What is the syllabus of UPCATET exam?

The syllabus of UPCATET exam is officially not prescribed by the exam conducting authorities. Hence applicants need to cover the syllabus for the desired UG, PG and PhD courses from the official syllabus of acdemic qualification only. Along with this to get a better idea about the syllabus, marking scheme and exam pattern students are advised to check UPCATET previous year question papers.

How to prepare for UPCATET exam to qualify in first attempt?

Applicants who want to prepare and qualify UPCATET exam in first attempt must have a concrete plan and then execution becomes important to qualify it. The UPCATET exam is held once in year hence candidates preparing for the exam must complete their syllabus in advance at least 3 months before the commencement of exam. Now devotee last 3 months to practise the previous year question papers. Candidates need to ensure that they are completing the practise paper less than the given time in examination, which will eventually boost their confidence to attempt the paper within time in the examination hall.

What are the options of the questions paper in UPCATET exam?

Applicants while filling their application form will be given four choice, PCB, PCM, PAG, and PHS. Students will have to choose any of this choice in the form as per their education qualification. They will be given paper of their choice in the UPCATET exam. There will be no change in the examination hall for any paper under any cicrumstances hence applicants must choose carefully while filling the form. Candidates will be given admission to the similar course for which they have appeared in the exam. There will be 200 questions in exam out of them 20 questions will be from General Knowledge topic and rest 180 will be from the group for which they have applied.

Is there different exam pattern for UG and PG programme?

Yes there will be different exam pattern of UG and PG courses in UPCATET exam. The UG courses i.e BSc & BTech and Post graduate courses i.e MBA, MSc have different pattern. The number of courses for UG is 200 while for PG it is 100. The total marks allotted for UG courses is 600, while for PG it is 300. Though each question from UG and PG weigh same 3 marks only. Time duration for both UG and PG is also different, UG is of 3 hours and PG is of 2 hours.

UPCATET MBA Syllabus 2026: Download Latest Syllabus PDF

UPCATET 2026 Choice Filling & Choice Locking for BVSc & AH

27 Jul '26 - 31 Jul '26

Updated on Nov 14, 2019 11:47 IST

By Piyush Dixit, Deputy Manager

The UPCATET syllabus is generally based on class X and class XII standard Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. The basic syllabus for UPCATET 2020 are as follows:

General Studies
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Biology

Undergraduate Program: The syllabus prescribed for UPCATET is according to the UP board for international examination in the concerned subject.

Masters Program: The syllabus studied from the undergraduate course in the concerned subject.

PhD Program: The syllabus studied from in masters’ course in the concerned subject.

Table of contents

Statistics for PhD programme
MBA Program

Statistics for PhD programme

Measures of Central tendency and dispersion	Skewness and kurtosis
Normal distribution (properties only)	Test of significance (t, Z,f and X2 – test)
Regression and correlation (including partial and multiple correlations with their test of significance)	Sampling theory with reference to crop estimation survey
Analysis of variance	Principles of experimental designs
Completely randomized designs	Randomized block design
Latin Square design	Factorial Experiments (23 factorial experiments)
Split Plot design	Analysis of Covariance
Missing plot technique (in R.B.D. and L.S.D. with one value missing)	Sponsored links