CUET-PGCommon University Entrance Test (Postgraduate)

CUET-PG is the national postgraduate counterpart of CUET-UG: a single NTA-conducted computer-based test whose scores feed MA (and other PG) admissions across central and participating universities. For arts students it has replaced a patchwork of separate university entrances — one CUET-PG score in, say, Political Science can now be used for MA applications at multiple central universities simultaneously, each of which runs its own counselling on the common score.

The format is compact: each question paper carries 75 multiple-choice questions on the chosen subject, to be answered in 90 minutes, marked +4 for a correct answer and −1 for an incorrect one, for a maximum of 300. Candidates may register for multiple question papers (each a separate slot and fee). Question papers for most humanities subjects test the undergraduate syllabus of that discipline; language programmes have dedicated language papers, and a small set of programmes use a general aptitude paper instead of a domain paper.

The exam has migrated portals over the years — registration ran on the Samarth portal (pgcuet.samarth.ac.in) in early cycles and now lives on the NTA exams site — and details such as the subject list and city network are adjusted cycle to cycle, so the current information bulletin on exams.nta.nic.in/cuet-pg is the authoritative reference. As with CUET-UG, programme-level eligibility (minimum graduation percentage, subject prerequisites) is defined by each admitting university, not by the NTA.