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During the past years, the profession of Social Work in Puerto Rico, has been strongly debating on whether we should create a revalidation exam for the profession. The interesting thing is that in general, our professional colleagues are not sympathetic with the philosophy behind the revalidation exam. At the same time there are external pressures to the profession that have convinced some of the colleagues of the need to implement a revalidation exam, even if it goes against their ideals. These pressures include, to name a few: 1) we are of the few professions that do not have it; (2) there is a possibility that the State imposes us a revalidation exam without consultation; (3) it is considered that the profession deserves to have a revalidation exam to gain prestige; (4) that urge the need to set a filter for the graduates of the universities to reduce the ethical complaints in the future. That said, during the article I will reflect my concerns of the implement of a revalidation exam in our profession. Among the concerns is that we could finish commodifying the profession. I also discuss my concerns for the establishment of a revalidation exam style "one-size-fits-all", which intends to fail students, to homogenize the curricula, eliminate the critical thinking, which is not consonant with the multiple intelligences, which conducive to competition and it is unable to measure other human abilities more related with the values and principles of the profession.