By Ander and Mikel U.
What´s required to be admitted to college (university) is
firstly to have the LH (primary school), DBH (secondary school) and DBHO
(bachillerato—advanced seconday) diplomas. Plus you must take the “selectivity”
(selectividad) exam.
The selectivity exam is a special exam that teenagers of age 18 take.
This exam permits you to enter college if you pass the exam with a certain
score. It’s important to comment that every university department has its own
passing mark. For example, to get into medicine you must pass with 11.3 out of
14.
To explain how the college admissions are weighted we should say your
grades from the first course of the bachillerato is 3 of 14, the second course
of the bachillerato has the same value, and finally the selectivity exam has 8
of 14.
This exam has two parts: in the first
one, called “General Exam”, we take five
exams: Basque, Spanish and English; history or philosophy (the one you choose),
and one subject you chose from your modality. This part is compulsory and must
be passed in order for you to be able to enter college. The highest mark you
can get is a 10. For some degrees, though, they ask higher marks than 10, and
so, there is the other part, which is called “Specific Exam” and it’s not
compulsory. Here the 2 other subjects from your modality are chosen, and
universities value them with 2 points, 1 point or none depending on the degree
you want (this is, the same subject won’t have similar weight in one university
and in another). For instance, biology could be valued at 2 points by the
Basque University of Medicine, because they are interested in people having
that experience, whereas it won’t have any value for the Basque University of
Translation and Interpretation, which would value by 2 points people having
learned Latin. Thus, the highest mark you can get with this method, called “the
Bolonian method”, is of 14.
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