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About the CUET (Common University Entrance Test) UG:

The CUET (UG) is a mandatory test for taking admission into undergraduate (Bachelor’s) programs offered by the Central Universities (University of Delhi, JNU, Aligarh Muslim University, BHU, Jamia Milia Islamia, etc.). These universities used to offer admission into these programs on the basis of class 12 marks or their own entrance test or a combination of these two till last year (2021).

In fact, many state universities (Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, Jiwaji University Gwalior, etc.), Deemed Universities (TISS, NRTI Vadodara, etc.) as well as private universities (SRM University, Galgotias University, BML Munjal University, Bennett University, etc.) have also accepted the CUET (UG) as the entrance for their undergraduate programs.

This test will be conducted by the NTA (National Testing Agency) in Computer Based mode. There are as many as 61 tests within the CUET of which an individual may take a maximum of 9 tests.

Who is eligible to write the CUET (UG)?

Educational qualification: The candidates who have passed class 12 or an equivalent examination or are appearing for class 12 or an equivalent examination in 2022 are eligible to appear for the CUET.

Age criteria: There is NO age limit (lower or upper) for appearing in the CUET.

One, of course, needs to check the eligibility criteria for a course/university they might be interested in. There is no restriction on the basis of the marks (scored in class 12) either as far as appearing in the CUET is concerned. Again, one needs to check the eligibility criteria of the course/university they are interested in.

Structure of the CUET (UG)

There are 61 tests divided in 3 major categories under the CUET (UG).

1. Language tests (Section 1): This has been further divided into sub-sections 1A and 1B.
   
   1A: There are 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu) in 1A.
   1B: It has 20 languages: Arabic, Bodo, Chinese, Dogri, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Manipuri, Nepali, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Spanish and Tibetan.
   One may attempt a maximum of 3 tests (out of the 33 tests) from Section 1 (1A and 1B put together).
   
   The duration of each of these tests will be 45 minutes. One will have to attempt a maximum of 40 questions of the given 50 questions.
   The questions in this section will primarily be from these areas: Reading Comprehension (RC), Vocabulary, Antonyms & Synonyms, Choosing the Correct Word, Verbal Ability, Rearranging the Parts (of a passage or sentence).
   
   The RC passages will be of 3 types: Factual, Narrative and Literary. One passage will have a maximum of 350 words.
   These Language Tests will be in their own medium (obviously!).
   
   Maximum Marks: 200 (5 marks per question), Negative Marking: 1 mark per incorrect answer
   No marks will be awarded/deducted for leaving a question un-attempted.



2. Domain Specific Tests (Section 2): There would be a total of 27 subjects here spread across Arts, Commerce and Science subjects.
   Arts/Humanities: Economics/Business Economics, Geography/Geology, History, Home science, Knowledge Tradition and Practices of India, Legal Studies, Environmental Sciences, Physical Education/NCC/Yoga, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Teaching Aptitude, Mass Media/Mass Communication, Fine Arts/Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Sanskrit
   
   Commerce: Accountancy/Book Keeping, Business Studies and Entrepreneurship
   
   Science: Agriculture, Anthropology, Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science/Informatics Practices, Engineering Graphics, Mathematics and Physics
   The duration of each of these tests will also be 45 minutes. One will have to attempt a maximum of 40 questions of the given 50 questions.
   These tests (Section 2) will be in 2 mediums: English and a medium opted by you (from any of the 13 languages given in 1A), e.g. if you opt for Kannada medium, you will get your tests in Kannada as well as English mediums.
   
   Maximum Marks: 200 (5 marks per question), Negative Marking: 1 mark per incorrect answer
   No marks will be awarded/deducted for leaving a question un-attempted.
   
   All these Domain Specific Tests will be based on class 12 NCERT syllabus of the CBSE. The importance of the NCERT books (wherever available) for these tests CANNOT be overstated.
   A candidate can select a maximum of 6 out of these 27 Domain Specific Subjects.



3. General Test (Section 3):This test will have a total of 75 questions of which one needs to attempt 60. The duration of this test will be 60 minutes. This test will have General Knowledge and Current affairs, General Ability, Numerical Ability, Quantitative Reasoning and Logical & Analytical Reasoning.
   Maximum Marks: 300 (5 marks per question), Negative Marking: 1 mark per incorrect answer
   
   

   No marks will be awarded/deducted for leaving a question un-attempted.
   The General Test (Section 3) will also be in 2 mediums: English and a medium opted by you (from any of the 13 languages given in 1A), e.g. if you opt for Bengali medium, you will get this test in Bengali as well as English mediums.

Examination Structure in Slot 1 (Morning shift):

Examination Structure in Slot 2 (Afternoon shift):

Number of tests:

One may take a maximum of 9 tests in the following manner:

These tests will be conducted in 2 shifts- Morning and Afternoon- on the same or different days.
Morning shift will be from 0900 am to 12:15 pm (195 minutes: 45×3 + 60) and one may take a maximum of 4 tests in this shift in the following manner:
1 Language Test (from Section 1),
2 Domain-Specific Tests (Section 2) and
1 General Test (Section 3) If one takes more than 1 test in this shift, they can decide the order in which they want to take these tests, e.g. Sandy has to take these 3 tests: English (from Section 1A), Mathematics (from Section 2) and the General Test (GT from Section 3) in the Morning shift. He may decide the order of these 3 tests in any of the following 6 ways:







Afternoon shift will be from 0300 pm to 0645 pm (225 minutes: 45×5) and one may take a maximum of 5 tests in it in the following manner:
Here also, one may decide the order in which they want to take these tests.   Once you start taking a test (of duration 45/60 minutes), you are NOT allowed to move to any other test before completing the current test. You cannot submit a test before its duration (45/60 minutes) is completed.

Those aspirants who will be taking more than 2 Domain-Specific tests and/or more than one language tests will have to appear in both the shifts: Morning and Afternoon.
Please bear in mind that one may get to appear in these 2 shifts on 2 different days at 2 different centres.

The timeline:

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