CUET PG Result and Scorecard: Raw Marks, Percentile and Normalisation

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The conflict: normalisation in the bulletin, actual marks in the result

Two official documents describe the scoring differently, so both are set out here. The bulletin's section 10.1 says that for pre-planned multi-shift papers, raw marks obtained in different shifts "will be converted to NTA Score" using the procedure in Appendix V, which is a percentile-based normalisation. Appendix V then says the percentile score "will be the Normalized Score" and used for the merit lists. The 14 June 2026 notice, issued after the result and after social-media questions about the re-scheduled sittings, says the results were prepared on actual marks, that the re-scheduled cohort was too small to normalise against the main population, and that its papers had been prepared in advance and certified as of equivalent difficulty.

Our reading, labelled as such: the percentile procedure is the rule NTA published for multi-shift papers, but the notice of 14 June 2026 reports that for 2026 the result used actual marks. We do not know whether NTA applied normalisation to any subject that had comparable shifts before the 14 June clarification, so we do not claim that it did or did not. If your score card shows marks out of 300, it is on actual marks.

The 2026 result in numbers

NTA's 24 April notice gives registered and appeared counts in two ways: by unique candidate (a candidate who registered for four papers counts once) and by subject (each test counted separately). The exam ran on 17 days between 6 and 30 March 2026, across 50 shifts and 157 subjects, for 4,11,366 unique candidates.

Women made up 56.6% of registrations and 57.4% of those who appeared (our division). Of the 4,11,366 candidates 66,146 did not appear at all, which is 16.1%. By subject the picture is different: 7,14,621 test registrations and 5,04,301 appeared, which is 70.6%. That is about 1.74 papers per registered candidate (our division), and it means a candidate who sat some papers often skipped others.

These counts tell you how big the field was for each code, which is useful context for a cut-off, but they are not scores. NTA's notice lists the top five scorers in each large subject by name and marks; we do not reproduce names. The 14 June annex also lists the top 100 marks in the re-scheduled subjects.

The re-scheduled sitting: who, how many, and why it mattered

Not every candidate sat on the scheduled day. The 14 June notice says examinations at some centres could not be held as planned: centres in Tura, Meghalaya, where local disturbances affected the conduct of the exam, and certain overseas centres affected by the security situation. NTA held a special re-scheduled exam on 29 and 30 March 2026 for 534 unique candidates from Tura and 31 from overseas centres, across 28 subjects. It says the exam was a welfare measure, used the same marking scheme and papers prepared in advance and certified as of equivalent difficulty, and was evaluated on actual marks, because a cohort that small could not be compared with the main population.

How NTA's percentile method works, with its own worked example

Even though 2026 used actual marks, the method in Appendix V is worth understanding, because it is the published rule for multi-shift papers and 2027 may use it. A candidate's percentile score is 100 multiplied by the number of candidates in the same session with a raw score equal to or less than theirs, divided by the number who appeared in that session. The topper of each session gets 100. The percentile is computed to seven decimal places to reduce ties, and it is not an average of subject percentiles and not the same as a percentage of marks.

The table is the bulletin's own Session-3 example (Day 2, Shift 1, 41,326 candidates). Our recomputed column matches the printed one to seven decimals for all five candidates, which is a useful check that the formula is what the document says. Notice what it shows: candidate B scores 121 raw and gets about 90.12, while candidate C scores 41 and gets about 50.45. A candidate with the same raw score in a harder shift, where fewer people reach it, would sit at a higher percentile; that is the point of the method.

Appendix V also fixes the rule for eligibility when shifts differ. If the percentile equivalent of the qualifying marks is not the same in every shift, the lowest of them becomes the eligibility cut-off for all shifts. Its example: if 40 per cent marks correspond to 78 in one shift and 79 in another, everyone at or above 78 in both shifts is eligible in the general category. Candidates are distributed into sessions at random, which the bulletin says avoids bias.

Answer keys, challenges and the result

The gap from the last regular exam day to the result was 16 days in 2024, 35 in 2025 and 28 in 2026 (our subtraction from the dates above; 25 days if you count from the re-scheduled sitting of 30 March). The key challenge window sat in the middle of that gap each time. Plan the post-exam period as about two to five weeks, not two days.

Downloading your scorecard, and what it is valid for

The scorecard is on NTA's CUET (PG) site using your application number and date of birth, and from 28 April 2026 also on DigiLocker, where NTA's notice gives a step-by-step procedure that needs a DigiLocker account linked to Aadhaar and your CUET PG registration and roll numbers. NTA does not send score cards by post. The score is valid only for admission in 2026-27, and NTA shares scores and candidate data with participating universities. Some universities then pull the score themselves: the University of Delhi's CSAS (PG) document says it auto-integrates name, date of birth, category, gender, parents' names and CUET score through DigiLocker and API Setu, and will not change data received that way.

What the score card does not do is rank you. NTA's notices that we read publish counts, the top scorers' marks and the answer keys, not an all-India rank list or cut-off. Your position comes from the university's merit list, so the next step after the result is each university's own process. For the University of Delhi we have set out the published round-by-round minimum scores in the university guide below.