In this article we want to point out as brief as possible the particularities of the transition from the pre-university education to the academic environment, by offering some examples from the backstage of the first evaluative meeting with future students. They were candidates for the Primary and Preschool Education Pedagogy specialization of the Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Babe?-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. The dates offered are derived from a relatively new pedagogical micro-research: the 2014's Admission exam, with a total of 338 subjects and the content being the writing exam to verify their knowledge, the Mathematical component (arithmetic knowledge).