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Brazil’s Unified Civil Service Exam Gets Underway Nationwide After Gates Close

FGV runs the objective tests for 761,545 candidates across 228 cities under reinforced security.

Overview

  • Gates closed at 12:30 Brasília time and testing began at 13:00, with five hours for higher-level roles and three and a half hours for intermediate-level roles.
  • The exam mobilizes 1,284 sites in 228 cities for candidates residing in 4,951 municipalities, with allocations set to keep travel within roughly 100 kilometers.
  • About 85,000 staff support operations, including roughly 11,000 security agents from the Federal Police, PRF and ABIN, with monitoring at the National Integrated Command and Control Center and support from the National Force in select states.
  • Key 2025 updates include FGV’s question style, separation of objective and discursive phases, permission to take the test booklet in the last hour, acceptance of digital IDs only via official gov.br apps and enforcement of a gender-parity rule for advancement.
  • The selection offers 3,652 positions across 32 federal bodies in nine thematic blocks, with the official answer key due October 6, objective results and discursive convocations on November 12, the discursive exam on December 7 and final results expected January 30, 2026.