PAU Technical Drawing II (Galicia)

It is a written paper combining graphical construction problems, representation problems in the projection systems, normalisation questions and CAD-related items. Some sections ask you to choose between options and justify the choice; others are open drawing problems solved directly on the answer sheet with instruments.

The number of items and the duration are set for each call by the official Galician assessment body, so they can differ between years. Do not rely on figures from older papers; consult the current official documentation published by the Xunta de Galicia before planning your timing.

The difficulty lies less in theory than in execution under time pressure: constructions must be accurate, clean and complete. Candidates who know the procedures but draw slowly or skip auxiliary lines usually lose marks. Systematic practice with instruments, at exam pace, is what separates a solid grade from a mediocre one.

Yes, candidates can normally sit the assessment again in later calls, but the applicable rules and any limits are fixed by the current regulations. Confirm the conditions for your cohort on the official Xunta de Galicia access pages rather than assuming the previous year's rules still apply.

Start with geometric tracing - tangencies, loci, conics, technical curves - because those skills underpin everything else. Then move to dihedral projection, followed by axonometric and conical systems, and finally normalisation and CAD. Leave the last weeks for full past papers drawn under real time conditions.

Leaving construction lines out, not labelling points and intersections, using a soft pencil that smudges, misreading scales, and abandoning a problem halfway instead of completing the parts that are already solvable. In normalisation, wrong line types and incomplete dimensioning are frequent. All of these are avoidable with a fixed drawing routine.

The CAD content is part of the syllabus and appears in the exam, but it is generally a smaller share than drawing and projection. Learn the core concepts - entities, editing commands, layers, file formats - and be able to explain them, rather than depending on access to a specific software package.

Check the official instructions for permitted instruments each year. In practice, work with a hard pencil, sharp leads, good compass and set squares, and draw on the same sheet size as the exam. Redraw every past problem from scratch rather than tracing your earlier solution, and time yourself.

Specific scoring criteria are published by the official assessment body and can change between calls. Look for the current correction guidelines and the weighting of each part. In graphical problems, accuracy of construction and correct auxiliary lines usually matter as much as the final visible result.