CUET PG Syllabus: All 157 Paper Codes Mapped to the Official PDFs

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Find your paper

If you do not yet know your paper code, work backwards from the programme. Each participating university publishes a file that maps its programmes to codes (the university guide in this series shows how many universities use each code), and NTA warns that the same course can sit under different codes at different universities. Choose the code from the university's own file, then open its PDF below.

What every CUET PG syllabus PDF says first

Each PDF opens with the same note. The question paper will have 75 questions; all questions will be based on subject-specific knowledge; all questions are compulsory; and the questions will be bilingual (English and Hindi). We read the cover note in all 151 PDFs that have a text layer and every one says 75 questions. Six PDFs (Hindu Studies, Bengali, Bhutia, Kashmiri, Indo-Tibetan and Italian) are scanned images with no text we could read, so we make no claim about them beyond the fact that the link opens. The fourth line follows the medium rule of the bulletin: all 22 Common, 30 Science and 26 Humanities PDFs say the questions will be bilingual, and all 12 M.Tech. PDFs say the paper will be in English (our check of the readable files).

That last row matters for one paper: the Computer Science and Information Technology syllabus (SCQP09) carries a later date than the rest, so it was uploaded or revised after the first batch. If you saved a copy of it in December, open the live PDF again.

The syllabi differ in size by a factor of twenty-five

The PDFs are not uniform documents. Counting the words in each text layer (our count, approximate, and only for the 137 with a real body), the Law (LLM) syllabus runs to about 7,100 words while the General Paper (COQP11) is about 280 and the General - Management paper (COQP12) about 210. A long syllabus is a list of everything a university course might teach; a short one is a list of topics. Neither tells you how many of the 75 questions come from each part: NTA publishes no section-wise question counts or marks in these PDFs.

The two general papers: COQP11 and COQP12, topic by topic

These two codes are used by the largest number of programmes, so their syllabi are the most useful to read closely. The General Paper (COQP11) has five headings: English and Hindi comprehension; general knowledge and awareness (13 listed topics: literature, history, Indian Constitution, personalities, sports, national and international economy, economics, science, politics, legal awareness, trade awareness, geography and culture); computer basics (16 listed topics); general aptitude with 24 listed topics from clocks and calendars to mixture and allegation; and logical reasoning with 18. The General - Management paper (COQP12) has four headings: English and comprehension, maths and quantitative ability, logical reasoning and data interpretation.

The counts are our tally of the lines in each PDF. The practical reading is that COQP12 is a pure aptitude paper while COQP11 adds general awareness and computer basics and drops data interpretation. A candidate who needs both would be sitting two papers whose reasoning and English parts overlap almost completely, which is a good reason to prepare them together. The tracker below lists all 45 COQP12 topics exactly as the syllabus names them, with ticks saved only in your browser.

Subject papers: how the science and humanities syllabi are written

Subject syllabi read as topic lists drawn from the first two years of a bachelor's course. The Economics paper (COQP10) is organised under micro economics, macro economics, money and inflation, consumption and investment (including the Mundell-Fleming model, Harrod-Domar and Solow growth models), statistical methods, mathematical methods and Indian economy. The Political Science paper (HUQP18) opens with Western political philosophy from Plato to Rawls, Indian political thought from Ram Mohan Roy to Kautilya, political theory, international relations and Indian government and politics. The Computer Science paper (SCQP09) begins with reasoning and decision-making, then mathematics (sets, probability, algebra, coordinate geometry, calculus) and then computer topics such as operating systems, data structures and digital fundamentals.

Two points follow. First, several subject papers carry a general-ability component (the Computer Science PDF starts with thinking and decision making), so a candidate who studies only the subject core is leaving marks. Second, the Commerce paper (COQP08) is broad: its PDF lists around twenty areas from micro economics and currency and banking to cost accounting, company law, income tax law, auditing, marketing and business mathematics. It is the right paper for a commerce graduate and a hard one for anyone who skipped a topic family.

Official syllabus PDFs: Common (22 papers)

Official syllabus PDFs: Science (30 papers)

Official syllabus PDFs: Humanities (26 papers)

Official syllabus PDFs: M.Tech. and Higher Sciences (12 papers)

These papers are in English only. MTQP04 (data science, AI, cyber security and computer science / engineering) is the most widely used M.Tech. code in our count of NTA's university files.

Official syllabus PDFs: Languages (41 papers)

Language papers are set in the language itself, except Linguistics, which is in English. Several of these PDFs are scanned images, so the link opens a picture of the syllabus rather than text you can search.

Official syllabus PDFs: Acharya (26 papers)

Acharya papers are mainly in Sanskrit; Hindu Studies is in Hindi and English, and Indian Knowledge System and Baudha Darshan are trilingual in Hindi, Sanskrit and English.

How to use a syllabus PDF without over-trusting it

Three habits make a syllabus useful. Read the PDF for your paper code, not for a similarly named paper: Hindu Studies, for instance, is evaluated under different codes by different universities, which is NTA's own example. Use it as a checklist of topic names, not a weighting, because none of the PDFs states how many questions come from which part. And re-open the official link before you finalise your plan, because two PDFs carry later upload dates than the first batch, which suggests NTA revised them after publication.