Students during the EBAU tests in Valladolid.
Nearly 200,000 students from all over spain will go through the selected centers of the different Autonomous Communities to carry out the High School Assessment Tests for University Access (EBAU) throughout the month of June. As in the previous call, following the guidelines established following the pandemic by Covid-19 To alleviate the effects of tele-teaching, the model will maintain a single exam proposal with several questions. A formula that has caused the percentage of outstanding students has almost doubled since 2019taking off to 13.26 percent.
In 2019the percentage of outstanding notes was situated in a 7.7 percent. The climb began in 2020, when it rose to 11.3 percent and a year later, in 2021, it increased once more almost two more points, reaching 13.26.
This progressive increase in scores among students has led to the Cutting notes are higher than before the health crisis. In fact, 10 of the 15 highest cutoff notes for the 2021-2022 academic year correspond to the title of Medicine.
Court notes to access Medicine
According to data published by the Ministry of Universitiesthe highest cut-off mark to access these studies in our country is found in the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with 13,500 points out of 14; followed by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), with 13,463; and the University of Valencia (UV), con 13,430.
The Miguel Hernandez University (UMH), with 13,400; and the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), with a cut-off mark of 13,380, occupy the fourth and fifth position, respectively.
The cut-off mark is the score established by each public university as a requirement to access a certain Degree. These change every year and depend on the number of places available in the degree, as well as the grade with which the last student accessed the Degree in question last year.
Medicine and Nursing, degrees with growing demand
On the other hand, the coronavirus pandemic has also triggered interest in medical training, which was already one of the traditionally most demanded university degrees. So much so that, according to pre-registration data from the Integrated University Information System (SIIU) of the Ministry of Universities, the demand to study Medicine in public universities it shot up 44 percent in one year, going from 44,589 applications in the 2019 academic year to 64,164 in 2020. In total, just four months following the start of the pandemic, 19,575 more students applied to enter Medicine.
The impact of Covid-19 on the increased demand for health degrees also had notable effects on Nursing. According to statistics from the department of Joan Subirats, the increase in applications to enroll in the Nursing Degree was one 32 percent in 2020 compared to 2019.
What is the EBAU 2022 model like?
As stated in the resolution published by the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory in the Official State Gazette, a test will be carried out for each of the subjects being evaluated. In each test, students will have a single exam proposal with several questions.
In addition, the student will have to answer, at their choice, a number of questions previously determined by the competent body, in order to achieve the highest score possible. “The aforementioned number of questions will have been set in such a way that it allows all the students to achieve the maximum score in the test, with regardless of the circumstances in which he might have had access to teaching and learning in the event that there had been a suspension of the teaching activity presence ”, dictates said order.
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