Faça o exame de aptidão física e mental.

Faça is the imperative form of fazer used for você, o senhor, or a senhora. In this sentence, it means a command or instruction: Do / Take the exam.

In Brazilian Portuguese, this is a very common way to give formal written instructions, especially in official contexts.

Because standard written Portuguese uses faça for the imperative directed at você.

• fazer = to do / to make
• você faz = you do
• faça! = do! / take!

So:

• você faz o exame = you take the exam
• faça o exame = take the exam

You may hear faz used like a command in some informal speech, but faça is the standard and expected form here.

Yes. It sounds formal and instructional, like something you might read:

• on an official form
• in government instructions
• in a job or licensing process
• in administrative or legal language

A less formal spoken version might be something like Você tem que fazer o exame or Faz o exame, depending on region and context.

O exame means the exam: a specific exam that is already known from context.

So this sentence suggests there is a particular required exam the person is supposed to take.

Compare:

• Faça o exame = Take the exam
• Faça um exame = Take an exam

In official instructions, o exame is very common because the exam is already defined by the process.

Literally, it is something like exam of aptitude or aptitude exam.

Portuguese often uses de where English prefers a noun-noun structure or an adjective:

• exame de sangue = blood test
• teste de visão = vision test
• exame de aptidão = aptitude exam / fitness assessment

So de is linking exame with what kind of exam it is.

They describe aptidão, not exame.

So the structure is:

• exame
• de aptidão
• física e mental

That means the exam evaluates physical and mental fitness/aptitude.

In other words, this is not an exam that is physically and mentally something. It is an exam of physical and mental aptitude.

Because both adjectives modify the singular noun aptidão.

• aptidão is feminine singular
• so física agrees with it: feminine singular
• mental is one of those adjectives whose singular form is the same for masculine and feminine

So:

• aptidão física
• aptidão mental
• together: aptidão física e mental

Even though there are two qualities, the noun aptidão is still singular.

In this context, exame is more likely an assessment, often official or medical-administrative, not a classroom test.

Depending on the situation, it could refer to something like:

• a medical screening
• a fitness evaluation
• a psychological or mental suitability check
• a licensing requirement

Portuguese exame can mean exam, test, or medical examination, so context matters.

Roughly: FAH-sah.

The important detail is the ç (cedilla):

• ç before a, o, u makes an s sound
• so faça sounds like fassa

Compare:

• faça = do / make (command)
• faca = knife

That little mark makes a big difference.

Roughly in Brazilian Portuguese: ap-chee-DAUNG or ap-tee-DAUNG, depending on accent.

A few key points:

• the stress is on the last syllable: -dão
• ão is nasal
• many Brazilian accents make ti sound like chi

So the final part -dão is the part to emphasize.

You might see article-dropping in headlines, notes, or very compressed bureaucratic language, but Faça o exame... is the more complete and natural sentence here.

Using o makes it clear that this is a specific required exam.

So for a learner, Faça o exame de aptidão física e mental is the best model to follow.

Not exactly, though they may overlap depending on context.

• mental = mental
• psicológica = psychological

In official language, mental can be broader and may refer to mental fitness or mental capacity in general. Psicológica is narrower and specifically psychological.

So you should not automatically treat them as perfect synonyms, even if in some contexts they point in a similar direction.