Schools that train for prepa admission adjust programs

Laura Poy and Alexia Villaseñor

La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, p. 11

Despite the cancellation of the Single Exam of the Metropolitan Commission of Public Institutions of Higher Secondary Education (COMIMS) Nothing has changed, because the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) will continue to apply an exclusive evaluation for these studies housessaid Marcos Fuentes Franco, director of the Cultural and Educational Institute Coapa, specialized for almost three decades in the delivery of courses for the admission exams to high school and higher education, with a novel pedagogical method that strengthens integral formation.

In an interview with The dayhe considered that the offer of preparation for admission will continue, although he acknowledged that for this 2024-2025 cycle There was a fall in demand that in our case was almost 50 percent, as has surely occurred to other centers.

Meanwhile, high school professors indicated that despite the announcement of the cancellation of the Single Commipe examination, simulation tests will not be suspended to have a most accurate diagnosis of how third grade students are, and in case of identifying lags, offer free regularization courses in the same school.

They maintain cours offer

In social networks and electronic portals, the offer of courses are also maintained, they have even updated their advertising to offer preparation in the unique exam that will apply the UNAM and the IPN. Regularization classes are offered online and face -to -face costs that exceed 8,500 pesos on average.

In Conamat, the price is 7,694 pesos, in face -to -face mode, and online it is offered in 2,900. In its portal it is already reported that UNAM and IPN They will manage autonomously the entrance to their high school, since the comipems has been discontinued.

Another example is cedine courses, which warns of its users that because there will be a unique admission test for these studies houses, The demand for a school will increase, so you will have to be more prepared in knowledge for the complexity of the exam.

Fuentes Franco warned that since the creation of comipems He placed responsibility for admission to the students themselves, and not in the institutions or in the state, which is obliged to guarantee access to higher secondary education.

Therefore, he affirmed that beyond the disappearance of the selection mechanism that operated for almost 30 years, The adequate training and training of secondary school teachers should be guaranteed so that all students who graduate from that educational level have the basic knowledge to be able to study their baccalaureate, which does not currently happen.

He assured that to guarantee universal right to access to higher secondary education The resources that are destined to attend to young people of age to study, which implies more schools and more teachers should also be increased.