Laura Poy Solano
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 10, 2024, p. 12
Monserrat Rivera Pérez achieved one of the best scores in the 2024 placement exam of the Metropolitan Commission of Public Institutions of Upper Secondary Education (Comipems), in which more than 272 thousand contestants participated, obtaining 125 out of a total of 128 correct answers, only after the young Mairán Rodríguez Butrón, who had 126 and will enter the National Polytechnic Institute.
Twenty-eight years after the first application of the exam to assign places in higher secondary education, the number of adolescents who have managed to achieve the best scores has been increasing.
Monserrat’s father, Ismael Rivera Ramírez, who is dedicated to the industrialization of nopal, assured that It was like winning a gold medal at the Olympics. We are very proud.
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A student of excellence since primary school, Monserrat assures that the key is Always go beyond what you are taught, search on your own, be curious and do it from when you are in primary school, do not wait to attend secondary school, which is like a great review of what you have already been taught.
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His favorite subjects are math and English, although it was not easy for him. understand everything from the first moment
With her result, she was able to enter the National Preparatory School (ENP) number 5 José Vasconcelos, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in Ex Hacienda Coapa.
From the moment he took the exam, his father Ismael recalls, he knew exactly which questions he might have gotten wrong. “He told us: ‘Dad, I think I might have gotten three questions wrong.’ He was aware, and indeed there were only three mistakes.”
He highlighted the support that Monserrat has had from her family, including that of her older brother, who is in his third year at a UNAM high school after obtaining a score of 115 points, It has been fundamental. Constant support is very important, being aware of them in all their academic tasks and activities, but also that they feel supported.
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Monserrat, like many young people her age, has not yet decided what she will study when she grows up, but she is clear about her interest in knowledge and her curiosity to continue learning new things.
Other selected excellence
Meanwhile, UNAM reported that three students who will enter the high school of the highest house of studies obtained 125 correct answers out of 128 in the Comipems entrance exam for the 2024-2025 school year, which will begin on August 19.
According to the academic institution, this is the aforementioned Monserrat Rivera Pérez, from San Pedro Actopan, Milpa Alta.
Also Abdiel Alexander Ocaranza Mancilla, with residence in San Francisco Tlaltenco, Tláhuac, who will attend ENP number 6 Antonio Caso, located in the Del Carmen Coyoacán neighborhood.
Leonardo Bravo Solís will study at the ENP 9 Pedro de Alba, in Lindavista.
Last Thursday, Comipems reported that this year 244,314 applicants obtained a place to study in one of their first five options to choose from.
(With information from the Editorial Staff)
