The National Testing Agency conducted the CUET PG 2026 Political Science exam at the designated exam centres in online mode. The candidates should note that the CUET PG Political Science exam analysis soon.
- CUET PG Political Science Syllabus
- CUET PG 2026 Exam Pattern
- CUET PG Political Science Important Topics
- CUET PG 2026 Political Science Question Paper Analysis
- CUET PG 2026 Political Science Expected Cutoff
CUET PG Political Science Syllabus
The candidates should note that the Political Science is one of the most opted subject in the CUET PG exam as per the number of candidates registered and appeared for the exam. The CUET PG exam touches all the important topics of Political Science as taught in various universities. The candidates are suggested to prepare all the topics mentioned in the CUET PG Political Science Syllabus because the Agency does not provide the weightage assigned to any topic. Therefore, the agency can ask any number of questions from any topic.
To get more details, the candidates can download the CUET PG Political Science Syllabus PDF.
CUET PG 2026 Exam Pattern
The candidates should note that the Agency had done away with the common section in the CUET PG exam. Now the candidates compete based on their knowledge of the subject only. This made the exam easy and tough at the same time. Easy because the candidates do not need to worry about the General Knowledge part and can concentrate on the subject only.
It became hard for the average student who had diversified knowledge and were scoring better in the Common section of aptitude. Now they will be competing solely on their subjective knowledge.
There are only 75 Multiple Choice questions in the CUET PG exam and the time allotted to solve the paper is 90 minute. So the candidates have more than a minute to answer the question. The candidate should practive with the previous year question papers to know the CUET PG exam pattern.
CUET PG 2026 Marking Scheme
The candidates should always keep in mind that there is a negative marking of (-1) for each incorrect answer. The correct answer will fetch four marks. This means that each 4 incorrect answers can eat up the marks secured by 1 correct answers. Consequently, the aggregate of four incorrect answers and one correct answer will be Zero and in addition to that the candidates will lose the scoring opportunity in 5 questions out of 75.
CUET PG Political Science Important Topics
The candidates should note that the competition is very high in the CUET PG exam as the seats in the reputed universities are few in comparison to the number of candidates appearing in the exam. The candidates can see below the important topics asked in the CUET PG exam in previous years so that they can stress on those topics.
| Political Science Syllabus Section |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Important Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Govt. & Politics |
23 |
23 |
10 |
Preamble, Parliament, 38th Amendment (Emergency), Article 370 |
| Western Political Philosophy |
12 |
14 |
10 |
Plato, Aristotle's Virtue theory, Marx, Hobbes' "War of all against all" |
| Political Theory |
11 |
12 |
8 |
Liberty, Equality, Justice, Feminism, Sovereignty |
| International Relations |
10 |
11 |
9 |
Realism vs. Liberalism, Cold War phases, SAARC, EU, ASEAN |
| Indian Political Thought |
9 |
10 |
7 |
Kautilya's Saptanga theory, Gandhi's Satya, Ambedkar, Savarkar |
| Comparative Politics |
6–8 |
7–9 |
6 |
Political Culture, Electoral systems (Australia's Preferential Voting) |
| Public Policy & Admin |
5–7 |
6–8 |
5 |
Herbert Simon (Administrative Behavior), Policy models |
| Contemporary Issues |
3–5 |
4–6 |
6 |
Global Justice, Climate Change, Nationalism |
The above topics form the basis of the CUET PG preparation for the Political Science Exam.
CUET PG 2026 Political Science Question Paper Analysis
The candidates should note that the National Testing Agency is the exam conducting authority of the CUET PG exam. The agency prepare a moderate to difficult question paper which test the conceptual clarity, factual knowledge and the application of concepts in real life. This year will also be the same. The candidates should prepare for the exam on the above lines. The details of the CUET PG Political Science Analysis will be available soon in the following manner:
| Political Science Syllabus Section |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Govt. & Politics |
22-26 |
Easy to Moderate |
| Western Political Philosophy |
9-12 |
Moderate |
| Political Theory |
10-13 |
Moderate to Difficult |
| International Relations |
8-11 |
Moderate to Difficult |
| Indian Political Thought |
10-12 |
Moderate to Difficult |
| Comparative Politics |
5-7 |
Moderate to Difficult |
| Public Policy & Admin |
4-6 |
Easy to Moderate |
| Contemporary Issues |
5-7 |
Moderate |
| Overall Difficulty Leve |
|
Moderate |
The candidates should note that the overall difficulty level of the paper was moderate with some difficult questions.
Also Get the CUET PG Political Science Question Paper PDF.
CUET PG 2026 Political Science Expected Cutoff
The agency design the question paper in such a manner that the candidates can solve some of the questions easily, some questions are diffucult in orientation and only some candidates can answer such questions. Few questions are there which only a handful of candidates can answer. As the difficulty level of the CUET PG 2026 exam was moderate, we can expected almost similar cutoff as seen last year.
| Subject | CUET PG Expected Cutoff Marks (Out of 300) |
|---|---|
| Political Science | 185 |
Get here more details on Institution-wise CUET PG Politial Science Cutoff.

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