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Admission and Scholarships
Entrance Exam for those over 25
In accordance with Royal Decree 412/2014, of June 6, which establishes the basic regulations for admission procedures to official undergraduate university courses, persons over 25 years of age who do not hold an academic qualification that allows them to enter university through other access routes may enter by completing an access course, called CAM-25, and then passing a specific test (PAM-25).
Those over 25 years of age, or those who turn or have turned 25 in the calendar year in which the test is held and do not have an academic qualification that allows them to enter the university through other means, may participate.
This section includes those with high school diplomas. previous as regulated by Organic Law 1/1990 of October 3 on the General Organization of the Education System, provided that they have not passed university entrance exams or meet the requirements for it.
Those who have passed the PAM-25 or PAM-45 in the Single District of the Canary Islands and wish to improve their grade or change their option may enroll during the periods established in each call.
Individuals who have passed the PAM-25 or PAM-45 in another university district may enroll as applicants for the first time.
The PAM25 is structured in two phases, one general and one specific.
General Phase:
Its objective is to assess the candidates' maturity and suitability for successful university studies, as well as their reasoning and written expression. It will include three exercises covering common subjects:
- Commentary on a text or development of a current general topic.
- Castilian language.
- Foreign Language, choose between English and French.
Specific Phase:
The specific phase aims to assess the skills, abilities, and aptitudes of applicants to successfully complete the various university courses linked to each of the branches of knowledge around which official undergraduate university degrees are organized.
The test is structured into five options, and the candidate can choose one or more of them:
- Arts and Humanities
- Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Social and Legal Sciences
- Engineering and Architecture
It will consist of three exercises that will cover the contents of the three subjects of each option.
Each of the exercises, both in the common and specific phases, will be graded independently with a score from 0 to 10, expressed with two decimal places, rounded to the nearest hundredth, and, in the case of equidistance, to the next higher.
The first phase of the test (general phase) will receive a grade obtained from the arithmetic mean of the three exercises that compose it.
The qualification of the second phase of the test (specific phase) will receive a grade obtained from the arithmetic mean of the three exercises that compose it.
The final grade will be the arithmetic mean of the two phases of the test, having obtained a minimum score of 4 points in both the common phase and the specific phase, to calculate the arithmetic mean.
It will be understood that the candidate has passed the entrance test when he or she obtains a minimum of 5 points in the final grade.
In case of disagreement with the grades obtained, students may formalize claim, addressed to the President of the Evaluation Court, requesting a second correction of those exercises in which they consider the correction and grading criteria established by the court to have been applied incorrectly, within the period of three business days from the date of publication of the grades.
Claims must be submitted online within the period indicated in the corresponding notice.
The exercises will be reviewed by a different specialist teacher from the one who performed the initial correction. In all cases, the grade will be the arithmetic mean of the scores from both corrections. It will be final and published as established in the corresponding course schedule.
The final grade will be published on the University's website.
An appeal against the final grade obtained may be filed with the Rector of the University, and submitted to the General Registry of the ULL within one month of its publication.
Exam view
Those who have filed a complaint for a second marking of exercises may request to see the challenged exams. The request must be submitted online, within the period indicated in the corresponding call, with explicit indication of the subject or subjects challenged. Applicants will be notified with a date and time (within the following ten days). The notification will be made on the ULL website. The exams will be shown by the secretary or the chair of the examination board, not by the marking professors, as this is not a third marking (not provided for in current regulations).
The following may retake the entrance exam:
- Those who passed the PAM-25 in the Single District of the Canary Islands and wish to improve their grade. The new grade will only be taken into account if the previous grade is improved.
- Those who have passed the PAM-25 in the Single District of the Canary Islands and wish to change their option.
Students who wish to repeat the PAM-25 must register during the regular registration period and in the manner provided in the annual call, being able to choose between full registration, which entitles them to take the preparation course and take the test, or registration, which only entitles them to take the test.
Applicants must take both phases of the test.
The grade obtained in the new call will be taken into consideration, provided it is higher than the previous one.
If any enrolled student has a disability or specific educational support needs that require special accommodations at the time of the exam or during the preparatory course, they must state this when submitting their enrollment application, specifying in detail the exact accommodation measures they require.
This application must be accompanied by supporting documentation stating the type and degree of functional loss presented by the candidate, issued by the social services of the corresponding autonomous community.
