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EGEL Plus Derecho study plan

EGEL Plus Derecho · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Derecho civil

  • Map the civil law syllabus into a one-page index of subareas (personas, bienes, obligaciones, contratos, sucesiones, familia, registro) and mark each as strong, weak, or unknown.

  • Resolve 40 mixed civil-law multiple-choice items under timed conditions (60 seconds per item) and log the exact rule or article that justified each correct answer.

  • Rewrite in your own words the 15 rules you missed most often, stating the triggering facts and the exception for each.

  • Build a spaced-repetition deck of at least 60 civil-law rule cards, each with one fact pattern on the front and the governing rule plus exception on the back.

Your checkpoint

Civil-law diagnostic report: subarea index with strength ratings, error log from 40 timed items, and a 60-card deck exported and dated.

Week 2

Derecho civil

  • Explain aloud, without notes, the difference between nullity and voidability of juridical acts, listing the effects of each on third parties and on ratification.

  • Solve 10 contract-interpretation and breach scenarios and justify the remedy chosen (rescision, nulidad, cumplimiento forzoso, danos y perjuicios) by citing the applicable rule.

  • Compare the rules of intestate succession across the order of heirs and compute the share of at least 5 hypothetical heirs in worked examples.

  • Identify the 10 civil-law articles you confuse most and write a one-sentence distinguishing test for each.

Your checkpoint

A worked-problems sheet of 10 contract scenarios and 5 succession computations, each with the rule cited and the reasoning chain written out.

Week 3

Derecho penal

  • Diagram the general theory of crime (conducta, tipicidad, antijuridicidad, culpabilidad) and annotate where each exclusionary ground (legitima defensa, estado de necesidad, error, inimputabilidad) operates.

  • Classify 30 offenses by protected legal interest and locate each in the penal code structure without consulting notes.

  • Distinguish dolus eventualis from negligence (culpa) using 8 borderline fact patterns and state the outcome for each.

  • Compute penalty ranges for 6 scenarios applying the rules on concurso de delitos and concurso de normas.

Your checkpoint

A one-page crime-theory flowchart plus an 8-pattern dolus/negligence worksheet and 6 penalty computations with the arithmetic shown.

Week 4

Derecho penal

  • Resolve 50 timed criminal-law items and tag every error to a specific element (tipicidad, culpabilidad, autoría, pena) rather than to a topic label.

  • Differentiate autoría from participación (instigación, complicidad) across 6 scenarios and state the penalty consequence for each participant.

  • Outline the procedural stages from investigation through appeal, noting at each stage which rights and guarantees attach.

  • Draft a 1-page error-pattern summary listing your top 5 recurring mistakes and the corrective checklist for each.

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-item criminal-law set scored, with an error-pattern summary and a corrective checklist covering the top 5 recurring mistakes.

Week 5

Derecho público (constitucional, administrativo y fiscal)

  • Map the constitutional framework: structure of the constitution, hierarchy of norms, and the mechanisms of constitutional control, into a single comparative table.

  • Explain the amparo process end to end, including standing, deadlines, and effects of a favorable ruling, in a 300-word written summary.

  • Distinguish the grounds and procedure of the administrative acts of revocation, nullity, and expiration, and apply them to 5 short scenarios.

  • Solve 8 tax-law problems on the elements of the tax obligation (sujeto, objeto, base, tasa, epoca de pago) using a fictional statute.

Your checkpoint

A comparative table of constitutional-control mechanisms plus a 5-scenario administrative-act worksheet and 8 tax computations.

Week 6

Derecho público (constitucional, administrativo y fiscal)

  • Resolve 50 timed public-law items and separate errors by subarea (constitucional, administrativo, fiscal) to see which one drains your score.

  • Write a 400-word reasoned answer to a hypothetical amparo problem that identifies the challenged act, the standing analysis, and the remedy sought.

  • List the taxpayer's rights and the limits on the taxing authority's verification powers, citing the governing principles.

  • Re-derive from memory the hierarchy of norms and the requirements of a valid administrative act, checking against your week-5 table.

Your checkpoint

A 400-word amparo answer scored against a self-built rubric, plus a 50-item timed public-law set with errors split by subarea.

Week 7

Derecho social y del trabajo

  • Outline the individual employment relationship: hiring, subordination, working time, wages, modification, and termination, into a sequence diagram.

  • Classify 10 termination scenarios as justified, unjustified, or constructive and state the resulting severance or reinstatement entitlement for each.

  • Summarize the core protections of social security and the procedural route for a labor claim from conciliation to enforcement.

  • Compare collective rights (freedom of association, bargaining, strike) with individual rights and identify where they interact in a dispute.

Your checkpoint

A 10-scenario termination worksheet with severance/reinstatement outcomes, plus a one-page flowchart of the labor-claim procedural route.

Week 8

Derecho civil & Derecho penal

  • Run two full-length simulated exams (all four domains, timed) and record the score per domain to confirm that civil and criminal are no longer your weakest areas.

  • Re-drill every item missed in weeks 1-7 using only your error log and spaced-repetition deck, without rereading notes.

  • Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering item order, time per item, when to skip, and how to handle multi-domain items.

  • Verify that each domain's score is at or above your target and list the 3 remaining weak rules to review in the final 48 hours.

Your checkpoint

Two scored full-length simulations with a per-domain score chart, a one-page exam-day strategy, and a final 3-rule review list.

Milestones

Week 2: Civil-law practice score reaches at least 60% on a timed 40-item set, and the nullity/voidability and succession rules are explainable aloud without notes.

Week 4: Criminal-law practice score reaches at least 60%, and every logged error is tagged to a specific crime-theory element rather than a topic label.

Week 6: Public-law practice score reaches at least 60% across all three subareas, with no single subarea below 50%.

Week 7: Labor-law termination worksheet completed with at least 8 of 10 outcomes correctly justified by rule.

Week 8: Both full-length simulations show all four domains at or above 60%, with civil and criminal at or above 65%.