Provão Paulista is canceled at school in Piracicaba after students photograph tests and use AI

Provão Paulista is a serial entrance exam aimed at students enrolled in the public education network. Students take the exam every year throughout high school. This means that a student who is in the first year in 2026 will need to take the test in 2027 and 2028. Only then will their final grade, based on their performance in the three editions, be calculated to compete for a place in the undergraduate course.

In a note sent to EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, this Friday (13), the secretariat informed that the director and deputy director were removed from their duties at the school unit. Furthermore, an inspector from Fundação Vunesp, responsible for organizing the tests, was permanently inactivated by the institution.

"The Department of Education of the State of São Paulo (Seduc-SP) works constantly to ensure the smoothness and safety of the Provão Paulista Sériedo, following the procedures established in the notice.

The application of Provão Paulista Sedo in the mentioned unit, on the 4th and 5th of November, was invalidated after the identification of failures in complying with the procedures set out in the notice. Among the irregularities found are problems in access control protocols and storage of students' cell phones, as well as failures in inspection. Images from the security system also recorded students photographing the tests and using artificial intelligence tools.

Students identified using cell phones irregularly will have their tests cancelled. Students who did not give rise to irregularities will be able to carry out the assessment in an extra application, as a way of ensuring that they are not harmed by the identified flaws.

The director and deputy director were removed from their duties at the school unit, and the Piracicaba Regional Education Unit launched a preliminary investigation to identify the responsibilities of the professionals involved. Measures were also taken in relation to Vunesp's inspectors, who presented flaws in the inspection procedures. One of the professionals was permanently inactivated by the institution.

Seduc-SP continually works to improve application and inspection procedures to ensure the integrity of the exam, which has already guaranteed more than 46 thousand places in public universities in São Paulo for students from the state network."