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Senado Federal Consultor · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Legislação e Regimento Interno & Atividade Legislativa e Orçamento

  • Map the Regimento Interno do Senado Federal structure chapter by chapter and label which articles govern mesa, commissions, and plenary order of business

  • Build a one-page flowchart of the ordinary legislative process for ordinary bills, from initiative to sanction, citing the governing articles

  • Distinguish the regimes of urgency (constitucional, regimental) by writing a comparison table with triggering conditions and deadlines

  • Solve 20 practice items on legislative process and log every error with the article that resolves it

Your checkpoint

A 4-page personal summary of the legislative process with article citations and an error log of at least 15 corrected items

Week 2

Atividade Legislativa e Orçamento & Legislação e Regimento Interno

  • Explain the constitutional budget cycle (PPA, LDO, LOA) and write the binding rules of each from the Constitution and the Fiscal Responsibility Law

  • Trace the joint budget committee's role and the timeline of committee review, floor amendments, and presidential sanction

  • Classify budget amendment types (individual, bench, committee) and state their limits and impediments

  • Answer 25 practice items on budget and fiscal legislation and record the reasoning for each wrong answer

Your checkpoint

A budget-cycle timeline diagram plus a 20-item error log covering PPA, LDO, LOA, and amendment rules

Week 3

Legislação e Regimento Interno & Atividade Legislativa e Orçamento

  • Summarize the Regimento's rules on commissions: composition, term, competencies, and the difference between permanent and temporary commissions

  • Describe the fiscalization instruments available to the Senate (request for information, summons, CPI) and the procedural steps for each

  • Draft a mock committee report recommendation on a fictitious bill, applying regimental deadlines and quorum rules

  • Complete 30 timed practice items mixing regimental and budget content under exam-like conditions

Your checkpoint

A mock committee report of 2 pages with correct regimental citations, plus a timed 30-item score sheet

Week 4

Conhecimentos Específicos

  • Build a concept map of administrative law principles (legality, impersonality, publicity, efficiency, morality) with one concrete example each

  • Compare the regimes of public tenders and administrative contracts, listing the hypotheses of direct contracting and their legal basis

  • Explain administrative improbity, misconduct, and the liability of public agents in a structured outline

  • Solve 30 practice items on administrative law and classify errors by cause (misread, unknown rule, wrong recall)

Your checkpoint

A 3-page administrative law concept map plus an error-classification table for 30 items

Week 5

Conhecimentos Específicos & Conhecimentos Gerais

  • Outline constitutional fundamentals: fundamental rights, organization of the state, and separation of powers, with the relevant articles noted

  • Summarize the constitutional rules on public administration (article-level) and connect them to the administrative law studied in week 4

  • Review Portuguese and text interpretation by practicing 15 cloze and cohesion items and correcting each one

  • Write a 250-word summary of the constitutional-administrative intersection from memory and then check it against the sources

Your checkpoint

A memory-written 250-word summary with a self-correction checklist showing at least 10 fixes

Week 6

Conhecimentos Gerais & Conhecimentos Específicos

  • Review logical reasoning and quantitative reasoning with 20 timed items, targeting an accuracy of at least 75 percent

  • Consolidate current-events and institutional-knowledge notes into a single weekly digest of 15 bullet points

  • Revisit the 10 most frequent error causes from weeks 1-5 and write a corrective rule for each

  • Complete a 40-item mixed mini-simulation across domains 1 and 2 and analyze the result by domain

Your checkpoint

A one-page corrective-rules sheet plus a domain-by-domain score report from the 40-item simulation

Week 7

Legislação e Regimento Interno & Atividade Legislativa e Orçamento

  • Re-read the Regimento's plenary and leadership provisions and annotate the articles you missed in previous error logs

  • Redo all previously missed items on legislative process and budget without consulting notes, then verify each against the source

  • Practice drafting a justification for a bill amendment in 200 words using correct regimental terminology

  • Complete a 50-item timed simulation weighted 25 percent per domain and record time per item

Your checkpoint

A cleared error log (at least 90 percent of prior misses answered correctly on retry) plus a 200-word amendment justification

Week 8

Conhecimentos Gerais & Conhecimentos Específicos & Legislação e Regimento Interno & Atividade Legislativa e Orçamento

  • Run two full-length timed simulations under exam conditions and score them by domain

  • Review only the highest-yield notes: corrective-rules sheet, legislative flowchart, budget timeline, and concept maps

  • Rehearse the weakest domain with 30 targeted items and confirm improvement over the week-7 baseline

  • Finalize a one-page exam-day checklist covering timing strategy, question triage, and review order

Your checkpoint

Two scored full simulations with a comparison table against week-7 results and a finalized one-page exam-day checklist

Milestones

Week 2: Can reproduce the full legislative and budget cycle from memory with article citations and score at least 70 percent on a 25-item mixed quiz on domains 3 and 4

Week 4: Complete the administrative law concept map without notes and score at least 65 percent on a 30-item domain 2 quiz

Week 6: Corrective-rules sheet covers the 10 most frequent error causes and the 40-item mixed simulation shows no domain below 60 percent

Week 8: Both full simulations completed within time, with overall accuracy at least 70 percent and every domain at or above 60 percent