To enter a Brazilian university has become lately a relatively simple task. In Brazil , there are many courses and many universities, which in its majority are particular. For who have financial conditions to pay a particular college, to enter a superior education does not present great difficulties. This situation changes when we talk about the poor part of the society. There are some Public Institutions of Superior Education in the country and these are considered of excellent quality. However, the number of Public Universities is insufficient to take care of the demand of the population. Therefore, the selective process for ingression in a public university is very concurred.
There is just a way to enter in Brazilian Universities: through the vestibular contest. The vestibular contest is a test that the students who had finished average education do to enter the college. Each college has its proper selective process, that generally is composed by objective questions and discuss questions and still divided in some stages. One to evaluate the common knowledges of the student and other composed by specific questions related to the course that the student is concurring. In general, the most concurred courses are medicine, the legal area and engineering.
Generally, the students do the vestibular contest for different universities and even though for different courses in one same year. In case that they do not reach the average to enter the college, them, they can concur in the following year. If the student will be concuring in one particular university, he/she does not need to wait one year, therefore the particular institutions promote some vestibular contests throughout the year.
It has intense debates in Brazil on the selective process in the Brazilian universities, but the majority of them is related by partner-economic questions, in accordance with the new laws, as the one that grants to 50% of the vacant in the public universities for blacks and students of public schools. While a group defends that this is an efficient and immediate way to reduce the social inequality of the country, others affirm that this is a way to “make up“ the problem that would be much more serious: the education in the country seems as a whole since the initial series. In any way, the vacant reserve, for more controversial than either raises important questions about the Brazilian social context.
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