POSCOMP

Questions from the POSCOMP exams of 2022 and 2023. POSCOMP (Exame Nacional para Ingresso na Pós-Graduação em Computação) is the Brazilian national exam for admission to graduate programs in Computing, administered by the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC). The dataset contains 140 multiple-choice questions in Portuguese covering mathematics, computer fundamentals, and computer technology.

This dataset was released as part of PoETa v2.

Dataset Structure

A single train split with 140 rows. Each example has the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
question	string	The question text.
number	int64	Question number within its exam.
id	string	Unique identifier (e.g. POSCOMP_2023_56).
alternatives	list[string]	The multiple-choice options (A–E).
associated_images	list	Images associated with the question, if any.
answer	string	The correct alternative (letter).
has_associated_images	bool	Whether the question has associated images.
alternatives_type	string	Type of the alternatives.
subject	list[string]	Subject area(s): mathematics, computer_fundamentals, computer_technology.
IU	bool	Requires image understanding.
MR	bool	Requires mathematical reasoning.
CR	bool	Requires complex reasoning.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("maritaca-ai/poscomp", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@article{almeida2025poeta,
  title={PoETa v2: Toward More Robust Evaluation of Large Language Models in Portuguese},
  author={Almeida, Thales Rog{\'e}rio Sales and Pires, Ramon and Abonizio, Hugo and Nogueira, Rodrigo and Pedrini, Helio},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  volume={13},
  pages={214180--214200},
  year={2025},
  publisher={IEEE}
}