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The Vestibular is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread system used by Brazilian universities to select their students. The term derivates from the word "vestíbulo" that in Portuguese means entrance hall. A competitive examination is an examination where candidates are ranked according to their grades. ...
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Definition and Method The Vestibular is a written exam; only students who have successfully achieved a high school degree may enter the university after being approved in the Vestibular, although high school students are allowed to take the exam normally and test their aptitude as treineiros (trainees). These exams are designed independently by Brazilian universities, and are usually composed of multiple-choice questions, written questions and an essay. Main article: Secondary education High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory education. ...
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The Vestibular usually takes place from November to January, right before the start of school year in February or March, although certain universities hold it every semester. The exams often span several days, with different disciplines being tested each day.
Most of them follow FUVEST (University of São Paulo's entry exam)pattern, which is divided into two stages or "phases". The first stage consists of multiple choice questions, including subjects such as Portuguese Language, Brazilian and Portuguese Literature, Math, History, Geography, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English. The answers are marked on an answer card, and they are graded afterwards by an automated optical reader. Depending on the university, the grades of this stage may be the results achieved in ENEM, an independent exam applied by the federal government to measure high-school education levels. The best scoring candidates from the multiple-choice stage proceed to the second stage, which contains write-in questions about subjects related to the candidate's major. Prospective engineering majors for example are tested in Math, Physics and Chemistry, whereas prospective Law students are required to take exams in History and Geography. The Portuguese language exam, which also includes a student-written essay, must be taken by all candidates irrespective of their intended majors. The exams are graded by a board of professors and candidates for each major are then classified in descending order according to their overall score in the two stages of the Vestibular. The top scorers up to the maximum number of vacancies for each field of study are allowed to enroll in their intended majors and begin college. FUVEST (from Portuguese Fundação Universitária para o Vestibular, Universitary foundation for Vestibular) is a Brazilian autonomous institution connected to the University of São Paulo responsible for its vestibular examinations. ...
The University of São Paulo (in Portuguese Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is one of the three public universities funded by the State of São Paulo. ...
Brazilian Portuguese is a collective name for the varieties of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 187 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian immigrants and temporary workers in other countries, mainly in Canada, United States, Portugal, Paraguay and Japan. ...
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History studies the past in human terms. ...
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An optical reader is a device found within most computer scanners that captures visual information and translates the image into digital information the computer is capable of understanding and displaying. ...
Other universities, adopt a single stage exam, where the scores for each exam are adjusted by weights depending on the student's major of choice. In UFRJ, for instance, all the exams are write-in mode. On some private colleges, students just take the multiple-choice exam. The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ) is the largest federal university of Brazil, where state-owned colleges are the best and most qualified institutions. ...
Some engineering colleges, especially those related to the Military, such as ITA and IME, only apply exams in Math, Physics, Chemistry, Portuguese and English, with the first 3 usually being given a higher weight. The tests are mostly write-in and demand more from students, when compared to vestibular exams of the same subjects by universities, with strong influences from mathematics competitions questions. This is done in order to let the student focus on the subjects of the college's interest while preparing for the exams. The Instituto Tecnólogico de Aeronáutica (Aeronautics Technological Institute - ITA) is an engineering college maintained by the Brazilian federal government with the support of the Brazilian Air Force. ...
Mathematics competitions or mathematical olympiads are competitive events where participants write a mathematics test. ...
University candidates must choose their majors by the time they sign in for the vestibular, and they cannot change their choice except through a very bureaucratic process of internal transfers within the university. Some exceptions exist, such as Engineering in some universities, where the engineering field is chosen only after a three or four semester period. Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ...
Throughout the last decades, there has always been a gap between vacancies offered and the overwhelmingly high and growing demand for high quality and tuition-free public universities. A public university is an institution of higher education that is funded by public means through a national or regional government. ...
The Vestibular was implanted primarily as a way to prevent nepotism or some other form of unfair or beneficial selection of candidates. It was considered by law the only authorized selection method until 1996, when the new Education Law was passed. The competition goes as far as having more than 100 candidates per vacancy for the most sought-after careers, such as medicine. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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Controversies While the Vestibular is generally considered to be a fair and unbiased system to select students, there are controversies.
There is some criticism to the alleged standardization of the high school curriculum for the whole country to match the Vestibular agenda. As most types of academic evaluation, the vestibular suffers from the same limitations as a regular test; that is, factors such as stress come into play. It also seems to favor candidates that come from a wealthier background, who had access to better and deeper education in private schools, as opposed to the comparatively poor public high school educational system, although many university boards claim that it doesn't matter which background the candidates have, since their Vestibular aims to select the best students based solely on their knowledge. In education, certification, counseling, and many other fields, a test or an exam (short for examination) is a tool or technique intended to measure students expression of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. ...
In medical terms, stress is a physical or psychological stimulus that can produce mental or physiological reactions that may lead to illness. ...
Recently there have been discussions about racial and social quotas that are being systematically implemented by the government in public universities as part of a sort-of affirmative action policy. Some people consider this to be racist and unconstitutional, as it discriminates and gives extra rights to candidates of a certain background. This is also considered a step backwards in the sense of a politically independent university and in the concept of meritocracy. In August 2005, at Universidade Federal do Paraná, a student was granted by a federal court the right to be admitted at the university because she had a better score on the Vestibular than several other freshmen that took advantage of their quotas.[citation needed] Affirmative action refers to concrete steps that are taken not only to eliminate discrimination —whether in employment, education, or contracting—but also to attempt to redress the effects of past discrimination. ...
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UFPR - Campus Santos Andrade The Universidade Federal do Paraná (Federal University of Paraná) was founded in 19 December of 1912, in Curitiba. ...
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See also An entrance examination is an examination that educational institutions use to determine whether prospective students are good enough to enter their institution. ...
Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities. ...
Abitur (from Latin abire = go away, go off) is the word commonly used in Germany for the final exams young adults (aged 18, 19 or 20) take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling. ...
External links - Official Website of the FUVEST vestibular (in Brazilian Portuguese)
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