Free Practice Questions for BTS CJN

The BTS CJN is a French national higher education vocational diploma (Bac+2, Level 5 RNCP, 120 ECTS) governed by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of National Education under the Arrêté du 13 décembre 2021. It prepares legal collaborators, title searchers, and deed drafters to manage legal files and draft authentic acts under the supervision of a notary in a French notarial office (office notarial).

The BTS Collaborateur Juriste Notarial (BTS CJN) officially replaced the former BTS Notariat under the Arrêté du 13 décembre 2021. The final regular examination session for the old BTS Notariat was held in 2023, and the new BTS CJN curriculum (RNCP36685) has been examined exclusively since 2024, emphasizing digitized notarial workflows, customer relations, and updated property and tax law.

The current framework has seven compulsory units totalling 22 coefficients: U1 Culture générale et expression (3), U2 English (2), U3 fundamental law (2), U4 notarial environment (2), U5 ethical client support (3), U6 family and personal-property dossier (5), and U7 immovable-property or business dossier (5). The modality depends on route: authorized CCF and punctual written or oral forms are all part of the official table.

Candidates must achieve a minimum overall weighted average of 10 out of 20 across the compulsory examination units. Rules on retained unit results and candidate routes should be checked against the current examination regulation and the organizing académie.

A promesse unilatérale de vente (PUV) binds only the seller (promettant) to sell at a fixed price during an option period, while the buyer (bénéficiaire) pays an indemnité d'immobilisation (typically 5–10%) and retains the option to buy or forfeit the indemnity. A compromis de vente (promesse synallagmatique) creates reciprocal, immediate obligations on both parties to sell and purchase once suspensive conditions are fulfilled.

Under Article L. 271-1 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation (Loi SRU, amended by Loi Macron), a non-professional buyer of residential property has a mandatory 10-day cooling-off period (droit de rétractation) starting the day after notification of the preliminary contract and required annexes. Exercise of this right cancels the contract without penalty or justification.

An Acte Authentique Électronique is a legally authentic notarial instrument drafted, signed, and preserved in digital format under Article 1366 of the Code civil and Décret n° 2005-973. It is signed using qualified digital signatures on a digital tablet in the notary's presence, sealed with the notary's qualified electronic signature, and permanently archived in the Minutier Central Électronique des Notaires (MICEN).

Notaries and office staff must protect information covered by professional secrecy and confidentiality. The duty is strong but must be stated together with the specific legal exceptions and disclosure obligations applicable to the situation, including the current AML/CFT framework, rather than as an exceptionless slogan.

The official units are assessed principally in French, and U2 specifically assesses English. OpenExamPrep provides 30 English-language MCQs as a knowledge and judgment study aid; it is not an official translation, an official-format simulation, or a substitute for French drafting, English oral work, dossiers, interviews, or land-registry analysis.