Madrid (EFE) In case of suspending, it does not mean the end of the world, because other equally fruitful doors open.
The 2nd year Baccalaureate students from Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Navarra, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Galicia and Asturias have begun the dreaded exams today, after the tests began yesterday in Madrid, Murcia, Cantabria and La Rioja.
The higher level of Vocational Training, the alternative to failing the EBAU
Although not passing this exam is a domestic drama for many families and their children, the president of the Association of Vocational Training Centers, Luis García Domínguez, explains to EFE that taking a higher FP degree gives direct access to the desired degree and the bachelors They arrive at the University with more maturity and experience in the business world thanks to the 400 hours of internships.
García, whose entity brings together some 300 public, private and concerted centers where a third of the million FP students study, adds that “the world does not end” for failing the EBAU or not reaching the cut-off grade necessary to take the desired studies, because “there are many doors open: more than 300 different titles” of vocational training, with the advantage that there are subjects that the universities later validate.
“The difference -he adds- between a student who does the Baccalaureate/University route and the one who does FP/University is that in between the latter acquire professional skills, knowledge of the professional sector and life experience in the company itself”.
Another way is to access a degree from a private university, but its high cost is a difficult obstacle to overcome for many families.
The news sneaks into the tests
Immigration and the conflict over the Melilla fence has been the issue that Galician students have had to comment on in the Spanish Language and Literature exam for this year’s selectivity.
The first day of the Avaliación do Bacharelato para o Acceso á Universidade (ABAU) exams, for almost 12,800 Galician students, began with the History of Spain exam, focused on the Reconquest and the Catholic Monarchs, the pre-Roman peoples, the Second Republic and the Glorious Revolution of 1868.
In the subsequent Spanish Language and Literature test, he touched on a journalistic text on immigration and the Melilla border, by Xavier Vidal-Folch.
In Literature, the contents have revolved around the “Gypsy Ballads”, by Federico García Lorca; and “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, by Gabriel García Márquez. There have also been questions about Gloria Fuertes and the renewal of Spanish theater centered on the figure of Alfonso Sastre.
The battle of the tilde and the millennial poets
Spanish poetry from the first third of the 20th century and Spanish theater from the Civil War to the 1950s have been the subjects to choose in Literature and Language for the nearly 5,400 students from Extremadura.
The students have been able to choose one of these two topics in terms of Literature, while in Language they could choose an article by Pilar Galán, entitled “Solotildistas”, published in “El Periódico Extremadura”, and “La batalla del verso: los millennial poets facing the commercial, the digital and the viral”, by Enrique Rey.
In the English test they have chosen between a text on artificial intelligence and another on soccer; In this second case, it was information from the newspaper “The Guardian” about racist insults to Vinicius in Mallorca-Real Madrid.
Primo de Rivera versus Franco
Comparing the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and Franco, exposing the origin of the Democratic Six-year period or the regulation of the right to vote since the 19th century have been several of the questions that 22,951 Valencian students have had to answer in the History exam.
This control has also had another development question, in which young people could choose between the Revolution of 1868 or explain what led to the Civil War and what was the beginning of the Francoist State in 1936.
Concern among teachers
The EBAU test has started without incident in Navarra, with concern among teachers about the paralysis of the royal decree that will modify the 2024 test.
This was reported by the EBAU coordinator in Navarra, Ana Zabalza, at a press conference held on the Pamplona campus of the Public University of Navarra on the occasion of the start of the ordinary phase for 3,822 enrolled students.
“At this moment not much is known, there is a moment of great uncertainty due to the electoral advance,” he stated, assuring that the universities are “very concerned” and considering that “there is no margin”, and the students who start after the summer 2nd year of Bachiller and their teachers “will start the course without knowing how the test is going to be”.
The entrance What happens if you fail the EBAU? It was first published in EFE Noticias.