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CUET PG Preparation

Verify the code first, revise your degree second, and practise objective questions third. In that order.

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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.

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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

Strategy

CUET PG — How to prepare

The structure of CUET PG preparation follows from its structure as an examination. The code determines the syllabus, so it must be settled before any study begins. The syllabus is your degree content, so your own course material is the natural source. And the format is objective, which your degree examinations almost certainly were not — so that gap needs deliberate practice.

A three to five month plan

  1. First — verify the code each target programme accepts. In each university’s own admission information. Do not infer from the subject name.
  2. Second — read the published syllabus for that code. And map it against what your degree actually covered.
  3. Months one to three — revise the code syllabus. From your degree textbooks, prioritising the gaps your mapping revealed.
  4. From month two — objective-question practice in the subject. The format gap between a degree examination and this one is real.
  5. From month two — past papers in your code. For depth calibration and topic emphasis.
  6. Final month — timed full papers. With the four-to-one marking applied.
  7. Check whether any target programme adds an interview. Research-oriented programmes often do, and it needs its own preparation.

The costly errors

  • Registering for the wrong code — the error that cannot be corrected, and the commonest one.
  • Revising only your specialisation — where the code covers a broader family of subjects.
  • No objective-question practice — graduate courses test descriptively; this paper does not.
  • Skipping conservatively — the four-to-one marking rewards attempting on partial knowledge.
  • Ignoring university-specific requirements — cutoffs, weightings and interviews vary.
Verification — the first task
Which code each target programme accepts, checked in each university’s own admission information. It is an afternoon of research, it precedes all study, and getting it wrong is the one error this examination does not let you correct.
Revision — the bulk of the work
The published code syllabus at graduate level, using your own degree textbooks, prioritised by a past-paper frequency table rather than by syllabus order.
Format practice — the conversion layer
Objective questions in your own subject, which graduate coursework does not supply. It is what turns knowing the material into scoring on it.
Programme-specific requirements — checked early
Cutoffs, weightings and whether an interview is added. These vary by institution and they shape what you do after the examination as much as before it.

Where a code is broader than your degree specialisation, plan the revision around that gap from the beginning rather than discovering it in a mock. A candidate who concentrated in one area of a discipline may need to rebuild two or three neighbouring subjects to graduate level — which is entirely achievable over a few months and impossible in a final fortnight.

Consider a second code deliberately

Registering for more than one code is possible within scheduling constraints and can widen the programmes available to you. It also multiplies the syllabus you are responsible for, so it is worth doing where your targets genuinely span disciplines and worth avoiding where it merely feels like insurance.

Exam resources

Everything for CUET PG

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

CUET PG SyllabusCUET PG syllabus — how subject paper codes define graduate-level syllabi, and what the papers cover.CUET PG Exam PatternCUET PG exam pattern — subject paper structure, marking scheme, normalisation and how universities use scores.CUET PG Previous PapersCUET PG previous year papers — calibrating the depth expected in your subject code and identifying emphasis.CUET PG Mock TestsCUET PG mock tests — subject-specific practice at graduate level with the correct marking scheme.CUET PG PreparationCUET PG preparation — verifying paper codes, revising your degree syllabus and practising objective questions.CUET PG Study MaterialCUET PG study material — guidance on using degree textbooks alongside the published code syllabus.

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