Vocational Aptitude Tests (PAVE)

CANDIDATES

For those wishing to access and enter the Music degree programme, it is necessary to pass the Specific Vocational Aptitude Test (PAVE).
When applying to enrol in the PAVE, the candidate must identify one of the following competitions through which they wish to apply, and must check the access conditions, vacancies and documentation required in the respective competition:

Local Music Competition
Special competitions for: Holders of higher education courses, CET or TeSP holders and holders of vocational pathway courses (in the competition for people over 23 and the special competition for international students, enrolment in PAVE is automatically taken over when you enrol in the Assessment Test for people over 23 or apply for the special competition for international students)
Change of institution / competition

In the case of enrolment in the Assessment Tests for people over 23 for access via the special competition for people over 23, as well as applying for the special competition for international students, candidates for the degree in Music will automatically be enrolled in the Music PAVE.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications to the inscription in PAVE must be submitted online using the appropriate form. You will, however, first be required to register on the website .

Step 1: Register here .
Step 2: Fill in the application form here .

Candidates must register for the Specific Vocational Aptitude Test (PAVE), identifying the competition they wish to apply for and the branch and instrument in which they wish to take the PAVE, and may register for a maximum of 3 branches/instruments.

Registration for the Specific Vocational Aptitude Test must be accompanied by the documents required for the competition/scheme through which you wish to enter, in accordance with the UÉ Access and Admission Regulations and the information on the UÉ Portal for the respective competition.

Those who are successful in the Music PAVE will be considered candidates for the competition for access and admission to the degree in Music that they identified when registering for the PAVE, and it will be necessary to confirm and validate this application, without having to pay an additional application fee, by the deadlines established in the Application Calendar, defined annually.

The information on this page does not replace the need to read the regulations in force on this matter.

CALENDAR

Single Phase

Registration : 07/Apr/2025 até 05/May/2025

Test dates : 26/May/2025 a 30/May/2025

Test results : até 13/June/2025

PLACES AVAILABLE

Check here initial vacancies for each of the competitions for admission to the music degree programme.

Enyrance Exams for 2025/26 and 2026/27

Under the terms of article 21 of Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, ofSeptember 25, in conjunction with articles 18 and 20, the National Commissionfor Access to Higher Education (CNAES) is responsible for setting the list ofentrance exams, at the proposal of the higher education institutions, whereby thenumber of exams required for admission to each institution/course pair may notbe less than two and more than three. Competent body of the higher educationinstitution, authorize that, for certain institution/course pairs, the numberof lists be increased to a maximum of six.

In this context, and following the introduction of therequirement that the number of exams required for admission to eachinstitution/study cycle pair cannot be less than two and more than three,Decree-Law no. 64-A/2023 of July 31 three, by Decree-Law no. 64-A/2023, of July31, which made the tenth amendment to Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, of September 25,in its current wording, with article 34 of that Decree-Law providing that thechanges relating to the number of entrance exams and the resulting formula forcalculating the application classification are applicable to applications tohigher education for access and admission from the 2025/2026 academic yearonwards.

See here CNAES Decision no. 852/2024 , published in Diário daRepublica no. 126 - 2nd Series, of July 2, which publishes the list of entranceexams for applications to higher education in the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027academic years.