercises. These criteria will include, among others, parameters that allow the following aspects to be assessed: adaptation to what is requested in the statement, coherence, cohesion, grammatical, lexical and orthographic correctness of the texts produced, as well as their presentation.
In those exercises in which the questions or tasks require the production of texts by the students, the assessment corresponding to the aspects contemplated in the previous section may not be less than 10% of the grade.
Each of the exercises that comprise the access test will be graded from 0 to 10 points.
The test grade will be the arithmetic average of the grades obtained in each of the exercises. It must be equal to or greater than four points so that it can be taken into account in access to undergraduate university education.
The university access grade will be calculated by means of the weighted average of 60% of the average Baccalaureate grade, calculated without taking into account the grade of the Religion subject, and 40% of the grade of the access test.
It will be understood that the university access requirements are met when the weighted grade described in the previous section is equal to or greater than 5 points.
The access test will consist of four or, in the case of communities with a co-official language, five exercises that will deal with the following subjects: Spanish Language and Literature II and, if applicable, Co-official Language and Literature II; History of Spain or History of Philosophy, at the student’s choice; Foreign Language II; The specific compulsory subject of the second year of Baccalaureate of the modality studied.
Those who take the access test and wish to improve their admission grade may take the exam in the same call for up to three subjects from the second year of Baccalaureate, common or modality, different from those that would have been examined in the access test. Likewise, they may take the exam in a second foreign language other than the one they had chosen in said test.
