María Pombo, one of the influencers most followed in Spain, has been the protagonist of two of the questions on the Spanish exam for the Selectividad (university entrance exam) taken by students from the Balearic Islands this Tuesday, the first day of the PAU tests in the Archipelago. Specifically, the content creator appears in the question where students are asked to identify and explain the syntactic relationships established between the clauses in the following fragment: "The controversy surrounding María Pombo regarding reading has demonstrated the capacity that social networks have today to fix a debate in public conversation".

“You’re almost there. You’ve completed a demanding high school program, and now the most important thing is to trust yourselves and arrive with a clear head.” This is the main recommendation made by Fèlix Coll, a former student of IES Biel Martí de Ferreries and one of the students with the highest grades in the 2025 Selectividad (university entrance exam), to the students taking it this year. He achieved a score of 9.35 without weighting and is now studying Electronic, Industrial, and Automatic Engineering at the UIB. Coll offers advice for facing the three days of evaluations in the University Access Test (PAU), which this year will be taken by 4,950 students from educational centers in the Balearic Islands on June 2, 3, and 4. The figure is slightly higher than last year, when 4,860 students participated. The majority of the examinees are from Mallorca (80.9%), followed by Ibiza (9.6%), Menorca (9.1%), and Formentera (0.4%). Women continue to be the majority, with 60.2% of the total.

The Government, through Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca and the Consorci de Transports de Mallorca, will launch a special mobility plan for the University Entrance Exams (PAU), which will be held on June 2, 3, and 4. The objective of the plan is to ensure that students can reach the examination centers by public transport in a fluid and punctual manner, especially at the University of the Balearic Islands campus, where the majority of the exams are concentrated.

“As a student who has gone through Baccalaureate and Selectivity and knows the pressure to get a good grade, I find that this Excellence Baccalaureate is a good idea, especially when it comes to learning and expanding knowledge. Having the option to deepen subjects, do laboratory practices, or have the ease of doing a double modality is an opportunity that enriches you a lot and can open more doors for you for the university future, something I would have liked to have at the time”, explains Fèlix Coll, former student of IES Biel Martí de Ferreries and with one of the best grades in the 2025 Selectivity (9.35 unweighted).

The 2026 Selectividad (PAU) will incorporate a significant reinforcement of control mechanisms with the implementation of radio frequency detectors and the approval of a new agreement on the regulation of fraudulent conduct and sanctions. The device, promoted by the Ministry of Education and Universities and the UIB, will be applied during the tests scheduled for June 2, 3, and 4, 2026, and establishes a system of measures ranging from reprimands to the total invalidation of the call in the most serious cases.