📋 Tender Overview
Participants in 2025 began, at 1:30 pm (Brasilia time) this Sunday, November 9th, taking tests on languages, codes and their technologies; essay; and human sciences and their technologies.
With the dream of entering higher education, Antonia Silva Ribeiro, 42 years old, arrived early at the test site, determined not to miss another opportunity. A worker and mother, she says that balancing her day-to-day responsibilities with her studies was not an easy task, but the hope of gaining a place in psychology motivates her. For me, the future is an opportunity to pursue higher education -- thats my dream. I studied a lot and Im confident that Ill succeed. It wasnt easy to combine work, children and study, but its the chance to achieve something better, he said.
In total, there will be five hours and thirty minutes of application, ending at 7pm for regular participants. Participants with a request for additional time approved by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep) will be entitled to 60 extra minutes on each day the tests are administered. In the case of an approved request for the video evidence resource in pounds, the increase will be 120 minutes.
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Monitoring - The Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, accompanied by the president of Inep, Manuel Palacios, is at Inep headquarters to closely monitor all stages of the exam. Monitoring panels provide real-time information. They show, for example, how many participants accessed the Registration Confirmation Card, the distribution of bags at the test sites and any complications during the application.
Enem - Over more than two decades of existence, Enem has become the main gateway to higher education in Brazil, through the Unified Selection System (Sisu), the University for All Program (Prouni) and the Student Financing Fund (Fies).
Public and private educational institutions also use Enem to select students, as a sole criterion or as a complement to selection processes. Individual Enem results can also be used in the selection processes of Portuguese institutions that have an agreement with Inep, an agency linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC), to accept exam scores. The agreements guarantee easy access to grades for Brazilian students interested in pursuing higher education in Portugal.
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from Inep
