Overview
- Gates opened at 11:30 and closed at 12:30 Brasília time, with testing starting at 13:00 for both education levels across the country.
- A total of 761,545 candidates took the objective test in 1,284 locations across 228 municipalities, with 90 questions over 5 hours for higher-level posts and 68 over 3 hours 30 minutes for intermediate roles.
- A power failure at a Manaus school affected 436 candidates, who were granted an additional 1 hour and 31 minutes to complete the exam.
- About 85,000 staff supported logistics and security, including PF, PRF, ABIN and the Força Nacional, under real-time monitoring at the CICCN in Brasília.
- New rules this year include FGV as the organizing bank, permission to take the question booklet in the final hour, and a gender-parity criterion for advancement to the December 7 discursive phase, with objective results scheduled for November 12.