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Practice must be in your own subject code. There is no generic CUET PG mock worth taking.

CUET PG · checked 19 September 2026

CUET PG at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

CUET PG: the facts that matter now

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    Registration 14 December 2025 – 23 January 2026 (extended); examination 6–27 March 2026 in 50 shifts across 157 test papers, 75 questions in 90…

    2026 cycle

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    NTA’s examination calendar of 16 September 2026 proposes CUET PG 2027 for 1–5, 8, 12–20 and 24–25 March 2027 with 30–31 March in reserve; the…

    2027 cycle

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    National Testing Agency (NTA)

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    Postgraduate programmes at central universities and other participating institutions

    Admits to

Practice

CUET PG — Using mock tests as a measurement

Because every code has its own syllabus, CUET PG practice is necessarily subject-specific. Past papers in your code are the best available material, supplemented by graduate-level question banks in your discipline and by the objective-question practice that a degree course, which usually tests descriptively, will not have given you.

What to work on

  • Objective-question practice in your subject — a format most graduate courses do not use, and one with close distractors.
  • Coverage of the whole code syllabus — particularly where the code is broader than your specialisation.
  • Attempt rate — the four-to-one marking rewards attempting on partial knowledge.
  • Pace — the durations are set relative to the question counts and leave limited room.

Building practice for a subject-specific paper

  1. Use past papers in your code as the core There is no generic CUET PG mock worth taking. Your own code’s papers are both the practice and the calibration.
  2. Supplement with objective questions on your syllabus Graduate courses examine descriptively, so most candidates have very little experience answering multiple-choice questions in their own discipline.
  3. Check coverage across the whole code Especially where the code is broader than your specialisation. Accuracy concentrated in your strong areas conceals a coverage problem.
  4. Track attempt rate Under four-to-one marking it should be high. Academic caution is the characteristic source of unclaimed marks here.
  5. Time the full paper The duration is set relative to the question count and leaves limited room, which is easy to underestimate when the content is familiar.

The objective format is the genuinely unfamiliar element for most candidates, and it is worth naming as a skill rather than a detail. A graduate who can write a strong essay on a topic may still hesitate between two close options on it, because selecting under time draws on precision of recall rather than on the ability to construct an argument. Practice on that specific operation is what converts subject knowledge into a score.

Practise on a computer

The paper is computer-based, and navigation, review flags and working from a rough sheet all cost time when unfamiliar. For a candidate whose recent examinations have been written by hand, screen-based practice removes an avoidable loss that has nothing to do with the subject.

Because the code may cover a family of subjects rather than your own concentration, it is worth scoring your practice papers by sub-area as well as in total. A respectable overall figure built on strong performance in your specialisation and weak performance across the neighbouring subjects is a coverage problem wearing the appearance of a good result — and it will not survive a paper that distributes its questions across the whole code. Sub-area scoring is what makes that visible while there is still time to rebuild the areas your degree treated lightly.

Practising a subject-specific postgraduate entrance.
PatternCauseCorrection
Marks concentrated in a few unitsReading a textbook rather than the syllabus units.Work unit by unit against the official syllabus.
Questions outside your readingWrong paper code, or a syllabus not read.Confirm the code and read its syllabus line by line.
Pace uncomfortableUntimed study only.Practise at the paper’s seconds-per-question.
General component concededAssumed absent.Check whether your paper sets one, and prepare it if so.
Score not translating to admission optionsThe code does not serve the programmes you want.Settle the programme list before the preparation, not after.

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