Overview

• About 761,545 candidates sat the Oct. 5 objective tests across 1,284 sites in 228 cities, competing for 3,652 federal vacancies in 32 agencies.
• Gates opened at 11:30 a.m., closed at 12:30 p.m., and exams began at 1 p.m. Brasília time, with five hours for higher-level roles and three and a half for intermediate roles.
• Operations were monitored at the national command center with roughly 85,000 staff deployed, including 11,000 from PF, PRF and Abin, with Força Nacional support in select states.
• MGI reported a power outage at a Manaus school affecting 436 candidates, who received an additional 1 hour and 31 minutes to finish the test.
• Test-takers cited delayed starts in some rooms, such as at UFF Gragoatá in Niterói, and described FGV’s exam as text-heavy; FGV plans to publish booklets and preliminary keys today, with objective results and discursive convocations on Nov. 12, the discursive on Dec. 7 and final results on Jan. 30, 2026.