Passing the Brazilian OAB Exam: data preparation and some experimentsThe authors would like to thank João Alberto de Oliveira Lima for introducing us to the LexML resources, and Peter Bryant for his careful review of the article.
Table 1: Questions per subject area and their performance rates
['[BOLD] area Ethics', '[BOLD] # 10', '[BOLD] (%) 65', '[BOLD] area Constitutional Law', '[BOLD] # 7', '[BOLD] (%) 42']
The committee responsible for the exam may change this pattern at any time, since, in this aspect, they are not bound by the edict of the exam. In addition to the high frequency rate, the Ethics questions also have a high performance rate among candidates, while Business Law has the lowest performance rate. This column shows the average performance on the different areas covered by the exam.