A total of 2,840 students, 134 more than the previous academic year, have enrolled in the June call to take the University Entrance Exam (PAU) in the Salamanca university district.
The highest number of students registered to take the exam is in the province of Salamanca, with 1,625 students, followed by Ávila with 615, and finally Zamora with 598.
The exams, which will take place on June 3, 4, and 5, will begin at 9:00 a.m. with the Spanish Language and Literature II exam at the respective venues in each province.
In Salamanca, the exams will be held at the faculties of Sciences, Law, Fine Arts, Psychology; at the San Isidro Building (Pza. San Isidro), in addition to the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering in Béjar and at the Tierra de Ciudad Rodrigo High School.
Furthermore, students in Salamanca city will take exams in Artistic Drawing II, Design and Graphic-Plastic Expression Techniques in classroom 3.3 (Design) of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Campus Ciudad Jardín) and in Musical Analysis II, Choir and Vocal Technique II, and History of Music and Dance in classroom 1.1 at the San Isidro Building.
In Ávila, the PAU exams will be conducted at the Higher Polytechnic School, the Faculty of Education and Tourism, at the Arenas de San Pedro High School in the town of Arenas de San Pedro, and at the Eulogio Florentino Sanz High School in Arévalo.
Students in Ávila city will take the Design exam in classroom 02 of the CRBC School of Art and Higher Education in Ávila (Plaza Granada, 2) and the Musical Analysis II exam in classroom 05 of the Faculty of Education and Tourism (Madrigal de las Altas Torres, 3).
In Zamora, the exams will be held at the Higher Polytechnic School, the Faculty of Education, the León Felipe High School in Benavente, the González Allende High School in Toro, and the Valverde de Lucerna High School in Puebla de Sanabria.
Similarly, students in Zamora city will take the Design exam in classroom 203 of the School of Art and Higher Design in Zamora (Avenida Plaza Toros, 2) and the Musical Analysis II exam in Seminar P241 at the Higher Polytechnic School in Zamora (Avda. Cardenal Cisneros, 34).
PAU UPDATES
The new PAU introduces significant updates compared to the previous edition, as explained by the Technical Manager of Organization and Development of the University of Salamanca exams, Eva Lahuerta, in a statement reported by Europa Press.
The first update is the elimination this year of the option to choose between two exam models, as was the case since the pandemic. From now on, there will be a single model per subject, although there will be a medium-high internal optionality in each exam that allows for a degree of choice among most questions.
The second update is that the exam reinforces its competency nature, with at least 20-25 percent of questions aimed at evaluating skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and argumentation ability.
It is also ensured that 70 percent of the questions will be open-ended or semi-constructed, promoting reasoned development of answers. Another update is the standardization of correction criteria at the national level.
In all exams, spelling, grammatical correction, text coherence, and cohesion will be valued, with errors penalized up to ten percent of the grade.
In subjects like Spanish Language, penalties can reach up to two points. Lastly, grades obtained in the mandatory phase of the PAU will have indefinite validity. However, grades from the voluntary phase, aimed at improving the admission grade, will remain valid for three academic years.
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