The objective of this work is to evaluate the competences in critical reading and cientific mathematical and statistical thinking of students in the last semester of Financial Engineering and Commercial Engineering. In this context, the evaluation is considered as learning guiding process, through it, it is possible to obtain the necessary information to identify what was learned, what was not learned and take assertive decisions can be made in the teaching process and learning. Therefore, in this research, the results achieved by the students in the Saber 11 Tests applied by ICFES, and subsequently, the results obtained by the same students in the Saber Pro Tests, belonging to the programs in mention of the Universidad Libre. This research is a study of evaluative design, nonexperimental, of explanatory character that uses a methodology of complementarity between the qualitative and quantitative methods. The SPSS software was used as an instrument for data processing, through which ...