CUET PG 2026 Political Science Question Paper Analysis, Difficulty Level, Question Breakup

Central University Entrance Test Postgraduate 2026 ( CUET-PG )

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CUET PG 2026 Political Science exam conducted at the designated exam centres. The candidates can see here the important information related to the exam and the CUET PG 2026 Question Paper Analysis, difficulty level, question breakup and expected cutoff.

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.

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CUET PG 2026 Political Science Exam Analysis

CUET PG 2026 Political Science Exam Analysis (Soon): The National Testing Agency is conducting the Common University Entrance Test for the PG courses in various Universities across the nation. The CUET PG 2026 exam is being conducted online as a Computer-Based Test (CBT). The Agency released the subject-wise exam schedule on February 14 and the advance city intimation slip was released in a phase-wise manner for the candidates. It is available for the exams until March 13.

CUET PG 2026 Political Science Exam was conducted today as per the schedule notified by the NTA. The candidates were asked to show their CUET PG 2026 admit card before entering to the exam centre. The candidates can see below the CUET PG Political Science syllabus, exam pattern and exam analysis soon.

Table of contents
  • 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.

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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.

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CUET PG Expected Cutoff Marks (Out of 300)

Political Science 185

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