Overview
- A nationwide SPEN entrance exam session on May 16 suffered a platform collapse that prevented about 94% of candidates from finishing, with officials reporting 17,921 expected applicants, 14,242 who accessed the system, 825 who completed the test and 778 who answered every question.
- Ceneval's technical analysis says an anomalous behavior in automatic-scaling nodes produced CPU saturation and thread starvation that collapsed the Far Gate container layer and degraded service starting around 9:40 a.m.
- When automated scaling failed, Ceneval's technicians performed manual interventions and manual scaling to restore availability and said the data of candidates who completed answers were successfully safeguarded.
- The INE has confirmed it will repeat the full exam for all applicants and is reviewing Ceneval's findings to set operational and technological conditions for the makeup session, with a proposed new date of June 13 reported by INE sources.
- Officials say Ceneval will strengthen contingency and resilience protocols and produce a different version of the test with the same structure, while thousands of candidates wait for final scheduling and clearer guarantees that the platform can handle peak demand.