PAU Technical Drawing II (Andalusia)

Students who have studied Dibujo Técnico II in the Bachillerato science and technology track, and who choose it as an examinable subject for university admission, typically because they are applying to engineering, architecture or design degrees. Private candidates who have not taken the subject should check the official admission rules before planning on it.

It is a written, graphic paper. You are given several alternative options and normally resolve a fixed number of them, drawing with instruments on the answer sheets. Constructions must show auxiliary lines, tangency points and the reasoning, not just the final result. Read the official instructions for the current year to confirm how many options you must answer.

Those figures are set each year by the official university access authority in Andalusia and are published in its current instructions and calendar. They are not fixed here. Check the official site for the duration, the structure of the paper and the grading criteria before your exam date.

Difficulty is mostly about execution speed and precision rather than conceptual depth. The constructions themselves are standard and finite in number; the challenge is producing them accurately and legibly under time pressure. Candidates who have drawn each procedure repeatedly tend to find it manageable, while those who only read theory often run out of time.

Retake rules and the number of sittings available are governed by the official admission regulations and change over time. Consult the current rules published by the Andalusian university access authority rather than relying on what older students tell you, since the conditions applied to their year may no longer hold.

Start with plane geometry and basic constructions, since everything else depends on them: perpendiculars, parallels, angles, bisectors and polygon construction. Then move to loci and conics with their tangents, then tangency links. Treat dihedral geometry separately and systematically, and leave axonometric perspective and standardised drawing for the final phase.

Faint or missing auxiliary lines, tangency points not marked, constructions that are visibly inaccurate because instruments were used carelessly, wrong scale, and unlabelled results. Another frequent loss is spending too long on one option and leaving another unanswered. Practise drawing cleanly at speed and decide quickly which alternatives to attempt.

The paper is drawn by hand with instruments. CAD fundamentals appear in the subject's standardised drawing content, but the assessment is graphic construction on paper. Knowing CAD helps your spatial understanding of dihedral and axonometric problems, but it will not substitute for practising hand constructions.

Only the official Andalusian university access authority publishes the binding information: the current structure of the paper, duration, instructions, calendar and grading criteria. Use this page for preparation guidance, but verify every administrative detail there before the exam.