The extraordinary selectivity exams have commenced in the Canary Islands with a Language test that included a cartoon illustrating the Canarian anger over the lack of solidarity from other autonomous communities. Students faced the challenge of analyzing an illustration by Padylla depicting the reaction of the President of the Canary Islands, Clavijo, to the refusal of autonomous communities to accept the distribution of underage migrants during the Conference of Presidents.
The cartoon served to analyze Canarian speech, including the use of 'ustedes' (you plural, formal), and to reflect on solidarity regarding migration. Students had to describe the communicative elements of the illustration and syntactically analyze the title phrase: «Clavijo makes use of our co-official language in the Conference of Presidents». Furthermore, they were asked to reflect on solidarity between communities in the context of immigration.
The second part of the Language exam focused on Literature, involving the commentary of a poem by Luis Cernuda, 'Donde habite el olvido' (Where Oblivion Dwells), or an explanation of post-war social poetry. The exam concluded with an analysis of works written after 1975.
Following the Language exam, students took tests in Foreign Language and, in the afternoon, History of Spain or History of Philosophy. The extraordinary session will run until July 2, with results announced on the 10th and final review on the 17th.
A total of 2,627 students have registered in the Canary Islands for this extraordinary session. At the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1,288 students will take their exams, with 898 participating in the general phase and 390 in the optional phase to improve their scores.
In the province of Las Palmas, registered students are distributed across the Tafira campus (545), southern Gran Canaria (146), Lanzarote (117), and Fuerteventura (90). The majority of those registered for the general phase come from Humanities and Social Sciences (439) and Sciences and Technology (405).
In the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1,339 registrations have been recorded, with 881 for the general phase and 458 for the specific phase. By island, 789 students in Tenerife are participating in the general phase, and 417 in the specific phase.
