Overview
- The university began the Examen de Control on Wednesday, August 12, rolling out a supervised, 120-question, three-hour exam after a commission found an unusual rise in top scores and signs of identity fraud and possible AI use.
- UNAM convened 58,783 aspirants for the in-person verification and by the 16:00 cut-off on August 11 about 45,463 people, roughly 77 percent, had downloaded or registered their cita through the TU SITIO system.
- The test is scheduled across four sites — León, Oaxaca, Tijuana and Mexico City — with regional assignments fixed by the university and no changes allowed, a policy that has forced some students into distant travel and extra lodging costs.
- Thousands of aspirants have reported scheduling failures, system errors that block eligible students, messages excluding previously selected candidates, on-campus protests, and demands that original admissions be preserved.
- Early legal challenges have been dismissed by federal judges who cited university autonomy, leaving UNAM’s control exam process in place while applicants, the university, and courts await final results that will affect enrollment and the semester calendar.