CUET PG Economics 2026: Exam Date, Syllabus, Previous Year Question Paper & Mock Test

Category

Eligibility Criteria

Key Details

Educational Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent

Candidates must have completed or be appearing in the final year of their graduation in 2026.

Age Limit

No Age Limit for CUET PG

NTA does not set an age bar; however, individual universities may have their own age rules.

Programme

Test Paper Code

Eligibility Criteria

M.A. (Economics)

COQP10

Graduation degree with 50% marks (45% for SC/ST/PWD) in Economics/Commerce/Business Administration/Agricultural Economics OR in Science (with Mathematics as a paper at intermediate level) from a recognized University/Institute.

Programme

Test Paper Code

Eligibility Criteria

M.A. Economics

COQP10

Category C1: Three-year or four-year Bachelor's degree from a recognized university

Category C2: Three-year or four-year Bachelor's (Hons.) degree in Economics from the University of Delhi

Programme

Test Paper Code

Eligibility Criteria

M.A. Economics (with specialization in World Economy)

COQP10

(i) Bachelor's degree in Economics (Honours) with at least 50% marks in aggregate; OR (ii) Any other Bachelor's degree with at least 60% marks in aggregate and Economics as a subject. Mathematics at the 12th standard level is compulsory

M.A. Economics

COQP10

Bachelor's degree with at least 50% marks in aggregate and Economics as a subject. Mathematics at the 10+2 level is compulsory

Major Topics

Sub-topics

Micro Economics

• Consumer Theory or Behavior: Demand, Utility, Indifference Curve, Revealed Preference Theory, Consumer Surplus

• Production Theory: Production Function, Law of Variable Proportions, Returns to Scale, Cost Function, types and concepts

• Price and Output determination in Market: Perfect and Imperfect Competition (Monopoly, Price Discrimination, Monopolistic, Duopoly and Oligopoly models) General Equilibrium, Efficiency and Welfare: Equilibrium and efficiency under pure exchange and production; overall efficiency and welfare economics, externality

Macro Economics

• National Income Accounting

• Income and Output Determination: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply, Effective Demand Principle, Classical and Keynesian Theory

Money and Inflation

• Demand and Supply of Money, Money Multiplier and High-Powered Money, Credit Creation, Role of Reserve Bank of India and Commercial Banks, Quantitative Theories of Money, Phillips’ Curve

• Monetary and Fiscal Policy of India and its role.

Consumption and Investment Function

• Permanent, Real, and Life Cycle Hypotheses, determinants of business fixed investment, residential investment, and inventory investment, Multiplier and Accelerator

• Open Economy Models: Mundell and Fleming Model (IS, L, M, and BP curve), Balance of Payments, exchange rate determination, Purchasing Power Parity

• Economic Growth: Harrod-Domar Model, Solow Model

Statistical Methods in Economics

• Mean, Mode, Median, Dispersion, Skewness, Quartile Deviation, Average Deviation, Standard Deviation

• Correlation

• Simple Regression Model Probability Distribution Sampling

Mathematical Methods in Economics

• Sets and Vector

• Functions of one and several real variables: Single and Multi-variable optimization

• Integration of functions

• Difference equations

• Determinants Matrix

• Linear Programming Probability

• Differential Equations

Indian Economy

• Macro Trends: National Income, population, occupational structure.

• Agriculture: Agrarian structure and land relations; agricultural markets and institutions – credit, commerce, and technology; trends in performance and productivity; famines.

• Railways and Industry: Railways; the de-industrialization debate; evolution of entrepreneurial and industrial structure; nature of industrialization in the interwar period; constraints to industrial breakthrough; labor relations.

• Economy and State in the Imperial Context

• The imperial priorities and the Indian economy; drain of wealth; international trade, capital.

• Flows and the colonial economy – changes and continuities; government and fiscal policy.

• New Economic Policy

• Public Economics: Public and Private Goods, Externalities, Budget, Deficits, Public Debt, Fiscal Federalism in India

• Taxation: its economic effects; dead weight loss and distortion, efficiency and equity considerations, tax incidence, optimal taxation.

• International Trade Theories: Adam Smith, Ricardo, Heckscher-Ohlin model, and New Trade Theories

Particulars

Details

Types of questions

MCQs

Total number of questions

75

Total marks in CUET PG

300 marks

Exam mode

Computer-based mode

CUET PG Marking Scheme

4 marks will be given for each correct response.

1 mark will be deducted for each incorrect response.

CUET PG exam time duration

90 Minutes

University

General (UR)

OBC (NCL)

EWS

SC

ST

Delhi University (DU)

210 to 225

195 to 210

200 to 215

175 to 190

170 to 180

Jawaharlal Nehru Univ (JNU)*

70 to 85

60 to 75

65 to 80

50 to 65

45 to 60

Banaras Hindu University (BHU)

205 to 215

190 to 200

195 to 205

170 to 180

165 to 170

University of Hyderabad

195 to 215

180 to 200

185 to 205

165 to 180

160 to 175

Name of the college

Course

Miranda House, Delhi

MA Economics

KMC Delhi - Kirori Mal College, Delhi

MA Economics

Deshbandhu College - Deshbandhu College, New Delhi

MA Economics

Lady Shriram College for Women, New Delhi

MA Economics

Ramjas College, Delhi

MA Economics

SGTB Khalsa College - Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, New Delhi

MA Economics

Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi

MA Economics

BVIMR New Delhi - Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Institute of Management and Research, New Delhi

MA Economics

Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi

MA Economics

School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

MA Economics with Specialization on World Economy