CUET (UG) 2026
Key facts from NTA's CUET (UG) 2026 information bulletin, with a calculator for your raw marks in each paper.
Calculators
Every tool follows the official rule and links its source.
Key facts from the bulletin
| Subjects | 37 papers: 13 languages, 23 domain subjects and the General Aptitude Test; choose up to five |
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| Each paper | 50 questions, all compulsory, 60 minutes (compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour for eligible PwBD candidates) |
| Marking | +5 correct, −1 incorrect, 0 unanswered |
| Mode | Computer Based Test in multiple shifts; raw marks are converted to NTA scores by the equipercentile method |
| 2026 exam | Held 11–31 May and 6–7 June 2026 (19 days, 35 shifts); 15,68,867 registered, 11,64,098 appeared; result declared 23 June 2026 |
Three things to work out before you apply
What your answer sheet is worth. CUET (UG) test paper (any subject) has 50 questions for 250 marks, with 1 off for a wrong answer. The marks calculator works the score out section by section from the official answer key.
Your raw score is not your final score. CUET runs in many shifts on different days, and no two question papers are equally hard. NTA therefore converts raw marks to an NTA score by the equipercentile method, which compares you with the other candidates who sat your shift rather than with a fixed pass mark. The calculator gives the raw figure the answer key produces; the NTA score that universities see is worked out afterwards and can differ from it.
Because every paper is 50 compulsory questions in 60 minutes and a wrong answer costs 5 marks against a right one, the arithmetic of guessing is unusually harsh here: one wrong answer wipes out a fifth of a right one's value. Work out the raw score for each of your papers separately, since universities set their own subject requirements.