CUET PG Syllabus 2027: 150+ Subject Papers, Subject-Wise Topics and Syllabus PDF Download

Consumer Theory: Utility theory (cardinal and ordinal), indifference curves, budget constraint, consumer equilibrium, price effect and income effect, Slutsky equation, revealed preference theory, consumer surplus, compensating variation, equivalent variation.

Production Theory: Production function, law of variable proportions, returns to scale, isoquants, isocost lines, expansion path, short-run and long-run cost functions (TC, TVC, TFC, MC, AC), economies and diseconomies of scale.

Market Structures: Perfect competition (short-run and long-run equilibrium, supply curve derivation), monopoly (profit maximisation, price discrimination, deadweight loss), monopolistic competition, oligopoly models (Cournot, Bertrand, Stackelberg), duopoly, game theory basics.

Factor Markets: Demand for factors of production, marginal revenue product, rent theories (Ricardian rent), wage determination, interest theories.

General Equilibrium & Welfare Economics: Pareto optimality conditions, Edgeworth box, First and Second Welfare Theorems, externalities (Pigou and Coase approaches), public goods.

National Income Accounting: GDP, GNP, NNP, NI, PI, DPI; production, income, and expenditure approaches; circular flow of income; measurement challenges.

Classical and Keynesian Economics: Say’s law, classical dichotomy, Keynesian consumption function, investment multiplier, IS-LM model (goods and money market equilibrium).

Aggregate Demand & Supply: AD-AS framework, price level determination, demand-pull and supply-side shocks.

Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Instruments, transmission mechanisms, crowding-out effect, Ricardian equivalence, policy effectiveness debate.

Open Economy Macroeconomics: Balance of payments structure, exchange rate determination (PPP, interest rate parity), Mundell-Fleming model.

Economic Growth Models: Harrod-Domar model (warranted, natural, actual growth rates), Solow growth model (steady-state, golden rule, convergence), endogenous growth theory.

Business Cycle & Unemployment: Types of unemployment, natural rate of unemployment, Okun’s law, real business cycle theory.

Money: Functions and forms; measures of money supply (M0, M1, M2, M3, M4); credit creation by commercial banks; money multiplier; high-powered money.

Demand for Money: Quantity theory (Fisher’s transaction approach, Cambridge cash balance approach), Keynesian liquidity preference theory (transaction, precautionary, speculative motives), Baumol-Tobin inventory model, Friedman’s modern quantity theory.

Inflation: Types (demand-pull, cost-push, structural, stagflation); measurement using CPI and WPI; effects on income distribution, savings, and investment; short-run and long-run Phillips curve.

Monetary Policy: Objectives and instruments (repo rate, reverse repo rate, CRR, SLR, open market operations, bank rate); monetary transmission mechanism; role and functions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Consumption Theories: Keynesian absolute income hypothesis (APC, MPC), Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis, Friedman’s permanent income hypothesis, Modigliani’s life-cycle hypothesis.

Investment Theories: Marginal efficiency of capital (MEC) and marginal efficiency of investment (MEI), accelerator theory (simple and flexible), Keynesian theory of investment, Tobin’s q theory.

Multiplier-Accelerator Interaction: Simple Keynesian multiplier, investment multiplier, government expenditure multiplier, foreign trade multiplier, super-multiplier, Samuelson’s interaction model of business cycles.

Descriptive Statistics: Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, geometric mean, harmonic mean), measures of dispersion (range, mean deviation, standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation), skewness, and kurtosis.

Probability: Basic rules, addition and multiplication theorems, conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem. Probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson, and Normal (properties and applications).

Sampling Theory: Types of sampling, sampling distribution, standard error, central limit theorem, point and interval estimation, confidence intervals.

Hypothesis Testing: Type I and Type II errors, level of significance, t-test (one-sample and two-sample), F-test, chi-square test (goodness of fit, test of independence), one-way ANOVA.

Correlation and Regression: Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rank correlation, simple linear regression (OLS method), multiple regression, R², adjusted R², interpretation of coefficients.

Index Numbers: Laspeyre’s, Paasche’s, and Fisher’s ideal index; Consumer Price Index (CPI); Wholesale Price Index (WPI); tests for index numbers (time reversal, factor reversal).

Time Series Analysis: Components of time series, trend analysis, seasonal variation, moving averages method.

Sets and Functions: Sets, relations, types of functions, sequences and series, limits, and continuity.

Differential Calculus: Rules of differentiation, higher-order derivatives, partial derivatives, total differentials, chain rule, economic applications (marginal analysis, elasticity).

Optimization: Unconstrained maximisation/minimisation (single and multiple variables), second-order conditions, constrained optimisation using the Lagrange multiplier method, economic applications (utility maximisation, cost minimisation).

Integral Calculus: Definite and indefinite integrals, standard integration techniques, economic applications (consumer surplus, producer surplus).

Difference and Differential Equations: First-order linear difference and differential equations; stability analysis applied to economic models.

Linear Algebra: Matrix operations, determinants, inverse of a matrix, Cramer’s rule, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Leontief input-output model.

Linear Programming: Problem formulation, graphical method, simplex method, duality theorem and its economic interpretation.

Historical Context: Colonial Indian economy (drain of wealth theory, de-industrialisation), poverty and underdevelopment at independence, Five-Year Planning era (objectives, achievements, limitations).

Agriculture: Structure of Indian agriculture, Green Revolution, land reforms, agricultural credit and marketing, APMC reforms, PM-KISAN, agricultural growth trends and challenges.

Industry and Trade Policy: Industrial licensing era, public sector enterprises, MSME sector, Make in India, National Manufacturing Policy.

Economic Reforms of 1991: Background (BoP crisis), LPG policy (liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation), structural adjustment programme, impact on growth, poverty, and inequality.

Monetary and Financial Sector: Banking sector reforms, Non-Performing Assets (NPA), SEBI, capital markets, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).

Fiscal Policy: Deficits (revenue, fiscal, primary), FRBM Act, GST implementation, public debt management.

Poverty, Inequality, and Employment: Measurement of poverty (Tendulkar and Rangarajan committee methodologies), Gini coefficient, MGNREGS, demographic dividend.

External Sector: Balance of payments structure, FDI and FPI, exchange rate management, India’s WTO commitments and trade policy.

Classical Mechanics (Newtonian, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian formalism), Thermal Physics and Thermodynamics (laws, entropy, statistical mechanics), Electromagnetism (Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves), Quantum Mechanics (Schrödinger equation, operators, perturbation theory), Nuclear and Particle Physics, Solid State Physics, Electronics, Special Theory of Relativity.

Physical Chemistry: Atomic structure, chemical bonding, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, quantum chemistry basics.
Organic Chemistry: Reaction mechanisms (SN1, SN2, E1, E2), stereochemistry, functional group transformations, spectroscopic identification.
Inorganic Chemistry: Coordination compounds, d-block and f-block element chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry.

Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra (groups, rings, fields), Linear Algebra, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Linear Programming, Topology basics.

Programming Fundamentals (C, Java, Python), Data Structures and Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Database Management Systems (SQL, ER model, normalisation), Operating Systems (process management, memory management), Computer Networks (OSI model, TCP/IP), Software Engineering principles, Artificial Intelligence fundamentals.

Cell Biology and Cell Cycle, Genetics and Molecular Biology (DNA, RNA, gene expression, Mendelian and molecular genetics), Biochemistry (metabolism, enzymology), Plant and Animal Physiology, Ecology and Environmental Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Immunology, Biotechnology basics.

Ancient India (prehistoric cultures to Gupta Empire), Medieval India (Sultanate period, Mughal Empire, regional kingdoms), Modern India (British colonial rule, socio-religious reform movements, Indian freedom struggle, post-1947 developments), World History (Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, World Wars, Cold War, decolonisation), Historiography and research methods.

Political Theory (democracy, justice, rights, liberty, sovereignty, secularism), Indian Constitution (Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles, federal structure, amendment procedure, judicial review), Comparative Politics (forms of government, electoral systems), International Relations (UN system, foreign policy, regional organisations, geopolitics), Indian Government and Politics (elections, party system, coalition politics).

Sociological Theory (Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton, Giddens), Research Methods (survey, participant observation, ethnography, content analysis), Indian Society (caste, tribe, class, family, religion, gender), Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Change and Development.

Biological Bases of Behaviour (nervous system, endocrine system), Sensation and Perception, States of Consciousness, Learning and Conditioning, Memory (encoding, storage, retrieval), Cognition and Language, Motivation and Emotion, Personality Theories (trait, psychoanalytic, humanistic), Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and Clinical Methods.

British Literature (poetry, prose, and drama from Chaucer to contemporary writers), American and World Literature, Indian Writing in English, Literary Theory and Criticism (New Criticism, Structuralism, Postcolonialism, Feminism, Deconstruction), Language and Linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology), Reading Comprehension, Grammar and Usage.

Financial Accounting (company accounts, Indian Accounting Standards), Cost and Management Accounting, Business Law (Companies Act, Contract Act), Corporate Finance (capital structure, dividend policy, CAPM), Taxation (Income Tax Act, GST structure), Business Statistics, Management Principles, Marketing Management, Human Resource Management.

Quantitative Aptitude (arithmetic, algebra, data interpretation, data sufficiency), Verbal Ability (reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, para-jumbles), Logical Reasoning (syllogisms, analogies, blood relations, seating arrangement, coding-decoding), General Awareness (current affairs, business news, Indian economy basics).