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Objectives 

Promote and develop the interest of high school students in History, reward effort and academic excellence and serve as a meeting point between secondary education and the University..

Participants

All secondary school students enrolled during the 2024-2025 academic year in the 2nd year of secondary school will be able to participate. The maximum number of participants per school is four students. Participation is on an individual basis.

Contents

The contents of the syllabus of the subject Spanish History of 2n of Bachillerato that appear in the Decree 108/2022 of August 5, 2022, of the Council, which establishes the organization and curriculum of Bachillerato.

Calendar

The exam will be taken on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 10 a.m. in the Classrooms of the Faculty of Geography and History (Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 28). Registered students will be summoned to the exams without the need for further personal communication. Exceptionally, the date and time may be changed if circumstances so require; in this case, the centres will be informed in due course.

Tests types

The exam will be anonymous and will last one hour. The test will consist of 35 multiple-choice questions, 5 short-answer questions to be answered by the students, which may include graphic material (maps, charts, photographs) and 4 reserve questions, all of them multiple choice. In the multiple-choice questions, an error is worth one third of a mark, while the short-answer questions will be marked with one point, 0.75, 0.50, 0.50, 0.25 or 0, depending on how close the answer is to the correct one. In the event of a tie in the final score, the exam with the fewest errors will be considered the best. If there is a tie in the allocation of the first three prizes, the four reserve questions.

At the end of this test, an additional, voluntary test will be taken in order to obtain the Access to Information and Documentation certificate, for which an additional fifteen minutes of extra time may be given. The test will consist of 10 multiple-choice questions of a general knowledge related to books, reading, libraries, social networks and new technologies applied to information.