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Key Facts: Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Exam

3 hours 30 minutes

Duration of the INP-HB Phase 2 written admission test

INP-HB — Admission BAC/BT

19,000 FCFA

Fee for one concours, payable on TresorPay/TresorMoney

INP-HB Bureau Central des Concours, fiche BAC/BT 2026

24 years

Maximum age on 31 December for the cycle court (DTS) concours

INP-HB Bureau Central des Concours

2 phases

Admissibility by study of the school file, then admission by written test

INP-HB — Admission BAC/BT

3 subjects

Culture générale, anglais and culture scientifique on the written test

INP-HB — Admission BAC/BT

Free 100-question English MCQ study bank for the INP-HB cycle court (DTS) concours into ESCAE. The official exam is a French written paper of 3h30 in culture générale, anglais and culture scientifique, preceded by a study of the candidate's school file; admission is by competitive rank. This is a study aid, not an official-format simulation.

Sample Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Practice Questions

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1A merchant in Abidjan purchases wholesale goods for 80,000 FCFA (excluding VAT) and sets the pre-tax selling price at 100,000 FCFA. What is the merchant's commercial margin on sales (taux de marque)?

A.20%

B.25%

C.15%

D.80%

Explanation: Commercial margin is Selling Price - Cost Price = 100,000 - 80,000 = 20,000 FCFA. The margin on sales (taux de marque) is defined as (Commercial Margin / Selling Price) × 100 = (20,000 / 100,000) × 100 = 20%.

2A business discounts a short-term commercial promissory note of 1,200,000 FCFA at an annual discount rate of 9% for a period of 60 days. Using the commercial year of 360 days, what is the simple interest discount (escompte commercial)?

A.18,000 FCFA

B.24,000 FCFA

C.108,000 FCFA

D.9,000 FCFA

Explanation: Simple commercial discount is calculated as E = (V × t × n) / 360, where V is face value, t is annual rate, and n is number of days. Here, E = (1,200,000 × 0.09 × 60) / 360 = 6,480,000 / 360 = 18,000 FCFA.

3An enterprise deposits 5,000,000 FCFA into a term deposit account yielding 6% compound interest per annum, compounded annually. What is the total accumulated capital at the end of 3 years?

A.5,955,080 FCFA

B.5,900,000 FCFA

C.6,000,000 FCFA

D.5,300,000 FCFA

Explanation: Compound interest formula is C_n = C_0 × (1 + i)^n. Here, C_3 = 5,000,000 × (1 + 0.06)^3 = 5,000,000 × 1.191016 = 5,955,080 FCFA.

4A commercial invoice lists a catalog gross price of 500,000 FCFA subject to successive trade discounts of 10% (remise) and 5% (escompte de règlement). What is the final net payable amount?

A.427,500 FCFA

B.425,000 FCFA

C.450,000 FCFA

D.475,000 FCFA

Explanation: Cascading discounts are applied sequentially: First net price = 500,000 × (1 - 0.10) = 450,000 FCFA. Second net price = 450,000 × (1 - 0.05) = 427,500 FCFA.

5Under UEMOA and Ivorian tax regulations, the standard Value Added Tax (TVA) rate is 18%. If an electronic appliance is sold for 2,360,000 FCFA tax-inclusive (TTC), what is the pre-tax amount (HT) and the VAT collected?

A.HT = 2,000,000 FCFA; TVA = 360,000 FCFA

B.HT = 1,935,200 FCFA; TVA = 424,800 FCFA

C.HT = 2,100,000 FCFA; TVA = 260,000 FCFA

D.HT = 2,050,000 FCFA; TVA = 310,000 FCFA

Explanation: Pre-tax amount HT = Price TTC / (1 + TVA rate) = 2,360,000 / 1.18 = 2,000,000 FCFA. The VAT amount is 2,360,000 - 2,000,000 = 360,000 FCFA (or 2,000,000 × 0.18).

6A manufacturing company incurs annual fixed costs of 18,000,000 FCFA. The unit selling price of its product is 5,000 FCFA and the unit variable cost is 3,200 FCFA. What is the company's break-even volume (seuil de rentabilité en volume)?

A.10,000 units

B.3,600 units

C.5,625 units

D.12,500 units

Explanation: Unit contribution margin (marge sur coût variable unitaire) = Selling Price - Variable Cost = 5,000 - 3,200 = 1,800 FCFA. Break-even volume = Fixed Costs / Unit Contribution Margin = 18,000,000 / 1,800 = 10,000 units.

7A commercial company achieves an annual turnover of 50,000,000 FCFA evenly distributed over 360 business days. If its break-even turnover (seuil de rentabilité en valeur) is 30,000,000 FCFA, on which operational day does the firm reach its break-even point (point mort)?

A.Day 216

B.Day 180

C.Day 240

D.Day 270

Explanation: The break-even day (point mort en jours) = (Break-even Turnover / Annual Turnover) × 360 = (30,000,000 / 50,000,000) × 360 = 0.60 × 360 = 216 days (i.e. Month 7, day 36, or early in month 8).

8A Terminale school report (bulletin) lists a student's marks with the following coefficients: Mathematics: 14 (coefficient 4), French: 12 (coefficient 3), English: 16 (coefficient 2), and History-Geography: 10 (coefficient 1). What is the weighted mean (moyenne pondérée) out of 20?

A.13.4

B.13.0

C.12.8

D.14.1

Explanation: Weighted mean = Σ(Grade × Coeff) / Σ(Coeff) = (14×4 + 12×3 + 16×2 + 10×1) / (4 + 3 + 2 + 1) = (56 + 36 + 32 + 10) / 10 = 134 / 10 = 13.4.

9A boutique records the following daily revenue figures (in thousands of FCFA) across 9 business days: 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 180, 200, 220, 250. What is the median daily revenue?

A.160,000 FCFA

B.172,222 FCFA

C.150,000 FCFA

D.180,000 FCFA

Explanation: For an ordered dataset with n = 9 values, the median is the ((n + 1) / 2)-th value, which is the 5th value. In the sorted series (120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 180, 200, 220, 250), the 5th element is 160 (160,000 FCFA).

10A statistical distribution of monthly store sales has a mean of 400,000 FCFA and a variance of 2,500,000,000 FCFA². What is the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation (CV)?

A.Standard deviation = 50,000 FCFA; CV = 12.5%

B.Standard deviation = 25,000 FCFA; CV = 6.25%

C.Standard deviation = 50,000 FCFA; CV = 8.0%

D.Standard deviation = 5,000 FCFA; CV = 1.25%

Explanation: Standard deviation σ = √Variance = √(2,500,000,000) = 50,000 FCFA. The coefficient of variation CV = (σ / μ) × 100 = (50,000 / 400,000) × 100 = 12.5%.

About the Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Exam

The Concours d'Entrée à l'INP-HB is the competitive entrance examination run by the Bureau Central des Concours of the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Yamoussoukro. This page covers the cycle court (DTS — Diplôme de Technicien Supérieur Spécialisé, grade Licence) route into the École Supérieure de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises (ESCAE), which offers the GAE filière (Gestion commerciale Marketing et Communication, Gestion des Ressources Humaines, Gestion de la Supply Chain) and the FCA filière (Comptabilité et Contrôle Audit, Banque Finance et Assurance). Importantly, the written test is not a business paper: every admissible candidate sits the same 3h30 paper in culture générale, anglais and culture scientifique. This bank of 100 English-language MCQs is built to that official scope — mathematics and quantitative reasoning, logic, English, and French general culture and current affairs.

Assessment

Two phases run by the Bureau Central des Concours. Phase 1 (admissibilité) is a study of the candidate's file, based on averages from the classes of 2nde, 1ère and Terminale and on the Baccalauréat or BT results, assessed against one of three profiles — Commercial (mathematics, French, English), Industriel (mathematics, physics-chemistry, French, English) or Biologique (the industrial subjects plus SVT). ESCAE candidates are screened on the Commercial profile. Phase 2 (admission) is a single written test of 3h30 sat by all admissible candidates, covering culture générale (French, current affairs), anglais, and culture scientifique (mathematics, physics, chemistry, SVT, logic).

Time Limit

Written admission test of 3 hours 30 minutes. Session 2026 ran online pre-registration from 2 to 22 July, physical file submission from 9 to 25 July, admissibility results on 3 August, the written test on 5 August and the final admission jury on 13 August.

Passing Score

No published pass mark. Admission is by competitive ranking against the number of places available in each filière, after the file-study phase.

Exam Fee

19,000 FCFA for one concours (15,000 FCFA droit d'inscription per concours + 3,000 FCFA frais de dossier + 1,000 FCFA frais de photo), or 34,000 FCFA for two concours, payable on TresorPay/TresorMoney (Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) — Bureau Central des Concours, Yamoussoukro)

Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Exam Content Outline

Study emphasis ~38%

Culture Scientifique — Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning

Percentages and successive changes, ratios and proportions, commercial and financial arithmetic, arithmetic and geometric sequences, linear and second-degree equations, systems, straight-line graphs, geometry and measurement, counting, probability and descriptive statistics.

Study emphasis ~27%

Anglais — English Language

Verb tenses including the past perfect, articles, relative pronouns, reported speech, gerunds and infinitives, comparatives, question tags, discourse connectors, prepositions, phrasal verbs, collocations, word formation, vocabulary in context and reading comprehension.

Study emphasis ~20%

Culture Générale & Actualités

Ivorian capitals, borders, independence and parliamentary institutions; French agreement rules and formal register; UEMOA membership, the BCEAO, the CFA franc parity and the BRVM; the African Development Bank, AfCFTA and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; cocoa and regional economic affairs; professional ethics.

Study emphasis ~15%

Logique — Logical Reasoning

Number series, syllogisms, contrapositive and converse, necessary versus sufficient conditions, set reasoning and inclusion-exclusion, ranking and ordering puzzles, analogies, odd-one-out, letter codes, and the evaluation of causal arguments.

How to Pass the Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: No published pass mark. Admission is by competitive ranking against the number of places available in each filière, after the file-study phase.
Assessment: Two phases run by the Bureau Central des Concours. Phase 1 (admissibilité) is a study of the candidate's file, based on averages from the classes of 2nde, 1ère and Terminale and on the Baccalauréat or BT results, assessed against one of three profiles — Commercial (mathematics, French, English), Industriel (mathematics, physics-chemistry, French, English) or Biologique (the industrial subjects plus SVT). ESCAE candidates are screened on the Commercial profile. Phase 2 (admission) is a single written test of 3h30 sat by all admissible candidates, covering culture générale (French, current affairs), anglais, and culture scientifique (mathematics, physics, chemistry, SVT, logic).
Time limit: Written admission test of 3 hours 30 minutes. Session 2026 ran online pre-registration from 2 to 22 July, physical file submission from 9 to 25 July, admissibility results on 3 August, the written test on 5 August and the final admission jury on 13 August.
Exam fee: 19,000 FCFA for one concours (15,000 FCFA droit d'inscription per concours + 3,000 FCFA frais de dossier + 1,000 FCFA frais de photo), or 34,000 FCFA for two concours, payable on TresorPay/TresorMoney

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Concours INP-HB — ESCAE Study Tips from Top Performers

1Work through Terminale-level mathematics rather than university business maths: percentages and successive changes, ratios, sequences, equations, straight-line graphs, counting and probability all appear under culture scientifique.

2Train logic explicitly — number series, syllogisms, contrapositives, set problems and ordering puzzles — because logique is named in the official culture scientifique subject list.

3Read widely in French for the culture générale paper: Ivorian institutions and geography, regional bodies such as UEMOA, the BCEAO and the BRVM, and current continental affairs.

4Revise English grammar systematically — tenses, reported speech, conditionals, prepositions and phrasal verbs — and practise reading comprehension, since anglais is a full component of the written test.

5Do not spend revision time on accounting, marketing or management frameworks. They are part of the ESCAE curriculum after admission and are not on the entrance paper.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the INP-HB ESCAE entrance concours a multiple-choice exam?

No. Phase 2 is a written paper of 3 hours 30 minutes sat in French. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation built to the official subject scope, not a simulation of the official paper or its format.

Does the written test cover business, accounting or management?

No. INP-HB states that all admissible candidates sit the same paper in culture générale (French, current affairs), anglais and culture scientifique (mathematics, physics, chemistry, SVT, logic). Business subjects such as accounting and management are studied after admission, not tested to get in.

Who can apply for the ESCAE filières through the cycle court concours?

Holders of the Baccalauréat or BT of the current year, aged 24 at most on 31 December. The GAE filière admits séries A1, A2, B, C and D; the FCA filière admits séries B, C, D, G2 and BT COMPTA.

How much does the concours cost?

19,000 FCFA for one concours — 15,000 FCFA droit d'inscription, 3,000 FCFA frais de dossier and 1,000 FCFA frais de photo — or 34,000 FCFA for two concours. Payment is made on TresorPay/TresorMoney.

How are candidates selected?

In two phases. First, admissibility is decided by studying the candidate's file, using averages from 2nde, 1ère and Terminale against the Commercial profile for ESCAE. Those declared admissible then sit the written test, and admission is decided by competitive ranking against available places.