Laura Poy, René Ramón and Alonso Urrutia
Reporter, correspondent and sent
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 1, 2025, p. 13
30 years after its creation, the Metropolitan Commission of Public Institutions of Higher Education (COMIMS) will stop performing the unique baccalaureate entrance exam for the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo confirmed yesterday.
On tour of Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico, he announced that this year There will be no exam
of the comipems for adolescents who, at the end of secondary education, try to enter public schools of higher secondary education in Mexico City and conurbation area, a process to which about 300 thousand young people were registered every year.
The chief of the Executive announced that on Monday the details of this decision will be announced, which she had already advanced since her presidential campaign. Sources from the Ministry of Public Education confirmed that the announcement will be made in the National Palace at noon.
“The National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Technological of Mexico, are helping us to improve the public system of high schools. There will be a platform, we will explain it from Monday, “said the president.
Created in February 1995, the comipems applied in 1996, for the first time, the unique assignment exam to high school, composed of 128 multiple choice questions, and designed by the National Evaluation Center for Higher Education (CENEVAL), which which They performed all the applicants, with the exception of those who requested as the first option their entry to the UNAM, an institution that elaborated their own evaluation.
The official announcement is announced in a context of concern of parents, who, as happened for almost three decades, allocated part of their resources for the payment of preparation courses for the evaluation of their children that even exceeded a cost of 12 thousand pesos.
According to the figures reported in the last application of the Comipems examination in 2024, in which the College of Bachilleres, the National College of Technical Professional Education, the General Directorates of Agricultural Technological Education participated; of industrial technological education; Del Baccalaureate, IPN, UNAM, the Ministry of Education of the Government of the State of Mexico and the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, were presented to the evaluation 285 thousand 280 applicants, who requested their entry to any of the 735 educational programs offered in 487 Schools.
