The more than 44,000 Catalan students taking the university entrance exam this Wednesday have already passed the first test: the Spanish language and literature exam. A test that, despite the fear of themess about how much spelling mistakes could be penalized, most students described it as "simple and accessible." "I'm not right to say this, but I think I did really well," said Lucas, who is taking the University Entrance Exam (PAU) exam at Pompeu Fabra University.

Sounds perfect to me. In PAZ, there is war. The proofreaders (called "proofreaders" by the corresponding department) will deduct 0.1 points for spelling mistakes on the exams. Catalan, Spanish, and literature. With a limit, eh? 2 points. In foreign languages, up to 10% of the exercise will be deducted from written expression if the student is poor. In the remaining subjects, it seems that students will finally be penalized for spelling. We return, then, to what was said in October: that "coherence, grammatical and spelling accuracy, and the presentation of texts will be assessed, the discount of which can reach 10% of the total grade."

Spelling mistakes will deduct points from any university entrance exams on June 11, 12, and 13 that include writing exercises, the Department of Research and Universities announced Thursday. Minister Núria Montserrat has had to rectify In an appearance on 3/24, she and her team publicly revealed the information she and her team gave on Wednesday in a working session with journalists about the new features of the University Entrance Exams (PAU), which highlighted that spelling errors would only be included in language and literature subjects and, therefore, would not be penalized in any of the 25 subjects, both compulsory and optional.

I'm looking at a sample math exam question for the 2025 University Entrance Exam (PAU) exam. Students are warned that when solving exercises, they must "model and solve everyday problems by linking and contextualizing mathematics to other areas of knowledge." They must "argue the suitability of the problem solutions to verify their validity." As an example, there's this case: "Juan finds among his grandfather's papers a sketch like the one in the attached figure, which describes an irrigated plot of land that he left as an inheritance to his father." And in the attached figure, we see the grandfather's plot of land. It's a kind of trapezoid but with one curved side. Like half an irregular ball, squared on one side. Students must calculate the coordinates of points P, Q, and R and the equation of line PR.