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CUET PG Syllabus

There is no single CUET PG syllabus. There is one per subject paper code, and reading the right one is the whole starting point.

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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.

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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

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Syllabus

CUET PG — What the syllabus covers

NTA publishes a syllabus for each subject paper code, and those syllabi are drawn from the graduate curriculum of the discipline concerned. The content is therefore whatever a well-taught bachelor’s degree in that subject would have covered — which makes your own degree material the natural primary source, guided by the published syllabus for the code you have selected.

Sciences and mathematics codes
Graduate-level content in physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, life sciences, botany, zoology, environmental science and related disciplines, following the standard undergraduate curriculum in each.
Humanities and social sciences codes
History, political science, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, geography, education, social work and related disciplines, again at graduate level.
Commerce and management codes
Accounting, finance, business studies, management principles, economics for business and related content.
Language and literature codes
Literature, linguistics and language studies in English and a range of Indian and foreign languages, covering the graduate curriculum in each.
Professional and applied codes
Law, computer science and applications, agriculture, mass communication, library science, physical education and other applied disciplines, each with its own defined syllabus.

Some codes are narrow and some are broad, covering a family of related subjects in one paper. Where a broad code applies, a candidate may face questions outside their specialisation within the discipline — which is worth knowing before the examination, since it changes how widely you need to revise.

Why the code determines everything

  • It fixes the syllabus — each code has its own published syllabus, and they differ in scope as well as content. Preparing from a general account of CUET PG prepares you for no code in particular.
  • It fixes which programmes you can apply to — universities specify which code each programme accepts. A strong score in the wrong code does not open the programme you wanted.
  • It fixes the breadth expected — some codes are narrow and some cover a family of related subjects, which means a specialist may need to revise material well outside their own concentration.
  • It is chosen at registration — before your preparation is complete and before you may have finalised your programme preferences — which is why the verification has to come first.

The broad codes are where candidates are most often caught out. A candidate who specialised in one area of a discipline may find the code covering the whole family of related subjects, several of which they last studied in their second year. Reading the published syllabus for the code — rather than assuming it matches their own degree concentration — is what surfaces that, and it is worth doing before rather than after registration.

The syllabus is graduate-level, not postgraduate

The papers examine the content of a bachelor’s degree in the discipline rather than research-level material. That calibration matters: a candidate preparing from postgraduate texts is working above the level the paper asks for, while one revising only their final-year modules is working below its breadth.

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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