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

Scope and excitement of physics, nature of physical laws, physics and technology and society; units of measurement, systems of units (SI), fundamental and derived units, length, mass and time measurements, accuracy and precision, errors in measurement, significant figures; dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and applications.

Frame of reference, motion in a straight line (position-time graph, speed and velocity), uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs; scalar and vector quantities, unit vectors, addition and subtraction of vectors, relative velocity, projectile motion, uniform circular motion.

Force and inertia, Newton’s first, second, and third laws of motion, momentum, impulse, law of conservation of linear momentum, equilibrium of concurrent forces, static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, dynamics of uniform circular motion — centripetal force.

Work done by constant and variable forces, kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power, potential energy of a spring, conservation of mechanical energy, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law, heat, work and internal energy, first and second laws of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes, Carnot engine and its efficiency; kinetic theory — equation of state, degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy, specific heats of gases, mean free path.

Electric charges and conservation, Coulomb’s law, electric field and field lines, electric dipole and torque in a uniform field, electric flux, Gauss’s theorem and applications, electric potential and potential difference, equipotential surfaces, potential energy of a system of charges, dielectrics and electric polarisation, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor, Van de Graaff generator.

Electric current and drift velocity, Ohm’s law, V-I characteristics, resistance and resistivity, temperature dependence, carbon resistors, Kirchhoff’s laws, Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge, potentiometer, EMF and internal resistance, cells in series and parallel.

Biot-Savart law and application to a circular current loop, Ampere’s circuital law, solenoid and toroid, force on a current-carrying conductor, moving coil galvanometer, bar magnet, earth’s magnetism, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, hysteresis.

Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, self-inductance and mutual inductance, eddy currents, AC generator, peak and RMS values, phasors, LCR series circuit and resonance, power factor, wattless current, transformers.

Displacement current, electromagnetic waves — characteristics and transverse nature, the electromagnetic spectrum (radio, microwave, infrared, visible, UV, X-rays, gamma rays) — sources, properties, and uses.

Reflection by spherical mirrors, refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, total internal reflection, lenses (thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula), refraction through a prism, scattering of light, compound microscope, astronomical telescope; wave optics — Huygens’ principle, interference (Young’s double slit experiment), diffraction (single slit), polarisation by scattering and reflection (Brewster’s law), Malus’s law.

Photoelectric effect, Einstein’s photoelectric equation, particle nature of light, de Broglie hypothesis, Davisson-Germer experiment, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Alpha-particle scattering, Rutherford’s model, Bohr model and hydrogen spectrum, energy levels, nuclear composition and size, mass-energy relation, binding energy per nucleon, radioactive decay (alpha, beta, gamma), half-life and mean life, nuclear fission and fusion.

Energy bands in solids, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, p-n junction diode, I-V characteristics, rectifier circuits, Zener diode, LED, photodiode, solar cell, junction transistor, transistor as switch and amplifier, logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR).

Laws of chemical combination, atomic and molecular masses, mole concept, molar mass, percentage composition, empirical and molecular formulae, chemical reactions, stoichiometry and calculations based on stoichiometry.

Discovery of electron, proton and neutron, Thomson model, Rutherford’s nuclear model, Bohr’s model and its limitations, quantum mechanical model of the atom, orbitals and quantum numbers, electronic configuration, stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals.

Ionic bond, covalent bond, Lewis structure, VSEPR theory and molecular shapes, valence bond theory, hybridisation (sp, sp², sp³, sp³d, sp³d²), resonance, molecular orbital theory, bond parameters.

Concepts of system and surroundings, enthalpy, entropy, spontaneity, Hess’s law, bond enthalpy, lattice enthalpy, Gibbs free energy change and its relation to equilibrium constant.

Equilibrium in physical and chemical processes, law of chemical equilibrium (Kc and Kp), Le Chatelier’s principle, ionic equilibrium — acids and bases (Arrhenius, Brønsted-Lowry, Lewis), pH, buffer solutions, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, solubility product.

Redox reactions, conductance and Kohlrausch’s law, electrolytic cells, Faraday’s laws, galvanic cells, EMF, standard electrode potential, Nernst equation, batteries and fuel cells, corrosion; rate of reaction, rate law, integrated rate equations, half-life, activation energy, Arrhenius equation, collision theory.

Transition metals — electronic configuration, oxidation states, magnetic properties, KMnO₄ and K₂Cr₂O₇; lanthanides and actinides; coordination compounds — Werner’s theory, IUPAC nomenclature, isomerism (geometric and optical), VBT and CFT, spectrochemical series, stability constants.

Classification and nomenclature, SN1 and SN2 mechanisms (mechanism and stereochemistry), elimination reactions, reactions of aryl halides, polyhalogen compounds (DDT, freons) and environmental impact.

Alcohols — preparation, reactions (O–H and C–O bond cleavage); phenols — acidity, electrophilic substitution (Kolbe reaction, Reimer-Tiemann reaction); ethers — preparation and reactions; aldehydes and ketones — nucleophilic addition, Cannizzaro reaction, aldol condensation; carboxylic acids — acidity and reactions.

Amines — classification, basicity (aliphatic vs aromatic), diazonium salts and coupling reactions; biomolecules — carbohydrates (classification, reducing/non-reducing sugars), proteins (amino acids, peptide bond, denaturation), enzymes, vitamins, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), hormones.

Classification (addition and condensation), copolymerisation, natural rubber and vulcanisation, biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers, commercially important polymers (nylon, polyester, bakelite).

Drugs — classification and interaction with receptors; antibiotics, antiseptics and disinfectants; chemicals in food (preservatives, artificial sweeteners, antioxidants); cleansing agents — soaps (saponification) and detergents.

Sets and their representations, Venn diagrams, operations on sets; relations and types of functions, domain and range; complex numbers, quadratic equations, arithmetic progression (AP), geometric progression (GP), permutations and combinations, binomial theorem, sequences and series; straight lines, conic sections (circle, parabola, ellipse, hyperbola); limits and derivatives (introduction); statistics — mean, variance, standard deviation; probability — random experiments, events.

Types of relations (reflexive, symmetric, transitive, equivalence), types of functions (injective, surjective, bijective), composition of functions, invertible functions, binary operations, inverse trigonometric functions (domain, range, principal values, properties and identities); matrices — order, types (zero, identity, symmetric, skew-symmetric), operations, elementary operations, invertible matrices; determinants — properties, minors and cofactors, area of triangle, adjoint and inverse of a matrix, solving systems of linear equations.

Continuity and differentiability, derivatives of composite, implicit, and inverse trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, second-order derivatives, Rolle’s theorem and mean value theorem; applications of derivatives — rate of change, tangents and normals, maxima and minima; integrals — integration by substitution, by parts, by partial fractions, definite integrals and their properties, area under curves; differential equations — order, degree, separation of variables, homogeneous equations, linear first-order equations.

Vectors — types, addition, scalar and vector products, scalar triple product, projection; 3D geometry — direction cosines and direction ratios, equation of a line, angle between lines, equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane; linear programming — feasible region, corner point method, types of LPP problems (diet, manufacturing, transportation).

Conditional probability, multiplication theorem, independent events, Bayes’ theorem, random variable and probability distribution, mean and variance, Bernoulli trials and binomial distribution.

Diversity in living world (five kingdoms, classification), structural organisation in animals and plants (tissues, morphology), cell — structure and function (cell organelles, cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis), plant physiology (transport, mineral nutrition, photosynthesis, respiration, plant growth and development), human physiology (digestion, breathing, body fluids, circulation, excretion, locomotion, neural control, chemical coordination).

Reproduction in organisms, sexual reproduction in flowering plants (pollination, double fertilisation, post-fertilisation developments), human reproduction (gametogenesis, fertilisation, implantation, pregnancy, parturition), reproductive health (contraception, STIs, infertility and ART).

Mendel’s laws, exceptions (incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles, polygenic inheritance), sex determination, linkage and crossing over, mutation; DNA structure, replication, transcription, translation, genetic code, regulation of gene expression (lac operon), Human Genome Project, DNA fingerprinting; evolution — origin of life, evidences, theories (Darwin, Neo-Darwinism), Hardy-Weinberg principle, natural selection, speciation.

Health and disease (immunity, AIDS, cancer), strategies for enhancement in food production (animal husbandry, plant breeding, tissue culture), microbes in human welfare (fermentation, antibiotics, biocontrol, biofertilisers); biotechnology — recombinant DNA technology (tools: restriction enzymes, vectors, PCR), gene cloning and expression, applications in medicine (insulin, gene therapy) and agriculture (Bt crops, herbicide tolerance), ethical issues.

Organisms and populations (adaptations, population interactions), ecosystems (structure, energy flow, nutrient cycling, decomposition), biodiversity (levels, threats, conservation — in-situ and ex-situ, hotspots, IUCN Red List), environmental issues (air and water pollution, solid waste, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, deforestation).

Class 11: accounting process (journal, ledger, trial balance), financial statements (trading and profit and loss account, balance sheet), depreciation, provisions and reserves, bills of exchange, rectification of errors. Class 12: partnership accounts (admission, retirement, death, dissolution), accounting for share capital (issue, forfeiture, reissue), debentures, financial statements of companies, cash flow statements, analysis of financial statements — ratio analysis.

Class 11: nature of business, forms of business organisation, business services, emerging modes of business, social responsibility of business and business ethics. Class 12: nature and significance of management, principles of management (Fayol and Taylor), business environment, planning, organising, staffing, directing (motivation theories — Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor; leadership; communication), controlling; financial management, financial markets, marketing management (4Ps), consumer protection (Consumer Protection Act 2019), entrepreneurship development.

Class 11 (Microeconomics): consumer equilibrium (utility approach and indifference curve approach), demand and supply, price elasticity, production function (TP, AP, MP; law of variable proportions), cost curves, revenue, market equilibrium, market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly). Class 12 (Macroeconomics): national income concepts (GDP, GNP, NNP, NI, PI, DPI) and methods of measurement, money and banking (money creation, credit creation, functions of RBI), income determination (aggregate demand and supply, investment multiplier), government budget (components and balance), balance of payments, foreign exchange rate (fixed vs flexible).

Bricks, beads and bones (Harappan civilisation), kings, farmers and towns, kinship, caste and class, thinkers and beliefs, through the eyes of travellers (Al Beruni, Ibn Battuta, Bernier), bhakti–sufi traditions, Vijayanagara — an imperial capital, peasants, zamindars and the state, kings and chronicles (Mughal court), colonialism and the countryside, rebels and the Raj (1857), Mahatma Gandhi and the nationalist movement (non-cooperation, civil disobedience, Quit India), understanding partition, framing the Indian constitution.

Contemporary World Politics (Class 12): Cold War era, end of bipolarity, US hegemony, alternative power centres (EU, ASEAN, China), contemporary South Asia, international organisations, environment and natural resources, globalisation; Politics in India Since Independence (Class 12): challenges of nation-building, one-party dominance, politics of planned development, India’s external relations, challenges to the Congress system, emergency and democratic order, popular and social movements, regional aspirations, democratic upsurge and coalition politics.

Human Geography (Class 12 Part A): nature and scope, world population (distribution, density, growth, composition), human development; primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary activities; transport, communication and trade; international trade; human settlements. India (Class 12 Part B): people, human settlements, land resources and agriculture, water resources, mineral and energy resources, manufacturing industries, planning and sustainable development, transport and communication, international trade, geographical perspective on selected issues.

Introducing sociology (society, social institutions, social stratification), introducing Indian society (diversity in India, structural change, cultural change, challenges of unity), social change and development in India (structural changes, social movements, globalisation, mass media and communications).

Intelligence and aptitude (theories — Spearman, Thurstone, Gardner, Sternberg), personality (type, trait, psychodynamic, humanistic approaches), human strengths and positive psychology, psychological disorders (DSM/ICD classification, anxiety, mood, psychotic disorders, substance abuse), therapeutic approaches (CBT, psychoanalytic, humanistic), attitude and social cognition, social influence and group processes, psychology and life, developing psychological skills.