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Objectives

The aim of this Olympiad is twofold: on the one hand, to stimulate and promote the study of the language and our literature among Baccalaureate students, rewarding effort and seeking academic excellence; on the other hand, to create readers of Catalan-Valencian literature and promote the literary creation of the students.

Participants

Students in the 1st and 2nd years of Bachillerato from public, state-subsidised and private schools, preferably in the province of Valencia. Participation will be in teams of two people. Teams may mix students from different years. A maximum of 12 teams per school may participate.

Date and place

The test will take place on 28 March 2026, at 9:00 am, at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia (Avenida Blasco Ibáñez, 32). Exceptionally, the meeting may be modified if circumstances make it advisable. In this case, registered students will be informed in due course.

Syllabus

The syllabus of the subjects ‘Valencian: Language and Literature 1’ and ‘Valencian: Language and Literature 2’ of the Baccalaureate (contents published in the DOGV 12/08/2022). 

The exam will be consistent with what students should know according to the subject curriculum and the degree of difficulty of each question. Therefore, of the 15 items on 20th-century literature, about 8 items will refer to the works and authorship of the readings in the 2nd year of upper secondary school.

Given the complexity of the syllabus, the test will focus on three sections: history of literature, linguistic variation and grammar.

1. History of literature (45 items): 41 of these items will be multiple choice; the other 4 items will be taken from the Reference Anthology, where the author or title will have to be identified, as indicated in the question:

  • Medieval period (including the 15th century): 15 items.
  • Modern era (16th to 18th centuries): 3 items.
  • The 19th and 20th centuries (from the Renaixença to the Civil War): 7 items.
  • The 20th century (from the post-war period to the present day): 15 items (8 of which will refer to the works and authors studied in the second year of upper secondary school).

2. Language (40 items): Phonetics, 6 items; Lexicon, 8 items; Dialectology, 2 items; Sociolinguistics, 4 items; Grammar, 20 items (at least 8 from a reference text).

Correct answers will be awarded a value of 0.0667 each, while incorrect answers will be deducted a value of 0.022 each. Unanswered questions will not be counted.

Type of examination

The exam will consist of two consecutive tests:

Test 1. This will consist of 85 multiple-choice questions (from the aforementioned sections). This test will last 60 minutes. Score: 60% of the overall mark.

Test 2. This will consist of two texts, and students will have to choose one. The types of texts will be as follows: one non-literary text and one literary text. It will last 60 minutes and will account for 40% of the overall mark. Students will have to explain the topic and structure (both questions will have to be reasoned), write a summary of about six lines, and write a creative text, the characteristics of which are explained below.

Scoring: Out of 10 points, the topic will be worth 1; the structure, 2; the summary, 2; and the creative text, 5. Spelling and/or grammatical errors, not repeated, will be deducted at a value of 0.05 each.

Literary text: students will have to write a text with similar characteristics to the one they have read. They will have to give it a title, maintain the narrative voice, the narrative tense, the devices used to slow down or speed up the narrative found in the reference text, etc. Finally, they will have to justify their personal opinion on the theme of the text.

Non-literary text: students will have to write a text with similar characteristics to the one they have read. They will have to give it a title and provide an argument similar to that of the text, including some of the rhetorical devices used in the reference text. They will also have to express their personal opinion.

There will be a 60-minute break between the two tests. The evaluation committee will only correct the second test of the 30 best teams in test 1.