Overview
- UNAM said it will publish scores from the Examen de Control on August 29–30 for about 58,000 applicants who were asked to retake admissions tests after the university flagged irregularities in its online exam.
- The repeat exam was given between August 12 and 19 in León, Oaxaca, Tijuana and Mexico City as a supervised, in-person test of 120 items on offline tablets to improve security and custody of materials.
- Those results will directly determine who gets assigned places at UNAM and the tight window before classes begin on August 31 leaves little time for students to confirm enrollment or for the university to finalize lists.
- The federal Secretaría de Educación Pública launched the Educación Superior 2026 platform as an immediate alternative by listing exact vacancy numbers and contact details for public institutions, including 10,000 spaces at UNRC, 8,060 at TecNM, 7,487 at UTyP and 5,120 at UnADM.
- UNAM’s repeat exam underscores growing tension between remote testing convenience and exam integrity, and the government’s reported creation of 245,111 new higher‑education places signals a policy push to expand routes into public universities while the results and rapid placements play out.