“I was kicked out of medical school at UFRJ, but I passed again. I won’t enroll.” This is how Pedro Asaad, 27 years old, appeared in the main post on his personal Instagram page. The young man – who also says he is “the best teacher in Brazil” and has “the best teaching skills” – decided to change his future career as a doctor to devote himself to creating content and a preparation course for the National High School Examination (Enem), to be part of a group of young people who collect approvals in medicine to sell educational content.
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Pedro’s students are among 4.8 million Brazilians who will take the second day of Enem on Sunday. They will face mathematics and natural science tests, an essential day for anyone aspiring to become a doctor in the future.
Study of medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) was approved in 2019 through the public school quota with no income limit. During the pandemic, he started teaching online, built a community around himself and started making money from it. GLOBO sought out the businessman who agreed to be interviewed, but did not respond to sent questions. In a video from 2024, he says he chose online preparation to earn income faster.
— I thought like this: I want to become a doctor, but my financial return will not start until I finish my university studies. “I wanted to marry my wife soon,” Asaad said on his channel. – Now I have two children with her and this was the best choice I made.
Students complain that consent collectors end up disrupting the Sisu system because they artificially increase the cut-off score – a small effect in practice. Pedro states in his profile that he passes the medical exam every year, and there are pictures of his results above the final result in 2022 for the Federal University of Parana (UFPR) and in 2024 for the UFRJ.
With a reputation for being arrogant — a flaw he admitted to having in a video this week titled “I Don’t Want to Be an Arrogant and Selfish Man Anymore (I Decided I’m Going to Change)” — he is often viewed by students as an excellent preparatory course teacher — even though he holds no degree. In the year it was approved, the Participant’s Guide, a document published by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anício Teixeira (INEP) with rules for writing sprints, used one of its texts as a model for the Thousand Degrees. However, the boy ends up creating division by adopting an aggressive attitude on the networks.
One day after Enem’s first audition of the year, he responded to a follower and asked him to “stop bullshitting” when he said he was embarrassing his parents. In another post, Pedro said: “In whatever field I teach, I teach more than anyone else.”
– It’s been five years since I started working online. From the beginning I say that I am the best teacher in Brazil, and that my teaching is the best. I have proof of that. But I could use more moderation and humility – “I no longer want to be an arrogant and selfish man (I decided I would change),” Pedro said in the video, published last Thursday.
He currently has over 310,000 subscribers on YouTube and is followed by nearly 235,000 people on Instagram. Before Sunday’s test, Pedro lived for 12 hours a day to review topics. Moreover, it intensified the advertising of the promotions “Black Friday for 100% guaranteed approval in medicine”, when it began charging a fee of R$ 2,497 to access the platform containing the content.
According to lawyer Aline Nunes, who specializes in education law, young people who have just taken the Enem test can be offered free courses to prepare for the test as long as they explain that they are not trained teachers.
“This may constitute false advertising,” says the lawyer.
Antonio Augusto, 22, passed seven entrance exams for medicine in 2025, including the UFRJ, the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Brasilia (UnB), and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), where he is pursuing his undergraduate studies.
While preparing for the exam, he studied on the platform of Vinicius Oliveira – who defines himself as “the professor who passes medicine every year”, with more than 200,000 followers – and began working as a proctor. The boy liked the role and started creating content on the topic.
– I realized how much I help people – says the young man who is just starting out.
He is currently creating YouTube videos and creating an e-book about passing medicine that includes teaching techniques, routines, and other information. It costs R$79.90. Additionally, it should launch personal mentoring by next year. However, he says, when he needs to choose between medicine and materials to make an enema, he will continue working in the health sector.
-So far, it can be shared. If I needed to give up one of the fronts, I would definitely continue in medicine, which is what I really want to do – he says.
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