Status on 7 October 2026: the 2027 Informação-Prova has not been published yet. This guide describes the 2026 prova, the most recent official reference.
What prova 91 is
The 3.º ciclo Português final exam, code 91, is sat in 9.º ano. According to the 2026 Informação-Prova Geral, the 9.º ano provas finais are compulsory and universal: every student takes them.
It is based on the Aprendizagens Essenciais of Português and can draw on earlier years — it is not only 9.º ano content.
What the paper looks like
| Feature | What the official documents say |
|---|---|
| Format | Digital (on a computer) |
| Duration | 90 minutes, plus 30 minutes of tolerance |
| Marks | 100 points |
| Domains | Oral skills (listening), Reading, Literary Education, Grammar and Writing |
| Item types | Selection items (e.g. multiple choice) and constructed-response items (e.g. short answers) |
| Texts | Literary and non-literary texts |
Answers may call on knowledge of the works and texts compulsorily studied in 9.º ano, both in reading items and when writing texts in genres such as exposition, opinion, comment or narrative.
The 2026 provas finais are not made public, so that results can be compared across years. In the IAVE/EduQA archive, the most recent papers available are from 2024.
Which works are studied in 9.º ano
Annex 1 of the 9.º ano Aprendizagens Essenciais lists the works and texts of Literary Education. The core ones are:
- Luís de Camões, Os Lusíadas — episodes and stanzas from cantos I, III, IV, V, VI, IX and X (among them the Proposição, Inês de Castro and the Adamastor).
- Gil Vicente, Auto da Barca do Inferno or the farce Auto da Índia.
- Narratives by Portuguese authors (for example Eça de Queirós, Camilo Castelo Branco, Vergílio Ferreira) and crónicas (Maria Judite de Carvalho, António Lobo Antunes).
- Narratives by authors from Portuguese-speaking countries and by foreign authors.
9.º ano Grammar includes, among others, phonological processes, archaisms and neologisms, analysis of simple and complex sentences (syntactic functions, dividing and classifying clauses), proclisis and mesoclisis, aspect and modality. The prova can also use 7.º and 8.º ano grammar.
How to prepare
- Know Os Lusíadas and the Gil Vicente play studied in class well: what each episode is about, the characters and the satirical intent.
- Practise reading non-literary texts (popular science, critical reviews, comment) with comprehension questions.
- Consolidate syntactic functions and clause classification, which come from 7.º and 8.º ano.
- Write opinion texts, comments and short expositions on the works, with planning and revision.
- Work through past provas finais with their marking criteria — and, since the prova is digital, practise writing and revising on a computer too.
Common questions
Is the 9.º ano Português final exam compulsory?
Yes. The 2026 Informação-Prova Geral states that the 9.º ano provas finais are compulsory and universal.
How long is the 9.º ano Português exam?
90 minutes, plus 30 minutes of tolerance, according to the 2026 Informação-Prova. It is marked out of 100 points.
Is it on paper or on a computer?
In 2026 it was taken in digital format.
Where can I find past papers?
The IAVE/EduQA archive holds the papers from 2010 to 2024 (there were none in 2020 and 2021). The 2026 paper is not public, and 2025’s is not in the archive.
