🇲🇽 Mexico: UNAM "Aciertos" & Faculty Predictor

Estimate your chances in the UNAM Concurso de Selección by comparing your projected aciertos on the 120-question exam to the historical minimum cut-off (puntaje mínimo de ingreso) of each carrera and plantel.

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Área del Conocimiento (Exam Area)

Área 1 · Físico-Mat.

Área 2 · Biológicas

Área 3 · Sociales

Área 4 · Humanidades

UNAM splits its 120-question selection exam by knowledge area. Your area is fixed by the carrera you target — you cannot choose it independently.

Carrera & Plantel

Cut-offs differ per campus (Ciudad Universitaria vs. FES Acatlán, Aragón, Iztacala, Zaragoza, Cuautitlán). Pick the exact plantel you applied to.

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Direct Aciertos

Per-Section Estimate

"Direct" takes a single aciertos total (0–120). "Per-Section" sums the four content blocks of the area-specific exam to derive the same total.

Total Aciertos (0–120)

Aciertos = correct answers only. UNAM does not penalise wrong answers, so blanks are equivalent to errors.

Your Aciertos

Select a carrera and enter your projected aciertos

Minimum Cut-off (Carrera) --

Margin vs Cut-off --

Pase Reglamentado Threshold 90 / 120

Score vs Cut-off Strength 0%

UNAM publishes a different minimum aciertos for every carrera and plantel each year. Choose your target carrera and enter a projected aciertos to see whether you clear it.

How It Works

1. The 120-Question Exam Structure

The UNAM Concurso de Selección is a single-day, 120-question multiple-choice exam. Sixty questions cover the common core (Español, Matemáticas, plus elements of general knowledge); the remaining sixty are split into three twenty-question blocks specific to your chosen Área (1 Físico-Matemáticas, 2 Biológicas y de la Salud, 3 Sociales, 4 Humanidades y Artes). Wrong answers and blanks score zero — only aciertos count.

2. The "Minimum Aciertos" Trap

A common mistake is treating the 90/120 "Pase Reglamentado" (automatic-acceptance bar) as the entry minimum. It is not. Each carrera at each plantel publishes its own puntaje mínimo de ingreso, often well above 90 for high-demand programmes (Medicina FM, Médico Cirujano, Odontología, Psicología CU). Scoring 95 aciertos may be elite for Filosofía in FES Acatlán yet insufficient for Medicina in Ciudad Universitaria. The calculator binds your aciertos against the carrera-specific cut-off, not a blanket pass mark.

3. Pase Reglamentado vs. Concurso

Bachillerato UNAM (ENP and CCH) students with a general average of 9.0 or higher access the Pase Reglamentado route and enter without taking the exam, subject to the carrera demand cap. Everyone else competes in the Concurso de Selección, where places are filled in strict descending order of aciertos until the carrera's quota is exhausted — so the published "minimum" is in reality the score of the last admitted applicant, not a fixed pass mark.

4. Area-Carrera Locking

You cannot take an Área 1 exam and apply to Medicina (Área 2). The area is dictated by your carrera selection. Switching areas mid-cycle requires withdrawing and re-registering. This calculator constrains the carrera list to the area you select to prevent invalid pairings, and resets your carrera selection when the area changes.

Authoritative References

Cut-off values displayed are representative historical minimums drawn from UNAM's Gaceta and Dirección General de Administración Escolar (DGAE) annual publications. Confirm the latest year's "Puntajes mínimos y máximos" before committing to a carrera choice.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — official portal: unam.mx .
Dirección General de Administración Escolar (DGAE) — publishes the official Convocatoria, puntajes mínimos y máximos: dgae.unam.mx .

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