The week of October 21 to 25, all second year Baccalaureate teachers will know the exam structures and models for university access tests (PAU), according to Efe.
In the case of the Valencian Community, the tests will take place from June 3 to 5 “and may even give your opinion on some of them.
This was stated on Friday by the regional secretary of Universities, Esther Gómez, who emphasized that the universities appoint the specialists who must prepare these exams on September 30, and “what less than give them ten or fifteen days to do their work.
“They need work these exam patterns and analyze the minimum conditions that all exams must meet,” he explained, ensuring that this process is not done later than in other years. “It is the same, or even earlier, than the other years,” he stressed.
According to Gómez, the royal decree published in June led to a very important change within the UPA, which forced the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CREU) to hold meetings to try to establish common minimum criteria in all universitiesthe last of which took place the last week of September.
Among the main new features of PAU 2025, there is that students “will no longer be able to leave part of the program without studying”, since “this maximum option” is removed. which was established from COVID.
It is also established that in the foreign language subject of the compulsory phase, students “will be able to choose the foreign language subject they wish, whatever it is have studied in a foreign language II in the second year of the Baccalaureate.
The regional secretary recalled that this Thursday the steering committee agreed on the dates of the ordinary phase of the PAU, which will be June 3, 4 and 5 in the morning, so that This will begin with Spanish Language and Literature II and the History of Philosophy.
The second day will be the tour of foreign languages and the history of Spain, and the third day will be that of the Valencian Language and Literature II exams and then, the subject of the baccalaureate modality followed, where students “will be able to also choose the subject they want, whatever the subject or subject taken in its modality”.
The afternoons will be dedicated to “everything related to the voluntary phase of the optional subjects during the three days,” Gómez said.
