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, in every exercise of all three corps, but the point values are not the same in every exercise. For the shared first exercise 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.
Each later exercise is scored on its own scale, so the absolute numbers change even where the ratio does not:
| Exercise | Correct | Wrong | Wrong as a share of correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| First exercise, all three corps | +0.60 | -0.15 | a quarter |
| Gestión, segundo ejercicio | +1.5 | -0.30 | a fifth |
| Tramitación, segundo ejercicio | +2 | -0.50 | a quarter |
| Tramitación, tercer ejercicio (Windows/M365) | +1 | -0.25 | a quarter |
| Auxilio Judicial, segundo ejercicio | +1 | -0.25 | a quarter |
So the penalty is a quarter of a correct answer everywhere except Gestión’s segundo ejercicio, which is the single exception in the convocatoria and deducts a fifth. Blanks are never penalised in any exercise.
In the first exercise 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 is worth a sixteenth of a mark on average, so answering a genuinely unknown question is never worse than leaving it blank, and the edge rises to a sixth as soon as you can rule out one of the four choices. In Gestión’s segundo ejercicio the lighter penalty makes guessing slightly better still.
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 Procesal | Tramitación Procesal | Auxilio Judicial | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places (turno libre) | 725 | 1,155 | 425 |
| Programme size | 68 temas | 37 temas | 26 temas |
| 1º ejercicio | 100 Q, 0-60, min 30 | 100 Q, 0-60, min 30 | 100 Q, 0-60, min 30 |
| 2º ejercicio | 10 case Q, 0-15, min 7.5 | 10 case Q, 0-20, min 10 | 40 case Q, 0-40, min 20 |
| 3º ejercicio | Written, not test-based | 20 Q Windows/M365, 0-20, min 10 | Not applicable |
| Penalty, 1º ejercicio | +0.60 / -0.15 (1/4) | +0.60 / -0.15 (1/4) | +0.60 / -0.15 (1/4) |
| Penalty, later ejercicios | 2º: +1.5 / -0.30 (1/5) | 2º: +2 / -0.50 (1/4); 3º: +1 / -0.25 (1/4) | 2º: +1 / -0.25 (1/4) |
| Application fee (2025) | 23.33 euros | 15.57 euros | 11.66 euros |
How much does it cost, and how long is the application window?
The 2025 convocatoria set application fees of 23.33 euros for Gestión Procesal, 15.57 euros for Tramitación Procesal and 11.66 euros for Auxilio Judicial, halved for large families in the general category. The application window was 20 working days counted from publication in the BOE.
Both the fees and the plaza counts belong to this specific sitting and are reset with each new convocatoria, so check the figures in whichever order governs the sitting you are applying for rather than carrying these numbers forward.
What is not covered by a practice app?
Gestión’s tercer ejercicio cannot be covered by any multiple-choice tool. It is five free-text answers marked by a human panel on analysis, structure and written expression rather than against a fixed answer key, and it carries 25 of Gestión’s 100 points. A question bank can address the other 75.
The optional, non-eliminatory exercises on co-official regional languages (in Andalucía, Cataluña, Galicia, Comunidad Valenciana, Navarra and País Vasco) and on Basque civil law are also out of scope, because they only break ties within one autonomous community and are never added to the main score.
How do you prepare across three different exercise structures?
Start with the shared first exercise, since it is the largest single block of questions and eliminatory in every corps: a broad, even pass across the whole programme matters more than depth in any one tema. From there each corps needs practice aimed at its own second exercise, whether that is Gestión’s or Auxilio Judicial’s linked casos prácticos, or Tramitación’s mix of a case-based exercise and the Windows and Microsoft 365 test.
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.
RiverMap Learning’s Cuerpos Generales de Justicia app covers all three tracks from one 916-question pool, with a separate timed mock per corps that follows that corps’ own official question count, time limit and part structure, plus 12 original casos prácticos for Gestión and Auxilio Judicial in the linked-question format the real second exercise uses.
Every figure above comes from the current convocatoria, Orden PJC/1549/2025, de 22 de diciembre (BOE-A-2025-27053), published by the Boletín Oficial del Estado at boe.es.