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OAB 1ª Fase study plan

OAB 1ª Fase · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Estatuto da Advocacia e da OAB & Ética e Disciplina (Código de Ética e Disciplina da OAB)

  • Map the Estatuto da Advocacia (Lei 8.906/94) article by article, flagging the provisions on inscrição, impedimentos, incompatibilidades and honorários

  • Differentiate, with written examples, the duties of the advogado from the prerogatives granted by the Estatuto

  • Resolve 40 objective questions on Estatuto da Advocacia, logging every error with the article that justified the correct answer

  • Summarize in one page the disciplinary sanctions available to the OAB and the conduct that triggers each one

Your checkpoint

A two-page comparative table linking each Estatuto injunction to its practical consequence (right, duty or sanction), plus an error log of 40 questions

Week 2

Ética e Disciplina (Código de Ética e Disciplina da OAB)

  • Break the Código de Ética e Disciplina into its thematic blocks: publicidade, sigilo profissional, conflito de interesses, deveres para com o cliente, colegas e o Judiciário

  • Draft model answers for five recurring ethics scenarios, such as accepting a case against a former client and advertising on social media

  • Identify the procedural path of a disciplinary representation before the Tribunal de Ética e Disciplina, from instauração to recurso

  • Complete 50 ethics questions under timed conditions and reclassify each mistake by thematic block

Your checkpoint

A one-page ethics cheat sheet covering publicidade, sigilo and conflito de interesses, validated by scoring at least 70% on a 50-question timed set

Week 3

Direito Constitucional

  • Consolidate the constitutional framework of fundamental rights, their limits and the mechanisms of protection

  • Compare the three federal branches as to composition, competence and mutual checks

  • Trace the constitutional control system, distinguishing difuso from concentrado and listing the main constitutional actions

  • Solve 40 constitutional law questions, writing the constitutional basis for each correct option

Your checkpoint

A flowchart of constitutional control (difuso, concentrado and the relevant ações) plus an error log showing the constitutional article behind every missed question

Week 4

Direito Civil e Processo Civil

  • Organize the civil law rules on obrigações, contratos and responsabilidade civil into a comparison grid of requirements and effects

  • Reconstruct the civil procedure flow from petição inicial to sentença, marking prazos and the consequences of each procedural defect

  • Apply the rules of competência and of provas to three hypothetical cases, justifying each procedural choice

  • Complete 60 mixed civil and civil procedure questions and tabulate accuracy per subtopic

Your checkpoint

A procedural timeline poster (inicial to sentença) and a subtopic accuracy report from the 60-question set, with the two weakest subtopics named

Week 5

Direito Penal e Processo Penal

  • Map the general part of the Penal Code, focusing on aplicação da lei penal, crime, culpabilidade and concurso de pessoas

  • Distinguish the main crimes against the person, property and the public administration by their elementares and majorantes

  • Sequence the criminal procedure from inquérito to trânsito em julgado, identifying the acts that require judicial intervention

  • Answer 50 penal and criminal procedure questions, writing the legal basis for each answer before checking the key

Your checkpoint

A one-page crime-differentiation table (elementares and majorantes) plus a penal procedure flowchart, both cross-checked against the 50-question error log

Week 6

Direito do Trabalho e Processo do Trabalho

  • Assemble the core labor law framework: contrato de trabalho, jornada, remuneração, férias, rescisão and the applicable prescription rules

  • Reconstruct the labor procedural flow, including the specificities of competência, prazos and the audiência

  • Resolve three fictional labor cases, calculating rescisory amounts and identifying the applicable procedural steps

  • Complete 50 labor and labor procedure questions and record the reasoning used for each answer

Your checkpoint

A worked calculation sheet for three rescisão scenarios plus a labor procedure flowchart, supported by a 50-question log with reasoning notes

Week 7

Direito Administrativo & Direito Tributário, Direito Empresarial e Direitos Humanos

  • Structure administrative law around the principles of public administration, administrative acts and their attributes, and the main forms of state liability

  • Outline the national tax system, the main tributos and the rules of obrigação, crédito and lançamento tributário

  • Summarize the types of commercial companies and the core rules of empresário and estabelecimento

  • Identify the main international human rights instruments and the constitutional rules on their incorporation

  • Resolve 60 questions spanning administrative, tax, business and human rights law, ranking subtopics by error rate

Your checkpoint

A four-column summary sheet (administrative, tax, business, human rights) plus a ranked error report identifying the three subtopics that need a second pass

Week 8

Ética e Disciplina (Código de Ética e Disciplina da OAB) & Estatuto da Advocacia e da OAB & Direito Constitucional & Direito Civil e Processo Civil & Direito Penal e Processo Penal & Direito do Trabalho e Processo do Trabalho & Direito Administrativo & Direito Tributário, Direito Empresarial e Direitos Humanos

  • Revisit every error log from weeks 1 to 7 and rewrite each missed rule in your own words

  • Simulate a full exam sitting under real timing and correct it against the official key

  • Re-study the three weakest subtopics identified in the simulation, using the summaries produced earlier

  • Run a second timed simulation focused only on ethics and Estatuto, the two domains most dependent on precise recall

Your checkpoint

Two corrected full simulations with a written error-analysis report and a final one-page revision list of the rules still uncertain

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a 50-question ethics and Estatuto set, and explain aloud the sanction applicable to three given disciplinary scenarios

Week 4: Score at least 65% on a 60-question civil and civil procedure set, and reproduce the procedural timeline from inicial to sentença without notes

Week 6: Score at least 65% on a 50-question labor set, and correctly calculate the rescisory amounts in at least two of the three fictional cases

Week 8: Reach at least 60% overall on the full simulation and reduce repeated errors from earlier weeks to fewer than five recurring items