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CUET UG 2026 exam will be held in May/June 2026. Science students preparing for CUET Computer Science must check the CUET CS important topics and chapter-wise weightage to ace the examination. Know the important topics to focus on and weightage of each topic based on the previous year's CUET question paper.

CUET Computer Science Important Topics & Weightage

CUET Computer Science Important Topics & Weightage

The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission to Undergraduate courses offered by CUET-accepting colleges. CUET Computer Science is one of the core subjects for all stream students. Candidates opting for computer science as a domain subject must focus on CUET Computer Science important topics and chapter-wise weightage to devise preparation strategy. NTA will announce the CUET exam date 2026 in first week of March 2026. The CUET 2026 will be scheduled in May/June 2026. Read this complete article by Shiksha to know CUET 2026 Computer Science important topics and chapter-wise weightage.

Table of content
  • CUET Computer Science Exam Pattern 2026
  • CUET Computer Science Syllabus 2026
  • CUET Computer Science Chapter Wise Weightage
  • CUET Domain Subjects: Syllabus and Question Paper
  • CUET 2026 Computer Science Preparation Tips

CUET Computer Science Exam Pattern 2026

Students preparing for CUET 2026 must be thorough with the CUET exam pattern. Refer to the table below to know the CUET Computer Science exam pattern.

Features

Details

Number of questions

50 questions

Number of questions to be attempted

All compulsory

Type of question

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ)

CUET Computer Science exam duration

60 minutes

CUET marking scheme

+5 for each correct answer

-1 for each incorrect answer

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Q:   What is the Geology syllabus of CUET?
A:

Common University Entrance Test (CUET) result is released by National Testing Agency. CUET syllabus is divided into three sections viz., Languages, Domain Subject and General Test. CUET language section assesses candidate through reading comprehension (factual, literary, and narrative), literary aptitude and vocabulary. CUET syllabus second section- domain subject assesses the candidate's in depth knowledge on the subject he/she has opted for. CUET third section- general test includes general knowledge, current affairs, general mental ability, quantitative reasoning and logical and analytical reasoning. CUET syllabus is available now. Candidates can check the section wise detailed CUET syllabus here.

Q:   Are NCERT books enough to cover CUET syllabus?
A:

NTA has mentioned that CUET UG 2026 syllabus will adhere to NCERT syllabus. Hence, it can be assumed that the NCERT books are enough to cover the syllabus of the CUET UG exam. Candidates must note that, CUET exam tests students' understanding of the subject concepts and ability to apply them in various situations.

Therefore, to prepare well and get a good score, it is advised that students refer to other study materials and books designed for national-level competitive entrance exams. The CUET UG syllabus is similar with the Class 12 Board exam syllabus. The chapters and topics are similar to Class 12 syllabus. Unlike other UG entrance exams, CUET UG syllabus does not include Class 11 syllabus.

Q:   When are CUET previous year question papers released?
A:

CUET previous year question papers have been released for CUET 2025. National Testing Agency releases the CUET previous year question papers for all subjects and languages. Candidates preparing for CUET must download the previous year question papers to become familiar with the CUET exam pattern and the difficulty level of the question paper. NTA releases the CUET question papers for Languages, Domain subjects and General test seperately. No pre registrations are required to download the CUET previous year question papers. 

CUET 2026 will be scheduled tentatively in May/June in CBT mode. CUET previous year question papers for 2025 is available for downlaod. Candidates can download the CUET 2025-2022 question papers here

CUET Computer Science Syllabus 2026

Before preparing for CUET exam, candidates must check the CUET Computer Science syllabus. Refer to the table below to know the detailed syllabus:

Section

Unit

Sub Unit

A

Exception and File Handling in Python

  • Exception Handling: syntax errors, exceptions, need of exception handling, user-defined exceptions, raising exceptions, handling exceptions, catching exceptions, Try-except-else clause, Try-finally clause, recovering and continuing with finally, built-in exception classes.
  • File Handling: text file and binary file, file types, opening and closing files, reading and writing text files, reading and writing binary files using pickle module, file access modes.

Database Concepts

  • Introduction to database concepts, difference between database and file system, relational data model: concept of domain, tuple, relation, keys - candidate key, primary key, alternate key, foreign Key
  • Relational algebra: selection, projection, union, set difference and cartesian product

Structured Query Language (SQL)

  • Advantages of using Structured Query Language, Data Definition Language, Data Query Language and Data Manipulation Language, Introduction to MySQL, Creating a database using MySQL, Data Types
  • Data Definition: CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE,
  • Data Query: SELECT, FROM, WHERE
  • Data Manipulation: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
  • Math functions: POWER (), ROUND (), MOD ().
  •  Text functions: UCASE ()/UPPER (), LCASE ()/LOWER (), MID ()/SUBSTRING ()/SUBSTR (), LENGTH (), LEFT (), RIGHT (), INSTR (), LTRIM (), RTRIM (), TRIM ().
  • Date Functions: NOW (), DATE (), MONTH (), MONTHNAME (), YEAR (), DAY (), DAYNAME ().
  • Aggregate Functions: MAX (), MIN (), AVG (), SUM (), COUNT (); using COUNT (*). Querying and manipulating data using Group by, Having, Order by.
  • Operations on Relations - Union, Intersection, Minus, Cartesian Product, JOIN

Computer Networks

  • Introduction to computer networks, Evolution of networking
  • Network types: LAN, WAN, MAN
  • Network devices: Modem, Ethernet Card, Repeater, Hub, Switch, Router, Gateway.
  • Network Topologies: Mesh, Ring, Bus, Star, and Tree topologies.
  • Basic concept of MAC and IP Address Difference between Internet and web

B1: Computer Science

Exception and File Handling in Python

  • Exception Handling: syntax errors, exceptions, need of exception handling, user-defined exceptions, raising exceptions, handling exceptions, catching exceptions, Try - except - else clause, Try - finally clause, recovering and continuing with finally, built-in exception classes.
  • File Handling: text file and binary file, file types, open and close files, reading and writing text files, reading and writing binary files using pickle module, file access modes.

Stack

Stack (List Implementation): Introduction to stack (LIFO Operations), operations on stack (PUSH and POP) and its implementation in python. Expressions in Prefix, Infix and postfix notations, evaluating arithmetic expressions using stack, conversion of Infix expression to postfix expression

Queue

  • Queue (List Implementation): Introduction to Queue (FIFO), Operations on Queue (INSERT and DELETE) and its implementation in Python.
  • Introduction to DQueue and its implementation in Python.

Searching

  • Searching: Sequential search, Binary search, Analysis of Sequential and Binary Search. Dry run to identify best, worst and average cases.
  • Implementation of searching techniques in Python

Sorting

  • Overview of sorting techniques, Bubble Sort, Selection Sort and Insertion Sort. Dry run to identify best, worst and average cases. Implementation of sorting techniques in Python.
  • Hashing: Hash Functions, Collision Resolution, Implementing the Map Abstract Data Type

Understanding Data

Data and its purpose, collection and organization; understanding data using statistical methods: mean, median, standard deviation, variance; data interpretation; visualization of data.

Database Concepts

Introduction to database concepts, difference between database and file system, relational data model: concept of domain, tuple, relation, keys - candidate key, primary key, alternate key, foreign key; Relational algebra: selection, projection, union, set difference and cartesian product;

Structured Query Language

  • Advantages of using Structured Query Language, Data Definition Language, Data Query Language and Data Manipulation Language, Introduction to MySQL, Creating a database using MySQL, Data Types
  • Data Definition: CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE,
  • Data Query: SELECT, FROM, WHERE
  • Data Manipulation: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
  • Math functions: POWER (), ROUND (), MOD ().
  • Text functions: UCASE ()/UPPER (), LCASE ()/LOWER (), MID ()/SUBSTRING ()/SUBSTR (), LENGTH (), LEFT (), RIGHT (), INSTR (), LTRIM (), RTRIM (), TRIM ().
  • Date Functions: NOW (), DATE (), MONTH (), MONTHNAME (), YEAR (), DAY (), DAYNAME ().
  • Aggregate Functions: MAX (), MIN (), AVG (), SUM (), COUNT (); using COUNT (*). Querying and manipulating data using Group by, Having, Order by.
  • Operations on Relations - Union, Intersection, Minus, Cartesian Product, JOIN

Computer Networks

  • Introduction to computer networks, Evolution of networking,
  • Network types: LAN, WAN, MAN
  • Network devices: Modem, Ethernet Card, Repeater, Hub, Switch, Router, Gateway.
  • Network Topologies: Mesh, Ring, Bus, Star, and Tree topologies
  • Basic concept of MAC and IP Address
  • Difference between Internet and web

B2: Informatics Practices

Database Query using SQL

  • Math functions: POWER (), ROUND (), MOD ().
  • Text functions: UCASE ()/UPPER (), LCASE ()/LOWER (), MID ()/SUBSTRING ()/SUBSTR (),LENGTH (), LEFT (), RIGHT (), INSTR (), LTRIM (), RTRIM (), TRIM ().
  • Date Functions: NOW (), DATE (), MONTH (), MONTHNAME (), YEAR (), DAY (), DAYNAME ().
  • Aggregate Functions: MAX (), MIN (), AVG (), SUM (), COUNT (); using COUNT (*).Querying and manipulating data using Group by, Having, Order by.
  • Operations on Relations - Union, Intersection, Minus, Cartesian Product, JOIN

Data Handling using Pandas – I

  • Introduction to Python libraries- Pandas, NumPy, Chapter 1: Database Query using SQL Chapter 2: Data Handling using Pandas – I Chapter 9: Computer Networks Page | 6 Matplotlib. Data structures in Pandas - Series and Data Frames.
  • Series: Creation of Series from – and array, dictionary, scalar value; mathematical operations; Head and Tail functions; Selection, Indexing, and Slicing.
  • Data Frames: creation - from the dictionary of Series, list of dictionaries, Text/CSV files; display; iteration; Operations on Rows and columns: add, select, delete, rename; Head and Tail functions; Indexing usingLabels, Boolean Indexing; Styling & Formatting data, Head and Tail functions; Joining, Merging and Concatenations.
  • Importing/Exporting Data between CSV files and DataFrames.

Data Handling using Pandas – II

  • Descriptive Statistics: max, min, count, sum, mean, median, mode, quartile, Standard deviation, variance.
  • DataFrame operations: Aggregation, group by, Sorting, Deleting and Renaming Index, Pivoting.
  • Handling missing values – dropping and filling.
  • Importing/Exporting Data between MySQL database and Pandas.

Plotting Data using Matplotlib

  • Purpose of plotting; drawing and saving the following types of plots using Matplotlib – line plot, bargraph, histogram, pie chart, frequency polygon, box plot, and scatter plot.
  • Customizing plots: color, style (dashed, dotted), width; adding label, title, and legend in plots.

Introduction to Computer Networks

  • Introduction to Networks, Types of networks: LAN, MAN, WAN.
  • Network Devices: modem, hub, switch, repeater, router, gateway
  • Network Topologies: Star, Bus, Tree, Mesh.
  • Website: Introduction, the difference between a website and webpage, static vs dynamic web page, webserver, and hosting of a website.
  • Introduction to Internet, URL, WWW, and its applications- Web, email, Chat, VoIP.
  • Web Browser: Introduction, commonly used browsers, browser settings, add-ons and plugins, cookies.

Societal Impacts

  • Digital footprint, Etiquettes for Net surfing and for communicating through social media, data protection, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and their violation, plagiarism licensing and copyrights, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Cybercrime and cyber laws, hacking, phishing, cyberbullying, Overview of Indian IT Act, preventing cybercrime.
  • Awareness about health concerns related to the usage of technology like effect on eyesight, physiological issues, and ergonomic aspects.
  • E-waste its a hazard and management

Data Communication

  • Concept of communication, Types of Data Communication, switching techniques
  • Introduction to mobile telecommunication technologies
  • Wireless Technologies – Bluetooth, WLAN, Infrared, Microwave
  • Communication Media: Wired Technologies – Twisted pair cable, Co-axial cable, Ethernet Cable, Optical Fibre;
  • Concept of Channel, Bandwidth (Hz, KHz, MHz) and Data Transfer rate (bps, Kbps, Mbps, Gbps, Tbps)
  • Network Protocol: Need for Protocol, Categorization and Examples of protocol, HTTP, FTP, IP, PPP; electronic mail protocol

Security Aspects

  • Network Security Concepts: Firewall, Cookies, Hackers and Crackers
  • Antivirus and their workings
  • Network security threats: Denial of service, Intrusion problems, Snooping, Eavesdropping
  • Threats and prevention: Viruses, Worms, Trojan horse, Spam, Cookies, Adware, Firewall, http vs https

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Q:   Is it compulsory to attempt all the sections of the CUET question paper?
A:

CUET UG question paper for each subject will consist of 50 questions. Candidates will be required to attempt all questions and no optional questions will be provided. In CUET UG 2026 there are 37 subjects- 13 languages, 23 domain subjects and general tests. While filling the CUET application form, candidates can select upto five CUET subjects aligning with the subjects studied in class 12th and course requirement.

Candidates must attempt all the questions of the subjects selected. However, candidates must keep in mind the negative marking and select the options carefully.

Q:   What type of questions are asked in the CUET exam?
A:

The CUET questions are objective in nature and carries four options also known as MCQs. Candidates will have to choose the correct answer option and click on it with the help of mouse. Since CUET UG 2026 exam will be conducted in a CBT mode, test-takers will be able to mark only one answer option. In case it is the correct option, students will get +5 marks and in case of wrong answer, negative marking scheme will be applied. Hence, candidates must ensure the accuracy of the answer before selecting the answer. 

Q:   How many questions are there in the language section of CUET UG?
A:

CUET UG Language section will consist of 50 questions. Candidates will be required to attempt all questions. There will be no optional questions.

The language section will assess candidate's reading comprehension based on different types of passages. This section will also include questions from grammar. To prepare for the CUET UG language section, candidates must solve previous year question papers and mock tests to become familiar with the type of questions asked in the exam. Candidates will be given a duration of 45 minutes to attend this section of CUET UG. 

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CUET Computer Science Chapter Wise Weightage

Based on the previous year's analysis, candidates can know the CUET Computer Science important topics and the expected number of questions for each topic.

Computer Science Chapters

Number of Questions (Expected)

Networking

10-12

SQL

10-12

Bubble sorting

4-5

Assertion reasoning

2-3

Code completion

2-3

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CUET Domain Subjects: Syllabus and Question Paper

Science students preparing for CUET can now download the CUET domain subject-wise question paper and detailed syllabus for other Science subjects.

Subjects

CUET Syllabus

CUET Question Paper

English

CUET English Syllabus

CUET English Question Paper

Biology

CUET Biology Syllabus

CUET Biology Question Paper

Chemistry

CUET Chemistry Syllabus

CUET Chemistry Question Paper

Computer Science/ Informatics Practices

CUET Computer Science Syllabus

CUET Computer Science Question Paper

Economics/ Business Economics

CUET Economics Syllabus

CUET Economics Question Paper

Engineering Graphics

CUET Engineering Graphics Syllabus

CUET Engineering Graphics Question Paper

Environmental Science

CUET Environmental Science Syllabus

CUET Environmental Science Question Paper

Mathematics

CUET Mathematics Syllabus

CUET Mathematics Question Paper

Physics

CUET Physics Syllabus

CUET Physics Question Paper

Agriculture

CUET Agriculture Syllabus

CUET Agriculture Question Paper

General Test

CUET General Test Syllabus

CUET General Test Question Paper

CUET 2026 Computer Science Preparation Tips

While preparing for CUET 2026 Computer Science subject, students must observe the following important points:

  • Be thorough with the CUET syllabus 2026 and exam pattern. Students must focus on the most frequently asked questions in Computer Science and prepare accordingly.
  • Candidates must strengthen their fundamentals with the help of NCERT books and other preparation books.
  • Candidates must take number of CUET mock tests and solve CUET previous year's question paper to become familiar with the CUET exam pattern and syllabus.
  • Choose best resources/study materials for CUET preparation.

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