Guide

Cuerpos Generales de Justicia Exam: Format and Pass Mark

The Cuerpos Generales de Justicia oposición is really three separate selection processes bundled into one convocatoria: Gestión Procesal y Administrativa, Tramitación Procesal y Administrativa, and Auxilio Judicial. They share a Ministry and an application window, but not an exam. Here is exactly what each one looks like under the current convocatoria, BOE-A-2025-27053 (Orden PJC/1549/2025, de 22 de diciembre).

How many questions are on the exam?

All three corps open with the same 100-question first exercise, four options per question with exactly one correct answer, covering their own full programme. From there the corps diverge.

  • Gestión Procesal y Administrativa (725 places, A2/C1 subgrupo): the 100-question first exercise, then a second exercise of 10 case-based questions tied to a single supuesto práctico. A third exercise exists but is written, ungraded by any test format, and out of scope for a question bank.
  • Tramitación Procesal y Administrativa (1,155 places, C1 subgrupo): the 100-question first exercise, a second exercise of 10 case-based questions on temas 1 to 31, and a third exercise of 20 questions on Windows and Microsoft 365 (temas 32 to 37).
  • Auxilio Judicial (425 places, C2 subgrupo): the 100-question first exercise, then a second exercise of 40 questions tied to two linked casos prácticos de diligencia judicial.

Add those exercises up per corps and the app’s own mock totals follow directly: 110 questions for Gestión, 130 for Tramitación and 140 for Auxilio. The convocatoria itself also prints a handful of unscored reserve questions per exercise, used only to replace a question that gets invalidated after the fact; the figures above are the graded totals, not the printed ones.

What is the pass mark?

Every exercise in every corps is eliminatory: each one carries its own minimum score, and clearing one exercise never offsets falling short on another.

  • Gestión: first exercise scored 0 to 60, minimum 30 to pass; second exercise scored 0 to 15, minimum 7.5.
  • Tramitación: first exercise scored 0 to 60, minimum 30; second exercise scored 0 to 20, minimum 10; third exercise (Windows/M365) scored 0 to 20, minimum 10.
  • Auxilio: first exercise scored 0 to 60, minimum 30; second exercise scored 0 to 40, minimum 20.

A candidate who clears the first exercise but misses the minimum on the second is eliminated from the process at that point, regardless of how far above the minimum the first-exercise score was.

Is there negative marking?

Yes, and it is uniform across all three corps. The convocatoria’s scoring rule is explicit: “las preguntas acertadas se valorarán con 0,60 puntos; las preguntas no acertadas y las que contengan respuestas múltiples descontarán 0,15 puntos; las preguntas no contestadas no serán puntuadas.” A correct answer is worth 0.60 points, a wrong or multi-marked answer costs 0.15 points, and a blank costs nothing.

That 0.15-to-0.60 ratio works out to a quarter of a correct answer’s value lost on every wrong guess. With four options per question, a blind guess breaks roughly even at best, so leaving a genuinely unknown question blank is never worse than guessing, and is safer once you cannot rule out any of the four choices.

Do the three corps take the same exam?

No, even though they share a convocatoria and a Ministry. Gestión Procesal requires a university degree and covers the largest programme, 68 temas. Tramitación Procesal requires a Bachillerato and covers 37 temas. Auxilio Judicial requires only ESO and covers 26 temas, the smallest of the three. Their second and later exercises are built around each corps’ own duties: Gestión and Auxilio are tested on linked case scenarios, while Tramitación adds a dedicated ofimática exercise that neither of the other two corps sits.

Cuerpos Generales de Justicia format at a glance

Gestión ProcesalTramitación ProcesalAuxilio Judicial
Places (turno libre)7251,155425
Programme size68 temas37 temas26 temas
1º ejercicio100 Q, 0-60, min 30100 Q, 0-60, min 30100 Q, 0-60, min 30
2º ejercicio10 case Q, 0-15, min 7.510 case Q, 0-20, min 1040 case Q, 0-40, min 20
3º ejercicioWritten, not test-based20 Q Windows/M365, 0-20, min 10Not applicable
Wrong-answer penalty-0.15 pts (1/4 of correct)-0.15 pts (1/4 of correct)-0.15 pts (1/4 of correct)

Each corps’ second exercise in the real exam is built from a small number of linked scenarios rather than a random mix of unrelated case questions, so studying one case start to finish in practice mode reflects the real thing more closely than a shuffled drill does. Knowing which exercises are eliminatory, and by how much, is what turns a general study plan into one that actually targets where candidates get eliminated.

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