CUCET Exam Syllabus 2024

CUCET Syllabus: CUET Syllabus 2024 will be released by the National Testing Agency (NTA) with CUET Notification 2024. Central University of Entrance Test Syllabus will differ according to the course you are applying for. In this article, we have mentioned the details of the CUET Exam Syllabus 2024 in brief. Please refer to the details mentioned below.

CUCET Exam Pattern for all the CUET Exams will remain the same. CUCET Syllabus 2024 on the other hand differs according to the course you are applying for. The syllabus covers the basic topics that the candidate has studied in previous qualification courses. One can go through the important topics and their weightage before starting their preparation. Candidates can download the CUCET Syllabus 2024 in PDF format for all different subjects from the official website.

CUCET Syllabus 2024 covers various topics from English, General Aptitude, Numerical Aptitude/Data Interpretation, Reasoning, General Knowledge, and Analytical Skills. Apart from this, CUCET Syllabus 2024 covers topics from English Language, General Awareness, Mathematical Aptitude, and Analytical Skills with Domain knowledge.

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CUET Exam Syllabus 2024:

Part A:

Part A incorporates MCQs from the following discipline. I.e. English, Numerical Aptitude/Data Interpretation, Analytical Skills, Reasoning, General Aptitude, General Knowledge.

Part B: (Science)

(i) Section I (PHYSICS)

• Measurement: Dimensional analysis and error estimation, dimensional compatibility, and significant figures.
• Motion in one dimension: Average velocity, instantaneous velocity, one-dimensional motion with constant accelerations, freely falling bodies.
• Laws of Motion: Force and inertia, Newton's laws of motion, and their significance.
• Motion in two dimensions: Projectile motion, uniform circular motion, tangential and radial acceleration in curve-linear motion, relative motion, and relative acceleration.
• Linear momentum & impulse, conservation of linear momentum for the two-particle system, collisions, the collision in one dimension, a collision in two dimensions, rocket propulsion.
• Work, Power, and Energy: Work done by constant and variable forces, kinetic and potential energy, power, Conservative and non-conservative forces, conservation of energy, gravitational energy, work-energy theorem, potential energy stored in the spring.
• Linear Momentum & collisions: Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis: Angular velocity and angular acceleration, rotational kinematics, rotational motion with constant angular acceleration relationship between angular and linear quantities, rotational energy, the moment of inertia for a ring, rod, spherical shell, sphere and plane lamina, torque and angular acceleration, work, and energy in rotational motion, rolling motion of a solid sphere and cylinder.
• Gravitation: Gravitational field, Kepler's laws and motion of planets, planetary and satellite motion, geostationary satellite.
• Oscillatory motion: Harmonic motion, oscillatory motion of a mass attached to a spring, kinetic & potential energy, Time Period of a simple pendulum, comparing the simple and harmonic motion with a uniform circular motion, forced oscillations, damped oscillations, and resonance.
• Mechanics of solids and fluids: States of matter young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity, variations of pressure with depth, Buoyant forces and Archimedes principle, Pascal's law,
• Bernoulli's theorem and its application, surface energy, surface tension, angle of contact, capillary rise, coefficient of viscosity, viscous force, terminal velocity, Stoke's law, streamline motion, Reynold's numbers.
• Heat and thermodynamics: First law of thermodynamics, the specific heat of an ideal gas at constant volume and constant pressure, the relation between them, the thermodynamics process (reversible, irreversible, isothermal, adiabatic), the second law of thermodynamics, the concept of entropy, and concept of absolute scale, the efficiency of a Carnot engine, thermal conductivity, Newton's law of cooling, black body radiation, Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law.
• Wave: Wave motion, phase, amplitude, and velocity of the wave, newton's formula for longitudinal waves, propagation of sound waves in air, the effect of temperature and pressure on the velocity of sound, Laplace's correction, Principle of superposition, formation of standing waves, standing waves in strings and pipes, beats, Doppler's effect.
• Electrostatics: Coulomb's law, electric field and potential due to point charge, dipole and its field along the axis and perpendicular to the axis, electric flux, Gauss's theorem, and its applications to find the field due to infinite sheet of charge, and inside the hollow conducting sphere, capacitance, parallel plate capacitor with air and dielectric medium between the Plates, series and parallel combination of capacitors, the energy of a capacitor, displacement currents.
• Current Electricity: Concept of free and bound electrons, drift velocity and mobility, electric current, Ohm's law, resistivity, conductivity, temperature dependency of resistance, resistance in series and parallel combination, Kirchoff’s law, and their application to a network of resistances, the principle of the potentiometer, the effect of temperature on resistance and its application.
• Magnetic Effect of Current: Magnetic field due to current, Biot-Savart's law, magnetic field due to solenoid, the motion of charge in a magnetic field, force on a current-carrying conductor and torque on a current loop in a magnetic field, magnetic flux, forces between two parallel current-carrying conductors, moving coil galvanometer and its conversion into ammeter and voltmeter. 
• Matter: The magnetization of substance due to orbital and spin motions of electrons, magnetic moment of atoms, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, earth's magnetic field, and its components and their measurement.
• Electromagnetic induction: Induced e.m.f., Faraday's laws, Lenz's law, electromagnetic induction, self, and mutual induction, B-H curve, hysisteresisloss and its importance, eddy currents.
• Ray Optics and optical instruments: Sources of light, luminous intensity, luminous flux, illuminance, photometry, wave nature of light, Huygen's theory for the propagation of light and rectilinear propagation of light, the reflection of light, total internal reflection, reflection, and refraction at spherical surfaces, the focal length of a combination of lenses, spherical and chromatic aberration and their removal, refraction and dispersion of light due to a prism, simple and compound microscope, reflecting and refracting telescope, magnifying power and resolving power.
• Wave Optics: Coherent and incoherent sources of light, interference, young's double-slit experiment diffraction due to a single slit, linearly polarized light, Polaroid.
• Modern Physics: Photo-electric equation, matter waves, quantization, Planck's hypothesis, Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom and its spectra, ionization potential, Rydberg constant, solar spectrum, and Fraunhofer lines, fluorescence and phosphorescence, X-Rays and their productions, characteristic and continuous spectra. Nuclear Instability, radioactive decay laws, Emission of α, β, γ rays, Mass - defect, Mass Energy equivalence, Nuclear Fission Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Fusion. Classification of conductors, Insulators, and semiconductors on the basis of energy bands in solids, PN junction, PN Diode, junction Transistors, Transistor as an amplifier, and Oscillator.
• Principles of Logic Gates ( AND, OR and NOT ) Analog Vs Digital communication, Difference between Radio and television, Signal propagation, Principle of LASER and MASER, Population Inversion, Spontaneous and stimulated Emission.

(ii) Section II (CHEMISTRY)

• Atomic Structure: Bohr's concept. Quantum numbers, Electronic configuration, molecular orbital theory for homonuclear molecules, Pauli's exclusion principle.
• Chemical Bonding: Electrovalency, co-valency, hybridization involving s,p, and d orbitals hydrogen bonding.
• Redox Reactions: Oxidation number, oxidizing and reducing agents, balancing of equations.
• Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics: Equilibrium constant (for gaseous system only) Le Chaterlier's principle, ionic equilibrium, Ostwald's dilution law, hydrolysis, pH and buffer solution, solubility product, common ion effect, rate constant, and first-order reaction.
• Acid-Base Concepts: Bronsted Lowry & Lewis.
• Electrochemistry: Electrode potential and electro-chemical series.
• Catalysis: Types and applications.
• Colloids: Types and preparation, Brownian movement, Tyndall effect, coagulation, and peptization.
• Colligative Properties of Solution: Lowering of vapor pressure, Osmotic pressure, depression of freezing point, the elevation of boiling point, determination of molecular weight.
• Periodic Table: Classification of elements on the basis of electronic configuration, properties of s,p, and d block elements, ionization potential, electronegativity & electron affinity.
• Preparation and Properties of the following: Hydrogen peroxide. copper sulfate, silver nitrate, plaster of Paris, borax, Mohr's salt, alums, white and red lead, microcosmic salt and bleaching powder, sodium thiosulphate.
• Thermochemistry: Exothermic & endothermic reactions Heat of reaction, Heat of combustion & formation, neutralization, Hess's law.
• General Organic Chemistry: Shape of organic compounds, Inductive effect, mesomeric effect, electrophiles & nucleophiles,
• Reaction intermediates: carbonation, carbanions& free radical, Types of organic reactions, Cannizzaro Friedel Craft, Perkin, Aldol condensation.
• Isomerism: Structural, Geometrical & Optical IUPAC: Nomenclature of simple organic compounds.
• Polymers: Addition & condensation polymers
• Carbohydrates: Monosaccharides.
• Preparation and Properties of the Followings: Hydrocarbons, monohydric alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, monocarboxylic acids, primary amines, benzene, nitrobenzene, aniline, phenol, benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, Grignard Reagent.
• Solid State: Structure of simple ionic compounds, Crystal imperfections (point defects only), BornHaber cycle
• Petroleum: Important industrial fractions, cracking, octane number, anti knocking compounds.

(iii) Section III (MATHEMATICS)

• Algebra: Sets relations & functions, De-Morgan's Law, Mapping Inverse relations, Equivalence relations, Peano's axioms, Definition of rationals and integers through equivalence relation, Indices and surds, Solutions of simultaneous and quadratic equations, A.P., G.P. and H.P., Special sums i.e. ∑n2 and ∑n3 (n∑N ), Partial fraction, Binomial theorem for any index, exponential series, Logarithm, and Logarithmic series.
• Determinants and their use in solving simultaneous linear equations, Matrices, Algebra of matrices, Inverse of a matrix, Use of the matrix for solving equations.
• Probability: Definition, Dependent and independent events, Numerical problem on addition and multiplication, theorem of probability.
• Trigonometry: Identities, Trigonometric equations, properties of triangles, solution of triangles, heights and distances, Inverse function, Complex numbers and their properties, Cube roots of unity, De-Moivre's theorem.
• Co-ordinate Geometry: Pair of straight lines, Circles, General equation of second degree, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola, tracing of conics.
• Calculus: Limits & continuity of functions, Differentiation of function, tangents & normal, Simple examples of Maxima & Minima, Indeterminate forms, Integration of function by parts, by substitution and by partial fraction, definite integral, application to volumes and surfaces of frustums of the sphere, cone, and cylinder. Differential equations of the first order and of the first degree.
• Vectors: Algebra of vectors, scalar, and vector products of two and three vectors and their applications.
• Dynamics: Velocity, the composition of velocity, relative velocity, acceleration, the composition of accelerations, Motion under gravity, Projectiles, Laws of motion, Principles of conservation of momentum and energy, the direct impact of smooth bodies.
• Statics: Composition of coplanar, concurrent and parallel forces moments and couples resultant of set of coplanar forces and condition of equilibrium, determination of centroid in simple cases, Problems involving friction.

(iv) Section IV (BIOLOGY)

Zoology: 

• Origin of Life: Oparin's theory, Miller's Experiment, Viruses - structure, properties, distribution, classification, and pathogenesis (Eg. AIDS, CANCER), Viroids & Prions, Biotic balance.
• Organic Evolution: Relationship among organisms and Evidence of organic Evolution - Principles of Evolution - Lamarckism, Darwinism, and Speciation.
• Mechanism of Organic Evolution: Variations - Definition, causes and types, Mutations (Principles of Hugo deliveries), Role of mutations in speciation. Evolution through ages and human evolution
• Human Genetics and Eugenics: Human hereditary traits, the study of Twins, A.B.O. blood groups and their inheritance, Rh-factor, Sex determination. Chromosomal aberrations, Important human syndromes, Sex-linked characters and their inheritance, Applied Genetics - eugenics, euthenics, euphenics & I.Q. Test.
• Applied Biology: Wildlife of India - Endangered species: Biosphere Reserves, National Parks and sanctuaries, Project Tiger, Conservation of wildlife, Bio-energy, Poultry, Fisheries (edible fishes), Human Population, Population explosion, problems & control.
• Test - Tube Babies, &Amniocentasis, Application of Biotechnology in human welfare. Human Aging.
• Mammalian Anatomy (Eg. Rabbit): Reproductive system (excluding embryonic development) Osteology, structure, and organization of different systems.

Animal Physiology:

• Animal Nutrition: Food, Balanced diet, Nutritional imbalances, and deficiency diseases, Digestion, Absorption, Assimilation of food, (comparison between human and Rabbit).
• Animal Excretion and Osmoregulation: Chemical nature of excretory products in various animals, Physiology of excretion, Function of liver and kidney (Homeostatic regulatory functions of kidneys), Formation of urine, Osmoregulation by kidneys.
• Respiratory system: Exchange and transport of gases (O2 and Co2) factors affecting O2 and Co2 transport, Cellular respiration, different lung volumes, breathing, and sound production.
• Nervous systems: Central, autonomic, and peripheral nervous system, Receptors, Effectors, Reflex action. Nature and conduction of Nerve- impulses, Synapse, Sense organs - Structure & working of Eye & Ear, Biochemistry of vision and taste buds.
• Endocrine System: Different endocrine glands and Hormones - definition, types, characteristics, and their functions, (in relation to human beings), Hormonal disorders, and pheromones.
• Circulatory System: Circulation of body fluids- Blood and lymph, Open and closed vascular systems, Structure and working physiology of Heart, Comparison between arteries and veins, Lymphatic system.
• Animal Diversity: Classification of Animal kingdom (Based on Storar&Eusinger), Characteristic features of different phyla and classes with examples.

• Detailed studies of followings: (a) Protozoa (b) Amoeba- Habit & Habitat, structure, locomotion, reproduction, Osmoregulation, Parasitic amoebae - Entamoebahistolytica and Entamoebagengivalis, structure, diseases caused by them, and their control measures.
• Plasmodium vivax-life-cycle, malaria therapy, and control.
• Protozoan and diseases
• Porifera: A simple sponge ( Leucosolenia); Detailed study of structure & physiology, Sponge industry.
• Coelenterata: Hydra - Habit and Habitat, morphology, tissue differentiation in relation to the physiological division of labor and regeneration.
• Aschelminthes: Ascaris- morphology, life-cycle, therapy, and control.
• Annelida: Pheretimaposthuma - Bionomics and economic importance.
•  Arthropoda: (Periplanata): Structure- external and internal.
• Comparison between Periplaneta and Blatta:
• Housefly & Mosquito: structure and life – cycle
•  Economic importance of insects & their control.
• Botany Plant Cell: Structure & functions electron microscopic structured mitochondria, Plastids centrosomes.Lysosomes, microsomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Nucleus, Golgibodes, D.N.A & R.N.A. Cytoplasm, membranes, and cell wall.
• Protoplasm: structure, components physical, and chemical properties. Cell division (formation) - free cell formation, Amitosis &Meosis, Duplication of D.N.A.
• Ecology: Ecological factors (atmospheric, edaphic, climatic, geological & biotic factors).
• Ecosystem: Structure, components of ecosystem eg. Water-soluble minerals and gases, producers consumers, decomposers, Pond and forest ecosystem. Atmospheric pollution causes and control, Types of pollution - Detergents, chemicals automobile exhaust, Radioactive matter, Smog, sound, Pesticides.
• Genetics: Mendelism, Medal's experiment, and the law of inheritance. Modern Classification of the plant kingdom- (according to Ostwald &Tippo) (outline).
• Seeds in angiosperm plants: description of the development of angiosperm plants (life history of angiosperm plants).
• Fruits: Dispersal of fruits and seeds Cell differentiation Plant Tissue: Meristimatic classification of meristematic & permanent tissue and functions and classification of tissue system.
• Anatomy of Root, stem, and leaf: the difference between dicot and Monocot stem. Secondary growth of stem and root.Anatomy of hydrophytes, Xeophytes&Mesophytes
• Important phyla:Algae: Habitat, general characters &uses, description of ulothrix& spirogyra.
• Bacteria: structure - types of nutrition, reproduction, and economic importance.
• Fungi: structure description of Rhizopus and yeast and their economic importance, Fermentation.
• Bryophyta: structure and economic importance, description of Lunaria (Moss)
• Pteridophyta: general structures of pteridophytes description of fern (Dryopteris) General study of gymnosperms and life history of cycas. Classification of angiosperm, Description of families - identification and economic importance Cruciferae, Malvaceae, Leguminosae, Compositae, Cucurbitaceae.
• Soil: Absorption of water through root hairs osmosis, Translocation, and Root pressure Nitrogen cycle. Special modes of nutrition in plants (Autotrophic, heterotrophic, Parasites, saprophytes, Symbionts insectivorous, and their ecological relationships.
• Photosynthesis: Chloroplast, light, chlorophyll, and Carbon dioxide, Mechanism of photosynthesis formation of A.T.P. and their functions and importance of photosynthesis.
• Transpiration: factors and importance, Mechanism of opening and closing of stomata.
• Respiration: aerobic, anaerobic respiration, mechanism of respiration (Glycolysis, Kreb's cycle, E.T.S.) Growth & movement: definition of growth, Region of growth & their measurements, types of movements in plants, Growth hormone.

CUCET Syllabus for Integrated M.A., B.B.A, B. A., Integrated B.A.B.Ed., Integrated B.A.LLB. (Hons), Integrated M.Sc., Integrated M.A., B.Voc., B.P.A., Diploma Courses

For these courses, there is only one test paper for this session. The CUCET question paper will comprise 100 MCQs from the following discipline. I.e. English, Numerical Aptitude/Data Interpretation, Analytical Skills, Reasoning, General Aptitude, General Knowledge.