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Common University Entrance Test (Postgraduate)

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About CUET PG

The Common University Entrance Test (Postgraduate) is conducted by the National Testing Agency for admission to postgraduate programmes of participating universities. CUET (PG) 2026 was a computer-based test. The information bulletin, dated in December 2025 and linked from exams.nta.nic.in/cuet-pg/, says the month of the examination is March 2026. The same site's notices name the sitting dates as 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 27 March 2026. In the bulletin, online registration ran from 14 December 2025 to 14 January 2026 (up to 11:50 PM), the fee was payable until 11:50 PM that day, and the correction window was 18 to 20 January 2026. City, shift and centre are printed on the admit card.

A candidate may choose up to four question paper codes from Appendix II, matched to the programme of the university where admission is sought. Appendix II lists 157 codes: 22 Common, 41 Languages, 30 Science, 26 Humanities, 12 M.Tech / Higher Sciences and 26 Acharya. Each question paper has 75 compulsory questions and lasts 90 minutes. The papers are separate tests, not one sitting on a shared clock. Within a paper the candidate can move among the questions for the whole of that paper's time. There is one countdown timer for the examination. A right answer scores 4 marks. A wrong answer costs 1 mark. A question left unanswered, or marked for review without an answer, scores 0. An answer that is also marked for review is still evaluated. The candidate chooses one option as the most appropriate. If a challenged question is later found to have more than one correct option, 4 marks go to anyone who marked any of those options. If a question is dropped, or none of its options is correct, everyone who appeared is given 4 marks for it.

The medium is English and Hindi for Humanities, Sciences and Common subjects. Language papers are in the language of the subject, except Linguistics, which is in English only. M.Tech / Higher Sciences papers are in English only. Acharya papers are in Sanskrit, except Hindu Studies (English and Hindi) and Indian Knowledge System and Baudha Darshan (English, Hindi and Sanskrit). Where a paper is bilingual, the English version is final if the two versions differ, except for language papers. A candidate needs a bachelor's degree, or must be in the final year of that degree in 2026. There is no age limit for appearing. A university may still apply its own age, quota and subject rules, and it prepares its own merit list from the score NTA sends. NTA registers candidates, conducts the test, finalises the answer key and hosts the score. The bulletin says NTA planned one shift for each subject so that normalisation would not be needed, and that a subject held in more than one shift would be normalised by the equi-percentile method.

The fee in the bulletin, for up to two test papers, is ₹1,400 for General, ₹1,200 for General-EWS and OBC-NCL, ₹1,100 for SC, ST and Third Gender, ₹1,000 for PwD and PwBD, and ₹7,000 for candidates outside India. Each further paper costs ₹700, ₹600, ₹600, ₹600 and ₹3,500 in that same order. Service charges and GST are extra. Compensatory time for candidates who are allowed a scribe is not less than 20 minutes per hour. The bulletin also says that eligible candidates with benchmark disability may be allowed at least one extra hour on a three-hour paper, whether or not a scribe is used. This practice set builds three of the 157 papers, each as its own 90-minute clock: General (COQP11), Political Science (HUQP18) and History (HUQP09). Other codes, including Commerce, Economics, the management general paper, Law, Geography, Sociology, Psychology, Life Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and the language papers, are listed in the bulletin and are not written out here.

CUET PG CUET (PG) question papers exam pattern

90 minutes for each question paper (compensatory time, where allowed, is not less than 20 minutes per hour)