Let's begin. The Curitiba PGM (Attorney General's Office) notice has been published. The Rio Grande do Sul PGR ( Attorney General's Office) regulations have been published.
And we're going to talk about that today, always focusing on what's useful for my students. And now you must be wondering, João, which one should I focus on? Which one should I give up?
It's possible to reconcile it with the GU (General Unit), which we're monitoring. So that's what we're going to talk about today. And if you've just arrived here and don't know how things work, I'll ask you to be patient.
On this channel, I don't like likes, subscriptions, or shares out of pity. I've been told I should ask for subscriptions, that it would increase the channel's subscribers, but I like to do things a little differently here. First, you watch the video until the end, then you evaluate: "I liked this video, I learned something from this guy.
" If that's the case, and only if that's the case, I ask you to leave your like, subscribe, and maybe even share it with someone who can benefit from what we're going to discuss here today. Hey João, the regulations were published a few days ago, the PGM Curitiba notice also came out a few days ago. You're only making a video now?
Yeah, I'm not rushing here, I'm not racing against the others or anything. What I had time to analyze was now, and it's becoming kind of a rule, right? Every time I travel, every time I'm on vacation, a notice comes out.
The last time was PG Alagoas, it's always happening. So, now was the moment I had the opportunity to analyze it for you. So, let's go ahead and give you the information I've already gathered here.
PGM Curitiba. Registration from October 7th to November 5th. Objective test on December 13th, 2026.
Essay test on February 24th, 2027. Only next year. The PGE Rio Grande do Sul regulations don't mention these dates.
It says some things about registration, it's the competition regulations and so on. It doesn't give specific dates, but it says we'll have an objective phase, a written phase, and a final phase, which isn't exactly an oral exam, right? Because there's an oral exam, but there's also a courtroom presentation and then a review of credentials.
And then we'll understand what you should be concerned about now. What really catches my attention, first, let's start with the PGM Curitiba exam to understand what would be good for us to do here, in my opinion, if you're a student who already has a well-formed foundation—what do I mean by a well-formed foundation? You've already mastered the core constitutional, administrative, tax, and civil procedure law—you have a chance to combine these two exams with the GU exam, but we'll get to that.
So what would I do if you're eyeing these exams ? If you're eyeing the GU exam, and what do you want to do to avoid diverting your studies? First thing, I would open my little calendar.
I like to do it on paper. I don't have paper here because, as I said, I'm traveling. But I would schedule it for December 13th, that's about two months away.
We're on September 23rd, October 23rd and 24th, one month. November, two months, plus another two weeks. Let me check here, one month until October, one month until November, and then we have exactly two weeks.
So you have two months and two weeks until the exam. I would also schedule the date for the written exam as February 24th, because I always tell you that you don't need to leave studying for the essay portion for later, you shouldn't, that's what I did, but we know there are people who want to rush through it later. And then , once that date is set, what would happen next?
The subjects, because to understand when the exams are compatible or not, we have to understand what is required. And that was pretty good in the Curitiba exam, because they even included the weighting of each subject covered. So, if you go to point 10 of the Curitiba exam syllabus, you'll see that we have: Administrative Law, 22 questions; Constitutional Law, 19; Tax Law, Tax Procedure and Financial Law, 19; Civil Procedure, 19; Urban Planning and Environmental Law, seven; Labor Law and Labor Procedure, five; Social Security Law, three; Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (social security three, criminal law and procedure three); Business Law, three, totaling 100 points.
Civil law isn't covered in the first phase, but it might be in the second phase, where you'll have to do a practical exercise. There's a legal technical opinion and more than three questions. Each question is worth 15 points.
That adds up to 45 points. And the legal technical opinion is worth 55 , being more specific here in the written exam: administrative, constitutional, and civil law. These are the questions there, one question each for exam number one, I'll call it that because it's complemented by this legal technical opinion.
Then, for the written exam number two, we have tax law, civil procedure, and social security law, each with one question and also 15 points each, finishing with a procedural piece worth 55 points. When we go to Rio Grande do Sul, we have a major complication at this point , thinking about the organization and balancing of studies. We still don't have the definitive subjects.
Then we take a look at the specific subjects that were covered in the most recent exam. And what's striking is that there are 20 questions on Portuguese, and then the remaining questions on legal subjects, which are 80, are distributed without weighting. I'm not talking about a specific syllabus: constitutional law, administrative law, tax and financial law, civil procedure, social security, social security law, labor law and labor procedure, civil law, economic law, business law, and criminal law.
This already caught my attention. At first glance, I'd place the Rio Grande do Sul Attorney General's Office (PGR) a little closer to the Attorney General's Office (AGU) than the Curitiba Municipal Attorney General's Office (PGM). Why?
Because it covers economic law. Both here cover social security law, although the Curitiba PGM covers criminal law and criminal procedure. But we see here that these side subjects, criminal law and criminal procedure, and corporate social security in Curitiba, three questions each, have a slightly lower weight, right?
The Rio Grande do Sul PGR already covers civil law. I even took a look at a question bank website to see how they were classified. Take a look at these questions from the Rio Grande do Sul PGR, how they were divided.
Be careful with this, okay? I'm just doing this out of curiosity, because there's no obligation to repeat them. So, in the last exam here, there were 20 questions on Portuguese, 16 on constitutional law, and nine on administrative law.
He puts one question on state legislation here, two on federal legislation, but it's better to categorize this within another discipline. One on environmental law, nine on civil law, 10 on tax law, one on finance. Tax and finance are treated as a single discipline, okay?
12 questions on civil procedure, four on social security law, five on labor law, three on labor procedure, three on business law, one on economics, three on criminal law. Although this exam is a bit closer to the AGU exam, due to the focus on economics, you can see that the profile hasn't changed much, right? There were only three business law questions as well.
That more expensive public prosecutor exam has the peculiarity of having 20 Portuguese language questions, but it's a bit closer. You can see that it's concentrated. I even did a calculation here.
This one is easier, but I didn't see where I wrote it down. Let's do it in our heads here. Let's see.
There's even a video this week or last week that came out on the channel about the core subjects, whether they're finished or not, that people talked about after the Alagoas PGA exam, which was a little atypical. But let's take a look here. Curitiba: Administrative Law 20 out of 22, Constitutional Law 19, Tax Law, Tax and Financial Procedure 19, and Civil Procedure 19.
Doing the math here, 19, I'll round it to 20 x 3, 60 questions. From those 60 questions, plus 22 from Administrative Law, 60 questions, 82 questions. We subtract three from those I rounded up, 79, right?
No, if I'm wrong it's because I'm a humanities person. But 79%of the Curitiba PGM exam is in the core subjects. When we look at this classification, from the Rio Grande do Sul PGE, what's already 20 here goes to Portuguese, right?
But with 16 questions on Constitutional Law, and nine on Administrative Law, we go to 25. For Tax Law, 35. 36, if we add Financial Law, another 12, 48 questions were in the core subject area.
That already makes a bit of a difference. The bad thing is that there are another 20 questions here that go to Portuguese . What do I understand from these exams ?
In my concept, in my understanding, they are exams that are compatible. Yes , also considering the GU (General Unit of the Presidency). There's another complication when we consider the GU that will include the ENAP (National Examination of Public Administration), we don't know, there's even a video on the channel talking about it.
And if there's no prohibition on this, look, I'm not saying it will happen, but what if the ENAP decides to make a change, to include some different subjects? It could happen. If the people at the Superior Council decide otherwise, no, let's just do the most important subjects for the legal profession, then it becomes even more compatible.
What would I do in your case? If you're from the South, you're thinking, "Wow, I don't have much money to spend on these exams, I'd take all three, right? " Because I'm already considering that the GU exam will be in the capitals.
So , I'd take the PGE Rio Grande do Sul exam, the PGM Curitiba exam, and the GU exam without any problem. What direction does that give me? You have to be very good in the four main subjects: administrative law, constitutional law, tax law, financial law, and civil procedure.
That will be the central element of both disciplines , because if we're thinking that yes, PGE Rio Grande do Sul has a slightly different profile, but you take 20%of the exam and put it into Portuguese. When we go from a universe of 80, about 48%are in the core subjects. So we can say that half of the legal exam is in Portuguese, but you can't say it's changed, that there's no core subject.
So I would focus on being very good in those subjects and then, look, I would attack those that are in that common axis, like labor law and labor procedure, which are on both exams. Social Security, Business Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure–these only appear on the Curitiba Municipal Attorney's Office exam. I'm not saying it's a foolproof strategy, but think about it: Criminal Procedure is on the Curitiba Municipal Attorney's Office exam, but it's limited to three questions, a limitation in the exam syllabus.
It's possible that three questions on Criminal Procedure will appear, and that's fine, there's no limitation in the syllabus. That's it. But at this moment, thinking about combining the two, I wouldn't worry so much about Criminal Procedure, because then I'd be giving up a subject that doesn't appear on the Rio Grande do Sul State Attorney's Office exam, but does appear on the Municipal Attorney's Office exam, which would benefit me when studying both together.
Let's be honest. If you're not doing well in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at this point, which are two major subjects, you might think, "Oh, but only three questions appeared. " Yes, but I'm never going to tell you, " Ignore this subject completely; you can't say that in a high-level exam.
" But if you're at this point in your studies where you haven't managed to study this yet, you won't be able to study it until December. Criminal law is very extensive, but I would focus on the common subjects. Thinking about what?
Thinking that I'm balancing everything, thinking that I have a chance of passing in Curitiba, but there's also a chance of things going wrong and me continuing my studies and soon doing the PGE Rio Grande do Sul exam, soon doing an AGU exam. I would focus, in this first moment, on doing very well, the first step, doing very well in the four main subjects. I'll even include here, actually, five main subjects, because both are dealing with tax and financial law together, right?
Although I'm a proponent of the core four main subjects: constitutional law, administrative law, tax law, and civil procedure. As they are dealt with together, as I've always said, it's a good cost-benefit to include the fifth one there, then move on to the common subjects: labor law and labor procedure , social security law, civil law, and if you're already thinking about a second phase, business law. And then I would leave the subjects that are specific to each one for last.
Oh no, João. My birthday cake is PGM Curitiba . My birthday cake is PGR Rio Grande do Sul.
My birthday cake is GU. What am I saying? I like this career so much that it only works for me if it's that theme , so much so that I would have my birthday party with that theme.
Then, my friend, everything changes, right? Then you'll do 100%of your preparation focused on that. And then, the further away your exam is from happening, the more you can allow yourself to take other exams.
Wow, I have a lifelong dream of being a PFN in the division in the Chapecó unit. You'll continue studying like crazy, like a madman, like a crazy woman for PFN. Like crazy is just a figure of speech, but don't forget to rest, I don't want anyone losing their mental or physical health because of all this.
But you'll continue studying with your final focus on PFN and you can take these two exams here. It'll be a luxury test, man. I'll test myself on economics if I consider the PGE Rio Grande do Sul, but I am not going to lie to you about it either, to be perfectly clear.
I understand that there are exams, man, the remuneration here at the Curitiba Municipal Attorney General's Office (PGM) is R $ 38,000. The PGR in Rio Grande do Sul also pays quite well for these exams, with five vacancies in the Curitiba PGM exam. It's going to be a high-level exam, not for amateurs.
"Oh, João, I just started six months ago, I'm starting the core course. Do you think I can do it? " I don't think so, but it's worth doing.
If you have little preparation to take the exam, sometimes you already live in Curitiba, sometimes you live in a nearby city, and so on. I would do this for you. And most importantly, as I always tell you, I'm being honest here, I could very well come here and, look, buy my course and all that.
That's not it. It's logical that I have the essay writing course here, but I don't force products down your throats. I've always been very honest since the beginning of my studies, even before essay writing training existed—yes, I'm from an era before essay writing training.
When I passed, I never postponed studying essay writing. Look at the size of the essay exam in Curitiba. Administrative, constitutional, and civil law, one question each, worth 15 points.
Then a legal technical opinion worth 55 points . After that, you'll answer three questions: tax law, civil procedure, social security law, and a practical procedural piece. So, it could include a defense, appeal, or interlocutory appeal.
Furthermore, the final grade for the objective exam in Curitiba is multiplied by three, the title exam is multiplied by two, and the essay exam is multiplied by five. And when we look at the regulations in Rio Grande do Sul , it will be calculated as follows: Objective phase, weight two; Written phase, weight five. Again, the final phase, which is the oral phase with the oral presentation (weighted double), and credentials (weighted one).
I need to tell you that the written exam is the most important. I need to tell you, don't leave studying the essay portion for later; you need to buy my course soon. No, the objective part is given here.
Look how important the grade is. And there's a video on the channel this week, an older video talking about formal requirements, how to structure the question, how to structure it, how to write clearly and directly for your examiner. All of this is very important , and I don't recommend that you leave dealing with all of this for later, more legal content.
Like, what's the formal aspect of the opinion? How do I write a brief? How do I address a defense?
How do I qualify the entity? All this in the short time between the objective and written exams. Just look here.
Objective exam on December 13th. The final result, if I'm not mistaken, will be released in January. Definitive result.
Written exam, on the 24th. Two months for you to prepare. Is it doable ?
Yes, but it will be a crazy rush. I don't recommend it to anyone. So, keep an eye out.
I'm talking to you. There's a regular course available, there's a coupon for subscribers here on the channel. Oh, João, but it's the AGU group two.
Yes, my friend, but the regular course is made with the entire training database. More than 10,000 questions from all the exam boards. So, the whole foundation is there, see?
Module one, how to start? Module two, how to write better. Module three, main legal documents.
And module four, legal documents that are rarely asked, but may appear on your exam. All of that is there, okay? We only got a supplementary module to guide you towards the GU exam, but all this preparation will help you both in the PGM Curitiba and also in the PGR Rio Grande do Sul exams.
If you want, leave a comment here. If you want a specific course, one of those final stretch courses, we can launch that too, no problem at all. But in any case, don't leave this study for later.
What I would do now is this: I would mark the dates on my calendar, look at the main subjects, then move on to the common ones, and then look only at those that are specific to each exam. How am I going to organize it? How do I divide it?
I like to divide the subjects between those I know and need to review , and those I don't know and need to learn. There are videos here, the schedule videos on the channel will help you a lot with this, okay? As always, I appreciate everyone's attention and until the next video, even though I'm on vacation.
M.
