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This article is interested in the response processes of the Academic Aptitude Test of the University of Costa Rica (PAA). Specifically, it describes its subprocesses, as well as the ways in which they interact with each other. The research used a qualitative methodology. The interview of expert judges was used. Once the material was coded and analyzed, it was concluded that the subprocesses involve both the reorganization of information and the generation of new information, but sometimes it is difficult to establish which of the two has greater weight in the item. Regarding the interaction between categories, two of them were detected. The first, alternation, implies that the item can be solved through two different processes. The second is complementarity. In this case, the presence of two categories necessary to solve the item is detected.
