The 2026 Selectividad began this Tuesday, June 2nd, in Cádiz and throughout Andalusia, with the participation of thousands of students from the autonomous community. The first test for university access phase corresponds to Spanish Language and Literature, one of the core subjects. In the province of Cádiz, over 7,600 students are participating in these exams.

The University Access Test (PAU) faces its second edition with the evaluation model implemented in 2025, which consolidates a single exam per subject, eliminating the traditional choice between options A and B. This year, the organization incorporates an electronic device detection system to enhance academic fraud prevention.

The main text for the first block of the exam was based on an opinion article by Manuel Vicent published in El País on May 18, 2025, titled «Las buenas maneras» (Good Manners). The exercise required analyzing the text, presenting its organization and structure, explaining the author's communicative intention, and developing an argumentative discourse on the loss of good manners in Spain.

The second block of the exam posed questions on syntactic analysis, word formation, vocabulary, cohesion mechanisms, and subjectivity, as well as questions on literary topics focusing on theater from the early 20th century to the present day and analysis of poems by Luis Cernuda and fragments from works by Carmen Martín Gaite.

The University of Cádiz (UCA) has set up 16 venues distributed throughout the province to facilitate student access, including the campuses of Cádiz, Puerto Real, Jerez, and Algeciras, in addition to collaborating secondary education centers in Arcos de la Frontera, Ubrique, and La Línea de la Concepción. The Jerez campus concentrates the largest number of students with 2,283 enrolled.

The new evaluation criteria aim to enhance student competencies, reasoning and development skills, as well as orthographic, grammatical, and lexical correctness, valuing expressive capacity and text presentation.