The Government discards the unique Selectivity and will carry out a "less rote" test that reduces "mismatches" between Autonomous Communities

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The Government is immersed in a legal reform to change the design of the university entrance exam, the Selectividad.

Its purpose is to present a draft in July that includes all the changes that will come into force in the

year .

The new design is due to the fact that "there is concern with some mismatches or imbalances" between autonomous communities and that a "less rote" and "more competence-based" evaluation is pursued.

The

already definitively rules out that there is a single test in all of Spain, as

,

and

claim , because "competences would be invaded" of regional governments.

The new Secretary of State for Education,

maintains that "there is consensus on changing and improving the test."

The existence of the single district allows the student who is examined, for example, in

, to enter any university in Spain with that grade.

Regions such as

or

have denounced that their universities are filled with students from other regions who have an easier exam and that leaves their own students out of careers where there is a lot of competition, such as

.

Education created a commission to study these inequalities but still has no conclusions.

What he does already know is that "it is not possible from a legal point of view to carry out a single test" throughout Spain.

"We would be eating competitions from other autonomous communities, and it does not seem necessary by definition either," Bar pointed out.

His intention is to present a new text in the first fortnight of July and negotiate it with the Ministry of Universities, the rectors, the autonomous communities and the representatives of the students.

"We want to make it more balanced, not so rote, not so pigeonholed, but also more comparable because there is concern with some territorial mismatches or imbalances," said Bar, who has outlined what he understands by "competence test."

Are the current text comments not competent?

"A comment can be more or less competent depending on the memory requirements that exist. It would be more competent if it brought more critical reasoning into play, more transversality and if it had to mobilize more knowledge and not limit itself to citing a list of authors", I have answered.

Changes in languages

It has also revealed that it will change the way in which Foreign Language exams are presented and if "it is simply a text commentary".

He has given as an example his stay in Ireland, where he focused on studying the conditional and his teacher urged him to "speak well, intonation well and be understood".

There is also a sector in the PSOE that thinks that the English test harms students without socioeconomic resources and favors those from favored backgrounds.

It is one of the points that they are analyzing in several drafts.

Bar has held this Monday an informative meeting with the media in which he has explained the main lines of action of his department in "phase 2";

that is to say, once Lomloe and the curricula are approved and when

.

His successor has three tasks: the reform of Selectivity, the reform of the teaching career and the Law of Artistic Education.

It also has the hot potato of Catalonia's refusal to give 25% of classes in Spanish.

At this point, the Ministry will continue without reacting.

Bar has said that he is not going to appeal the two Catalan regulations that shield Catalan in schools and renounce giving Spanish the rank of vehicular language of education.

"It would not be the right procedural moment. The one who must decide is the

. The game is in the judicial sphere," she said.

He has argued that "the ruling originally handed down was based on a law different from the current one", that "the Lomloe does not say what the vehicular language of teaching should be" and that the two Catalan regulations are in tune with the Celaá Law when they say that "at the end of compulsory education, students must be competent in both Spanish and Catalan".

If Pilar Alegría's new second-in-command has made anything clear, it's that she's going to take it easy.

Bar has conveyed the message that there is no rush to apply the Lomloe curricula in the classroom.

She is aware of the doubts that she generates and that the next course will start at half gas.

"The BOE does not carry out the educational reform; the teachers do it. And that takes time and has to gradually reach the classrooms. To think that on September 1 everything is going to change in the centers is to put enormous pressure on the teachers and make people very nervous. It is not expected that everything will change from September, it is unreal", said Bar.

The Ministry does not want to fall into "the same mistake as Logse, which tried to speed up the process of specifying the curriculum and, in the end, what the teachers did is copy the editorial proposals because they wanted to go too fast."

That is why he assumes that the teachers "will not design or write the new educational projects on the first day or in the first 15 days or very probably in the first months".

It will also make some changes in Selectivity "gradually".

"There will be progressive changes," she stressed.

The new test will not begin until 2024, so that those who start the first year of Baccalaureate next September are clear from the beginning what the new rules of the game are, and there will be flexibility to apply them.

In the final stretch of the legislature, the Government relaxes in its educational reforms so as not to step on too many calluses or generate social unrest that would go against it on the eve of the elections.

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