Minister of Education guarantees new opportunity in December for students who missed Enem due to climate issues

The speech took place during President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's visit to the monitoring room of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep) in Brasília, where technicians from the Ministry of Education, responsible for applying Enem, monitor the logistical processes throughout Brazil.

According to the minister's speech and according to the notice that establishes the rules of the 2026 Enem, the tests for these students will take place on the 15th and 16th of December, when the Enem PPL is held, a modality aimed at People Deprived of Liberty and Young People under Socio-educational Measures that include deprivation of liberty.

Enem 2026 takes place between November 8th and 15th across the country. This year, 5,055,818 people had their registrations confirmed and are eligible to take the exam.

The number is the highest since 2020, when almost 5.8 million people had signed up. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic, the exam did not take place that year and there was a sharp drop in the number of registrants the following year.