Almost half of the aspiring teachers have failed the aptitude test

BarcelonaThe aptitude test scores for becoming a teacher (PAP) are falling again. Only 54.5% of the students who applied this year to access a university degree in early childhood or primary education have passed. That is, almost half of the applicants (45.5%) have failed the test that, since last year, is once again mandatory in all universities –public and private– to graduate with a degree that allows one to be a teacher. The figure is 4 points lower than last year's edition, when 58% of applicants passed the exams.

Therefore, out of the 5,155 students who took the PAP on April 11, only 2,809 students have passed the red line to access degrees in early childhood education and primary education. Regarding the access routes, 57.81% of students coming from high school have passed the test, while of the students coming from vocational training cycles (FP), only three out of ten (34.42%) have passed.

Students who have passed the PAP must now complete the university access process with the selectivity exams (PAU), which will be held on June 9, 10, and 11. On the other hand, all students who have not passed the ordinary call can try again in the extraordinary test on July 17 to try to enter an education degree in the university pre-enrollment in September.

Indefinite validity

The PAP consist of two exams, one for communicative competence and critical reasoning, and another for mathematical logic competence. The qualification for these tests is "pass" or "fail", and once passed, it is valid indefinitely. Last academic year, only 58% of the students who took the test to access a university degree in early childhood or primary education passed. In fact, the pass rate was only one point higher than the previous year (57%) and meant that four out of ten aspiring teachers failed the 2025 aptitude tests.