A new state test will assess the level of Catalan students next year.

BarcelonaNext year, the Catalan education system will be administering new assessment tests to students.

The test will be a sample test, meaning that only some Catalan educational centers will administer it, although the Ministry of Education has not yet specified how many schools and, therefore, how many students will take these exams. Nor has it yet specified the structure and content of the tests that will be carried out in accordance with Article 143 of the Lomloe (Spanish Education Law). The article in question states that "this evaluation will be informative, formative, and guiding for the centers and informative for families and the entire educational community," but it does not specify whether the results will be taken into account in the student's academic record. ~BK_SLT_NA

Beyond this new test, the full schedule of assessments that Catalan students will take next year has also been made public. Thus, all schools are expected to administer the end-of-year assessment on March 6, 17, 18, 20, and 23, 2026. Until recently, it was known as the basic skills tests for 6th grade primary school and 4th grade secondary school, the results of which will be announced this year. These results were announced a few weeks ago by the Minister of Education, Esther Niubó. He already warned that they have not been positive.

As for the diagnostic tests, which for the last two years all students in 4th grade of primary school and 2nd year of secondary school must pass and which are also part of the Lomloe, the calendar indicates that they will be held from April 13 to 17 of next year.

The oral expression tests that in recent years have caused some disarray, one year because it was announced that they would not be held and this year Because many centers were not clear that they had to do them, will be held in early 2026. Specifically, they are expected to be held from January 19 to February 20, earlier than in recent years, which will also prevent them from overlapping or being too close to other tests taken during the course or coinciding with the end of the term.

Finally, next year Catalan students will also take the PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) tests, the international reading exams organized every five years by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The last time Catalonia took these tests was in 2021 and was One of the first warnings was that the educational level of Catalan students had suffered a significant decline..