Analysis Of CUET 2026

The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission to various postgraduate programmes across participating universities in India. For aspirants seeking admission to law programmes offered by Universities such as University of Delhi, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and several other participating institutions, CUET PG Law is an important entrance exam for them.

The CUET PG Law has been conducted as its present format since 2023. This examination consists of 75 multiple choice questions, with questions generally being drawn from areas such as General Knowledge and Current Affairs, English, Mathematics, Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Aptitude.

One important thing that every aspirant must understand is that CUET PG Law does not follow a completely rigid or predictable question pattern; rather the number, nature and difficulty level of questions from different areas can vary from year to year. This makes an analysis of previous-year papers extremely important.

By studying the papers conducted since 2023, we can identify recurring themes, important topics, changes in difficulty level, and the areas that recure greater attention during preparation.

Thousands of students appear for this examination every year but a well planned preparation strategy based on actual previous trends can make a significant difference. In this article, we analyse the CUET PG Law papers year by year to understand what has actually been asked and what students preparing for CUET PG Law 2026 should expect and prioritise.

Overall Section-Wise Distribution

The most important first conclusion is therefore that this is a remarkably balanced paper. There is no one section that can safely be ignored. Maths and Computers had 15 each, English and GK 14 each, and Reasoning 13.

MATHEMATICS / QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

Total:

15 questions

Effective after Q14 was dropped:

14 evaluated questions

The Maths section is very interesting because there is almost no repetition of individual chapters. Instead, the examiner has sampled a very wide range of elementary topics.

If we group Maths into broader families:

Arithmetic & Commercial Maths: 8 questions

• Simplification - 1

• Percentage/growth - 1

• SI/CI - 1

• Profit & Loss - 1

• Ratio/Fraction comparison - 2

• Average/Income-expenditure - 1

• HCF/LCM - 1

Geometry & Mensuration: 4 questions

Time-Speed-Distance: 1

Clock: 1

Sets: 1, but dropped

What stands out in Maths

There is no Data Interpretation set, no probability, permutation-combination, algebraic equations, time-and-work, ages, mixture-alligation or partnership.

So this paper rewards breadth of basic arithmetic, rather than mastering two or three difficult chapters. A student who had basic command over 12-15 standard aptitude chapters would have been much better placed than someone who had studied advanced mathematics selectively.

LOGICAL & ANALYTICAL REASONING

Total: 13 questions

Major takeaway from Reasoning

The section is extremely diversified. There is no single dominant chapter.

Also noticeable is what did not appear:

• No conventional syllogism

• No long seating-arrangement puzzle

• No calendar

• No major data-sufficiency set

• No lengthy analytical puzzle

Thus the reasoning section was short, and had questions capable of being solved quickly.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Total: 14 questions

The paper begins with a full passage on Alexander Graham Bell followed by five direct comprehension questions, making RC alone more than one-third of the English component.

Vocabulary is another major component: word meanings, one-word substitution, antonyms, idioms and another antonym-matching question account for six questions.

Two questions were actually from literature, one on Indian English literature and another on postcolonial literature.

Most striking English observation -

There was not a single conventional direct grammar question.

No:

• Subject-verb agreement

• Error spotting

• Tenses

• Articles

• Prepositions

• Active-passive

• Direct-indirect speech

• Sentence correction

• Cloze test

Instead, English was dominated by Reading comprehension, Vocabulary and Literature.

That is a major preparation signal from this particular paper.

COMPUTER AWARENESS

Total: 15 questions

Computer Awareness tied with Maths was a big stand alone section.

Networking & Internet: 4

Questions were asked on:

• Browsers

• Modem/Ethernet Card/Repeater/Router

• WAN

• Full form of URL

The paper expressly asks about browsers, networking hardware, the Internet as a WAN, and URL terminology.

Memory & Storage: 3

• Petabyte

• ROM/non-volatile memory

• Fastest-access memory

Cybersecurity: 2

• Viruses/malware

• Trojan, cookie, spyware and firewall

These were fairly detailed conceptual questions, not merely full forms.

What this tells us

Computers cannot be treated as a miscellaneous 4-5 question topic for this examination. It contributed a full 20% of the paper.

At the same time, questions remained largely at the computer-fundamentals level. There was no serious coding, programming syntax, database query, algorithm or advanced computing question.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / GENERAL AWARENESS

Total: 14 questions, excluding Science

History: 4

This included:

- Jallianwala Bagh, Purna Swaraj, Dandi March, Bhagat Singh and Quit India chronology

- Nalanda and Takshashila

- Post-independence chronology

- Vande Mataram

Education-related GK: 3 questions

This is something I would particularly highlight.

Questions came on:

• NEP 2020 and 6% of GDP

• States which did not accept NEP 2020 / State Education Policy

• PM-SHRI schools

Q22 directly deals with NEP 2020, while Q49 again returns to State Education Policy and Q68 asks PM-SHRI.

So 3 out of 14 GK questions, over 21% of the GK component, were education-related.

That appears far too substantial to regard education policy as an incidental topic.

Polity: 2

Both were extremely basic constitutional questions:

• Fundamental Duty relating to scientific temper

• Article 15 prohibition of discrimination

Geography: 2

• Kanchenjunga/Himalayan ranges

• States and capitals

GENERAL SCIENCE

Total: 4 questions

The science was very elementary:

• Metals and conductivity/electrons

• Atomic number of sodium

• Malaria/mosquito control

• Green colour of leaves

This is basically school-level general science, not specialist science preparation.

Another Very Important Finding: Question Format

The paper is not merely 75 simple one-line MCQs.

So 31 out of 75 questions, approximately 41.3% of the paper, were in just these three comparatively elaborate formats.

This matters because these questions test precision across several facts simultaneously. For example, knowing three of four book-author pairs is not always sufficient in a Match-the-List question; similarly, chronology requires knowledge of every event in the chain.

Difficulty Assessment

My assessment from the actual questions would be:

The Most Important Preparation Conclusions From the 2026 Paper

The biggest lesson is that there is no expendable major section. Maths and Computers together alone constituted 30 questions or 40% of the paper. English and Reasoning constituted another 27 questions or 36%. General Awareness and Science constituted 18 questions or 24%.

Second, within Maths and Reasoning, coverage is more important than over-specialisation. Maths produced 15 questions from almost 15 different micro-topics. Reasoning showed essentially the same pattern.

Third, for English, this paper strongly favoured reading and vocabulary rather than grammar: 5 RC, 6 vocabulary-related, 2 literature and 1 para-jumble.

Fourth, Computer Awareness deserves disproportionately serious preparation. Fifteen questions is enormous, and the syllabus needed to answer them is actually quite finite: networking, memory, I/O, CPU, OS, translators, cybersecurity, MS Office and basic computer classifications.

Finally, within GK, I would specifically flag Education and NEP-related developments. Three questions in a single paper came from this broad area, alongside another question concerning ancient centres of education. That is a very noticeable thematic emphasis.

In one line, we would characterise CUET PG March 2026 as a high-breadth, moderate-depth paper with an unusually strong Computer component and highly dispersed Maths/Reasoning topics.

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