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If you have the Spanish Bachillerato certificate, you must pass the PAU or EBAU (university entrance examinations).

The PAU or EBAU exams have two phases: one compulsory (with indefinite validity) and one voluntary (valid for two consecutive academic years following the exams).

The compulsory phase includes five exams: Spanish language, Valencian language, first foreign language (German, English, French or Italian), History of Spain and a general core subject of modality of the second year of Bachillerato (Fundamentals of Art II, Latin II, Mathematics applied to Social Sciences II or Mathematics II). The foreign language must have been studied in Bachillerato, as well as the rest of the subjects of this phase. The mark for this compulsory phase is the average of those 5 subjects and must be equal to or higher than 4 points.

The voluntary phase includes a maximum of 4 exams. Students can choose between the following subjects in the second year of Bachillerato: general core subjects of modality or option, studied or not (except the general core subject of modality examined in the compulsory phase of the same exam session); a second foreign language, studied or not, between German, English, French or Italian (except the foreign language examined in the compulsory phase). The subject will be considered passed, and therefore may be considered for weightning, as long as its grade is equal to or higher than 5 points.

The university entrance mark (NAU) is calculated by taking the cumulative average mark of Bachillerato (60%) and the calculated average of the marks of the five compulsory phase PAU exams (40%), provided that it is equal to or higher than four points.

University entrance mark (NAU) = cumulative average mark of Bachillerato (60%) + average mark of the PAU compulsory phase (40%).

The university admission mark (NAT) is obtained by increasing the university entrance mark (NAU) with the marks obtained in the subjects of the PAU voluntary phase, after multiplying them by the corresponding weighting coefficients.

University admission mark (NAT) = NAU + [weighting x M1 PAU voluntary phase] + [weighting x M2 PAU voluntary phase]

In order to calculate the NAT (university admission mark for an specific degree), weightings (0.1 and 0.2), which are multiplier coefficients set by the universities, are used. They can be consulted on the website of the Universitat de València and on the website of the Department of Education, Universities and Employment.

M1 and M2 correspond to the two grades for the specific subjects of modality and languages of the voluntary phase or for the core subject of modality and language of the compulsory phase which, considering weightings, provide the student with the best university entrance mark. This can add up to 4 more points the admission mark for the university degrees.

The admission mark for university degrees may be different depending on which degree you have applied for in the pre-enrolment, since in each case the grades of the subjects examined in the voluntary phase may be weighted differently (0.1 and 0.2).

Weightings are multiplier coefficients used to calculate the university admission marks (NAT). These coefficients are related to the relationship of each subject to each degree programme. Weightings can be: 0, 0.1 or 0.2. The subject weighting charts are set by each university for each of its degree programmes.

They can be consulted on the website of the Universitat de València and on the website of the Department of Education, Universities and Employment. It is advisable to consult them for each academic year, as they may vary from year to year. It should also be taken into account that they may not coincide in all universities.

If a student takes the same subject in different calls, the pre-enrolment computer assistant will take the marks that give a better admission mark, but will be careful not to choose the same subject examined in different calls. It will select different subjects.

The NAU obtained in June cannot be improved by taking the extraordinary exam in the same year. These marks of the extraordinary phase, if they are better than the marks of the ordinary phase, will only be valid for the following year, but not for the year in which the tests are held.

Preference for allocating university places is given to students who have passed the entrance exam in previous years and who pass the ordinary PAU exam in June, as opposed to those who pass the PAU in the extraordinary exam in July.

The dates of the PAU/EBAU exams for access in the academic year 2024-25 will be 4, 5 and 6 June 2024 for the ordinary call and 2, 3 and 4 July 2024 for the extraordinary call.

It is necessary to go to the centre where you studied Bachillerato. If the centre is in another autonomous community, the registration and enrolment in the PAU must be done from the Students Service of the Universitat de València (av. Blasco Ibáñez, 13. 46010 Valencia).

The grades of the compulsory phase do not expire. The grades of the voluntary phase will be valid for two consecutive academic years following the exams. The general core subject of modality and the foreign language examined in the compulsory phase do not expire for the calculation of the NAU, but for the calculation of the NAT they are only valid for the two consecutive academic years following the exams.

Yes, you can repeat the PAU in July, either in its entirety or in any of the two phases (if it is compulsory, it must be the complete phase with the 5 subjects). In any case, it should be taken into account that, in the pre-enrolment process, priority is given to the June call over the July call, so the marks obtained in the July PAU will not be used for access to that year but for the following year.

The PAU mark sheet can be printed out from https://appweb.edu.gva.es/paseu/login.sec

Not at the Universitat de València.

Yes. However, it should be borne in mind that weightings, and consequently the admission mark to the degree, may vary according to the university chosen.

In addition, it will be necessary to consult the pre-enrolment dates as they may vary.

People with an advanced vocational training certificate as a vocational training technician, plastic arts and design technician or advanced sports technician, or equivalent, can apply for direct access to the university with the cumulative average mark (between 5 and 10 points). You must apply for a place through pre-enrolment.

Since the cut-off marks are based on 14 points, it is possible to increase the admission mark by taking the PAU (specific competency test) or the EBAU (university access evaluation) exams during the voluntary phase. 

Students in higher level training cycles who enrol in the voluntary phase of the PAU exams can do so in the educational centre where they are currently studying, unless its not a public centre and only offers training cycle studies. In the case that the student has studied vocational training in a non-public centre that does not have second-year baccalaureate studies, enrolment in the voluntary phase of the PAU exam must be processed in the public centre on which the centre where the studies were carried out depends.

Yes. There is no link between the CFGS studies taken and the branches of knowledge to which the degrees are attached; in other words, you can access any degree regardless of the CFGS taken.

Credits taken in other official non-university higher education courses within the advanced vocational training, both national and international, may be recognised.

At least 30 credits are recognised in the degrees included in the collaboration agreement between the Generalitat and the five Valencian public universities. For other degrees not included in this agreements, credits may also be recognised upon request of the interested party.

People who do not qualify for university access may participate in these tests.

Yes, the requirement is to be 25 years old or to have reached the age of 25 during the year in which the tests are performed.

No, since you have access to the University by other degrees. 

You can enrol, within the established period, through the Student Service website. + Info

No. No student is exempt from doing any of the exercises, except those that certify the recognition of a disability equal or superior to 33% linked to hearing problems, which will be exempt from doing the exercise of Valencian and Foreign Language.

The minimum mark shall be 5, provided that both the compulsory and voluntary stages are marked with a mark of 4 or more.

Yes, by means of a reasoned letter addressed to the Principal within 5 working days from the day of publication of the results.

No. The resolution of the claim puts an end to the administrative process, you can file a contentious-administrative appeal with the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community. 

No. There' s only one call. 

No. If you fail the test, no note is kept. You'll have to go through both phases again.

If you took the test before 1995, you will have to address the Centre where you took the test.

If you took the test after 1995, you will have to address the University's Student Service. 

Yes, the student may apply in successive convocations in order to improve the mark.

The mark obtained in the new call will be taken into account, provided that it is higher than the mark obtained in the previous call.

No. You will have to pre-enrol (apply for a place) within the period established for this purpose.

You have preference for access to undergraduate studies in the chosen branch of knowledge, but if, once all the places in an option have been assigned, there are still vacancies, candidates who have taken the examinations in other branches of knowledge will be able to access them by mark.

Yes, and if you pass it you will be able to use both grades according to the degree studies you aspire to.

Yes, but you will have to take into account that in the order of pre-enrolment those students who have taken the test in a public university of the Valencian Community have preference.

No, unless you took it between 1995 and 2000, which according to the regulations in force at that time, the test was only valid for the course in which it was taken and the following two courses.

You will have to go directly to the centre where you passed the test, bearing in mind that you can only enrol in the degree for which you took the test.

You will have to make the pre-enrolment, taking into account that if you made it in previous calls to 2005, you will only be able to access the degree for which you made the test. From 2005 onwards, you will be able to access the degrees assigned to the area for which you passed the test. 

The tests for those over 25 years old will be held on Saturdays April 24 and May 8, 2021. More information: https://links.uv.es/u6gXCSp

Candidates with work or professional experience in relation to a university education, and who do not have any academic qualifications that entitle them to enter the UV may participate in these tests.

Yes, the requirement is to be 40 years old or to have reached the age of 40 during the year in which the tests are carried out.

No, because you have access to other degrees at the University.

Yes, you will need to have the Certificate of Secondary Education or equivalent.

No. Only the degree for which you have enrolled will correspond to you for admission purposes.

No. The call is one time only. 

Yes.

• Work and professional experience: Up to 5 points
• Training: Up to 3 points
• Valencian Language Knowledge: Up to 1 point
• Knowledge of community languages: Up to 1 point
• Personal interview phase. If a minimum score of 5 is obtained in the assessment phase, candidates will be called for an interview to assess their maturity and suitability.

It will be the sum of all the items in the assessment phase, and will allow the ordering of the applications in the process of pre-enrolment to the degree, provided that the result of the interview has been the one of aptitude.

You will have to request it at the University's Student Service.

No. You will have to pre-enrol (apply for a place) within the period established for this purpose.

No.

People who do not meet the necessary conditions for access to the University may participate.

Yes, the requirement is to be 45 years old or to have reached the age of 45 during the year in which the tests are carried out.

No, because you have access to other degrees at the University.

No, no student can be exempted from carrying out any of the exercises, except those candidates who can prove that they have a recognised disability equal to or greater than 33% linked to hearing problems, who will be exempted from carrying out the Valencian Language exercise.

No, no candidate may apply to more than one university in the same course.

Yes.

Yes.

The exam will consist of 3 exercises:

• Text commentary on a current topic
• Spanish Language
• Valencian Language

The arithmetic average of the 3 exercises must have a value equal to or greater than 5. In order to calculate the average you must have a score equal to or greater than 4 in each of the exercises.

No, in addition to the written test, you will have to obtain the qualification of "Apt" at the interview stage.

You will have to request it at the University's Student Service.

No. The call is only one.

Yes, by means of a reasoned letter addressed to the Principal within 5 working days from the day of the publication of the results.

No. The resolution of the claim puts an end to the administrative process, you can file a contentious-administrative appeal with the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.

No. You will have to pre-enrol (apply for a place) within the period established for this purpose.

Yes, you will be able to apply in successive calls in order to improve your qualification or change your degree or university.

Yes, and if you pass it you will be able to use both grades according to the degree studies you aspire to.

No. For admission purposes, you will only be entitled to the degree for which you have enrolled.

No.

The tests for those over 45 years old will be held on Saturdays April 24 and May 8, 2021. More information: https://links.uv.es/u6gXCSp

It is the admission procedure that serves to order, by access mark, those students who apply for a place in a degree. Pre-enrolment is essential in order to obtain a place at a public university.

The Valencian university district is composed of the places offered by the degree programmes of the five Valencian public universities: Universitat de València, Universitat Politècnica de València, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Universitat d'Alacant and  Universitat Miguel Hernández d'Elx.

For the purposes of entrance and admission procedures, the public universities of each autonomous community are constituted as a single university district, which means that students must make a single pre-enrolment application in which they must determine, in order of preference, the studies they wish to begin from among all those offered by the universities of the autonomous community.

Admitted students will receive, at the e-mail address they have indicated in the pre-enrolment application, a message including the student's enrolment period and instructions.

Regardless of the autonomous community where you have taken the university entrance exams (PAU, EBAU, EVAU) you can apply for a place in any degree programme at any Spanish public university. The total number of places offered by public universities of the State as a whole make up what is known as an open university district.

It should be borne in mind that each autonomous community organises and manages its own pre-enrolment, i.e. it allocates places at its public universities. Therefore, if you want to apply for a place in a degree programme at a university belonging to another autonomous community, you must pre-enrol in that autonomous community and be aware of how it works and its deadlines. Several pre-enrolments can be made at the same time.

In order to pre-enrol for a bachelor's degree at Valencian public universities, it is necessary to fulfil one of these academic circumstances (requirements or entrance procedures):

• Bachillerato with passed PAU.
• Advanced vocational training technician certificates, advanced plastic arts and design technician, advanced sports technician, or equivalent.
• Access for students over 25, 40 or 45 years old.
• University degree.
• Qualifications from EU upper secondary schools and from other countries with an agreement, with access credentials issued by the UNED (UNEDassis).
• Qualifications from non-EU studies recognised to the Spanish Bachillerato with access credentials issued by the UNED (UNEDassis).

In order to regulate access to university each academic year, for all the aforementioned entrance procedures, there is a single call for pre-enrolment each year.

The deadline for pre-registration always begins on a date after the resolution of the PAU, normally at the beginning of the second half of June.

Pre-enrolment in the Valencian Community is done telematically, using the online assistant on the website of the Departament of Universities. The pre-registration application can be accessed from: https://tramitadoredu.gva.es/jwt/#/home

Only one pre-enrolment is required to apply for a place in the Valencian university district (of the five Valencian public universities).

If you wish to apply for a place outside the Valencian university district, you must pre-enrol in the corresponding autonomous community. It should be noted that the deadline may not coincide.

Candidates who have passed the PAU in previous years (in ordinary or extraordinary calls) and those who pass them in the ordinary exams of the current year have preference over those who pass the PAU in the extraordinary exams of de current year.

In the same period as for the June call, even if they do not have the grades. If you have taken the PAU at one of the Valencian universities, the computer programme incorporates the marks before the process of grading and allocation of places. If they have been taken at a university outside the Valencian district, documentation with the grades must be provided.

In case of submitting more than one pre-registration application, only the last one submitted will be valid..

The online pre-enrolment assistant allows you to apply, in order of preference, for a maximum of 20 degree programmes.

Pre-registration is fully online. No paper validation is required.

If you have taken the PAU in the Valencian Community in 2012 and following calls and/or you have the exemption of the PAU of 2017 (with the accreditation of exemption because it was requested during the academic year 2016-2017), it is not necessary to upload any documentation unless it is necessary to accredit:

• A degree of disability.
• High-performance athlete status (only for those recognised by the Spanish Sports Council).
• Applicants applying for places in degrees where language accreditation is required.

These situations must be accredited by uploading the corresponding document.

In general, the documentation that accredits the fulfilment of the access requirement must be uploaded: transcript of grades plus degree, UNEDassis accreditation, UNEDassis accreditation plus PCE, certification of passing tests for over 25, 40 or 45 years of age, etc.

In any case, the documentation that must be attached according to each academic or personal circumstance is clearly indicated in the instructions included in the platform for pre-enrolment.

No. You will have to pre-enrol (apply for a place) within the period established for this purpose.

With a provisional mark, because the only way to access public universities is by pre-enrolment.

Yes. There are places reserved for high-level, high-level elite and high-performance athletes (10% for the degrees in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Physiotherapy and Primary Education and 5% for the rest of the degrees); students with a disability equal to or higher than 33% (5%); university degrees (3%); students over 25 years old with the specific entrance exams passed (3%); students over 40 years old with professional accreditation (1%, except for Medicine and Dentistry, which do not reserve places for this quota); and students over 45 years old with the specific entrance exams passed (1%).

Double degrees are applied for like any other degree, during pre-enrolment, and any subject that is weighted in either of the two degrees can be weighted. The highest weighting shall apply.

Yes. One option is through the double degrees offered by the University. Another option is to obtain a place by pre-registration in one degree, enrol and then, when pre-enrolling for the following academic year, apply for a place in the second degree you are interested in, as you can only obtain one place in each academic year by pre-enrolment.

The Department of Education, Universities and Employment is the body that resolves pre-registration and sets the deadlines for the procedure. Normally, the results of the pre-registration is made public around 2 p.m. on the day of the fixed date (around mid-July).

The Department of Education, Universities and Employment sends an SMS to communicate which place has been obtained or that no place has been obtained.

If a place has been obtained at the Universitat de Valencià, the student, in addition to the above SMS, will receive an SMS from the Universitat de València with a link indicating the date and time of online pre-registration.

However, it can be consulted at: https: https://ir.uv.es/6KrZlma

The possibility of choosing a group will be lost. It is understood that the place has been renounced if, at the end of the enrolment period, the interested party has not enrolled.

It is crucial. Degrees should be ranked in order of preference, i.e. the one that interests you most first, followed by the rest. When you are allocated a place in one degree programme, you no longer have a choice in the other degrees below the degree programme awarded. On the contrary, in the degrees that are above the awarded degree programme, you will be on the waiting list.

If you have obtained a place that was not the one you applied for in the first place, you may remain on the waiting list in those degree programmes ordered in the pre-enrolment application before the degree programme which you have been admitted.

Each university manages waiting lists differently. It is important to pay attention to this.

When a degree has all the places filled, a waiting list is generated. At the Universitat de València, a student will be on as many waiting lists as the number of degrees they have applied for in the pre-enrolment process, above the degree programme to which they have been admitted. The order on the list corresponds to the student's admission mark for that degree. If vacancies occur in the enrolment, the places are offered to students who are on the waiting list

Attention should be paid to the way in which waiting lists are managed in each university, because the way they work is not the same.

At the Universitat de València, the call for applications of the waiting list is not face-to-face and must be consulted on the Universitat's website. To be able to participate in the allocation of places in each call, it is necessary to confirm your interest in continuing on the waiting list for each allocation and each of the degrees on which you are on the list. If this confirmation is not made, you will lose the option to be admitted to that degree and to participate in the remaining awards.

The information is available on the university website, which explains how the waiting lists work.

No, if a place is obtained in the fourth degree of choice, the student may be on the waiting list of the three degrees that they have placed first in the pre-enrolment application, but never in those that they have placed behind; in other words, they cannot be on the waiting lists of the fifth or the sixth degree.

No. If you do not want to lose your place, it is necessary to enrol. If after having done this enrolment you get a place in any other degree of the same university or a different one, the initial registration is automatically cancelled if both degrees are from the UV. If the new degree belongs to another university, you will have to cancel the enrolment and you will be able to enrol in the place obtained through the waiting list.

The cut-off mark of a degree is the mark of the last student admitted to that degree programme. Pre-registration orders the applications for a degree programme by ranking the admission marks from highest to lowest. Since it also allocates all the places offered for each degree, the cut-off mark will be the admisison mark of the student who is awarded the last place in the pre-enrolment procedure.

At the Universitat de València, in each of the waiting list calls, a new ranking of grades is carried out. Thus, the resolution of the pre-enrolment plus each of the calls, leads to a new list of cut-off marks.

In any case, the cut-off marks that serve to guide students and to know what the mark of the last person admitted was, must be the list of cut-off marks that is generated when places are awarded by pre-enrolment. The other three lists are not illustrative, as they respond to the resignations or vacancies that occur each year and which, logically, are not the same from year to year.

People with a university degree, degree or official master’s degree can pre-enrol for any degree offered by the Universitat de València. There is a quota reserved for people with university degrees. Their entrance mark will be the average mark of their degree.

Yes, as long as it is recognised or equivalent of the university degree granted by the Spanish Ministry of Universities. This ministry must also process the certificate with the equivalence of the average grades of university studies carried out abroad. Both procedures can be done online from the website of the Spanish Ministry of Universities.

Yes, although it is important to differentiate whether the pre-university qualification has been obtained in a European Union country or in a country with a university access agreement, or whether it has been obtained in countries that do not belong to the European Union or do not have an access agreement.

This group and future students with a qualification from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and China, students who have completed a European or international upper secondary school education will be able to access Valencian public universities through the access and admission procedure regulated by UNEDasiss, a UNED (National Distance Education University) service created to manage the access and admission of foreign students to Spanish universities.

These groups will need the accreditation issued by UNEDassis. This accreditation certifies the average mark of the pre-university qualification obtained by the future student in their country of origin. Equivalent in the NAU (university entrance mark, up to 10 points).

It is possible to request certification of the grades obtained in external assessment tests carried out in the country of origin (and which must necessarily appear in the UNED accreditation) or to take the Specific Competency Tests (PCE). The marks obtained in their external assessment tests (certified by the UNED) or the PCE, will be used to apply the weightings and raise up to 14 points the university admission mark (NAT).

People coming from education systems in the United Kingdom will be able to access Spanish universities with the same procedure as people coming from education systems in the European Union, as long as they fulfil the requirements demanded in their education systems to access their universities.

First of all, it is necessary that their pre-university studies are recognised ("homologación") in accordance with the procedure established by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

They must then request their accreditation from the UNEDassis, which will assess the average mark of the academic record by a maximum of 6 points and will be the university admission mark (NAT). UNEDassis organises Specific Competency Tests (PCE): these are examinations in specific subjects. The PCE is necessary for those who wish to improve their university admission mark.

Since 4 May 2023 there has been established a reciprocal application agreement between Spain and Colombia that states that if, as a Colombian student, you find yourself in this academic circumstance, you are not required to naturalise you pre-university studies to the Spanish equivalent (bachiller). You can directly apply to UNEDassis for accreditation and can obtain up to 10 accreditation points. To increase the access mark up to 14 points you can take the PCEs and the two best marks will be taken into account.