CUET Syllabus 2027: Subject-Wise Topics, PDF Download, Weightage and General Test Syllabus

Literary passages, factual passages, narrative passages, unseen passages — theme identification, inference questions, main idea, title selection, author’s purpose and tone, supporting detail questions, vocabulary in context.

Synonyms and antonyms, idioms and phrases, one-word substitution, contextual word meaning, fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Tenses, active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, articles and determiners, prepositions, conjunctions, subject-verb agreement, modifiers, sentence correction.

Para jumbles (rearrangement of sentences), para completion, cloze test, sentence improvement, identifying errors.

Features of not-for-profit organisations; Receipts and Payments Account; Income and Expenditure Account; Balance Sheet; treatment of special items — subscription (arrears and advance), entrance fees, life membership fees, legacy, donation, tournament fund, outstanding expenses, prepaid expenses, depreciation on assets.

Nature of partnership; Partnership Deed; provisions applicable in the absence of Partnership Deed; fixed vs fluctuating capital accounts; division of profit among partners; Profit and Loss Appropriation Account; interest on capital and drawings; salary and commission to partners; past adjustments; guarantee of profit.

New profit sharing ratio; sacrificing ratio; goodwill — nature, factors affecting, methods of valuation (average profit, super profit, capitalisation); treatment of goodwill on admission; revaluation of assets and liabilities; Revaluation Account; treatment of accumulated profits and reserves; adjustment of capital accounts.

Gaining ratio; treatment of goodwill on retirement or death; revaluation of assets and liabilities; adjustment of accumulated profits; settlement of retiring partner’s account; deceased partner’s executor account; calculation of profit up to date of death.

Modes of dissolution; settlement of accounts — Realisation Account, Partners’ Capital Accounts, Cash/Bank Account; rules applicable in case of deficiency (Garner vs Murray rule).

Shares and types of share capital; issue of shares at par, premium, and discount; calls in arrears and advance; forfeiture of shares and reissue; redemption of preference shares; pro-rata allotment; ESOP basics.

Types of debentures; issue at par, premium, and discount; issue as collateral security; interest on debentures; redemption — lump sum, annual instalment, purchase in open market, conversion into shares or new debentures; Debenture Redemption Reserve.

Statement of Profit and Loss; Balance Sheet as per Schedule III (Companies Act, 2013); treatment of provision for tax, proposed dividend, and accumulated losses; Statement of Changes in Equity — basics.

Objectives and tools of financial analysis; comparative financial statements (Comparative Balance Sheet, Comparative Statement of P&L); common-size financial statements; limitations of financial statement analysis.

Liquidity Ratios: Current Ratio, Quick Ratio. Solvency Ratios: Debt-Equity Ratio, Proprietary Ratio, Debt-to-Capital Employed Ratio, Interest Coverage Ratio. Activity Ratios: Inventory Turnover, Trade Receivables Turnover, Trade Payables Turnover, Working Capital Turnover Ratio. Profitability Ratios: Gross Profit Ratio, Operating Ratio, Operating Profit Ratio, Net Profit Ratio, Return on Investment, EPS, Book Value per Share, Dividend per Share, P/E Ratio.

Objectives and importance; cash and cash equivalents; classification — operating activities (direct and indirect method), investing activities, and financing activities; preparation as per AS-3 (Revised); adjustments for non-cash items and working capital changes.

Concept, objectives, and importance of management; management as science, art, and profession; levels of management (top, middle, operational); functions of management; coordination — nature and importance.

Fayol’s 14 principles of management; Taylor’s scientific management — principles and techniques (time study, motion study, fatigue study, differential piece wage system).

Meaning and importance of business environment; PESTLE dimensions; economic environment of 1991 — liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation (LPG); impact of government policy changes on business and industry.

Concept and process of organising; formal and informal organisations; organisation structure — functional and divisional; delegation — elements and importance; decentralisation — concept and importance.

Staffing as part of HRM; staffing process — manpower planning, recruitment (internal and external sources), selection process, training and development (on-the-job and off-the-job methods), performance appraisal.

Elements of directing; supervision; motivation — Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, financial and non-financial incentives; leadership — styles (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire) and qualities; communication — process, formal and informal channels, barriers, effective communication measures.

Meaning, role, and objectives of financial management; financial planning; capital structure — meaning and factors; fixed capital and working capital — meaning and factors; sources of business finance — equity shares, preference shares, retained earnings, debentures, commercial paper, commercial bank loans, financial institutions.

Money market — instruments (Treasury Bill, Commercial Bill, Call Money, Certificate of Deposit, Commercial Paper); capital market — primary and secondary markets; stock exchange — NSE and BSE functions; SEBI — objectives and functions; depository system; online trading.

Marketing vs selling; marketing mix (4Ps); product — classification, branding, labelling, packaging; price — factors affecting pricing decisions; place/distribution — channels of distribution; promotion — advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations; role of social media in marketing.

Importance of consumer protection; rights and responsibilities of consumers; Consumer Protection Act 2019 — key provisions; consumer disputes redressal agencies — District Commission, State Commission, National Commission (with pecuniary jurisdiction); role of consumer organisations and NGOs.

Cardinal utility approach; ordinal utility approach — indifference curves, budget set, consumer’s equilibrium; demand — law of demand, determinants of demand, shifts in demand curve; elasticity of demand — price, income, cross elasticity.

Production function; total, average, and marginal product; returns to a factor; revenue concepts (TR, AR, MR); cost concepts (TC, TVC, TFC, AC, MC); supply — law of supply, determinants; elasticity of supply.

Functions of money; money supply (M1 through M4); credit creation by commercial banks; RBI — functions and instruments of monetary policy (repo rate, reverse repo, CRR, SLR, Open Market Operations).

Matrices — types, operations, transpose, symmetric and skew-symmetric; invertible matrices. Determinants — properties, cofactors, expansion; applications — area of triangle, solution of linear equations using Cramer’s Rule and inverse matrix method.

Integration as inverse of differentiation; methods — substitution, partial fractions, integration by parts; definite integrals — properties; application — area under curves.

Vectors — types, magnitude, direction; addition; scalar (dot) product; vector (cross) product; scalar triple product. 3D Geometry — direction cosines and ratios; equation of line and plane in 3D; coplanarity; angle between lines and planes; distance of a point from a plane.

Conditional probability; multiplication theorem; independent events; total probability theorem; Bayes’ theorem; random variables and probability distribution; expected value and variance; Bernoulli trials; Binomial distribution.

Ray optics — reflection at spherical mirrors, refraction, total internal reflection, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, prism, optical instruments (simple microscope, compound microscope, astronomical telescope). Wave optics — Huygens principle, interference (Young’s double slit experiment), diffraction, polarisation (Brewster’s law, Malus’s law).

Reproduction in organisms — asexual and sexual; sexual reproduction in flowering plants — pollination types, fertilisation, embryogenesis, seed and fruit development; human reproduction — male and female reproductive systems, gametogenesis, fertilisation, implantation, embryonic development, parturition; reproductive health — STDs, contraception methods, IVF, MTP.

Heredity and variation; Mendel’s laws; chromosomal theory of inheritance; sex determination; linkage and crossing over; DNA — structure and replication; transcription; translation; regulation of gene expression (lac operon); Human Genome Project; DNA fingerprinting; evolution — origin of life, Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory, Hardy-Weinberg principle, speciation.

Principles of biotechnology — genetic engineering; tools — restriction enzymes, cloning vectors (plasmid, bacteriophage), PCR, gel electrophoresis; applications — insulin production, gene therapy, Bt crops, golden rice, transgenic animals; biosafety issues and GEAC; ethical concerns.