The questions on the first day of the National Secondary School Examination (Enem) 2025 were considered well-designed, contextually relevant, comprehensive and up-to-date by experts. According to the teachers interviewed before CapitalsThe evaluation was relevant to the planned contents of secondary education.
“The humanities exam was balanced, with relevant topics, with approaches to politics, economics, society, environmental and agricultural issues, identity and Africanism as well as the importance of traditional populations,” said Professor Tiago Diana, Director of History at Sigma Network.
Diana highlights that the history questions covered different time periods, including antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Age of Enlightenment, and, in Brazil, the colonial period and the government of Getúlio Vargas.
In geography, examinees need knowledge about land concentration, urban planning and the energy matrix.
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“I’m happy to see an event with no controversial or confusing questions, questions that are coherent and fair and make the candidate leave the test better than when they arrived,” says Diana, who also runs the Sigma unit at 910 Norte.
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Candidates arrive to take Enem
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Students wait for the gates to open for the first day of the National Secondary Examination (Enem)
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A group of friends dressed as superheroes appeared moments after the doors closed, at one in the afternoon, claiming that they would be conducting tests and asking to enter.
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Stephanie Rodriguez, 18, also “woke up early” and arrived at 10:30 a.m.
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Questions of sociology and philosophy require appropriating notions about otherness, inequality, and political systems.
Professor Vania Beniveli, Director of Writing and Languages at Sigma Network, highlighted the importance of being able to understand texts when taking the test.
“The questions highlighted the perception that Portuguese is an element of deep Brazilian heritage and identity, the result of a cultural and historical vision, and not merely a representation of a set of grammatical rules outside the context of individuals’ linguistic experience,” commented Beniveli.
Beniveli highlighted the importance given to two Brazilian authors in the competition: Carmen Dolores, with her work “A Luta,” and Clarice Lispector, with her book Onde Vistotes de Nite. “The test requires the acumen of candidates to connect different areas of knowledge and achieve a full understanding of the issues,” he said.
Population aging
The professors considered the topic “Perspectives on Aging in Brazilian Society” to be quite appropriate, since the latest research published by IBGE shows the aging of the Brazilian population in recent decades.
According to Beniveli, the challenge for the students was to create a text with different thematic sections. “Aspects such as the working life of the elderly, the inclusion of the elderly in education, the inversion of the age pyramid in Brazil and health care in old age should be problematized in the argument, culminating in a proposal for intervention at the conclusion of the text,” he says.
Colégio Galois Bárbara’s writing teacher Andrade Soares also liked the topic, but recalled that the “problem” of the test was focusing on one approach to such a comprehensive topic. “I think the trick is for students to summarize the problem as abandonment of the elderly, starvation, and the violence that the elderly face,” he noted.
For a Galois teacher, examiners expect the candidate to understand the discussion about aging in a more holistic way. “It is about understanding the challenges, causes and consequences of an aging population in Brazil,” he said.
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