The student with the highest grade in the university entrance exam: "I want to be a teacher."

BarcelonaShe didn't need it because she had been awarded a scholarship to study at university and passing the entrance exams was enough for her, but Catalina Goytisolo from Canigó School in Barcelona was the student who obtained the highest grade in this entrance exam. With a 9.9 in the general phase, she shared the podium with two other students, all girls: Berta García from Vilanova del Vallès High School and Raquel Giménez from La Vall School in Bellaterra.

"I didn't expect it at all. This morning I received an WhatsApp saying that the counselor would call me, but without telling me why. She told me herself and I was amazed," she admits in a conversation with ARA. With the highest grade in the university entrance exams, she shouldn't be worried about which degree she'll be able to enter, but Catalina is clear: "I want to study education and philology. With the honors degree she obtained in high school, she won a scholarship to study at the Abat Oliba University, where she will study primary education, but she also intends to combine it with a degree in Hispanic Philology at the University of Barcelona (UB). A characteristic that her school's director, Marga, highlights about Catalina is "her humility." "She's a very well-rounded student because, beyond getting good grades, she has many cultural interests. She wouldn't stay "up all night to study or anything like that": "Above all, it was really good for me to go to the tutoring classes at school, because at home I get distracted a lot." She also explains that when she's not studying, she really likes "reading and literature and also drawing."

While Catalina answers the phone from her high school in Barcelona, ​​​​Berta, who also got a 9.9, does so from a totally different scenario: "I'm in Menorca on vacation with some friends, they told our parents that the grades had come out," she says with a laugh. She says she's fine but everyone else has done well. She calls her father to tell him that she had gotten the best results in Catalonia.

A "lifelong" Vilanova del Vallès native, she studied first at the town's public school and then at the secondary school, also public. "I had a math teacher in primary school who I really liked and I had a lot of fun," she said. In the last months of high school, she ended up choosing what university degree she wants to do and, at this point, she still has to finish choosing which university she wants to go to. The field of biomedical devices such as pacemakers and this is the field that attracts me the most.

As for Raquel, the third girl to share the podium for the highest grades in the University of Buenos Aires (PAU), she wants to study Audiovisual Communication at the UPF. She says she knew she needed a high grade and had worked hard to achieve a high GPA and good results in the university entrance exams, but she didn't expect to get the highest grade in the country.

Average grade of 6.4

Beyond the three girls who obtained a 9.9, the results of Iván Kapustin from the Frederic Martí y Carreras Institute in Palafrugell also stood out this year, achieving a 9.8. He was followed by Ònia Amenós from the Gabriel Ferrater y Soler Institute in Reus and Marc Urgell from the Institute of l'Arboç with a 9.5.

As for the overall results, almost 95% (94.97%) of the students who took the selectividad on June 11, 12 and 13 in Catalonia passed the tests. Since this Wednesday morning, all students can consult their grades on the website of Department of Research and Universities.

Although not all the results have been released yet, in a first preview of data the average grade for the PAU in the access phase (which was previously the general phase) was 6.440 and the average grade for university access (where the baccalaureate grade is worth 60% while the PAU grade for the phase is 7.181. In addition, all the subjects in this new selectivity have obtained an average grade above 5.

However, the results of this first call for the new selectivity have been slightly lower than those obtained last year, when 97% (two points higher than 2025) of the 7 and 7 tenths more than this year passed).

Regarding the districts to which the 32,754 students who passed the university entrance exam belong, in Barcelona the average grade for the entrance exam—the common one that everyone must take—was 6.45, while the average grade for the entrance exam (the baccalaureate result) and the baccalaureate result were 6. In Girona, the average grades were 6.48 and 7.12, respectively; in Lleida, 6.28 and 7.14, and in Tarragona, 6.38 and 7.16.