CUET PG Exam Date, Registration and City Slip: 2024 to 2026 Timeline

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This page is the dates-and-process guide. It collects every date NTA published for the last three cycles in one place, works out the gaps between them (our arithmetic, labelled), and says plainly what is not known about 2027. For the question paper itself read the pattern guide, for the syllabus PDFs the syllabus map, and for results the result and normalisation guide; the links are at the foot of this page.

The 2026 timeline, notice by notice

The table lists each 2026 event with the date and the document that carries it. Where a later notice changed an earlier date, both are shown, because candidates and websites quote both. Dates in the "Official source" column are the notice dates; the file names on NTA's archive carry the same dates.

A small honesty note on the record: the notice that moved the deadline from 14 to 20 January is not among the documents we retrieved, so we cite the 16 January advisory, which reports the 20 January date, and the 20 January notice, which moves it on to 23 January. NTA's own 14 February notice also contains slips of its own: it quotes "14 December 2025 to 25 January 2026" as the registration period (25 January was the fee deadline) and "28 to 30 January 2025" for the correction window (it means 2026). We have used the dates in the individual notices.

Three cycles side by side: 2024, 2025 and 2026

The table gives the dates NTA actually ran, after extensions. The two right-hand columns are our subtraction: days from the form deadline to the first exam day, and from the first exam day to the result. They describe what happened, not what will happen.

Three things stand out in that table. First, the registration was extended in all three cycles, by 3 days in 2024, 7 days in 2025 and 9 days in 2026 (our subtraction from the original last date). Second, the exam has settled into a March window every year: 11 to 28 March, 13 March to 1 April and 6 to 27 March. Third, the paper length fell from 105 minutes in 2024 to 90 minutes in 2025 and 2026, which matters more for preparation than any date. The number of subjects stayed at 157 in all three years.

The number of unique registered candidates was 4,62,589 in 2024, 4,12,024 in 2025 and 4,11,366 in 2026. That is a fall of about 10.9 per cent from 2024 to 2025 and about 0.2 per cent from 2025 to 2026 (our division of the official counts), so the field the 2026 result reflects is about the size of the 2025 field.

What is known about 2027, and what is not

When we checked on 6 October 2026, NTA's CUET (PG) pages listed only 2026 notices, and no 2027 bulletin, registration notice, date-sheet or fee had been published. NTA's Examination Calendar for the December 2026 cycle onwards, on nta.ac.in, does list CUET (PG) 2027 as proposed dates: 1 to 5, 8, 12 to 20 and 24 to 25 March 2027 (17 exam days), with 30 and 31 March as buffer days. NTA marks every date in that calendar as tentative. So the month is announced; the registration dates, bulletin and fee are not.

What you can do now is the preparation that does not depend on a date. Decide which question paper codes your target programmes need (the pattern guide explains why that choice is where most mistakes are made), keep your Aadhaar-linked mobile number active because the application uses Aadhaar OTP verification, and have your category certificate details ready: certificate number, date of issue and issuing authority are entered in the form, as the 2026 FAQ says, with the certificate itself needed later at admission.

Because the official site has moved between cycles, candidates meet fake look-alike pages. In 2024 the application ran on pgcuet.samarth.ac.in, in 2025 on exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-PG, and in 2026 on exams.nta.nic.in/cuet-pg, with www.nta.ac.in carrying the notices throughout. The 2025 address returned a "not found" error when we tried it on 6 October 2026, so a bookmark from last year may not work. Always reach the application through nta.ac.in and check the address before you enter any detail or pay.

Application fee: official 2026 figures and a calculator

The fee depends on your category and the number of test papers, and you may choose up to four. The base fee covers up to two papers; each further paper is charged separately. Candidates choosing a centre outside India pay the same base fee whatever their category. Bank or payment-gateway charges and GST are added on top, and the fee is non-refundable and non-transferable, according to the FAQ.

One rule in the correction window affects the fee: if a correction changes your category or the number of papers, an additional fee is charged where applicable, and no fee is refunded for reducing the number of papers. Choosing papers carefully the first time is therefore cheaper than fixing them later.

Eligibility and what the form asks for

Candidates who have passed a bachelor's degree, or equivalent, or who are in the final year in the exam year are eligible to appear. There is no age limit set by NTA, but each university applies its own age, subject-combination, quota and percentage rules, and appearing in CUET PG does not entitle anyone to admission. NTA states this in the bulletin and the FAQ.

Exam cities: the "two" and "four" conflict

Candidates often ask how many exam cities they can choose. The bulletin's chapter 5 says "a maximum of TWO cities" within the state of your present and permanent address. The FAQ (question 13) says "up to Four (04) cities", and the public notice of 19 December 2025 permits candidates to select up to four examination city choices within the state of their permanent or present residence, subject to the availability of cities, with those who had already applied allowed to add choices in the correction window.

City slip and admit card: how long before the exam you actually get them

The 14 February 2026 notice said the city intimation slip would be available "approximately ten days prior to the examination date". In practice NTA released it in batches, and the lead time shortened for later dates. The table gives each batch, the date the slip and the admit card came out, and the days before the first day of that batch (our subtraction). The advance slip is not the admit card; the notices say so in as many words.

The practical lesson is to treat the admit card as a three-to-six-day notice. If your centre is in another city, book travel when the city slip appears, not when the admit card does, because the slip tells you the city and the admit card tells you the shift and the centre. The notices say no admit card is sent by post or email, a duplicate is not issued at the centre, and the date and shift on the card cannot be changed.

On exam day: documents and rules from the bulletin

The bulletin asks candidates to report about 90 minutes before the exam. Shifts in 2026 were 9:00 to 10:30 am, 12:30 to 2:00 pm and 4:00 to 5:30 pm, according to the date-sheet notice. You need the printed e-admit card with the self-declaration filled in, one passport-size photograph as uploaded in the form, a transparent ball-point pen and an original, valid photo ID from the bulletin's list. Calculators are not allowed, rough work goes on the sheet provided, and a candidate who does not appear on the scheduled day is not given a re-test.