LL.M Entrance Guide — Tribhuvan University (Pattern, Syllabus, 50 MCQs with Answers)

Summarised from the official notice of the Dean’s Office, Faculty of Law, TU for academic year 2081/082 (notice dated 2082/07/13). Always re-confirm at www.fol.edu.np before applying.

The key change in the 2081/082 notice: every part of the paper is now tagged (Jurisprudence) — there is no constitutional law, criminal law, environmental law etc. in the entrance paper. Only Creative Writing steps outside jurisprudence, into contemporary issues.

The notice says the entrance follows the law-bachelor (LL.B) level curriculum, and the pattern table confines the paper to jurisprudence. The past papers confirm it: all 50 MCQs and every subjective question of 2080/2081 (and the 2079 subjective paper) are jurisprudence. Revise these topic clusters — they cover everything the past papers have asked:

20% of seats are reserved, distributed as percentages of the reserved pool: women 20%, Adivasi/Janajati 16%, Madhesi 14%, Dalit 9%, persons with disabilities 9%, backward regions 7%, Muslim 7%, Tharu 10%, other minorities & economically disadvantaged 8% — plus one seat each for children of permanent TU teachers/staff. Quota candidates must still score ≥40%. Foreign students: 5% extra seats on open competition.

1. Check eligibility: law bachelor’s degree passed (transcript + citizenship certificate ready).
2. Fill the online form at www.fol.edu.np and pay Rs 1,800 via eSewa / Khalti / Connect IPS (your own name & mobile number).
3. Upload scans: passport-size photo; citizenship certificate; qualification certificate & transcript (or equivalence certificate); quota documents/recommendations if claiming quota; your signature.
4. Check your status on www.fol.edu.np and download the admit card once published (this cycle: after 4 PM, Mansir 21, 2082).
5. Sit the exam (this cycle: Saturday Mansir 27, 2082) with the admit card — black ink pen, no electronic devices.
6. Watch the merit list; if selected, submit at your campus within the announced window (usually 3 days).

• Carry your admit card; without it you will not be allowed to sit.
• Entry is allowed up to 30 minutes after the start; you may leave the hall only after one hour.
• Sit in your allotted seat; changing seats needs the centre chief’s permission.
• No mobiles, calculators, Bluetooth devices, iPads/tablets, earphones or smart watches inside the hall.
• Write your roll/symbol number only in the designated box; elsewhere it cancels the answer sheet.
• Use a black ink pen; tick (√) exactly one box per MCQ — two ticks or a torn sheet can invalidate the paper.
• Sick or disabled candidates may get a scribe with the Dean’s Office / centre chief’s approval (application 3 days before the exam).

Q1–Q50: original practice questions in the exact style of the entrance (schools, concepts, books/authors, maxims). Q51–Q100: the actual 50 MCQs of the TU LL.M Entrance 2080/2081 paper with the circulated key. Set a 50-minute timer, mark (√) your choice on paper, then open each answer. Prefer auto-grading? Use the scored mock test below the answer key.

A real exam simulator built from the full 100-question bank above: random questions, shuffled options, a 1-minute-per-question countdown with auto-submit, instant score with the 40% merit-line verdict, and a full question-by-question review with explanations.

Both papers are pure jurisprudence + a contemporary-issue essay — the perfect blueprint for your long/short answers and Creative Writing practice.

• Long (1×20): Contribution of Renaissance intellectual philosophers (Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) to social contract theory; or normative jurisprudence — evaluating legal rules against a standard of ‘good’ law (what law ought to be), critical viewpoint.
• Short (any 2 × 5): (a) Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law; (b) Hohfeld’s jural relations in diagrammatic form; (c) core areas of the future direction of law.
• Creative Writing (English, ≤300 words, 1×20): key measures to control corruption effectively in Nepal; or does the rule of law truly exist in Nepal?

• Long (1×20): “Legal system is a hierarchy of norms… the Grundnorm gives legitimacy to all other norms” — explain via Kelsen’s Pure Theory; or “the 19th century was hostility towards the Natural School of Law” — critical opinion.
• Short (any 2 × 5): (a) merits & demerits of precedent as a source of law; (b) vested and contingent ownership; (c) personality and its theories.
• Creative Writing (English compulsory, ≤300 words, 1×20): assess Nepal’s federal constitution — will it deliver speedy, balanced development with peace and harmony?; or independence of the judiciary under the Constitution of Nepal.

• Long answer (20): introduce the school/jurist → core thesis with exact terminology (Grundnorm, social engineering, ratio decidendi…) → criticisms → your balanced conclusion. ~3–4 pages.
• Short answers (2×5): define → elements/classification → one example or diagram (Hohfeld’s squares score well drawn).
• Creative Writing (20, English, ≤300 words): prepare reusable frameworks for: corruption control; rule of law in Nepal; federalism; judicial independence; AI & the legal profession; cybercrime & free speech; climate justice; transitional justice.
• MCQ speed: drill the “who wrote what / who said what” pairs daily — they are half the past paper.