Changes in CUET Syllabus 2026: New Topics, Removed Units & Latest Updates

Accountancy

• Guarantee of profit to a partner, Past adjustments

• Reassessment of Liabilities, adjustment and distribution of profits, Preparation of deceased partner’s capital account and his executor’s account, Preparation of Loan Account.

• Features and type of Companies

• Issue of debentures with terms of redemption, Debenture as collateral security- concept, Interest on debentures, writing off discount/Loss on issues of debenture

• major headings and sub headings

• profit or loss

• Accounting information system (AIS)

• preparing reports using pivot Table, common errors in spreadsheet

• Multiplier

• Premium and at discount

• Amortization

• Overview of Computerised Accounting System

Business Studies

• Process, Merits and demerits of internal and external sources of recruitment.

• style- authoritative, democratic and laissez-faire, how to over come the barriers?

• Financial decisions: investing, financing and dividend-Meaning and factors affecting.

• Financial Market

• Philosophies, Components

• Meaning and concept, The Consumer protection Act,2019. Who can file a complaint?, Remedies available

• Entrepreneurship Development

Economics

Unit I: Development Policies and Experience (1947–90)

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• Indian economy on the eve of Independence

• Economic System & objectives of Five Year Plans

• Agriculture: institutional aspects, new agricultural strategy

• Industry: IPR 1956, SSI – role & importance

• Foreign trade

Unit II: Economic Reforms since 1991

• Macroeconomics: Meaning

• LPG reforms: features and appraisal

Unit III: Current Challenges Facing Indian Economy

• Human Capital Formation & education sector

• Rural development, cooperatives, organic farming

• Employment: workforce trends & policies

• Environment & Sustainable Development

• Unit IV: Development Experience of India - Comparison with Neighbours

• Economic growth, population, sectoral development

• Human Development Indicators

• Development Strategies

• geometric methods

• returns to factor and returns to scale

• National Disposable Income, Private Income, Personal Income, Personal Disposable Income; "Plan/Non-plan” and “Developmental/Non-developmental budget categories

History

Theme VII: Vijayanagara Empire – Politics, Economy and Architecture

Theme VIII: The Mughal Empire and Agrarian Society

Theme V: Agrarian Relations – The Ain-i-Akbari

Theme VI: New Architecture – Hampi

Theme VII: Religious History - The Bhakti - Sufi Tradition

Theme VIII: Medieval Society through Travellers’ Accounts

Maths

Integrals

• ∫ √?? 2 +?? + ??�

Probability Distributions

• Random variable

Probability

• Random variable.

Calculus

• Application of Differential Equations Define growth and decay model Apply the differential equations to solve growth and decay models

Anthropology

• Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and other Homo sapiens; Monogenic, polygenic, and multifactorial inheritance; Rh(D) and their distribution; DNA as a genetic marker in population diversity.

• Tool types: scrapers, Blade Tools, and celts; Specific dating methods: Relative and absolute (carbon 14 and potassium-argon); Specific sites: Sohan, Burzahom, and Nevasa

• Agricultural practices

• Cultural Diversity in India specifically including festivals, house types, rituals, and food habits; Distribution of Tribes in India

• Anthropology and development; Tribal development; Personal Identification including skeletal material and fingerprints

• “DNA Structure" (rephrased to focus on genetic markers and population diversity

• General "Pottery" and "Archeological dating" were maintained but made more specific with added methods and sites

• Agriculture

• General "Linguistic Diversity in India" was expanded to include cultural markers.

• Role of Anthropology in Public Health

Biology

• ICSI and IUI; specific pre-fertilisation events (stamen, microsporangium, pollen grain, pistil, megasporangium); Microsporogenesis and Megasporogenesis

• Test cross and back cross; Pedigree analysis; Mendelian disorders including Sickle-cell anaemia and Phenylketonuria; Aneuploidy and Polyploidy. Specific experiments: Hershey-Chase, Meselson and Stahl, and Miller’s experiment. VNTR, RNA world, and evolution of plants/vertebrates through geological periods

• Microbes in household products, enzymes, and bioactive molecules. Detailed immunity concepts (innate, acquired, active, passive, auto-immunity

• PCR (amplification of gene), Bioreactors, and Downstream processing. RNA interference, tissue culture, and molecular diagnosis

• Exponential and logistic growth; Commensalism and Amensalism; Life history variation. Specific conservation methods: Endemism, Zoological parks, and Cryopreservation

• Rice genome projects

• Dengue and Chikungunya

• Organism and its Environment, Major Abiotic Factors, Responses to Abiotic Factors, Adaptations, Ecological Succession, and Nutrient Cycles

Chemistry

• Henry’s Law, Azeotropes (elementary idea), Reverse Osmosis, and Water Purification

• Measurement of standard electrode potential, calculation of equilibrium constant, and Products of Electrolysis

• Pseudo first order reactions and the limitations of collision theory for bimolecular reactions

• Position in periodic table, stability of higher oxidation states, Nature of Oxides & Oxanions, and Applications of d- and f-block elements

• Double salts, coordination polyhedron, homoleptic and heteroleptic complexes, limitations of VBT and CFT, spectrochemical series, and metal carbonyls

• Methods of preparation, and specific stereochemical aspects like Chirality, retention, inversion, and racemization

• Structures of functional groups, chemical properties of phenols (oxidation & reduction), and cleavage of –C-OH and -CO-H bonds

• Introduction to carbonyl compounds and the structure of Carbonyl and Carboxyl groups

• Basic Character of amines

• Methods of preparation for glucose and fructose, mechanism of enzyme action, vitamin deficiency diseases, and hormone classification/deficiency

• Solid solutions

• Redox reactions, dry cell and lead accumulator are now consolidated under Primary & Secondary batteries

• Specific rate constant

• Occurrence of transition metals

• Shapes of complexes and the use of compounds in the extraction of metals

• Optical rotation

• dentification of primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols; mechanism of dehydration; and the restriction of chemical properties to primary alcohols only

• Mechanism of nucleophilic addition and reactivity of alpha hydrogen

• Identification of primary, secondary, and tertiary amines

• Oligosaccharides

Environmental Science

• Brundtland Commission report, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Mission LiFE

• Acts and rules related to ecology, forest, and biodiversity conservation

• Pollutant concepts (sources, sink, receptor); Impacts of pollution on human health; Acts/rules for pollution control; Structure and composition of the atmosphere; Acid rain, Smog, and Tropospheric ozone

• Distribution of water on Earth; Point vs. non-point sources of pollution; Lake stratification and Eutrophication; Detailed sources of soil pollution (mining, etc.)

• Relationship between development and environment; India's way of life and concerns for the environment

• Carbon footprint and Carbon credit (added to the economics classification); "Stock" added to natural resource classification

• Global warming, Greenhouse gases, and Climate change (indicators and causes); Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, and Conference of Parties (COP)

• Strategies for human population control, including family planning, education, economic growth, and the status of women

Computer Science

• Setting Offsets in a File

• Specification of Postfix for evaluating arithmetic expressions

• Hashing: Hash Functions, Collision Resolution

• Mode (Measures of central tendency); Range (Measures of Variability)

• Constraints in MySQL

• Domain Name System (DNS)

• Project Based Learning

• Arithmetic Expressions

• Hashing

Fine Arts

• A folio from Gita Govind - Mewar School

• "Jahangir’s Dream" (also by Abul Hasan).

• "Dara Shikoh with Sages in a Garden" by the painter Bichitr.

• "Tiller of the Soil" (2026)

• Radhika

• "Rasa-Lila" by Kshitindranath Majumdar and "Woman with Child" by Jamini Roy.

• "Vanshri" by Mrinalini Mukherjee

• "Fairy Tales from Purvapalli" (K. G. Subramanyan) and "Haldi Grinder" (Amrita Sher-Gil).

• "Dog" (spelled K.C.S. Paniker)

• Court scene or Hunting scene or Festival scene - Mewar School

• "Jahangir holding the picture of Madonna" (by Abul Hassan)

• "Kabir and Raidas" (by Ustad Faquirullah Khan)

• Nandlal Bose: The work "Parthasarthi" (2025)

• Abdur Rehman Chughtai (M.A.R. Chughtai): "Ghalib’s Poetry Painting"

• “Female Face" (Rabindranath Tagore) and "Hill Women" (Amrita Sher Gill)

• "Standing Woman" (Dhanraj Bhagat) and "Dhanpal" (Sankho Chaudhuri)

• "Birth of Poetry" (K.K. Hebbar) and "Gossip" (N.S. Bendre)

• "Words and images" by K.C.S. Pannikar

Mass Communication

• Levels of communication and models of communication

• Understanding news (Definition, news values, components); Reporting and Editing techniques (Inverted Pyramid, 5W’s & 1 H, Headlines, Copy editing); Photo Journalism (Importance, captions, visual depiction, photo essays); Law and the media

• Advertising campaigns

• Public Relations

• Programs, Formats, and Audiences

• Production process and stages in films and documentary making

• Specific types of platforms: social networking, blogging, photo and video sharing

• Media convergence

Physical Education

• Inclusive Physical education

• Psychological Aspects

• The 2026 syllabus simplifies this into three core areas: Specifications of play fields/arenas, General rules, and Fundamental skills.

• Mayurasana

Unit V: Nutrition and Athlete’s Care

• Nutritional Detail: 2026 introduces Macro & Micro Nutrients and specifies diet requirements for Pre, During, and Post competition.

• Postural Deformities: A new section on Postural Deformities and their corrective measures is included in 2026.

• Flamingo balance test

• Rikli & Jones Senior Citizen Fitness Test

• Physiology and Biomechanics

• Socialization through sports (Impact of sports on society).

• The 2025 syllabus listed 13 detailed sub-points for game analysis (such as "Winning or losing parameters" and "Criteria of participation").

• Fracture

• "Stroke Stand Test”

Physics

• Magnetization of materials and the effect of temperature on magnetic properties

• Phasors and power factor

• Width of central maxima in diffraction

• Dual nature of radiation and the experimental study of the photoelectric effect

• Expression for radius, velocity, and energy of an electron in an orbit; Atomic number and atomic mass number; Nuclear force

• Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, p-type and n-type materials, and the p-n junction

• Eddy Currents

• Scattering of light (blue sky/red sun), Combination of a lens and a mirror, Sustained interference of light, and Polarisation

• Radioactivity (alpha, beta, and gamma particles/rays and their properties)

Sociology

Unit IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity

• Communities, Nations & Nation States

• Civil Society

Unit IV: The Challenges of Unity in Diversity

• What We Share