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Moldova Bar Traineeship Admission Exam study plan

Moldova Bar Traineeship Admission Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil law (substantive)

  • Map the Civil Code into a one-page structure (persons, property, obligations, contracts, torts, prescription) and mark the articles you must cite from memory

  • Draft a 40-item flashcard set on legal capacity, representation, and the classification of things and rights, writing each rule in your own words

  • Solve 25 short hypotheticals on contract formation (offer, acceptance, cause, form) and record which article supports each answer

  • Build a personal error log template and enter every mistake with the rule you misapplied

Your checkpoint

A one-page Civil Code map plus a 40-card flashcard deck and completed error log covering at least 25 hypotheticals

Week 2

Civil law (substantive)

  • Work through obligations: performance, non-performance, damages, and termination, and write a two-paragraph summary of each remedy without looking at the code

  • Compare ownership, possession, and the limited real rights (usufruct, servitude, pledge, mortgage) in a comparison table with the key articles

  • Explain prescription periods and their suspension and interruption in writing, then self-test against the code and correct every gap

  • Draft full answers to 5 longer civil-law problems under a 25-minute time limit each

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of real rights and 5 timed written problem answers scored against the code

Week 3

Civil procedure

  • Chart civil procedure from filing to enforcement, listing the competent court, time limits, and available remedies at each stage

  • Memorise the deadlines for appeal, cassation, and procedural objections by writing them into a single reference sheet

  • Draft a statement of claim and a procedural objection (competence or timeliness) using correct formal structure

  • Solve 20 procedural scenarios asking which court, which remedy, and within what deadline

Your checkpoint

A civil procedure timeline sheet with all deadlines plus one drafted statement of claim and one procedural objection

Week 4

Criminal law (substantive)

  • Structure the Criminal Code around the offence elements, guilt forms, and the stages of the offence, and note the articles for each

  • Distinguish justification and excuse grounds (self-defence, necessity, detention, duress) with a worked example for each

  • Analyse participation (co-perpetrator, instigator, aider) and attempt versus completed offence in 15 short scenarios

  • Compare penalties, cumulation of sentences, and limitation of criminal liability in a written summary

Your checkpoint

A one-page offence-elements framework and 15 solved participation and attempt scenarios

Week 5

Criminal procedure & Contraventional law and contraventional procedure

  • Trace criminal procedure from the report of an offence through prosecution, trial, and appeal, and list the rights of the suspect, accused, and victim at each stage

  • State the rules on evidence, preventive measures, and procedural time limits in a condensed reference sheet

  • Identify the elements of the most common contraventions and the sanctions applicable to each

  • Draft a contraventional report and a decision outline, checking the procedural guarantees that must appear

  • Solve 15 mixed scenarios distinguishing a crime from a contravention and naming the correct procedure

Your checkpoint

A criminal procedure rights-and-stages sheet plus a drafted contraventional report and 15 solved crime-versus-contravention scenarios

Week 6

Constitutional law and human rights & Administrative law and administrative procedure

  • Outline constitutional review, fundamental rights and their limitation, and the hierarchy of normative acts, citing the relevant constitutional provisions

  • Summarise the main human-rights standards on fair trial, liberty, and private life and match each to a domestic provision

  • Map administrative procedure: the administrative act, silence, administrative appeal, and judicial review, with time limits

  • Draft one administrative complaint and one application for judicial review of an administrative act

  • Solve 15 scenarios on the legality of administrative acts and on rights limitation

Your checkpoint

A rights-and-limitation table plus a drafted administrative complaint and one judicial review application

Week 7

Labour law and social security & Family law and succession & Commercial law and business entities

  • Summarise the employment contract lifecycle (conclusion, modification, termination) and the main social security entitlements in a single sheet

  • Outline marriage, divorce, parental rights, and maintenance obligations, and separate them from succession rules (intestate and testamentary)

  • Compare the forms of business entity (sole trader, LLC, joint-stock company) by formation, liability, and governance

  • Solve 20 short scenarios across labour, family, and commercial law and log every wrong answer

Your checkpoint

Three condensed domain sheets (labour, family and succession, commercial) and 20 solved scenarios in the error log

Week 8

Professional ethics, organisation of the legal profession and advocate's status

  • State the advocate's duties (confidentiality, conflict of interest, independence) and the rules on professional discipline in your own words

  • Outline the organisation of the legal profession and the conditions for trainee admission

  • Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them by domain

  • Rework every item in the error log and rewrite the underlying rule for each until you can state it without notes

  • Consolidate the eight domain sheets into a final one-page-per-domain revision pack

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams (target 70% overall and no domain below 50%) plus a finalised revision pack

Milestones

Week 2: You can state, without notes, the elements of contract formation, the main real rights, and the prescription rules, and you scored at least 60% on the 5 timed civil-law problems

Week 3: You can reproduce the civil procedure timeline with all appeal and cassation deadlines from memory and your drafted statement of claim contains every required element

Week 5: You correctly classify at least 12 of 15 scenarios as crime or contravention with the right procedure named, and you can list the suspect's and victim's rights at each stage

Week 6: You can name the constitutional basis for limiting a right and the time limits for administrative appeal and judicial review without consulting notes

Week 8: Both mock exams are completed within time and scored, with an overall result of at least 70% and every domain at or above 50%