Globo Simulator Offers Enem Essay Grading Up to 1,000 Points

Millions of test-takers finished the first day of the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio across Brazil on Sunday, November 8, 2026, facing an essay prompt centered on public healthcare as a universal right.

The examination recorded 5,051,345 confirmed registrations for this edition according to data from the INEP panel.

Female participants represent 63.98% of the total, reaching 3,232,013 registered candidates. The participant pool includes 13,821 candidates over 60 years old.

Free registration was granted to 3,4 million candidates, accounting for 68% of the applicants. São Paulo leads state registrations with 851.8 thousand students, while Roraima recorded the lowest participation with 15.3 thousand candidates.

Participants wrote their essays on the theme The appreciation of the Unified Health System (SUS) as a universal right, according to Globo.

Tools using artificial intelligence were launched to evaluate these texts based on the five core competencies required by the exam. Each competency receives up to 200 points, allowing candidates to score up to 1,000 points. The evaluation criteria cover formal writing mastery, theme comprehension, argument organization, cohesion, and intervention proposals respecting human rights.

The platform was developed from a partnership with Grupo Eureka, and analyses texts while pointing out errors and hits, and suggesting writing improvements. Portals such as CNN Brasil provide an Enem Simulator featuring over 3,000 official questions applied between 2009 and 2025 for individual training and result sharing.

The examination takes place on November 8 and November 15, 2026. The first test day covered languages, codes, human sciences, and the essay. Mathematics and natural sciences take place on the second day.

Gates open at 12:00 and close strictly at 13:00 Brasília time, with tests beginning at 13:30 while requiring an official photo ID for entry.

Scores for multiple-choice sections are calculated using the Item Response Theory model. This methodology evaluates actual knowledge and reduces the impact of random guessing by factoring in question difficulty, discrimination, and the internal consistency of a student’s answers.

Calculators developed alongside statistician Frederico Torres use historical microdata to provide references, noting past mathematics distributions such as 2022 where 7,516 participants hitting 30 questions earned scores between a minimum of 759.1 and a maximum of 878.5, with an average of 826.17.