Acceso a estudios universitarios de grado (UAM)
This domain covers the rules that turn your Bachillerato record and your PAU (EBAU) results into the grade used to enter a UAM degree, together with the pre-registration stage in the Madrid public university district.
How the admission grade is built
- Nota de acceso (0–10) = 0,6 × NMB (nota media de Bachillerato) + 0,4 × CFG (media aritmética of the four general-phase exercises). You need the weighted total ≥ 5 and CFG ≥ 4.
- Fase general (compulsory, four exercises): Lengua Castellana y Literatura II; Lengua Extranjera II; Historia de España or Historia de la Filosofía (you choose); and one subject of your Bachillerato modality.
- Fase específica (voluntary): subjects drawn from the university's ponderations table. Each subject passed with ≥ 5 is multiplied by its weight (0,1 or 0,2); only the two best results are added, giving at most 4 extra points, so the nota de admisión can reach 14.
Ponderations and cut-offs
Weights belong to the degree, not to the subject: Matemáticas II may weigh 0,2 for one UAM engineering degree and 0,1 - or nothing at all - for another, and the table is republished each year. The nota de corte is simply the grade of the last student admitted in the previous course; it is informative, never a fixed pass mark.
Worked example
NMB = 8,2 and CFG = 7,0 give a nota de acceso of 0,6 × 8,2 + 0,4 × 7,0 = 4,92 + 2,80 = 7,72. In the specific phase, Matemáticas II = 8,0 with weight 0,2 adds 1,60, and Física = 6,5 with weight 0,2 adds 1,30. Nota de admisión = 7,72 + 1,60 + 1,30 = 10,62 over 14. Had Matemáticas II weighed only 0,1, the total would fall to 9,82 - which is why the table must be checked before choosing specific-phase subjects.
Traps that cost places
- Quoting the nota de acceso as if it were the admission grade; the specific phase is what moves a candidate up the list.
- Sitting a subject that does not appear in the ponderations table of the target degree: it can be passed and still add nothing.
- Forgetting that a specific-phase subject scored below 5 contributes zero.
- Treating last year's cut-off as a guarantee, or ordering pre-registration options carelessly, when places are assigned strictly by order of preference and then by grade.