Thousands of students took to the streets this Friday to protest because they know nothing about Ebau (Selectivity), which they will have to adopt in June. Even though we have been in class for a long month, neither students nor teachers know the details of the university entrance exam, which generates great uncertainty and makes class work difficult in the 2nd year of Baccalaureate. The mobilizations will take place in 30 cities across Spain. Police repression was also evident during a demonstration for the same reasons as last week in Murcia, where riot police charged the students.
Coral Latorre, general secretary of the students’ union, explained Friday morning, in front of the leader of the protest in Madrid, that “students and teachers are blindly teaching material because they don’t know if what they are studying is relevant.” to enter or not. , there is very great uncertainty among second year Baccalaureate and Vocational Training students who take the Selectivity exam. How is it possible that an exam so important to us and which determines our future at the University has not yet been published?
“Every day they give us something in the curriculum, there’s someone who leaves the class because they’re overwhelmed. It leaves us very worried knowing that even the teachers don’t know what we should study. This can affect our future and we feel that we are at a disadvantage compared to other courses”, explain Anaís and Alba, high school students, while the demonstrators chant slogans such as “we want to see now, we want to see now, that Education publishes the exam once”, “”Ayuso listen, we are in the fight” and a banner addressed to Education reads: “If excuses were grades, you would get a 10”.
The Students’ Union is giving the Department of Education until next Monday to publish the Ebau models, or risk further protests next Friday.
This change in model is part of the most important reform that has been proposed the government in 40 years. It represents the transition from the traditional Ebau to an exam adapted to the Lomloe, which will gradually introduce questions of competence and the lack of information raises concerns in the academic community because, although it is not the theoretical objective of the course, the reality is that the 2nd Baccalaureate is essentially dedicated to preparing for this test.
Although Education has already approved the basic lines of the exam and the rectors have made their exam proposal, the autonomous communities still have to finalize it and publish a reference model. For now, beyond generalities such as that there will only be one exam (you will not be able to choose between two) or that the spelling, style and consistency of the answers may be worth up to 10% of the grade, the only thing that has been confirmed is that the test will take place on June 3, 4 and 5, which represents a homogenization never seen before.
Regarding the format of the exam, it is expected that there will be less optionality in the subjects, since each subject will present a single model of exercises structured in different blocks, so that students will have to study the entire program. Furthermore, one of the most important developments is the implementation of a common correction, something that could unify selectivity at the national level.
