Common University Entrance Test (UG) — General Test for admission to central, state, deemed and private universities. Conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA). Aditi knows this paper from the site's own pattern pages — and reads your scores, your mocks and what you haven't touched before saying a word.
Once a year (registration typically opens January–February; exam runs across multiple shifts and days in May; results by late June). Computer-based test (CBT), MCQ only, 50 questions in 60 minutes, no sectional lock — questions may be attempted in any order within the paper. No physical or on-screen calculator is provided..
60 minutes, 50 questions, 250 marks for the General Test paper (candidates may additionally sit up to 2 language and 2 domain-subject papers, each scored the same way). +5 for a correct answer, −1 for a wrong one, 0 for unattempted. Raw scores are normalised across shifts into a percentile for each paper attempted.
Each participating university runs its own admission portal and counselling process (for example, Delhi University's CSAS) that combines the relevant CUET scores using that university's own programme-wise weightage formula. The same CUET percentile can clear one university's cutoff for a programme and miss another's.
Candidates who receive and accept a seat offer complete document verification and fee payment within the university's deadline to confirm the admission.
Merit — one of up to 5 papers a candidate can sit, feeds each university's own counselling formula
Marking: −1 per wrong answer; 0 for unattempted
One combined MCQ paper — NTA does not publish an official per-topic question split. The rows below are this site's own estimated grouping, from released sample papers and pattern analysis, not an NTA-declared section structure.
The CUET UG General Test is a single 60-minute, computer-based paper of 50 compulsory MCQs — NTA does not publish a fixed question count per topic, and there is no sectional time lock within the paper. Every correct answer scores +5 and every wrong answer costs −1; an unattempted question scores 0.
~24 of the paper's 50 questions across five topic areas — Class 8-level arithmetic, algebra, geometry, mensuration and basic data interpretation. No calculator is provided, so mental-math speed matters as much as knowing the method.
~15 questions testing pattern recognition and structured deduction — analogies, series, coding-decoding, blood relations, seating and syllogisms — none of it requiring outside subject knowledge.
~11 questions — the single heaviest individual topic area in the whole paper. Pure recall: Indian polity, geography, general science, history and static current-affairs facts, no calculation involved.
The highest-weight chapters in each subject, linked to their notes. Weights are estimates from previous papers where the conducting body publishes none. Your guide weighs these against your own scores.
CAT, XAT, CLAT and CUET: selection over speed, and reading the paper before it reads you. Pick one to start, or just talk — Aditi has read your profile either way.
Every fact on this page comes from the exam's blueprint on this site. How the guide uses it: how Guidance works.
Aditi has the pattern and will read your work. Talk it through, and leave with a plan you tick off.
