Edcley Teixeira, a medical student, stated in an interview on Fantástico that similarities between questions he disclosed and those on the 2025 Enem were mere coincidence. He denied bad faith and said he did not know the Capes Prize test was an Enem pre-test. Federal Police executed search warrants at his home on Sunday (23).
The 4th-year medical student Edcley Teixeira called it a coincidence that the questions he disclosed in a YouTube live before the exam have many similarities with questions from the natural sciences and mathematics booklet of the Enem (National High School Exam) 2025.
In an interview aired on Sunday (23) on Fantástico, from TV Globo, Teixeira said he did not know—only suspected—that the Prêmio Capes Talento Universitário test he had taken was an Enem pre-test. "I didn't know [it was a pre-test]. I think the point similarities were coincidence. If they warned it was a pre-test and that you have to sign a confidentiality term, that you can't disclose to anyone, we would certainly feel more secure in the process," he said.
In the interview, Teixeira admitted paying students to memorize questions from tests, which were then passed to him to be used in the online Enem preparation course he offers since 2022. But he denied bad faith. "I asked only this year. I see no bad faith because there was no commitment term, no confidentiality term, it didn't exist in the notice or in the registration process," he stated. "It's a form of publicity that I now consider unfortunate because it was simply to draw attention to my course."
Manuel Palacios, president of Inep, the Ministry of Education agency responsible for Enem, said there is no possibility of a student getting a better score on the exam just by memorizing a question. "There is no chance that an item memorized by a student who took a test affects Enem security in any way. There is no technical risk. There is no possibility of a student getting a better score because they glanced at the question," he said to Fantástico.
Despite this, Federal Police agents were at Edcley's home on the morning of Sunday (23), according to Fantástico, to execute search and seizure warrants. They took electronic devices, such as computer and cell phone, and documents that may aid in the case investigations.
In a YouTube live before the second day of the national exam, Edcley Teixeira displayed at least five questions that had great similarity with questions present in the natural sciences and mathematics booklet of Enem. In a video published on January 2 this year, Teixeira detailed his "prediction" method for the national exam questions. In the report, he explains that he received an invitation to participate in the Prêmio Capes Talento Universitário—an federal initiative aimed at students in early higher education—, which offers a R$ 5,000 prize to participants with the best performance.
After participating, the medical student claims he found similarities between prize questions and questions later present in Enem. Edcley stated that he memorized what appeared in the prize, claiming to use only criteria allowed by legislation and denying any leak. Additionally, he claims to have been invited to participate in Inep's Item Behavior Study.
He then organized and commercialized the questions on his own social media, as a mentoring course. After the case, Inep announced the annulment of three test questions and stated that "no question was presented as is in the 2025 edition of the exam". In an official note, the institute reaffirmed the "isonomy, fairness, and validity of the Enem 2025 tests".