UPCATET Syllabus 2025: Check UG, Masters & PhD Program Syllabus Here

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

This exam is conducted for courses given below:

BSc, BFSc BTech MSc MTech MBA BVSc&AH MVSc

Updated on Sep 19, 2025 12:16 IST

By Ishita Chauhan, Retainer

UPCATET 2025 Syllabus should be well-versed by all the candidates if they wish to appear for the UPCATET Exam. The questions in the UPCATET exam are based on the syllabus of UPCATET. Since the exam conducting authorities do not provide the official syllabus in the notification, as it mentions that for UG courses, the class 12th board syllabus, for PG courses, the syllabus of graduation is recommended.

UPCATET Syllabus 2025 consists of some of the most important topics from the UPCATET subjects, such as Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. There are a total of four groups of UPCATET papers, such as PCB, PCM, PAG, and PHS, for which the UPCATET exam will be conducted.

Candidates who qualify for the exam in any of these groups will be eligible for admission to a similar course. Candidates must also be aware of the UPCATET Pattern before they make a UPCATET Preparation strategy to qualify for the exam.

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UPCATET 2025 UG And PG Syllabus 2025
UPCATET Syllabus For Statistics for PhD programme
UPCATET Syllabus 2025 For MBA Program
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Regarding UPCATET 2025 Syllabus

UPCATET 2025 UG And PG Syllabus 2025

The syllabus of UG and PG courses is not explicitly demarcated by the exam conducting authority.
The UPCATET UG syllabus 2025 will be the same as of syllabus of class 12th UP Board syllabus.
While the syllabus of UPCATET PG 2025 will be similar to the graduation courses. It will not be different for the graduation exam.

The UPCATET syllabus 2025 includes subjects such as General Knowledge, Soil Science, Agronomy and Agrometeorology, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and Dairy, Biotechnology, Agriculture Engineering, Extension Education, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Entomology, Agriculture Economics, Plant Pathology and Nematology, Seed Technology, Soil conservation, Statistics and Forestry and more. Knowing these important topics of the UPCATET Syllabus 2025 will help candidates improve their chances of qualifying for the UPCATET Exam.

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UPCATET Syllabus For Statistics for PhD programme

Candidates must be aware of these important topics before they appear for the exam.

Topics
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