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Key Facts: ENAM Administration Cycle A Exam

25,000 FCFA

Non-refundable registration fee, payable in cash at BICEC branches by external and internal candidates alike

MINFOPRA arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 3

70 places

Places opened for Cycle A Division Administrative in 2026/2027 — 40 Administration Générale, 20 Administration du Travail, 10 Affaires Sociales

MINFOPRA arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 1

4 hours

Duration of each of the four written admissibility papers

MINFOPRA arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 4

Coefficient 5

Weight of the speciality paper — Droit Administratif, Droit du Travail, or Psychologie according to the section

MINFOPRA arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 4

17 to 32 years

Age range for external candidates on 1 January of the concours year, with a waiver of up to five years for invalidity card holders

MINFOPRA arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 2

12/20

Overall average required for final admission, after admissibility at 10/20 with no eliminatory mark

Décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, Articles 53 and 54

The ENAM Cycle A Division Administrative concours is Cameroon's competitive gateway into the senior civil administration, opened annually by MINFOPRA arrêté with a registration fee of 25,000 FCFA. The 2026/2027 session offered 70 places — 40 Administration Générale, 20 Administration du Travail, 10 Affaires Sociales, of which 10 were reserved for internal candidates — and tested four 4-hour written papers at the single Yaoundé centre: Culture Générale (coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel (coefficient 3), Économie Générale (coefficient 2) and a speciality paper (coefficient 5), followed by a grand oral and an oral de langue. This free bank provides 108 English-language multiple-choice practice questions weighted to those official coefficients; it is a study aid, not a simulation of the essay-and-oral format.

Sample ENAM Administration Cycle A Practice Questions

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1In political philosophy and state theory, Max Weber formulated the canonical sociological definition of the modern State in *Politics as a Vocation* (1919). What is this defining criterion?

A.A human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory

B.An economic collective that redistributes all industrial property equally among citizens

C.A religious hierarchy where sovereign authority is derived directly from divine decree

D.An association created exclusively through direct universal referendums on all administrative decisions

Explanation: Max Weber famously defined the modern State as a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force (*das Monopol legitimen physischen Zwanges*) within a specified territorial boundary. Legitimacy is classified by Weber into traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational authority.

2In *The Spirit of the Laws* (*De l'esprit des lois*, 1748), Montesquieu argued that political liberty is preserved only when power checks power through which constitutional mechanism?

A.The separation and balance of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers

B.The total concentration of all sovereign authority in an enlightened hereditary monarch

C.The permanent subordination of the judiciary to the executive branch

D.The complete abolition of representative parliamentary assemblies

Explanation: Montesquieu formulated the principle of the separation of powers (*séparation des pouvoirs*) in Book XI of *De l'esprit des lois*, observing that 'constant experience shows that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it... to prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.'

3Which influential Cameroonian philosopher and intellectual, author of *De la postcolonie* (2000) and *Critique of Black Reason* (2013), coined the concept of 'Necropolitics' (*Nécropolitique*) to describe the ultimate expression of sovereignty as the power to dictate who may live and who must die?

A.Achille Mbembe

B.Marcien Towa

C.Fabien Eboussi Boulaga

D.Bernard Fonlon

Explanation: Achille Mbembe developed the concept of 'Necropolitics' (2003/2006), extending Michel Foucault's concept of biopower to examine how contemporary sovereign power creates 'death-worlds' and exercises control through the management of mortality, violence, and borders.

4In political theory, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's *The Social Contract* (*Du contrat social*, 1762) posits that legitimate political authority rests on the alienation of individual rights to the community, creating a sovereign body governed by:

A.The General Will (*La volonté générale*) aimed at the common good

B.The hereditary divine right of traditional chiefs

C.The arbitrary private will of the wealthiest estate owners

D.The military dictates of a foreign occupying governor

Explanation: Rousseau argued that through the social contract, each associate alienates himself and all his rights to the whole community. The resulting sovereign entity is directed by the 'General Will' (*volonté générale*), which always tends toward the public good and universal equality before the law.

5Which public institution in Cameroon was established by Presidential Decree No. 2006/088 of 11 March 2006 as an independent public body tasked with monitoring, preventing, and combating corrupt practices within the public and private sectors?

A.National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC / Commission Nationale Anti-Corruption)

B.Audit Bench of the Supreme Court (Chambre des Comptes)

C.National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF)

D.Special Criminal Court (TCS / Tribunal Criminel Spécial)

Explanation: CONAC was established by Decree No. 2006/088 as the national public anti-corruption body placed under the direct authority of the President of the Republic. It conducts integrity investigations, publishes annual state of corruption reports, and executes the National Anti-Corruption Strategy.

6Under Law No. 2019/019 of 24 December 2019 on the promotion of official languages in Cameroon, what is the legal equality status of English and French in public administration?

A.English and French are two official languages of equal constitutional value; public administrative services, documents, signage, and communications must ensure their equal use without discrimination

B.French is the primary language of administrative command, while English is restricted to courtroom pleadings

C.English is mandatory for finance ministries, while all other ministries must use indigenous vernaculars

D.Public servants are prohibited from responding in English in francophone regions

Explanation: Article 1(3) of the 1996 Constitution and Law No. 2019/019 affirm that English and French have equal constitutional status (*égale valeur constitutionnelle*). Public administrations are legally required to produce official acts, legislation, circulars, websites, and user interactions in both official languages.

7In philosophy of science and epistemology, Karl Popper's criterion of 'falsifiability' (*réfutationnisme*) in *The Logic of Scientific Discovery* (1934) establishes that a theory is scientific only if:

A.It is capable of being empirically tested and potentially proven false by observational evidence

B.It has been verified as absolute eternal truth by a unanimous committee of scientists

C.It can be expressed entirely through qualitative literary metaphors

D.It agrees with the political ideology of the governing sovereign authority

Explanation: Karl Popper proposed falsifiability as the solution to the demarcation problem between science and pseudo-science/metaphysics. A scientific statement must make testable predictions that could clash with empirical observation, contrasting with inductivism.

8Which prominent Cameroonian philosopher published *Essai sur la problématique philosophique dans l'Afrique actuelle* (1971), delivering a rigorous critique of 'ethnophilosophy' and arguing that Africa must master science and critical philosophy to overcome imperial subjugation?

A.Marcien Towa

B.Placide Tempels

C.Cheikh Anta Diop

D.Alexis Kagame

Explanation: Marcien Towa (1931–2014) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Yaoundé. In his 1971 essay, he rejected ethnophilosophy (which equated collective myths and traditional worldviews with philosophy) and argued that philosophy is essentially critical, rational, and emancipatory thinking.

9In political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes in *Leviathan* (1651) describes the 'State of Nature' (*état de nature*) as a condition where:

A.In the absence of a sovereign common power, life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, in a perpetual war of all against all (*bellum omnium contra omnes*)

B.Humans live in perfect peaceful harmony without property disputes or conflict

C.A benevolent supreme court enforces human rights without executive police forces

D.Direct democratic town halls vote weekly on agricultural commodity pricing

Explanation: Hobbes argued that without a strong sovereign power to keep humans in awe, natural human equality and competition for resources produce a state of perpetual fear and conflict (*bellum omnium contra omnes*), driving rational individuals to surrender their natural liberty to an absolute sovereign (Leviathan) in exchange for security and order.

10Which monumental novel published in 1956 by Mongo Beti (Alexandre Biyidi Awala) critiques missionary evangelization and colonial complicity in French-administered Cameroun through the tragic journey of Father Drumont?

A.Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba

B.Ville cruelle

C.Mission terminée

D.Perpétue et l'habitude du malheur

Explanation: *Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba* (1956) is Mongo Beti's masterwork of anti-colonial satire, narrated by the young acolyte Denis. Father Drumont's failure to convert the fictional village of Bomba reveals the structural hypocrisy and violence connecting the colonial administration and the Catholic mission.

About the ENAM Administration Cycle A Exam

Competitive national entrance examination for admission into Cycle A of the Division Administrative at the École Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) in Yaoundé. ENAM is the flagship training institution for Cameroon's senior administrative corps — *Administrateurs Civils*, *Inspecteurs du Travail*, and social affairs administrators — and the concours is opened each year by a MINFOPRA arrêté that fixes the places, the papers, their coefficients, and the annexed programme.

Assessment

The competition has a written admissibility stage and an oral admission stage, both held at the single Yaoundé centre. The written stage comprises three papers common to all sections — Culture Générale (4 hours, coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel (4 hours, coefficient 3) and Économie Générale (4 hours, coefficient 2) — plus one speciality paper of 4 hours and coefficient 5: Droit Administratif for Administration Générale, Droit du Travail for Administration du Travail, and Psychologie for Administration des Affaires Sociales. Access to the examination rooms closes at 07:00 for morning papers and 12:30 for afternoon papers. Admissible candidates sit the oral admission tests at ENAM: a grand oral (coefficient 1) assessing the candidate's personality and aptitude to serve the State and the citizen, and an oral de langue (coefficient 1) taken in French by anglophone candidates and in English by francophone candidates.

Time Limit

4 hours per written paper (four papers over two days), plus the oral admission tests

Passing Score

Ranked in order of merit against the places opened by the annual MINFOPRA arrêté (70 in 2026/2027: 40 Administration Générale, 20 Administration du Travail, 10 Affaires Sociales). Under décret n° 2000/696/PM, admissibility requires an average of at least 10/20 with no eliminatory mark (Article 53) and final admission an overall average of at least 12/20 (Article 54)

Exam Fee

25,000 FCFA (XAF) for all candidates, external and internal (Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative (MINFOPRA) & ENAM)

ENAM Administration Cycle A Exam Content Outline

coefficient 4 of 14

Culture Générale

The annexed programme lists literature, philosophy and contemporary history; scientific and technological evolution; arts and culture; gender and development; regional integration; geopolitics and geostrategy; and ICT and its impact on society.

coefficient 3 of 14

Droit Constitutionnel et Institutions Politiques

The State and political power; the Constitution, its adoption, revision and judicial protection; democracy, suffrage and voting systems; separation of powers; types of political regime; the history of Cameroonian institutions and its successive constitutional revisions, including the April 2026 revision creating the Vice-Presidency; and the role of political parties.

coefficient 2 of 14

Économie Générale

Microeconomics and applied microeconomics; macroeconomics, the income-expenditure model, IS-LM, the Phillips curve and structural adjustment; monetary economics, financial institutions and monetary policy in the franc zone; population and development; international economics; and the digital economy.

coefficient 5 of 14

Speciality — Droit Administratif (Administration Générale)

Fundamental principles of administrative law; the foundations of Cameroonian administrative law; centralisation, deconcentration and decentralisation; public service and administrative police; unilateral and bilateral administrative acts; administrative liability; sources of administrative law; and the administrative jurisdictional order and its competence, including administrative contracts.

coefficient 5 of 14

Speciality — Droit du Travail (Administration du Travail)

The objectives of labour law; the place and role of International Labour Conventions; the legal status of the worker; the powers of the head of enterprise; performance of the employment contract and its incidents; and termination of fixed-term and permanent contracts, including dismissal on economic grounds.

coefficient 5 of 14

Speciality — Psychologie (Administration des Affaires Sociales)

Child and developmental psychology; health psychology and disability; group psychology and personalities with specific needs; the biological, psychological and sociocultural foundations of the family; social environments and responsible parenting; medical and health anthropology; clinical theories and care practice; psychopathology; and the ontogenesis and sociogenesis of behaviour.

How to Pass the ENAM Administration Cycle A Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Ranked in order of merit against the places opened by the annual MINFOPRA arrêté (70 in 2026/2027: 40 Administration Générale, 20 Administration du Travail, 10 Affaires Sociales). Under décret n° 2000/696/PM, admissibility requires an average of at least 10/20 with no eliminatory mark (Article 53) and final admission an overall average of at least 12/20 (Article 54)
Assessment: The competition has a written admissibility stage and an oral admission stage, both held at the single Yaoundé centre. The written stage comprises three papers common to all sections — Culture Générale (4 hours, coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel (4 hours, coefficient 3) and Économie Générale (4 hours, coefficient 2) — plus one speciality paper of 4 hours and coefficient 5: Droit Administratif for Administration Générale, Droit du Travail for Administration du Travail, and Psychologie for Administration des Affaires Sociales. Access to the examination rooms closes at 07:00 for morning papers and 12:30 for afternoon papers. Admissible candidates sit the oral admission tests at ENAM: a grand oral (coefficient 1) assessing the candidate's personality and aptitude to serve the State and the citizen, and an oral de langue (coefficient 1) taken in French by anglophone candidates and in English by francophone candidates.
Time limit: 4 hours per written paper (four papers over two days), plus the oral admission tests
Exam fee: 25,000 FCFA (XAF) for all candidates, external and internal

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ENAM Administration Cycle A Study Tips from Top Performers

1Weight your revision by coefficient: the speciality paper (5) and Culture Générale (4) together carry 9 of the 14 written coefficient points, before the two orals of coefficient 1 each.

2Follow the annexed programme literally rather than a generic syllabus — for Culture Générale it names seven headings, ending with regional integration, geopolitics and geostrategy, and the impact of ICT on society.

3Master Cameroon's constitutional history end to end, including Law No. 2026/002 of 14 April 2026 which recreated the Vice-Presidency and rewrote presidential succession in Article 6.

4For the Droit Administratif speciality, be able to move from principle to litigation: administrative organisation, public service and police, administrative acts and liability, then the administrative jurisdictional order and the four grounds of the recours pour excès de pouvoir.

5Do not overlook the oral de langue: it carries the same coefficient as the grand oral and is taken in French by anglophone candidates and in English by francophone candidates.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official examination format of the ENAM Cycle A Division Administrative concours?

Four written papers of 4 hours each are sat at the single Yaoundé centre over two days: Culture Générale (coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel (coefficient 3), Économie Générale (coefficient 2) and one speciality paper (coefficient 5). Candidates declared admissible then sit a grand oral and an oral de langue at ENAM, each carrying coefficient 1.

Which sections are open in the Division Administrative for Cycle A, and how many places does each carry?

For the 2026/2027 session MINFOPRA opened 70 places: Administration Générale 40 places (speciality paper: Droit Administratif), Administration du Travail 20 places (Droit du Travail), and Administration des Affaires Sociales 10 places (Psychologie). Sixty places were reserved for external candidates and ten for internal candidates. The section is chosen when the file is lodged.

Can a serving civil servant sit this concours?

Not as an external candidate — the arrêté expressly bars established civil servants of any category from the external competition. There is, however, an internal quota reserved for Category B officers of the Administration Générale, Administration du Travail, Administration des Affaires Sociales and Régies Financières corps who have at least five years' seniority in grade on 1 January of the concours year and are aged 45 at most; they must also produce a copy of their integration act and an authorization to compete from the Minister of Public Service.

What mark is needed to pass?

The arrêté fixes no pass mark; it fixes places. Under décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, admissibility is acquired without any eliminatory mark for a total corresponding to an average of at least 10/20 (Article 53), and a candidate must obtain an overall average of at least 12/20 across all the papers to be finally admitted, within the limit of the places offered (Article 54).

How does this practice question bank relate to the real ENAM concours?

The official concours is written in French or English as dissertations and case papers and finishes with oral tests before a jury; it contains no multiple-choice questions. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation, not an official translation or a simulation of the real format. It is built to help candidates consolidate the legal, economic, administrative and psychological doctrine that the official papers draw on.