CUET(PG) 2024

Common University Entrance Test (CUET-PG) is currently being conducted between 11.03.2024 to 28.03.2024. Institutes like TISS, Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management, Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow, etc. consider the scores of CUET-PG for admission into their post graduate programmes.

Structure of the Exam

While CUET-PG consists of multiple exams for the various PG disciplines offered by central universities, COQP12 is the code that caters to admissions for General MBA, Marketing & Finance Management, Tourism, Travel & Hotel Management, Business Analytics, Sales & Marketing etc., under the CUET exam. Here are the details you need to know.

The duration of the exam was for 105 minutes (1 hour 45 minutes) in which the candidates are expected to answer 75 questions. The test does not consist of any sections - all the 75 questions are given one after the other. The exam begins with Verbal Ability questions, followed by a mix of Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation questions.

For each correct answer a student is awarded 4 marks with a negative marketing of 1 mark for every wrong answer. There is no penalty for unanswered questions.

The break-up of the questions across different areas of the test is as below.

Section	No. of Questions
Verbal Ability	25
Quantitative Aptitude	23
Logical Reasoning	17
Data Interpretation	10
Total	75

Verbal Ability – 25 questions – Moderate to Difficult

The Verbal Ability part had a total of 25 questions. There were 5 questions from Reading Comprehension, 5 from Vocabulary, and 15 from Grammar.

There was only one Reading Comprehension passage of 230-250 words that included a mix of specific detail and inference-related inquiries. The questions ranged from easy to moderate in complexity. The passage was very readable with few difficult words or phrases.

Vocabulary questions consisted of 1 Synonym, 1 Antonym, 2 Idioms, and 2 one-word substitution questions. There were two types of idioms and one word substitute questions: one that required students to match four idioms/words to their respective meanings/substitutes, and another that required students to mark one idiom/word as the correct answer. Similarly, the one-word substitution questions were direct synonym and antonym questions.

Grammar questions consisted of a mix of Parts of Speech, Sentence Formation, Para Formation, Error Identification, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Active/Passive Voice, Direct/Indirect Speech questions. In Fill in the Blanks type questions, phrasal verbs, prepositions and tenses were tested. Error identification type had questions which asked to identify the correct form of a given sentence, identify the part of a sentence with an error and identify the right replacement for the italicised part in a sentence. The others – Active to Passive Voice, Direct to Indirect Speech, Sentence Formation and Para Formation – contained one question each.

Quantitative Aptitude – 23 questions – Moderate to Difficult

The Quantitative part of the paper featured a variety of questions. These included 2-3 data sufficiency questions on Time & Work/Pipes & Cisterns, assessing analytical skills. Additionally, there were questions on Time and Distance, Simple and Compound Interest, Percentages/Profit and Loss, Ratio/Variation/Proportion, Venn diagrams, and Averages.

There were 8 questions on Time & Work/Pipes & Cisterns, 3 questions on Time, Speed, And Distance, 6 questions on Percentages/Profit and Loss. There were 2 questions each on Simple Interest/Compound Interest and on Ratio/Variation/Proportion, and 1 question each on Venn Diagrams and on Averages.

Logical Reasoning – 17 questions – Easy to Moderate

Questions from Logical Reasoning were a total of 17, from a variety of areas. These included assessing Statements and Conclusions, Cause and Effect relationships (4 questions), Blood relations (3 questions), Arrangements (2 questions), Coding-Decoding (2 questions), solving Series patterns (2 questions), and 1 each of Mirror image, Cubes, Relationship diagrams, and Data sufficiency. Arrangements saw a question based on arranging six people into two rows facing each other and determining the number of people in a particular row. Cubes saw a question which asked to calculate the number of smaller cubes without any colour when a larger cube painted on two opposite sides is cut into smaller cubes.

Data interpretation – 10 questions – Moderate to Difficult

In the data interpretation segment, there were a total of 10 questions, with two sets of 5 questions each. The first set had questions based on a pie chart representing the distribution of 280 chocolates among 5-6 brands, with percentages and ratios determining the distribution. Additionally, there was another set with questions based on a line graph depicting the export-import ratio from the years 1995 to 2000, ranging from 0.25 to 2.00, providing insights into trade dynamics over time.