Fuvest First Phase Held Nationwide With New 80-Question Format

Overview

• The Fuvest first phase took place on Sunday, November 1, with 106,165 registered candidates and the official answer key published late that night.
• Organizers reduced the first-phase multiple-choice questions from 90 to 80 while keeping a five-hour time limit and increasing interdisciplinary items.
• The selection cycle offers 8,147 undergraduate vacancies at USP split into 4,888 open seats, 2,053 for public-school students, and 1,206 for public-school applicants who self-declare as black, brown or indigenous.
• Fortaleza hosted the Fuvest first phase for the first time, receiving 1,640 exam registrations as part of a broader effort to cut travel and housing barriers for applicants outside São Paulo.
• Students across testing sites said the exam felt like a long reading marathon with dense vocabulary and long texts, and candidates will learn which move to the second phase when Fuvest publishes the convocations and locations on November 23.