The Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has decided this Friday to postpone the implementation of the new Selectividad to reach "greater consensus" after the criticism received by philologists, philosophers, writers and university professors, advanced by EL MUNDO.

The final implementation course is delayed from 2026/27 to 2027/28 and the controversial maturity test remains up in the air: it loses weight and will not be carried out during the transitional start-up phase.

Sources from the department of Alegría have explained that, "in view of the complaints received from institutions such as the RAE, we want there to be the possibility of broadening the consensus and giving more time to the development of the Lomloe so that there is more experience in competition issues":

The decision was adopted this Friday after the meeting of the working group between the Government and the autonomous communities.

15 of the 17 ministries of Education have proposed delaying the implementation of the university entrance exam and those responsible for the Ministry have agreed.

Only the Community of Madrid and Castilla y León have opposed it, which persist in their position of requesting a single test throughout Spain.

Galicia, Andalusia and Murcia, also from the PP, have been favorable to this intermediate solution.

The Ministry had already been suspecting the possibility of delaying the test for some time, after seeing that no one in the university or intellectual world supported a format that, according to its initial proposal, implied condensing the subjects of Spanish Language and Literature, Spanish Language, into a single maturity test. Co-official, Foreign Language, History and History of Philosophy.

Until now, these subjects had been evaluated in separate tests, but the Government wanted to put them together in a single, very simplified exam: with just 25 multiple-choice and gap-filling questions and three development questions of a maximum of 150 words each.

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