One more year, the selectivity test to acquire a grade for university entrance welcomes millions of young Spaniards. For the second year, with very strict covid-19 measures, the EBAU 2021 already has some curious anecdotes among its questions that, on some occasions, have taken students by surprise.
Although there are , they all have a call in June, the different university entrance exams take place over the first two weeks. In this way, while some future university students have already finished their tests, others are still in a crucial week for their development.
In any case, between the completed exams and those that are in progress, there are already a string of questions that leave anecdotes and the doubt as to whether a person with more than a university degree would be able to answer them.
From pleonasm to the analysis of gender equality
Thus, for example, Catalonia has once again been one of the most striking communities when it comes to asking questions to students. In the Spanish exam, many of the participants did not know what a pleonasm was. A rhetorical figure that defines the “use in the sentence of one or more unnecessary words so that it makes complete sense, but with which expressiveness is added to what has been said, as in ‘irrevocable fugue flees the hour'”, according to the RAE. .
This figure appeared after the text “light the cigarette off”, leaving the freedom to choose between whether it was the aforementioned pleonasm, an oxymoron, a pun or a hypalage. In addition, the students had to choose between summarizing a fragment of Luces de Bohemia, by Valle-Inclán, or explaining the meaning of the expression “widen the field of action” used by Carme Riera.
On the other hand, in Murcia the Spanish Language and Literature exam asked us to analyze the words ‘swagger’, ‘palien’, ‘provisioning’ and ‘monopolized’, within a text on gender equality:
“Men did not contribute to gender equality on 8-M, but on 9-M. Our visible gestures in the streets are not needed, but our invisible actions at home. We should strut less on the networks and slide more through the websites of the bank, social security, electricity, gas and school, as the majority of them do… In the national agora, heavy artillery is launched on the employment situation of women.They suffer more unemployment, they earn less, there are few in science, technology and positions of responsibility. And we demand policies that alleviate the gender gap. If the professional world were a race in which we all run, we offer female athletes little help: some extra supplies, some reserved lane, and many institutional advertising posters proposing ‘models’ -heroines who have managed to succeed in fields monopolized by men”.
The history of Spain has presented very different evidence between Valencia and Madrid
Lastly, in the Valencian Community special attention has been paid to the situation of women in the History of Spain exam. “Compare the situation of women in the Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship, emphasizing political aspects and daily life,” said the text to which the students had to submit.
More different has been the test of History of the Community of Madrid, in which they were asked to choose between commenting on “the Bourbon restoration” and the “adherence of Spain to the European Community”.
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