Every year, thousands of B.A.LL.B. and LL.B. students sit Tribhuvan University law exams — and every year, most of them prepare the same way: reading textbooks cover to cover in the last month, then hoping the exam asks what they happened to read. The students who score well do something different. This guide is that difference, written for Nepal’s law students.
Step 1: Make the syllabus your map — not the textbook
TU law exams are built unit by unit from the official syllabus. That means your revision should be too. Before you open any book, get the official syllabus for your paper and break it into its units. Each unit is a checklist item; each unit’s topics are what the examiner can legally ask. When you study with the syllabus in front of you, nothing surprises you in the exam hall — and nothing you study is wasted.
Step 2: Study unit by unit, not book by book
Here is the problem with the textbook-first approach: no single textbook matches the TU syllabus exactly. One book explains Unit 3 brilliantly and Unit 6 not at all. So build your preparation the way the examiner builds the paper: unit by unit.
For every unit: read one solid explanation of the whole unit, note the key definitions and the prescribed cases (TU syllabi list them — and examiners use them), and write a one-page summary in your own words. That summary becomes your revision material in the final weeks, when there is no time to re-read everything.
Step 3: Practice questions, not just reading
Reading feels like studying. Answering questions is studying. After each unit, close the notes and try to answer its questions from memory — short questions first (definitions, distinctions, short notes), then the long ones. This does two things: it shows you exactly what you do not know yet, and it trains the skill the exam actually tests — producing structured written answers under time pressure.
To make this easy, we prepared unit-wise important-question lists for the heaviest papers (all free to read):
- Jurisprudence — important questions (LL.B. LAW301 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Constitutional Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW304 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Criminal Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW401 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Family Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW306 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Law of Contract — important questions (LL.B. LAW305 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Public International Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW303 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Evidence Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW406 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Labour Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW407 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Property Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW403 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Law of Torts — important questions (LL.B. LAW311 & B.A.LL.B.)
- Cyber Law — important questions (LL.B. LAW512 & B.A.LL.B.)
B.A.LL.B. — new 2025 course, 3rd Semester: every one of the seven papers of the third semester now has its own unit-wise list:
- Jurisprudence-II (LAW5201) — important questions
- Constitutional Law-I (LAW5202) — important questions
- International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD5203) — important questions
- Criminal Law-I (LAW5204) — important questions
- Public International Law-I (LAW5205) — important questions
- Property Law (LAW5206) — important questions
- Comparative Law (LAW5207) — important questions
Prefer the map to the lists? The B.A.LL.B. 3rd Semester syllabus (new 2025 course) sets out all seven subjects, their units and the prescribed cases on one page.
Step 4: Learn answer-writing technique
A law exam answer is not an essay — it is a structured argument with visible parts. The pattern that works for almost every TU law paper:
- Define — open with the precise definition (and its author, if it is a theory question; the statute, if it is a code question).
- Explain — the concept, its kinds/classifications, its ingredients.
- Apply — for problem questions, test each ingredient against the facts, one by one. For theory questions, bring the prescribed cases and Nepali examples.
- Conclude — a short, direct conclusion. For problem questions: who is liable and why. For theory: your reasoned view.
And budget your marks: a 15-mark answer deserves roughly one and a half times the length and time of a 10-mark answer. Students lose whole grades by writing equal-length answers for unequal marks.
Step 5: The final two weeks
Stop reading new material. By now every unit should exist as your one-page summaries plus a question list. Cycle through them: summary from memory → check against notes → answer two questions in writing. Rotate units daily so everything comes back three or four times before the exam. Sleep before papers — a rested brain recalls; an exhausted one rereads.
Free resources (and the complete notes)
Unit 1 of every subject on this website is completely free — 118 subjects across B.A.LL.B. (all 10 semesters, new course) and LL.B. (all 3 years, 2076/077 course). Read them at the Notes page and judge the quality yourself.
If a unit’s free sample helps you, the complete package — every unit of the semester or year, prescribed cases, exam focus boxes and model questions in one PDF — is Rs 300, payable instantly with eSewa: see all packages here.
Good luck — prepare unit by unit, practice questions in writing, and walk into that hall like you have already seen the paper.