CUET PG 2025 Answer Key Live (Soon); NTA CUET PG Response Sheet and Provisional Answer Key Release @exams.nta.ac

Around 4 lakh candidates appeared for CUET PG 2025 examinations to get admissions in the 157 subjects offered in master's degree and professional degree courses. As per the student reactions observed from YouTube and the Shiksha poll survey, this year the CUET PG 2025 exam difficulty level was higher than tha previous year. Candidates can expect a lower CUETPG 2025 cutoff than the previous year.

Overall the following CUET PG 2025 expected cut off can be a good score for the candidates to get admissions:

• General Category: 190-210
• OBC Category: 180-200
• SC Category: 170-185
• ST Category: 165-175

In broader sense, the expected CUET PG 2025 cut off for General, OBC and SC-ST is mentioned here:

Candidates can find the difference in the CUET PG 2025 provisional answer key and final answer key from here:

Since CUET PG 2025 Counselling process is not managed by NTA. Every participating universities under CUET PG 2025 exam conduct their own CUET PG 2025 counselling process in which each candidate need to apply for different colleges for the course in which they wish to get enrol in. 

Also, many top universities like University of Delhi do not publish the DU CUET PG Cut Off officially which makes it less transparent for the candidates to get admissions. A Twitter account handle- CUET PG Complaint is started by the candidates which requests, the UGC Chairman and other goverment officials to have one unified CUET PG 2025 Counselling Process.

 The National Testing Agency (NTA), responsible for conducting the CUET PG 2025 exam, has yet to provide an official update, prompting a wave of frustration on social media platforms like Twitter (X).

During CUET PG 2025 examination which was conducted from March 13, 2025 to April 1, 2025, few test takers faced technical issues in many of the exam centres and didn't get the complete time to complete their exam. 

Candidates can seek contact details of NTA for any queries related to the CUET PG Exam 2025. The CUET PG Helpline information is as follows:

• Call on 011-40759000 or 01169227700
• Send an email to cuet-pg@nta.ac.in

In broader sense, the expected CUET PG 2025 cut off for Geberal, OBC and SC-ST is mentioned here:

CUET PG 2025 Passing Marks are the set of marks upon which the test takers were able to get their names into the participating institutes of the CUET PG 2025 examination. If the candidate wants to know whether they have passed the CUET PG 2025 exam or not, they are required to check the cut-off marks released by the participating universities and colleges.

After the declaration of the CUET PG result, all the colleges or universities will release the course-wise passing marks or CUET UP cutoff, which will be used for shortlisting candidates for admission to PG courses.

Candidates will have to calculate their estimated scores based on the following method:

• For each correct answer, add four marks

• For each wrong answer, deduct one mark

• No marks will be awarded for unattempted questions

Based on survey poll conducted by Shiksha.com, educational platform, here's how students responded when asked about the number of questions they attempted in CUET PG 2025:

A significant portion of candidates (around 52%) attempted between 50 and 60 questions, indicating that students preferred accuracy over blind guessing, especially given the negative marking. 

An early insight from student surveys reveals that more than half of the candidates (52%) are expecting to score between 100 to 200 marks. Here's the tentative breakdown:

The largest chunk of students falls in the middle tier, suggesting that the paper was not extremely difficult, but neither too easy to allow high scoring en masse. Top scorers (above 250) are fewer this year compared to CUET PG 2024, pointing towards more conceptual and application-based questions.

As per the Shiksha Poll,

CUET PG 2025 Exam Difficulty Level: Year Wise Comparison

Candidates can go through the year wise comparison of CUET PG  exam difficulty level of each section:

CUET PG 2025: General Trend by Stream

Arts & Humanities: Mostly moderate, with direct conceptual questions. History and Political Science papers had some factual traps.

Commerce & Management: Business Studies and Accountancy were moderately challenging; the quantitative section saw tricky questions.

Sciences: Subjects like Physics and Chemistry had a few high-order thinking questions, with application-based questions being dominant.

Law & Social Sciences: Logical reasoning was moderate, while current affairs in general awareness caught a few candidates off-guard.

Below are the credentials required for downloading the CUET PG 2025 answer key and student response sheet at the official website:

• Candidate's application number
• Password
• Fill in the captcha

Candidates who have applied for CUET PG 2025 and waiting for the provisional answer key to be released, must read the following points which are very imporatant in terms of challenges raised against CUET PG 2025 provisional answer key.

• Only paid challenges made during stipulated time through key challenge link will be considered. Challenges without justification/evidence and those filed on any other medium other than the prescribed link will not be considered.
• The NTA decision on the challenges shall be final and no further communication will be entertained. NTA will not inform the Candidates individually about the outcome of the challenges made.
• The subject experts will examine all the challenges received and then a final answer key will be displayed and declared.
• The result will be compiled based on the final answer key declared. No grievance with regard to answer keys after the declaration of result/NTA Score of CUET (PG) - 2025 will be entertained.

Candidates will be able to download the provisonal and final answer key of CUET PG 2025 pdf from the official website only in online mode. The authorities will release first, the provisional answer key of CUET PG 2025 exam pdf and candidates will be able to check their answers and calculate the probable scores secured in the CUET PG 2025 admission test. To download the CUET PG 2025 answer key 2025, the candidate can download from here: 

Download Link- 

• nta.ac.in
• https://exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-PG/

NTA will release the detailed procedure to submit challenges against the CUET PG 2025 provisional answer keys. The procedure is given below:

• Please go to the website
• Login with your Application Number, Password, or Login with Application Number and Date of Birth and enter the Security Pin as displayed, and click on the Login Button.
• Click the ‘View/Challenge Answer Key’ button.
• The Option(s) next to the Question ID under the column ‘Correct Option(s)’ stands for the most appropriate Answer Key to be used by NTA.
•  If you wish to challenge this option, you may use any one or more of the Options given in the next five columns by clicking the check box
•  You may want to upload supporting documents in which you can select ‘Choose File’ and upload (all documents are to be put in a single pdf file).
• After clicking on your desired Option(s) ID for Challenge scroll down and click on ‘Submit and Review Claims’ and move to the next screen. You must ensure to select all the required options(s) before moving further.
• You will see a display of all the Question ID and Option(s) you have challenged. You may still modify your selection by clicking on ‘Modify Claim’. Once you have selected all the Option(s) ID for Challenge you can click on ‘Save Claim and Pay Fee’.
• Click on ‘Save Claim and Pay Fee’ to select payment options. No modification will be allowed after payment.
• Select the Mode of Payment and Pay a non-refundable processing fee @ ₹ 200/- for each question challenged. Make payment through Debit/Credit Card/Net Banking/UPI.

In broader sense, the expected CUET PG 2025 cut off for General, OBC and SC-ST is mentioned here:

NTA will not notify candidates about the status of their challenges. The fee is also non-refundable. Once the final CUET PG 2025 answer key is out, there will be no provision to further challenge it. CUET PG 2025 final answer keys will be released tentatively in the fourth week of May, along with the result and scorecard.

The CUET PG 2025 answer key will include essential information such as the exam date, paper code, exam shift, question ID, and the correct answer ID for each question.

The CUET PG 2025 examination was held in Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode from March 13 to April 1, covering 157 subjects. More than 4.12 lakh candidates participated in this national-level entrance test. The National Testing Agency (NTA) is now expected to release the provisional answer key and response sheets shortly on the official website.

The steps to download and check the CUET PG candidate's response sheet 2025 are given below:

• Visit the CUET PG 2025 website

• Click on the text or link indicating Students Response sheet

• Log in with the application number and date of birth

• Enter the Security Pin given on screen and click on Submit

• Check and download the provisional answer keys of CUET PG 2025

Candidates will also have the opportunity to raise objections against the released CUET PG answer key 2025. The fee to submit an objection against each answer key was INR 200.

Candidates will also have the opportunity to raise objections against the released CUET PG answer key 2025. The CUET PG 2025 answer key objection window will open in the second week of April, tentatively. 

CUET PG 2025 exm was conducted from March 13, 2025 to April 1, 2025 for 157 courses. The exam officials, NTA will announce the CUET PG 2025 provisonal answer key for all the subjects which are being offered through the exam at more than 190+ CUET PG 2025 participating universities.

Candidates acn check the CUET PG 2025 marking scheme criteria from below:

• Correct answer or the most appropriate answer will be given four marks
• Any incorrect option marked will be given minus one mark
• Unanswered/Marked for Review will be given no mark

Candidates can find the difference in the CUET PG 2025 provisional answer key and final answer key from here:

CUET PG 2025 provisional answer key will be released anytime soon today at exams exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-PG/. Candidates will be able to download the answer key PDF and verify their response with the help of individual response sheet.

Below are the credentials required for downloading the CUET PG 2025 answer key and student response sheet at the official website:

• Candidate's application number
• Password
• Fill in the captcha

For the 2025-26 academic cycle, the CUET PG official website has been updated. Unlike last year, when the exam-related updates were hosted on cuet.nta.nic.in, the official website for CUET PG 2025 is now exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-PG. Candidates must note this change, as all key information — including the CUET PG 2025 provisional answer key, response sheet, and result updates — will be made available exclusively on this portal.

While an official release date from the National Testing Agency (NTA) for the CUET PG 2025 answer key is still awaited, previous years trends indicate that the CUET PG provisional key 2025 is likely to be published anytime soon now.