Overview
- Basque authorities disclosed that 168 students received a zero in the Euskera PAU, with 108 of those zeros concentrated in tribunals 11 and 12 and 79 graded by a single evaluator, a distribution the education minister called statistically atypical.
- The rector of Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea acknowledged that correctors can infer students’ schools despite coded IDs, a factor the Basque education minister says heightens the risk of biased outcomes and justifies publishing tribunal memberships.
- EHU processed 4,223 review requests and rechecked 8,127 exams; most reviews kept or raised marks but about 5.5 percent of reviewed cases fell, leaving roughly 230 students with lower final PAU scores and altered university access prospects.
- The Catalan results published Tuesday showed the scientific/technological Mathematics average plunged to 4.18, the lowest in at least a decade, triggering hundreds of student complaints, parliamentary questions, and a formal review window ahead of final scores in early July.
- The incidents have pushed both regional governments to seek procedural reforms such as redistributing students across tribunals, clearer internal rules for corrections and rapid interinstitutional alerts, a change that could affect how future PAU exams are designed and graded.