The National Secondary Examination (Enem) in 2025 registered the largest number of candidates over the age of 60. There were more than 17,000 people out of 4.8 million registered in this age group. This year’s article topic was “Perspectives on Aging in Brazilian Society.”
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See number of subscribers 60+
- 2025 – 17,192
- 2024 – 9,950
- 2023 – 8,531
- 2022 – 5900
- 2021 – 6,004
- 2020 – 11,768
- 2019 – 8,259
- 2018 – 8704
- 2017 – 9618
- 2016 – 13,018
- 2015 – 10,680
- 2014 – 12,375
- 2013 – 8,781
- 2012 – 6,596
- 2011 – 5602
- 2010 – 5054
- 2009 – 4534
As supporting text, the test cited phrases by Rita Lee (“Old age is not a disease. It is fate”) and Fernanda Montenegro (“Old age is the time when we have actually lived life and, therefore, can finally look at it head on, without the panic of modernity”).
In the assessment of anthropologist and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Merian Goldenberg, the choice of topic is a milestone in raising awareness about the disappearance of the elderly.
— I think it’s great that the test taken by the students, most of them teenagers, suggests a topic about aging — and he’s celebrating. – This shows how the problems faced by older Brazilians are becoming more apparent than ever.
Actress Giovanna Goldfarb, 61, is one of those registered. The candidate, who in 1999 played the character Ziva in the first version of the TV series “Pantanal,” says she wants to reconcile with the student “version of herself.”
– My student version deserves to be better – says the candidate who in 1999 played the character Ziva, in the first version of the TV series “Pantanal”. — My goals are: 1) To excel in history, geography, literature, and English. 2) Get 800 in the essay; 3) Get something right in mathematics and physics; 4) Some biology and chemistry. 5) To succeed in the college I want.
In 1983, she enrolled in the Faculty of Theater at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio), but was unable to complete the course. At the time, she had a serious drug addiction problem, causing her to rarely attend classes until a car accident forced her to leave for good.
-I haven’t studied for more than 40 years. I feel like a walking museum in the pre-college social class I’m taking. We laugh a lot. I almost feel like I’m from the time of Pedro Alvarez Cabral! The geography teacher showed a slide with a villain destroying the world. At the end of the lesson I asked: “Okay, but who is this?” Everyone knew it, it was from Marvel, except for me – who enjoyed it – the student who was in the ‘Women in School’ class, a program run by the Center for Science and Higher Distance Education (Cecierj) Foundation and the State Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Rio that encourages a return to formal education for women aged 16 or over or who want to take pre-university exams.
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