Overview
- Several Contencioso-Administrativo courts in Bilbao ruled on Monday, June 29, 2026 that UPV-EHU must not use Lengua Vasca y Literatura II grades for the students who sued and must provisionally reserve their university places while the cases proceed.
- Judges based the precautionary orders on prima facie signs that anonymity in correction may have been broken, citing the UPV-EHU rector’s remark that examiners can identify which schools provided each tribunal’s papers.
- The measures are temporary and affect only the several dozen students who filed lawsuits and requested urgent relief, not the entire cohort of PAU takers.
- A wider wave of zeros and very low marks prompted 1,778 students to request reviews, with most zeros concentrated in one tribunal that covered many concerted model A schools, raising concerns about uneven grading patterns.
- Courts said urgency from the imminent pre-enrolment deadline and the risk students would irreversibly lose places justified immediate action, and a full judicial review of the administrative record and possible appeals will decide next steps.