CUET PG Syllabus 2027: Subject-Wise Topics, Chapter Weightage and PDF Download

Reading comprehension passages (factual and inference-based); identifying main idea; author tone and purpose; vocabulary in context; para jumbles; para completion; sentence correction; fill in the blanks from passage.

Synonyms and antonyms; one-word substitution; idioms and phrases; sentence improvement; error spotting; active and passive voice; direct and indirect speech; analogy-based word pairs.

Number system; HCF and LCM; percentage; ratio and proportion; profit and loss; simple and compound interest; time and work; time-speed-distance; data interpretation (tables, bar graphs, pie charts); number series; averages; mixture and alligation.

Analogies; series completion (number, letter, figure); coding-decoding; blood relations; direction sense; logical deduction; syllogisms; Venn diagrams; statement-conclusion; seating arrangement; calendar and clock problems.

Current affairs (last 12 months); Indian Constitution and polity; Indian history and culture; geography (India and world); science and technology; sports and awards; government schemes; international organisations.

Bohr model; quantum numbers (n, l, m, s); electronic configuration; de Broglie hypothesis; Heisenberg uncertainty principle; ionic bond; covalent bond; coordinate bond; hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3, sp3d, sp3d2); VSEPR theory; molecular orbital (MO) theory (bonding, antibonding, non-bonding MOs; bond order); hydrogen bonding (inter and intramolecular); dipole moment.

Zeroth, first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics; internal energy (U); enthalpy (H); heat capacity (Cp, Cv); Hess law; bond enthalpy; entropy (S); Gibbs free energy (G = H - TS); criteria of spontaneity; Kirchhoff equation; thermochemistry; Trouton rule.

Law of mass action; Kp, Kc, Kx and their interrelation; Le Chatelier principle; ionic equilibrium; Ostwald dilution law; pH and pOH; buffer solutions (Henderson-Hasselbalch equation); solubility product (Ksp); hydrolysis; rate laws; order and molecularity; integrated rate equations; half-life; Arrhenius equation; activation energy; collision theory; transition state theory; enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten); homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

Electrode potential; standard hydrogen electrode; Nernst equation; EMF; Faraday laws of electrolysis; specific, equivalent, and molar conductance; Kohlrausch law; galvanic and electrolytic cells; lead storage battery; fuel cells; corrosion; Raoult law; colligative properties (vapour pressure lowering, boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, osmotic pressure); Van Hoff factor; abnormal molecular masses.

Physisorption vs. chemisorption; Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherms; BET surface area; colloids (Tyndall effect, Brownian motion, coagulation — Hardy-Schulze rule); emulsions; micelles; heterogeneous catalysis; radioactivity (alpha, beta, gamma decay); nuclear binding energy; nuclear fission and fusion; half-life and decay constant; radiocarbon dating.

Modern periodic law; periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic radius, ionisation energy, electron affinity, electronegativity, oxidation states; anomalous behaviour of first elements (Li, Be, B, C); diagonal relationship; hydrogen (position, isotopes, hydrides, water, H2O2); alkali metals (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs); alkaline earth metals (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba); anomalous behaviour of Be.

Groups 13–18: electronic configuration, oxides, hydrides, halides, allotropes, uses; inert pair effect; Group 15 (N, P, As — allotropes, oxyacids); Group 16 (O, S, Se — allotropes, oxides); Group 17 halogens; Group 18 noble gases (xenon compounds); interhalogen compounds; d-block: variable oxidation states, colour, magnetic behaviour, catalytic properties; first-row transition metals (Ti to Cu); zinc group (Zn, Cd, Hg).

Werner theory; coordination number; ligands (monodentate, bidentate, polydentate, ambidentate, chelating); IUPAC nomenclature; structural isomerism (ionisation, linkage, hydrate, coordination); stereo isomerism (geometric and optical); valence bond theory (VBT — inner and outer orbital complexes); crystal field theory (CFT) for octahedral, tetrahedral, and square planar complexes; spectrochemical series; CFSE; magnetic properties; stability of complexes; applications in medicine (cisplatin) and qualitative analysis.

Lanthanides: electronic configuration, lanthanide contraction, oxidation states; actinides: electronic configuration, uses; principles of metallurgy (concentration, reduction, refining); extraction of Fe, Cu, Al, Zn; thermodynamic principles in metallurgy; systematic qualitative analysis (Group I–VI cation separation; anion identification); volumetric analysis (acid-base, redox, complexometric titrations); gravimetric analysis basics.

Hybridization; inductive effect (+I, -I); resonance (mesomeric) effect (+M, -M); hyperconjugation; steric effects; aromaticity (Huckel 4n+2 rule); nucleophilic substitution (SN1 — first-order, racemisation; SN2 — second-order, inversion); electrophilic aromatic substitution (mechanism, ortho/para vs. meta directing groups); elimination reactions (E1, E2 — Saytzeff, Hofmann rules); electrophilic and nucleophilic addition; free radical reactions; carbocation, carbanion, free radical, and carbene intermediates.

Alkanes (conformations, combustion); alkenes (Markovnikov addition, ozonolysis, hydroboration, epoxidation); alkynes (acidity, Lindlar catalyst); benzene and arenes; halogen derivatives (SN1/SN2, Grignard reagents); alcohols and phenols (acidity, esterification, oxidation, Williamson synthesis); ethers; aldehydes and ketones (nucleophilic addition, aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction); carboxylic acids and derivatives (esterification, acid chlorides, anhydrides, amides); amines (basicity, diazonium salts — coupling and Sandmeyer reactions); named reactions: Diels-Alder, Wittig, Beckmann rearrangement, Fries rearrangement, Wolf-Kishner reduction, Clemmensen reduction.

Chirality; chiral centres; enantiomers; diastereomers; meso compounds; optical activity; R/S (CIP) notation; E/Z isomerism; conformational analysis (Newman projections — staggered, eclipsed, gauche; chair and boat cyclohexane); addition polymers (PE, PVC, Teflon); condensation polymers (nylon, Dacron, Bakelite); carbohydrates (Fischer and Haworth projections, anomers, mutarotation, reducing sugars, starch vs. cellulose); proteins (amino acids, peptide bonds, primary to quaternary structure, denaturation); lipids (saponification, phospholipids); nucleic acids (DNA double helix, base pairing, RNA types).

UV-Visible: chromophores, auxochromes, Beer-Lambert law, conjugation effects on lambda-max; IR spectroscopy: characteristic absorptions of O-H, N-H, C=O, C-O, C-H (stretching and bending), fingerprint region; 1H NMR: chemical shift (delta ppm), shielding/deshielding, n+1 splitting rule, coupling constants, integration; 13C NMR basics; mass spectrometry: molecular ion peak (M+), base peak, isotope peaks (M+1, M+2), fragmentation patterns, McLafferty rearrangement; five-membered heterocycles (pyrrole, furan, thiophene — aromaticity, reactivity); six-membered (pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrazine — basicity, electrophilic substitution); fused heterocycles (indole, quinoline, isoquinoline — basic reactions).

Vector algebra and calculus (gradient, divergence, curl; Stokes, Gauss, and Green theorems); matrices (eigenvalues, eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem); complex numbers; Fourier series; Laplace and Fourier transforms; ordinary and partial differential equations; curvilinear coordinates.

Newton laws; conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum); central force problems (Kepler laws, Rutherford scattering); rigid body dynamics (moment of inertia tensor, Euler equations); Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics; oscillations (SHM, damped, forced, resonance); special relativity (Lorentz transformation, time dilation, length contraction, E=mc2).

Coulomb law; Gauss law; Laplace and Poisson equations; dielectrics; Biot-Savart law; Ampere law; Faraday law; Maxwell equations (integral and differential form); electromagnetic waves; wave propagation; polarisation; interference; diffraction; Poynting vector.

Wave-particle duality; Schrodinger equation (time-dependent and time-independent); particle in a box; quantum harmonic oscillator; hydrogen atom (energy levels, quantum numbers n-l-m-s, wavefunctions); angular momentum operators; spin; Pauli exclusion principle; first-order perturbation theory; identical particles.

Laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic potentials (G, H, A, U); Maxwell relations; phase transitions; partition functions; Boltzmann statistics; Fermi-Dirac statistics (electrons in metals); Bose-Einstein statistics (photons, phonons); ideal and real gases; virial equation of state.

Crystal structure (Bravais lattices, Miller indices, Bragg law); band theory; p-n junction; superconductivity (Meissner effect, BCS basics); op-amps; digital electronics (logic gates, flip-flops); nuclear binding energy; radioactivity; nuclear reactions (fission, fusion); particle detectors; elementary particles (quarks, leptons — standard model basics).

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure; organelles (mitochondria, chloroplast, ER, Golgi, lysosomes, nucleus); fluid mosaic model; membrane transport (diffusion, osmosis, active transport, endocytosis); cell cycle (G1, S, G2, M; checkpoints; cyclins and CDKs); mitosis and meiosis; metabolic pathways (glycolysis, TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, Calvin cycle); enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten, inhibition types); protein structure; lipid and nucleotide metabolism.

Mendelian genetics; linkage and crossing over; sex-linked inheritance; DNA structure (Watson-Crick double helix, B/A/Z forms, supercoiling); DNA replication (semi-conservative; enzymes — DnaA, DnaB, primase, DNA polymerase, ligase; Okazaki fragments); transcription (promoters, sigma factor, mRNA processing — 5 cap, poly-A tail, splicing — GT-AG rule); translation (codons, wobble hypothesis, initiation-elongation-termination); gene regulation (lac operon, trp operon, eukaryotic transcription factors, chromatin remodelling, epigenetics); recombinant DNA technology (restriction enzymes, cloning vectors, PCR, Southern blotting, Sanger sequencing); genomics and proteomics basics.

Photosynthesis (Z-scheme, C3, C4, CAM); photorespiration; transpiration and water potential; mineral nutrition; plant hormones (auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ABA, ethylene); photoperiodism; vernalisation; animal physiology: digestion, blood circulation (cardiac cycle), gas exchange, excretion (nephron, counter-current mechanism), nervous system (action potential, synaptic transmission), endocrine system, immune system (innate and adaptive, antibody classes, vaccination).

Bacteria (classification, growth curve, reproduction); viruses (replication cycle, bacteriophages); fungi; sterilisation and disinfection; population ecology (logistic growth, carrying capacity, Lotka-Volterra equations); community ecology (succession, climax community, diversity indices); biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P, water); biodiversity and conservation; evolution (natural selection, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, speciation, phylogeny); Woese three-domain classification.

Accounting concepts and conventions; journal entries; ledger; trial balance; final accounts (Trading, P&L, Balance Sheet); depreciation (SLM, WDV, annuity, sinking fund); bank reconciliation; consignment and joint venture accounts; issue, forfeiture, and reissue of shares; issue and redemption of debentures; company final accounts (Companies Act 2013); holding and subsidiary company accounts; amalgamation; cash flow statement (AS-3).