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Key Facts: ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Exam

25,000 FCFA

Non-refundable registration fee, payable in cash at BICEC branches

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 3

40 Places

Places opened for Auditeurs de Justice for 2026/2027, split 20 Judicial Section and 20 Administrative Section

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 1

4 Hours

Duration of each of the four written admissibility papers at the single Yaoundé centre

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 4

Coefficient 5

Weight of the Droit Civil / Procédure Civile paper for the Judicial Section, the heaviest written paper

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 4

Master 1

Minimum degree required: a Master 1 or Maîtrise en Droit Privé or Droit Public, or a recognized foreign equivalent

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 2

17 to 32 Years

Age eligibility on 1 January of the concours year, with a waiver of up to 5 years for invalidity-card holders

MINFOPRA Arrêté of 4 June 2026, Article 2

12/20

Overall average required across written and oral tests for definitive admission

Décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, Article 54

The ENAM Cycle A Magistrature concours is Cameroon's official competitive gateway to becoming a judge or public prosecutor (Auditeur de Justice). Opened by MINFOPRA arrêté with a 25,000 FCFA fee, the 2026/2027 session offered 40 places — 20 in the Judicial Section and 20 in the Administrative Section — tested across four 4-hour written papers in Yaoundé (Culture Générale coefficient 2 common to both sections, then three section-specific papers at coefficients 4, 5 and 3) plus a grand oral and an oral de langue. Entry requires a Master 1 or Maîtrise en Droit and an age of 17 to 32 on 1 January of the concours year. This free bank provides 104 English-language MCQs mapped to the official programme; the real exam has no multiple-choice component.

Sample ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Practice Questions

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1Under Article 1134 of the Civil Code applicable in Cameroon, what fundamental principle governs the legal effect of lawfully formed contracts between contracting parties?

A.Agreements lawfully entered into take the place of law for those who have made them (*les conventions légalement formées tiennent lieu de loi à ceux qui les ont faites*) and must be executed in good faith

B.Contracts are mere non-binding guidelines that either party may freely modify without the consent of the other

C.All private contracts must be ratified annually by the President of the High Court to remain effective

D.Contracts only bind the debtor if the state treasury has stamped the agreement

Explanation: Article 1134 of the Civil Code enshrines the principle of the binding force of contracts (*force obligatoire des contrats*): agreements lawfully made have the force of law between the parties and must be executed in good faith (*bonne foi*).

2Under Cameroonian civil law, what is the *exception d'inexécution* (*exceptio non adimpleti contractus*) in synallagmatic (bilateral) contracts?

A.A temporary defense allowing a party to refuse to perform their own contractual obligation as long as the other contracting party fails or refuses to perform their reciprocal obligation

B.A permanent court order dissolving the contract with punitive criminal sanctions

C.A unilateral price increase imposed by the supplier without prior agreement

D.An automatic transfer of contractual liability to the public treasury

Explanation: The *exception d'inexécution* is a private enforcement remedy in bilateral contracts where one party legitimately suspends their own performance until the other party fulfills their reciprocal and interdependent obligation.

3Under Article 1384 paragraph 1 of the Civil Code, what is the nature of the civil liability of a custodian for damage caused by things under their custody (*responsabilité du fait des choses* established by the *Jand'heur* doctrine)?

A.A strict liability based on custody (*responsabilité de plein droit / objective*) from which the custodian can escape only by proving *force majeure*, an act of a third party, or the fault of the victim

B.A fault-based liability requiring the victim to prove the custodian's personal negligence or recklessness

C.A criminal liability resulting in mandatory prison terms for the property owner

D.A purely moral obligation that cannot be enforced in state courts

Explanation: Article 1384 paragraph 1 establishes strict liability (*responsabilité sans faute / de plein droit*) for the person who has the use, direction, and control of the thing (*garde de la chose*). The custodian cannot escape liability merely by proving they committed no fault.

4Under Article 1384 paragraph 5 of the Civil Code, what conditions must be satisfied to hold an employer / principal (*commettant*) civilly liable for damage caused by an employee (*préposé*)?

A.A relationship of subordination (*lien de subordination*), a fault committed by the employee in the performance of their assigned functions, and harm suffered by a third party

B.A joint bank account between employer and employee and a notarized corporate charter

C.A criminal conviction of the employee delivered by a military tribunal

D.An explicit written assumption of liability signed by the employer after the accident occurred

Explanation: Vicarious liability of employers (*responsabilité des commettants du fait de leurs préposés*) requires: a relationship of hierarchical subordination (*lien de subordination*), a fault committed by the employee, and that the fault occurred within the scope of their employment (*dans l'exercice des fonctions*).

5Under Cameroonian law of obligations, what is the *clause résolutoire expresse* (express termination clause) in a commercial or civil contract?

A.A contractual stipulation providing that the contract shall be terminated automatically by operation of law (*de plein droit*) upon the failure of one party to perform a specified obligation, without requiring a prior court judgment

B.A clause providing that all disputes must be resolved by customary tribal elders

C.A clause transferring the debtor's children into the custody of the creditor

D.A clause preventing any court from ever hearing criminal charges against the debtor

Explanation: An express resolution clause (*clause résolutoire expresse*) allows automatic termination of the contract *de plein droit* upon non-performance after formal notice (*mise en demeure*), bypassing the requirement of judicial resolution under Article 1184 Civil Code.

6Under Article 2279 of the Civil Code, what fundamental presumption governs the possession of movable property (*meubles corporels*)?

A.In the matter of movables, possession is equivalent to title (*En fait de meubles, la possession vaut titre*), protecting the bona fide possessor

B.Possession of movable property is strictly illegal unless backed by a registered notarized deed

C.All movable property is presumed to belong to the municipal city mayor

D.Movable property cannot be privately owned under Cameroonian law

Explanation: Article 2279 of the Civil Code enacts the rule *En fait de meubles, la possession vaut titre*: continuous, peaceful, public, and unambiguous possession of a movable in good faith creates a legal presumption of ownership, shielding the acquirer against recovery claims (subject to exceptions for lost or stolen goods).

7Under Ordinance No. 74-1 of 6 July 1974 establishing the rules governing land tenure in Cameroon, what procedure must be followed to acquire private ownership over a parcel of land forming part of the National Domain (*Domaine national*)?

A.Apply for a direct land grant or concession (*concession*) leading to land titling (*immatriculation directe*) based on proven effective customary occupation and development prior to 5 August 1974

B.Occupy the land by physical force and build a fence overnight

C.Pay an informal cash bribe to a local village youth leader

D.Publish an advertisement in a foreign lifestyle magazine

Explanation: Under Decree No. 76/165 (as amended by Decree No. 2005/481) applying Ordinance 74-1, parcels of the National Domain occupied and developed before 5 August 1974 may be directly registered (*immatriculation directe*), while development after that date requires a temporary concession convertible into a *titre foncier* upon development.

8Under the OHADA Uniform Act on Commercial Companies (AUSCGIE), what is the legal status and effect of acts performed by founders on behalf of a company in the process of formation (*société en formation*) before its registration in the RCCM?

A.The founders are jointly and severally liable (*solidairement et indéfiniment responsables*) for such acts unless and until the company is registered and explicitly assumes (*reprend*) the obligations

B.The acts are automatically null and void and cannot be ratified under any circumstances

C.The State Treasury is automatically bound to pay all liabilities incurred by the founders

D.The acts only bind the local municipal council

Explanation: Under Articles 106-111 of the OHADA AUSCGIE, founders are personally and jointly liable for contracts entered into on behalf of a company in formation. Once the company is registered in the RCCM and ratifies the acts (*reprise des actes*), the company is deemed to have contracted them from inception.

9Under the OHADA Uniform Act Organizing Securities (AUS), what is a *droit de rétention* (right of retention) held by a creditor over a debtor's movable asset?

A.The right of a creditor who holds physical possession of an asset belonging to their debtor to refuse to deliver it until their debt (which must be certain, due, and linked to the asset) is paid in full

B.The right to sell the debtor's asset secretly without court authority and keep all the proceeds

C.The right to confiscate the debtor's personal passport and identity cards

D.The right to evict the debtor from their ancestral homeland

Explanation: Under Articles 67 et seq. of the OHADA AUS, the *droit de rétention* allows a creditor legitimately holding a movable asset of the debtor to retain possession until full payment, provided the claim is certain, liquid, due, and closely linked (*connexité*) to the retained asset.

10Under the OHADA Uniform Act on Simplified Recovery Procedures (AUPSRVE), what constitutes an enforceable title (*titre exécutoire*) allowing forced execution (*voies d'exécution*) against a debtor's property?

A.Enforceable court judgments, enforceable arbitral awards, notarial deeds with the executory formula (*actes notariés revêtus de la formule exécutoire*), and foreign judgments declared enforceable via *exequatur*

B.An informal handwritten IOU note signed on a napkin

C.An unconfirmed verbal promise made during a family meeting

D.A marketing brochure published on social media

Explanation: Article 33 of the OHADA AUPSRVE exhaustively lists enforceable titles: court decisions with executory force, court-approved conciliations, notarial deeds with the executory formula, arbitral awards with *exequatur*, and certified decisions.

About the ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Exam

The ENAM Cycle A Magistrature entrance examination is Cameroon's prestigious national competitive concours for recruitment into the corps of magistrates (Auditeurs de Justice). Administered jointly by MINFOPRA and ENAM in Yaoundé, the concours admits top law graduates into a two-year professional magistrate training 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 four 4-hour papers over two days. Culture Générale (coefficient 2) is common to both sections. The three specialty papers depend on the section chosen: the Judicial Section sits Droit Pénal / Procédure Pénale (coefficient 4), Droit Civil / Procédure Civile (coefficient 5) and Droit des Affaires (coefficient 3); the Administrative Section sits Droit Constitutionnel (coefficient 4), Droit et Contentieux Administratifs (coefficient 5) and Libertés Publiques (coefficient 3). Admissible candidates then sit oral admission tests at ENAM: a grand oral assessing personality and aptitude for service to the State, with emphasis on Cameroon's justice institutions (coefficient 1), and an oral de langue taken in English by francophone candidates and in French by anglophone candidates (coefficient 1).

Time Limit

4 hours per written paper (four papers over two days, 07:30-11:30 and 13:00-17:00), plus the oral admission tests

Passing Score

Ranked in order of merit against the 40 places opened by the MINFOPRA arrêté. Under décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, admissibility is acquired without an eliminatory mark for a points total corresponding to an average of at least 10/20 (Article 53), and definitive admission requires an overall average of at least 12/20 across all tests, having regard to the number of places offered (Article 54).

Exam Fee

25,000 FCFA (XAF) registration fee, payable in cash against receipt at BICEC branches (Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative (MINFOPRA) & ENAM)

ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Exam Content Outline

coefficient 5 of 14 written

Droit Civil / Procédure Civile (Judicial Section)

Sources of law and legal persons, family, matrimonial regimes and successions, obligations and contracts, juridical facts, property and the land and State-property regime, private international law, labour law, and civil procedure before the TPI, TGI, traditional courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

coefficient 4 of 14 written

Droit Pénal / Procédure Pénale (Judicial Section)

General and special criminal law under the Penal Code (Law No. 2016/007) — the offence and its elements, attempt, co-offending and abetment, responsibility and exemptions, sentencing — and criminal procedure under the Criminal Procedure Code (Law No. 2005/007), including the Special Criminal Court created by Law No. 2011/028.

coefficient 3 of 14 written

Droit des Affaires (Judicial Section)

A separate paper in its own right: OHADA and its institutions, conflicts between community norms and jurisdictions, general commercial law, companies and GIE, secured transactions, carriage of goods, simplified recovery and enforcement measures, collective proceedings, arbitration and mediation, consumer, competition and intellectual property law, and the principal business contracts.

coefficient 2 of 14 written

Culture Générale (common to both sections)

Literature, philosophy and contemporary history, scientific and technological change, arts and culture, gender and development, regional integration, geopolitics and geostrategy, ICT and its social impact, and social, economic, political and judicial issues in Cameroon, Africa and the world.

coefficients 4 + 5 + 3 of 14 written

Droit Constitutionnel, Droit et Contentieux Administratifs, Libertés Publiques (Administrative Section)

The three specialty papers for candidates choosing the Administrative Section, replacing the Judicial Section's criminal, civil and business papers respectively.

coefficient 1 + 1 oral

Grand Oral & Oral de Langue

The Grand Oral tests personality and aptitude for State service with emphasis on Cameroon's justice institutions: judicial organization, the status of the magistracy and the Higher Judicial Council, registry and Legal Department staff, and the auxiliaries of justice. The Oral de Langue is held in the candidate's second official language.

How to Pass the ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Ranked in order of merit against the 40 places opened by the MINFOPRA arrêté. Under décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, admissibility is acquired without an eliminatory mark for a points total corresponding to an average of at least 10/20 (Article 53), and definitive admission requires an overall average of at least 12/20 across all tests, having regard to the number of places offered (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 four 4-hour papers over two days. Culture Générale (coefficient 2) is common to both sections. The three specialty papers depend on the section chosen: the Judicial Section sits Droit Pénal / Procédure Pénale (coefficient 4), Droit Civil / Procédure Civile (coefficient 5) and Droit des Affaires (coefficient 3); the Administrative Section sits Droit Constitutionnel (coefficient 4), Droit et Contentieux Administratifs (coefficient 5) and Libertés Publiques (coefficient 3). Admissible candidates then sit oral admission tests at ENAM: a grand oral assessing personality and aptitude for service to the State, with emphasis on Cameroon's justice institutions (coefficient 1), and an oral de langue taken in English by francophone candidates and in French by anglophone candidates (coefficient 1).
Time limit: 4 hours per written paper (four papers over two days, 07:30-11:30 and 13:00-17:00), plus the oral admission tests
Exam fee: 25,000 FCFA (XAF) registration fee, payable in cash against receipt at BICEC branches

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ENAM Magistrature Cycle A Study Tips from Top Performers

1Weight your preparation by the official coefficients: for the Judicial Section, Droit Civil / Procédure Civile (5) and Droit Pénal / Procédure Pénale (4) alone carry 9 of the 14 written coefficient points.

2Treat Droit des Affaires as its own coefficient-3 paper, not as an appendix to civil law: the programme lists conflicts between OHADA, CEMAC, UEAC, OAPI, CIMA and CIPRES norms, collective proceedings, arbitration and mediation, and intellectual property alongside the core Uniform Acts.

3Thoroughly master the 2016 Cameroonian Penal Code (Law No. 2016/007) and the 2005 Criminal Procedure Code (Law No. 2005/007), noting the exact jurisdictional boundaries of the Examining Magistrate and the trial courts.

4Study the Law on Judicial Organization (Law No. 2006/015 as amended by Law No. 2011/027), including the distinct competencies of the TPI (claims up to 10 million FCFA, misdemeanours and simple offences) and the TGI (claims exceeding 10 million FCFA, felonies, and personal status matters), and note that both courts sit with a single judge unless a three-member collegiate bench is ordered.

5Decide early which section you are sitting: the Administrative Section replaces the criminal, civil and business papers with Droit Constitutionnel (4), Droit et Contentieux Administratifs (5) and Libertés Publiques (3).

6Prepare for the Grand Oral against its published programme — judicial organization, the status of the magistracy and the Higher Judicial Council, registry and Legal Department staff, and the auxiliaries of justice — rather than generic ethics revision.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official format of the ENAM Cycle A Magistrature concours?

Four written papers of 4 hours each are sat at the single Yaoundé centre over two days. Culture Générale (coefficient 2) is common to both sections. The Judicial Section then sits Droit Pénal / Procédure Pénale (coefficient 4), Droit Civil / Procédure Civile (coefficient 5) and Droit des Affaires (coefficient 3); the Administrative Section sits Droit Constitutionnel (coefficient 4), Droit et Contentieux Administratifs (coefficient 5) and Libertés Publiques (coefficient 3). Candidates declared admissible then sit a grand oral (coefficient 1) and an oral de langue (coefficient 1) at ENAM.

How many places are opened for Auditeurs de Justice?

For the 2026/2027 session, MINFOPRA opened 40 places for Auditeurs de Justice in the Division de la Magistrature et des Greffes, split evenly between the Judicial Section (20) and the Administrative Section (20). Candidates choose their section when filing their dossier.

What degree is required to sit the ENAM Magistrature entrance concours?

Candidates must hold either a Master 1 or a Maîtrise en Droit Privé or Droit Public issued by a Cameroonian university, or a foreign degree recognized as equivalent by the Minister of Higher Education. A Licence en Droit on its own does not satisfy the 2026/2027 arrêté.

What mark is required to pass the concours?

Under Decree No. 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000, admissibility requires an average of at least 10/20 across written papers with no eliminatory mark (Article 53), and final admission requires an overall average of at least 12/20 across written and oral tests (Article 54), ranked strictly in order of merit against available places.

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

The official ENAM concours consists of written essay papers, judgment drafting, legal commentary, and oral defenses before a jury; it contains no multiple-choice questions. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation designed to help candidates test and consolidate the core Cameroonian statutes, OHADA law, judicial organization, and criminal/civil procedural rules tested on the exam.