Civil Guard exams convened this Sunday suspended due to an error in the exam boxes

The Civil Guard has announced the suspension of opposition tests for admission to the Army Institute which were to take place this Sunday, September 29. The decision was made after finding a error in the labeling of one of the boxes receipt which contained the exams. The tests took place between today and tomorrow and more than 26,000 candidates were invited to fill 2,700 places.

“Having detected a labeling error from one of the boxes received and sealed with the knowledge exams of the access tests for entry to the Scale of Corporals and Guards of the Civil Guard, it is necessary to suspend the tests called for tomorrow, September 29″, the police reported in a statement.

The Armed Institute will provide further details to relevant candidates “as soon as possible”by communicating the new date for carrying out the tests. In any case, the exam taken this Saturday is valid, and the suspension only concerns candidates who were examined this Sunday, September 29.

More than 26,332 people They were called up across Spain on Saturday and Sunday to fill one of the 2,721 places offered this year as corporals and guards of the Civil Guard.

The opposition phase is divided into four tests, including a knowledge test, a physical check as well as a personal interview and a medical examination. For the knowledge test, the Civil Guard had established 19 head offices, located in 12 autonomous communities: Alicante, Ávila, Baeza, Balearic Islands, Cádiz, Gijón, Granada, Las Palmas, León, Logroño, Madrid, Málaga, Mérida, Murcia, Seville, Tenerife, Valencia, Vigo and Zaragoza.

Before the tests, the first phase took place, the competition, during which the merits that each opponent added to the minimum requirements to be able to participate in the competitions were evaluated. Concretely, they had to be between 18 and 40 years old, have Spanish nationality, not have a criminal record or have at least a high school diploma.